高中英语语法填空试题

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。
Some      (invent) happened in strange ways. “Potato chips” is one of them.
White Lake House was       restaurant in New York in the 1850s. George White was the cook there. Many highly-ranked people often came to the restaurant     (enjoy) his cooking.
One thing which really upset George was that a customer complained        the food and sent it back to the kitchen to be done over. He would often return it overcooked. He was unhappy to see the customer walk out of the restaurant      (angry).
On August 24, 1853, a customer returned his fried potatoes to the kitchen        they weren't crunchy (脆的) enough. George reacted in his        (usually) way. He cut the potatoes very thin and cooked them in hot oil. They were so crunchy and George was sure that the man would refuse to eat them. Instead, the man loved them. He even      (order) more.
Now, do you know  invented the potato chips? It's George White! He later set up his own restaurant. He named it George's House. He put baskets of his potato chips on all the tables. They made his restaurant a very popular place.
Today, potato chips are one of Americans'   (favor) foods!

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，所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
How do you understand happiness? Views on it v       from person to person. As far as I’m concerned, happiness doesn’t mean a large amount of money or being in the highest social status but       (意味) to obtain something that enriches my mind.
However, many people have seldom experienced happiness. There are several f      for it. Some people aren’t good at finding the sun face. They’ve just        （抱怨）about their own misfortune or enlarged others’ joy,          (看不见) the happiness belonging to them. Some people lack faith. They only keep telling themselves to make money as______, not knowing their life’s aims         what on earth they really want,        can hardly let them have the feeling of happiness. Some people always like to compare with others in every aspect, such as positions, housing conditions and treasure. Some do not know devotion, not understanding helping others will bring them more pleasure. Still some others do not know to meet. Such people u        have possessed much but still want to seek more.
In my opinion, s       happiness equals pleasure what pleasure for long is happy. Therefore, just keep ourselves cheerful for every minute.

Two little children were sitting by the fire one cold winter’s night. Suddenly, they heard a knock at the door. “Who can it be?” they wondered. One ran      (curious) to open it. There, outside in the cold and the darkness, stood a child       no shoes on his feet and dressed in old thin garments. He was trembling with cold,       he asked if he was allowed to come in and warm himself.
“Yes, come,” cried both the children. They drew the little stranger to their warm seat,      (share) their supper with him, and gave him their bed, and they slept on a hard bench.
On the night, they     (awake) by sweet music,     was played by a band of children in shining garments. Suddenly the stranger child stood in front of     : no longer cold and ragged, but dressed in silvery light. He said, “I am the Christ Child,     (wander) through the world to bring peace and     (happy) to good children as you. As you have helped me so much, this tree will give rich fruit to you every year.”
When he was saying that, he broke      branch from the tree that grew near the door, planted it in the ground and disappeared. But the branch grew into a great tree, and every year it bore wonderful golden fruit for the kind children.

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。
One day an elderly  teacher took a walk  through a  forest, with a pupil by his side. Suddenly he      （stop）and pointed to four plants close at hand. The first was just beginning to appear slowly above the ground, the second had rooted itself pretty well into the earth, the third was a small short tree, while  the  fourth was      full-sized tree. The tutor  said  to his  young      （company）,“Pull up the first plant.” The boy did so eagerly,      （use）only his fingers．
“Now  pull  up  the  second.” The  youth  obeyed     found  that  the task  was      （difficult）.
“Do the same     the third, ” he urged．The boy had to use all his strength to uproot it．
“Now, ” said the instructor, “try your hand with the fourth．” The pupil put his arms around the trunk of the tall tree and couldn’t even shake     leaves．“This, my son, is just        happens with our bad habits．When they are young, we can remove them easily; but when they are old, it’s hard to pull them out of the ground,       we pray and struggle ever so sincerely!”

语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
There is      old Spanish Proverb which states, “Tomorrow is often the      (busy) day of the week”. How many       (time) have we put off our dreams until tomorrow? I’d say, too many. Our dreams should not, and cannot wait. We have to go for them now! Here are the reasons.
Tomorrow is not promised. Nobody likes to talk about     (dead), but the reality is---       is going to die at one point. None of us know the day, or the hour. Therefore, today is all we have. Don’t go to your grave       unfulfilled dreams. Make the decision to go after every dream, big or small right now.
You’ll be much       (happy) if you go for it. Imagine how much happier you’ll be      you’re living the life you always dreamed about. The only thing       is stopping you is yourself. Take control of your own happiness. Don’ t keep your dreams       (wait). Go after them today!

阅读下面短文，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。
Canada is a country       North America consisting of ten provinces and three territories.       （locate）in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic       the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Covering 9.98 million square kilometers in total, Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area and the fourth-largest country by land area.       common border with the United States forms the world's longest land border.
Canada is a developed country and one of the       (wealthy) in the world, with the tenth highest nominal per capita income       (global), and the eighth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among       highest in international measurements of government transparency(透明度), civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, and education. Canada is        member of the Commonwealth of Nations,       is furthermore part of several major international and intergovernmental institutions or groupings,      (include) NATO, the G8, the Group of Ten, the G20, the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

短文填词(共10题;每题1分,满分10分)
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,所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
One day while walking through the woods, an old man found a cocoon(茧) of a butterfly. Heb  it home. A few days later, a small opening appeared, he watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop  (取得)any progress .It appeared as if it could hardly go further .Then the man decided to h  the butterfly, so he took a p  of scissors to cut the cocoon. The butterfly then came out easily.
But it can never    (飞).The man didn’t understand the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening was just the nature's way of forcing fluid (液体) from the body of the butterfly     its wings, which would be ready for flight once it achieved its  (自由)from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly    we need in our life. If we were allowed to go through our life  any struggling, it would weaken us seriously .We would not be as   (强壮) as what we could have been.

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。
Children’s education is changing very fast today. In the past, teachers made children sit     (安静) for hours. They made them remember all k   of things. The children had to go on reading things again and again u    they know them “by heart”. Today, many teachers wonder________it is possible to make children learn at all. They say you can only help them learn. They say you must let children learn and _______(发现) things for______.
But for some of the children, school is a kind of place they cannot escape________. They are there only because their _________(父母) make them go. They get out of the classroom as soon as the teachers let them leave. Many of them want to find jobs but the law will not let them w_______ until they reach a certain age. And so, they have to stay in school. Often they do not learn ______at all and hate every moment.

Everyone may have a complex and different process of    (grow up). There are many  (influence)factors in a person's growth and development of his personality.
As for me,what has affected me most in my growth and personality is my family and friends, the two   （equal） important factors. As we know, children who  (bring up)in a good atmosphere have a better character than those   are not.  (fortune), I belong to the former. Besides, friends in some ways affect me a lot.  we my have many different opinions and personalities, I have really learned something positive from them. In    (conclude), I get lots of valuable things from them. My family offers me warmth and cares,    my friends give me      (strong) and courage. Both of them have influenced me most since I was born.

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。
I felt upset when I _____(tell) that I would have to leave the company. In order to find _____ new job to support the family, I read almost all the newspapers _____ set down almost all the telephone numbers in ads _____ my notebook and tried to call almost all the companies that needed new clerks. Not until I_____ (find) a job in a small town near Townsville did I calm down. My new boss, Mr. Brown, was one of my schoolmates _____ I was getting along well with at school. Both of us were____(excite) to see each other and we spent the whole afternoon _____(talk) about things and persons ___ we remembered at school. He asked me to give him some advice on how to enlarge his present business and he was ____(entire) happy about my advice.

A man and his friend were walking through the desert. During the trip they had a quarrel, and the man hit his friend in   face. His friend was hurt, but    saying anything, he wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend hit me.”
They kept on     (walk) until they found a lake, where they decided   (take) a bath. The man’s friend fell into the lake and was in a    (danger) situation, but the man saved him   (immediate). After he came back to life, he wrote on a    , “Today my best friend saved my life.”
The man  had hit and saved his best friend asked, “When I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you wrote on a stone. Why?” His friend    (reply), “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand, where wind can blow it away. However, when someone does something good for  (we), we must write it down in stone, where it can last for ever.”

语法填空
Janine:  Hi, Nicholas, how was your class today?
Nicholas: Not bad, but I have this student,____(name) Bill, who just refuses to do group work.
Janine: Do you know why?
Nicholas: In my view, he thinks he’s__ smart to be there. According_ his parents, he has an IQ of 170, and finds school _ (bore).
Janine: Did you tell them___ (have) a high IQ doesn’t guarantee(保证) success? I mean, if he has no social skills he’s not going to get far in life.
Nicholas: I tried to, but I didn’t really know__ to say.
Janine: If I were you, I’d tell them EQ is just as important __ IQ. Students with a high EQ often get __ (far) in life, because they’re open-minded and like communicating. These are the skills__ are going to guarantee success outside the classroom. If a student can’t communicate, he’ll never get __ job! Social skills are so important today.
Nicholas: That’s true. Thanks a lot. I’ll try and talk to his parents again.

语法填空
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Singles’ Day falls on November 11th every year in China,      is recognized as a day for people who have no girlfriend or boyfriend. Couples and lovers have Valentine’s Day in      (celebrate) of their love, but how about the singles? There must be a day they can celebrate even without a partner. That’s     people created Singles’ Day.
On Singles’ Day, many singles choose to say goodbye to their single life by     (attend) blind date parties, and some people even decide to get      (marry) with strangers.        for some reason, this day has recently become more of a time for shopping and many shops online will give customers great discount     (promote) their goods.
More and more people are   (will) to shop online to get what they want, and I am one of them. I just can’t help buying things       I need them or not.     (honest) speaking, some of the things that I bought have been put aside forever in my closet.

In the toy section, I noticed a small boy of about five years old, pressing a doll against his chest. He kept on touching________hair of the doll and looked very sad. I wondered who he wanted to give the doll _________. So I walked towards him and asked him all about it.“It is the doll_____ my sister loved most and wanted so much for this Christmas. She was so sure that Santa Claus would bring it to her.”
I told him not _________ (worry). However, he replied sadly, “No, Santa Claus cannot bring it to _________she is now. I’ll have to give the doll to my mother so that she can give it to her when she goes there.” His eyes were filled with ________ (sad) while saying this. “My sister ______ (go) to be with God. Daddy said that Mommy will also join God very soon, so I think that she can bring the doll with _________ to give it to my sister.”
My heart almost stopped________ (beat) wholly. The little boy looked up at me and said, “I told Daddy to tell Mommy not to go yet. I asked him to wait _________ I come back from the store.”

Good morning, everyone,
I am Li hua from Xingguang Middle School. The topic of my speech is “Let’s Ride Bicycles”.
As ______ (know) to us all, _______ the improvement of people’s living standards,
cars______(become)a popular means of transport, ______(bring) great convenience to our life. _______, they have also caused some problems such as air pollution and traffic jams.
How can we solve the problems then? As far as I________(concern), bicycles is a good solution. For one thing, bicycles don’t need any petrol and they are energy-saving. For______, bicycles are___________(environment) friendly because they won’t give off waste gas. What’s more, riding bicycles is a good way for us to exercise and it is beneficial to our health.
________, let’s take the________(responsible) to build up a carbon city by riding bicycles.
Come on and join us!
Thank you!