高中英语语法填空阅读填空

阅读下面材料,在空白处填入一个适当的词，或括号内单词的正确形式（不多于3个单词）。
By “luxury(奢侈品)”, we mean "a pleasant and often expensive thing that is not necessary". From a historical point of view, things which were a luxury when they first came into being all became necessities later.
Anything, no matter         luxurious it is, will become a necessity, when it is widely used. This is true of many of the present luxuries, among which mobile phones, cars, computers and many other things     (include). It is known to all that the purpose of the development of science is      (make) things easy for the mankind, not for only        small number of people.    , the first thing to do after a new invention occurs is to spread it so as to benefit         many people as possible. In the course of the spread, the luxury becomes decreasingly luxurious until        the end it becomes a necessity. This is an objective law, and         can be an exception.
With the quick       (develop) of science and technology, the process for many things to become a necessity from a luxury will be greatly shortened. Anything that can be imagined will be invented and in no time becomes a necessity      (access) to ordinary people.

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。
At last firefighters have put out a big forest fire in California．Since then，they   (set) about finding out  the fire began．Forest fires are often caused by   (break)glass or by cigarette ends which people carelessly throw away．Yesterday the   (fireman)examined the ground but were not able to find any．They were also quite sure that a cigarette end didn’t start the fire．However，several hours passed    a fireman accidentally discovered the cause．He noticed the remains of a snake which was wound(蜿蜒；缠绕)around the electric wires of a 16，000-volt power line．In this way，he was able to solve  mystery．The   (explain) was simple but very (usual)．A bird had snatched up the snake from the ground and then (drop)it on to the wires．The snake then wound   round the wires．When it did so，it sent sparks down to the ground and these immediately started a fire．

Until about 150 years ago, the most important, expensive and renowned kind of painting was large-scale pictures that told a story, regarded as the   (hard) challenge for an artist.   (choose) suitable subjects, artists had to be well-read. Then they had to know      stories could be told without words, using only gestures and expressions. To create lifelike scenes, they had to understand perspective, lighting and anatomy. So history painting needed a lot of thought and     . (imagine). Large-scale pictures used to be reserved for grand religious or patriotic subjects, but that changed in the 19th century, as artists began creating history paintings based     contemporary news stories. One of the first of these was The Raft of the Medusa, inspired by the wreck of      French ship in 1816, which showed how art could have a powerful political impact. It presents a scene      the survivors of the wreck on a raft littered with bodies try to signal to a distant ship. When they     ( rescue ), they told how they had been abandoned by their captain, while he sailed to safety in a lifeboat. Starving, they had to eat each other to survive—though this picture makes      look heroic rather than violent. The picture caused a huge outcry. Some people thought the artist meant to criticize the French king,     had been involved in appointing the ship's captain.

Olympic building projects are at risk because skilled Polish workers are going back home and there are not enough skilled British workers to replace ___ . A quick training plan is being put in place to teach British people basic construction ____ specifically for Olympic projects. As the Polish builders are beginning to go back home, migrant workers from other parts of Eastern Europe are taking their places; ____, they don’t seem to be as well trained or have the same work ethics as the Polish workers. The Olympic Delivery Authority, the London Development Agency (LDA) and other partner organizations are going to spend ￡20 million —23 per cent of     training budget for London 2012 —in increasing the skills of the British workforce to __ the construction needs of the Olympics. They are also training electricians. A total of 1,500 workers nationwide will become fully skilled electricians ___ attending the program. These workers will then work on building the Olympic Village. Iain MacDonald, head of a training program, told TheTimes, "All the way along we have been holding the view    we can’t rely on migrant labour. We have to put in plans for the long term. We can’t rely on migrant labour all the time. Britain has become too dependent on the migrant labour force. It is better to develop the skills of the population."

语法填空。阅读下面短文，按照句子结构和上下文的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号词语的正确形式填空。（每题1.5分，共15分）
When I was18, one morning, my father told me to drive 16 into a town, about 18 miles away. I had just learned to drive, so I  17 (agree) with pleasure. First we came to the town. Then I took the car to a nearby garage to have it  18  (repair) and promised to pick Dad up at 4 p.m. Because I had a few hours to spend, I decided to go to the cinema.  19  ,  I became so interested in the films  20 I forgot the time. When the last film finished, it was 6 o’clock. I drove back quickly to meet Dad and made an excuse for my being late.                     
“I’m disappointed that you lied to me, Jack. I’m angry, not with  21  but with myself. I have failed because I’ve brought up a son who can not even tell the  22  (true) to his own father. I’m going to walk home now and think seriously about  23  I have gone wrong all these years.”
Dad began walking alone the road. I begged all the way, telling him 24  sorry I was. I drove behind him for 18 miles, at a speed of 5 miles 25  hour. It was the most unforgettable lesson I have never lied to him ever since.