高中英语语法填空试题

England, Wales and Scotland make up the island of Great Britain,   takes up most of the Britain Isles. Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are      （mountain）. The  （high）mountain is Ben Nevis in Scotland. Plains and valleys cover much of England. The British climate is mild.
About 58 million people live in the United Kingdom. Few other countries are so   （crowd）. Four five people live in cities such as Belfast, Glasgow, and London. London is the capital.  Great Britain grows half of the food it needs, its    （industry） help to pay for the food that is bought abroad. The United Kingdom manufactures (批量生产) wide range of goods. Service industries, such as tourism,   （increase）, while traditional industries, such as coal mining , are declining.

语法填空（共10小题; 每小题1分，满分10分）
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卡的相应位置上。
Few people would even think of beginning a new job at the age of 76,        one of America’s most famous artists did just that. Anna Mary Robertson, better known as “Grandma Moses”, turned to painting        she was too old to work on her farm.
Grandma Moses was crazy about       (paint) soon after she picked it up and worked hard at it. She painted        (care) and her works were nice. She first painted only to please       , and then began to sell her works for a little money. In 1993, a collector, Louis Caldor happened to see several of Grandma Moses’ best works       were hanging in a shop. He liked them,        (buy) them at once, and set out to look for more.  Caldor held     show to introduce the works of Grandma Moses     other artists. Grandma Moses,       was world-famous, died on December 13, 1961, at the age of 101.

阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：１）汉语提示，２）首字母提示，３）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
The past five years have s   great changes in my school. On May 12, 2008, the earthquake in Wen Chuan was so terrible that it     (破坏) almost everything in the school. It is now, however, taking on a new look. Tall buildings have been put , including classrooms and laboratory buildings, and a library. There is a   a newly-built standard playground. In the new environment, teachers and students are living h   and working hard. It is really exciting that the very place    was once ruined has now been turned into a beautiful school,    of life.
 a matter of fact, the whole society has always been   （关心的）about the rebuilding of my school. It is their love and selfless help that have brought about the great changes. We can work wonders if we unite as a family, care for each other and help those  need.

There is no doubt that computers are very useful in technology and business.With the h_______ of computers, doctors can find diseases easily and solve other problems. In factories, robots _________(控制) by computers can do work that is dangerous to humans. In business, computers are used to place and cancel orders. They are also making the workplace ________(安全) and better.
Since the Internetc_________ into being, people’s lives at home have changed, too. More and more people have personal computers, a_________they use them to play games and watch movies. Instead of writing letters on paper, people communicate by sending e-mails and c______ online. The whole world is connected. The Internet is making the world smaller, l_________ a village.
Computers have improved our lives. They have brought us _________(方便), but they have brought problems, too. For example, if we e_______ ourselves to computers too long, we may get headaches or sore eyes. Besides, not everything we read on the Internet is true or good for us. Computers help us at work and at home, but they must be usedp________.

A month ago my oldest daughter, Rachel, asked me    to make friends. She was 7 years old and a little shy. I told her the best way     ( make ) friends was to introduce    (her) when she met someone new. The question didn’t come up again, and I didn’t give it another      ( think).
Last weekend I     (take)  my two daughters to the lake a couple of blocks from our house. There are two parks     (locate) around the lake, and since it was a nice day, we visited them both. There were lots of children around for my daughter to play    .
I was helping my youngest daughter, Sydney, down the slide (滑梯)     something caught my attention. I got the warmest feeling as I heard Rachel tell all the kids, “My name is Rachel, and I’m 7, what’s your name?” It worked    (well) than I had ever imagined, and before long she knew every kid’s name, and they were all playing tag---a kind of game!
The little things in life can make a     (different)!

  There was a woman who went to the airport    (hurry).She was so absorbed    her own thoughts that she was not aware they were going on a different route．Suddenly，a man went inside the cab and took her handbag   she placed her visa，passport，and all her money for the trip．She kept on thinking how unlucky she was to be in that situation．That very same night，she heard a piece of    (shock) news．Flight 230 crashed！It was the plane that she was supposed to board into.     she had not lost her precious belongings，she could have lost something far     important--her life！
Sometimes bad things really happen．We fail in our exams，or get rejected by others．There are times when nothing seems to go our way．So what do we do about it？We must take all these     (frustrate)out of our chest and start all over again with the consistent faith that we     (get)what are deserved(应得的)．
If you failed in the exams，maybe you'd be more successful and much happier in    field. If you were rejected by your friend，there are plenty of others out there who are much more deserving of(值得的) your love and affection．Don't waste your time and  energy     things that can't be changed．

In North America people are always in     hurry. Children have special lessons or sports activities after school. Parents often work late and      (get) home until 7 or 8 o’clock at night. Most North American families don’t have time to prepare a meal. That is       fast food is so popular in North America. People spend about 40% of their dollars on fast food.
People usually buy fast food from restaurant chains      as Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, or KFC,    they can enjoy pizza, sandwiches,       (fry) chicken, and so on. Fast food saves work and time, but it is not nutritious.
Fast food is popular in many countries. American fast-food companies now have restaurants all over the world. But not      is happy about the spread (扩展) of North American fast food, A group of people in Italy want to fight      the spread of American fast food. They don’t like the idea of       (many) fast food chains     (open) restaurants in their country.

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。
Scientists have found that pesticides (农药) harm the ability of bees to find food. Bees must learn which flowers contain their food from the smells of the flowers.       the bees do not learn which smells mean food, they will starve. Researchers in Britain found that pesticides  (use) by farmers and gardeners can switch off the part of a bee’s brain that is responsible    associating smells with food. Lead researcher Dr. Geraldine Wright said pesticides could seriously impact the      (survive) of honeybee colonies. She said, “Bees that cannot learn will not be able to find food.” This also      (mean) bees will not pollinate (给……授粉) crops and wild plants.
Bee populations around the world have been declining. Scientists have searched for a long time for a reason       so many bees are disappearing. This new research may be     important clue. However, the British government does not want to stop the use of the pesticides that may prevent bees from learning.    wants to carry out more tests to make sure pesticides are the real reason for the decrease in the number of bees. A spokeswoman from the Friends Of The Earth charity said the government must act      (soon) rather than later. “Bee health is far too urgent to wait    more research has been completed. Controls should be placed on these pesticides until bee safety can be guaranteed,” she said.

Valentine’s Day is my new least favorite day of the year. Just recently, the marriage I’d dreamed of      girlhood had broken up, and with it my faith in the power of love.
   I started sorting my mail I noticed a pale pink envelop. I opened it to find a red heart-shaped card with beautiful white lace.      (obvious) it was not a guy card. I looked for a signature. It was from Kris, a former colleague I’d done      favor to ages ago.
“Not only do I celebrate my anniversary each Valentine’s Day,” Kris wrote, “but also I remember     kindness by doing something nice for someone else to perpetuate (使永恒) the love you once showed me.”
I smiled. I      (speak) to Kris in years. She had no way of knowing about my divorce. Was this one of those little reminders?
Lunch came. I went to the garden center and bought potted tulips (郁金香) for a woman in another department     mother had recently died.
“For Valentine’s Day,” I said quietly when I handed       to her. “I thought you might need them today.”
She looked at me with surprise. Her eyes watered. She took the flowers,    (touch) them softly with her hand. “Thank you!” she said.
Back at my desk I placed Kris’s card right      I could see it the rest of the day – a little reminder of the power of love.

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。
Amy: You don’t look happy this morning.
Jim: I had never expected this would have happened to me. We had a power     (fail) at home last night.
Amy:   come? Did anyone in the family do anything wrong?
Jim: You have guessed    . It was all my father’s fault.
Amy: What did he do?
Jim: I was just watching a wonderful football match on TV     the lights suddenly went out.
Amy: Why was that?
Jim: You see, we’d just had our dinner. My mother     (wash) my jeans with the washing machine then, and the air conditioners were     in both rooms. I was in my room    (watch) TV.
Amy: What was your father doing then?
Jim: He wanted to warm his tea in the microwave oven. He plugged it and the fuse （保险丝）blew. And everything stopped     of a sudden.
Amy: Your next door is an electrician, isn’t he?
Jim: Yes,  (fortune), he happened to be at home. He came and fixed it. But it was half an hour later. I had already missed a lot.
Amy: It was an annoying experience for     football fan like you. But don’t miss the basketball final this evening. Make sure there is no such accident tonight.

The former US president Gorge W. Bush has taken the ice bucket for challenge to help raise money __ Lou Gehrig’s disease. The _____ (influence) president, _____ wore a blue crewneck while sitting at a table, said he was challenged by his daughter Jenna Bush.
“To you all that challenged me, I don’t think it is presidential for me to be splashed with ice water, _____ do I like this feeling, so I am simply going to write you a check.”
The on-line campaign challenges people to either dump ___ bucket of ice water over their heads ___ donate to help Lou Gehrig disease. ___ a person accepts the challenge, he or she must challenge another person to participate in it. The campaign is popular throughout social ____ (medium) and ____ (draw) a growing number of celebrities since several months ago, Bill Gates and Lady Gaga ___ (include).

This happened in a third-grade classroom. Jim sat  ____  his desk and all of a sudden, there was a puddle(一滩水) between his feet and the front of his trousers was wet. He felt his heart was going to stop. He knew  ______  would happen when his classmates found out. He looked up and there came the teacher with a look in her eyes that said he  ____ (discover).
As the teacher was walking towards  _____, a classmate named Susie was carrying _____ goldfish bowl full of water to her desk. Suddenly, Susie tripped(绊倒) and,  ______ (strange), dumped the whole bowl of water in Jim's lap. He pretended to be angry, but all the while he was saying deep in his heart, “Thank you!”
Jim became the object of sympathy instead of ridicule(嘲笑). The teacher brought him gym shorts to put on. All the others crawled(爬) on their hands and knees,  ___  (clean) up around his desk. But  _____  life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had been transferred(转移) to Susie. She tried to help, _____ they told her to leave the room.  ____ school was over, Jim walked over to Susie and whispered, “You did that on purpose, didn’t you?”
Susie whispered back, “I wet my trousers once, too!”

“Remember, your father is only one year       (old) than you.” That was Mum’s usual excuse when Dad said the wrong things or did something     (fool).
Dad quitted drinking exactly one year before I was born. He joined a group of other people. He said they      (stop) drinking, too. I loved my dad       I hated the way his weekly meetings took him away       me. It seemed that they were more important to him than I was. But with my birthday coming up I thought Dad would make an       (except). “ Can’t you miss it just this time? Saturday is my birthday!” I begged him but       (refuse). He said “ I am chairing the meeting this Saturday. We will have your party on Sunday.”
Saturday evening I sat on my bed,       (feel) sorry for myself. Dad started to leave, then paused and said, “Why not come with me together tonight? It’s an open meeting. All are welcome”.      would I do at a meeting? But maybe I needed to see why something Dad did every week mattered so much.
After we arrived , Dad announced the theme of the meeting was going to be gratitude. He told his story about giving up smoking. Later, a man       (call) Dave also told his story. Only then did I know it was Dad that saved his life from drinking. Showing up week after week and meeting with people, Dad was changing lives. Shame washed over me.

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。
Have you heard of Lake Titicaca? It is a famous lake in South America, which is located on the border between Bolivia and Peru. But the lives of the ancient people who once lived around the lake and ____ culture was thought to be highly advanced, have long remained a secret. Recently, ____, scientists taking part in an exploration project at the lake have found ____ they believe to be a 1000-year-old temple ____ the water.
Divers from the study group have discovered ____ building scientists think is the remains of a temple built by the people who once lived beside the lake. The project leaders hope to begin raising important materials from the site later this week ____ bad weather forces a change in their plans.
"The scientists have not yet had the opportunity to study the materials carefully," said project director, John Aubi. "But some ____ (put) forward the idea that the remains date from this period because of their ____ (similar) to those found elsewhere."
The research team has so far this year made more than 200 dives into water 30 metres deep. During these dives, ____ have been recording the ancient remains on film. There will be a meeting, ____ (start) later this year to review the film.

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。
There are moments in life  you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug (拥抱) them for real.
When the door of happiness closes,   opens, but often we look so long at the closed door   we don’t see the one which has been opened for us.
Don’t go for looks; they can deceive(欺骗）.Don’t go for wealth; even that fades(消退）away. Go for someone  makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day bright.
Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be   you want to be.
The   (happy) of people don’t   (necessary)have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that   (come)along their way. The brightest future will always be based  a forgotten past.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone   you was smiling