高中英语语法填空试题

语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
M: I can’t believe it! I only got a B on my project.
W: Why are you _____ (complain)? That’s not a bad grade.
M: I worked _____ it for weeks. I spent hours in the library_____(check) on things. I finally thought I had done a good job. I even gave _____ last week’s concert.
W: Well, _____(get) a B is good. I just don’t see why you are so upset.
M: ____ Ames didn’t spend half as much time on his project and he still got _____ A.
W: Ames always gets good grades on his projects. If you are _____(real) dissatisfied, why don’t you speak to the teacher to find out why you only got a B?
M: I am really not in the mind to speak to that teacher.
W: Maybe your grade can be changed. If that can’t be done, you can find out____ is weak about it and try to improve on these points in your next project.
M: I suppose that’s _____ best thing to do.

在空白处填入适当的内容（不超过3个词），或括号内单词的正确形式。（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
Nowadays, almost everyone ___（realize）that smoking is ___（harm）to people’s health. Sometimes it ______ causes fire.
In China, about 38% of the people smoke. Every year, they smoke millions of packets of _____. It’s bad news for the health of nation.
It’s known that smoking can cause different kinds of disease. Every year, many people die ___ these illnesses, such as lung and throat cancers. It also costs the government much money to look ___ these sick people. Smoking is also harmful to those____ don’t smoke,______（especial）to children and women.
In a word, smoking is no good. ____ you want to smoke, just think of those who suffer from diseases ____ the fires that destroy people’s lives and properties!

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式填空。
M：Hello, Mrs. Black. I’m from The Daily Mirror and I’m doing a report on public opinion about the city bus service. So, what do you _____ of the bus service?
W: The bus service? Actually, I don’t use it that often, ____ I have to go shopping.
M: What, er, how could the bus service ________(improve)?
W: Well, they could turn up on time. I mean, you look at the time-table and you think“Oh, well. Five minutes to wait.” And it _____(turn) out to be an hour.
M: Do any other people in your family use the bus service?
W: My husband. He uses it more often. But fortunately a girl____ works in his office often gives him a ____ into work. _____ when he does need to use it, he’s often angry at it. Once he ______ (wait) up to 50 minutes at the station for a bus. So I think there should be some way of ______(warn) people when a bus is not going to arrive and certainly much _______frequent bus service.

In the early times some people learned    (grow) crops and raise animals for food. They were the first farmers.
Since   (sixteen) century, the word farm has meant agricultural land. But a much older meaning of the word farm is linked  economics. The word farm comes from the Latin word, firma,    means an unchanging payment. Experts say the earliest   (mean) of the English word farm was a yearly payment  (make) as a tax or rent.
Farmers know that   is necessary to make hay while the sun shines. Hay (干草) has to be cut and gathered  it is dry. So a wise farmer never delays gathering his hay when the sun is shining. Rain may soon appear.
A wise person copies the farmer. He works when   (condition) are right. A new mother, for example,   (quick) learn to try to sleep when her baby is quite, even in the middle of the day. If the mother delays, she may lose her chance to sleep. So, the mother learns to make hey while the sun shines.

Jane was walking round the department store. She remembered how difficult___ was to choose a suitable Christmas present for her father. She wished that he was as easy____ (please) as her mother, who was always delighted with perfume.
Besides, shopping at this time of the year was not___ pleasant experience: people stepped on your feet or___(push) you with their elbows(肘部），hurrying ahead to get to a bargain.
Jane paused in front of a counter __ some attractive ties were on display. “They are real silk,” the assistant tried to attract her. “Worth double the price.” But Jane knew from past experience that her___(choose) of ties hardly ever pleased her father.
Jane stopped where a small crowd of men had gathered. She found some good quality pipes___sale. She did not hesitate for long: although her father smoked a pipe only once in a while, she knew that this was a present which was bound to please____.
When Jane got home, with her small but well-chosen present in her bag, her parents were already at table___(have) supper. Her mother was excited. “Your father has at last decided to stop smoking,” Jane____(inform).

There once was a goat and a donkey(驴), which lived _____ a farm. The donkey worked the hardest so the farmer fed it the _____ (much) food. Sometimes the donkey was given more food_______it could eat. This made the goat so jealous _____ it began plotting against（谋划对付）the donkey. "Hey, donkey," the goat said one day. "I think you do too much work on this farm. You carry such heavy things from morning to night. Why don't you pretend _______ (get) sick so you can take a day ________?'' The donkey thought the goat had a great idea. So the next morning, the donkey lay in the stable（畜栏） on its side with its eyes _______(close). Right away, the farmer called the doctor. ______looking at the donkey, the doctor said it needed a special medicine _______（make）from the heart of a goat. So the farmer killed ______goat and gave the donkey medicine made from its heart.

One day, an old monk named Wisdom, followed by two young monks, was walking from one town to another___ they caught sight of a lake. Tired and thirsty, they stopped to have a rest. ___old monk, pointing to the lake, asked the ___ (young) one to get him some water.
When the little monk reached the lake, a cart____(draw)  by an ox started crossing the lake, ______made the water very muddy. The little monk thought, “How can I give this muddy water to my master to drink!” So he came back____ any water, saying, “The water is very muddy. I don’t think ____is suitable to drink.”
After a while, the same monk _____to get water again. When he went back to the lake, he found that the mud ___(settle) down already, so he collected back a pot of water. Wisdom looked at the water happily and then up at the monk, “To make the water clean, ____ you need to do is just to let it be and the mud would settle down on its own.”
It is also the same with your mind. When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time and it will settle down itself.

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为16--25的相应位置上。
A farmer once organized a competition between his dog and his rabbit. He dug a hole in one of his biggest fields, and hid a carrot and a bone in it. He wanted to see     animal would find them first.
The        (cheer) and optimistic rabbit threw himself into looking for the carrot,        (dig) here and there, totally convinced that he would find it. But the dog, after sniffing around for a bit,   (lie) down and began to complain about how difficult it was to find one bone in such a big field.
The rabbit dug     hours, and with every new hole the dog complained even more about how difficult this was, even for the rabbit.       the rabbit thought that each hole dug was one hole less that needed to be dug. When there was no place in the whole field       (leave) to dig, the rabbit dug a tunnel right to       the dog had been lying all the time. There he found the carrot and the bone.
This is how the dog lost the game. He had come to      right place at the very beginning but failed to find the bone      he only complained and didn't try at all.

Why is pink or purple a color for girls and blue or brown for boys?
The answer depends largely       cultural values as well as personal experiences. To the Egyptians, green was a color      represented the hope and joy of spring, while for Muslims, it means heaven. Red is a symbol of good luck in many cultures. During the Spring Festival in China, children     (give) money in a red envelope to bring good fortune in the New Year. For many nations, blue is a symbol of protection and religious beliefs. Greek people often wear a blue necklace hoping to protect       against evils（灾祸）.
People’s      (choose) of colors is also influenced by their bodies’ reactions toward them. Green is said to be       most restful color. It has the ability to reduce pain and relax people both mentally       physically. People     (work) in green environment have been found to have fewer stomach aches.
Red can cause a person’s blood pressure to rise and increase people’s appetites（食欲）. Many decorators will include different shades of red in the restaurant. And many commercial websites will have a red “Buy Now” button because red is a color that      (easy) catches a person’s eye.
Blue is another calming color. Unlike red, blue is believed to cause people to lose appetite. So      you want to eat less, some suggest that eating from blue plates can help.

Motto is a short statement giving a rule on how to behave ,        can inspire us especially when we are        (face) with difficulties. Many of us have our mottoes, such as “Where there is a will, there is a way.” Or “Nothing is difficult if you put your heart into it.”, and so on. My motto is “God helps those who help       .” Sometimes I am lazy and don’t want to make efforts        (work) hard,       the moment I think of my motto I will get energetic again and devote myself         what I am doing. I write my motto        I can see it easily. Every time I fail in my exam and begin to lose heart, the sight of my motto inspires me with much      (confident). My motto also makes me become        independent person. That is to say, I won’t rely on others easily.
My friends, what is your motto? If you still haven’t got a motto, please choose         because a motto can have a great effect on you.

John Snow was ____ expert doctor in London in the 19^th century. At that time a lot of people were infected with cholera and died , so he was ____ (determine) to find the cause of it so that he could help those____ (expose) to it .He began to gather information when another outbreak hit London in 1854. He marked on the map the exact places ____ the dead people had lived and found that most of____ (die )were near a water pump .After careful investigations John Snow announced____ certainty that water ____ (carry ) germs was ____ (blame) for the spreading of cholera . In order to prevent this ____ (happen) again , he suggested that the source of all the water supplies ____ (examine) and instructed the water companies not to allow people to drink the polluted water any more . At last “King Choler” was defeated .

There was a young flower in the desert where all was dry and sad looking... It was growing by itself,      (enjoy) every day and saying to the sun, "       shall I be grown up?" And the sun would say "Be        (patience) ! Each time I touch you, you        (grow) a little." She was so pleased      she would have a chance to bring beauty to this corner of sand. And this is all she wanted to do - bring a little bit of beauty to this world.
    one day the hunter came by and stepped on her. She was going to die
and she felt so sad. Not because she was    (die), but because she would       (ever) have a chance to bring a little bit of beauty to this corner of the desert.
The great spirit saw her, and was listening. - Indeed, he said... She should be living... So he reached down and touched her -- and gave her    second life.
Finally she grew up to be a beautiful flower. And this corner of the desert also became so beautiful because     the little flower.

Last week, our class was    duty in the cafeteria for student self-management. On the first day, I   (shock) to see so much leftover food thrown away by students. What a waste! Being concerned about it, my classmates and I had a   (heat) discussion on how   (solve) the problem. Lots of good ideas came up, such as holding class meetings, putting up wall newspapers and charging a fine for wasting food. Finally, we all agreed that wall newspaper would be    (good) choice.
The next day, we put our idea into reality. Towards lunch time, we put up a wall newspaper outside the school cafeteria,     (call) on students not to waste food. Many students gathered around to read and    (express) their support. To my great delight, there were changes soon. In the cafeteria, I found the trays returned after lunch all empty    any leftover. Food  (save) and the dining hall was cleaner. Seeing this, I felt relieved and proud of   we had done.

Chinese proverbs are rich and they are still widely used in Chinese people’s daily life.    these proverbs there are often interesting stories. For example, the proverb, “plucking up a crop  (help) it grow”, is based on the following story.
It is said that a short—tempered man in the Song Dynasty (960—1279) was very anxious to help   rice crop grow up quickly. He was thinking about   day and night. But the crop was growing much slower than he expected. One day, he came up with an idea    he would pluck up all of his crop a few inches. He did so the next day. He was very tired doing this for a whole day,  he felt very happy since the crop did “grow”(high). His son heard about this and went to see the crop. Unfortunately the leaves of the crop began to wither.
This proverb is saying we have to let things go in their   (nature) course. Being too anxious to help an event develop often   (result) in the contrary to our intention.

Wang Kun and Wang Wei are brother and sister. They have dreamed of _______ (take) a great bike trip. It was Wang Wei ______ first had the idea to cycle along the Mekong River. They rode bicycles to travel _____ the Mekong River, _____ source is in Qinghai Province. _____ it enters Southeast Asia, it travels slowly through hills and low valleys and the plains where rive grows. Despite _____ difficulties, Wang Kun and Wang Wei were ______ (determine) to begin their journey at an altitude of more than 5000 _______(meter) in Qinghai Province. During their journey, they ______ (enjoy) the continuing change of the weather. Finally, they reached Dali in Yunnan Province, Dao Wei and Yu Hang joined them. The four of ______ went on with their great bike trip.