高中英语语法填空试题

完型填空
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 countersome 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 _table having supper. Her mother was excited. “Your father has at last decided to stop smoking,” Jane__ (inform).

Cholera was a   (dead) disease of its day. Neither its cause nor its cure    ( be) understood. So many thousands of   ( terrify) people died    there was an outbreak. John Snow wanted to solve the problem. He knew that cholera would never be controlled its cause was found.
He became interested in two theories   possibly explained how cholera killed people. The first suggested that cholera   ( multiply) in the air. The second suggested that people absorbed this disease  their bodies with their meals.
John Snow suspected that the second theory was correct but he needed evidence. So when another cholera    London in 1854, he was ready to begin his enquiry. With all the evidences he gathered ,John Snow was able to announce with  (certain) that polluted water carried the virus. Finally “King Cholera” was defeated.

We may find ourselves in many situations, where we discover or learn something that matters for us. But somehow, it really makes no____(different). So what can be done？___(benefit) from each experience in a learning environment, you need to answer these 3 questions：
What have I learnt or discovered? Most of us___(easy) answer this question. We just list____learning points that matter to us. At this stage we are rarely sure of why，____we simply don't express it.So what does it mean to me? This question ____(help) us to express how important the learning points are and why____are important.
And now what do I do with this? This last question is the____important because this is the one that helps us to use the learning. It turns the theory into practice.
____doing so, you'll surprise yourself how much these simple questions change the way you learn greatly. Over the coming weeks and months, you'll notice how much you immediately apply ____you've learnt and also how much it opens up your perceptions(洞察力) of everyday life.

语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
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。
Lori:  Good morning, Chuck. Are you here       (wait) for Professor Johnson?
Chuck: Oh, yes. Good morning, Lori. The professor asked me to come here       (have) an interview. Do you know something about job as        teacher’s assistant?
Lori:  Oh, yes. I know all about it        I have work experience in this field. Last year, I did it for a long time.
Chuck: Really? How did you like      ?
Lori:  Well, actually I think it was    (good) I had ever had at school. I was paid nine dollars an hour, which       (be) three dollars more than the school post office paid us.
Chuck: Yeah, I bet this is a good salary. But what did you do?
Lori:  My responsibility was to help Professor Johnson grade the students’ homework. It wasn’t hard and the professor was always available       there were any questions. I      improve myself through doing this job.
Chuck: I think I would enjoy this kind of work. But I’m a little worried about how much            it might take.
Lori:  Only about five or six hours a week and you can do that in your room.
Chuck: It sounds good.

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(不多于3个单词)
There was a young flower in the desert   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.

Paper-cutting is a(n)                     (tradition) Chinese folk art with a long history.
Paper-cuts            (use) during festivals to decorate gates and windows. The main cutting tools are simple: paper and scissors or a knife. Clever craftsmen are very good at ________ (cut) in the theme of daily life. When you look at works created by paper cutting            (careful), you will be amazed by the true-to-life            (express) of the figure’s appearance and thoughts.
Although other art forms, like painting, can show similar scenes, paper-cutting still stands out for its beautiful lines and patterns           are all hand-made. Learning about cutting a piece of paper           (be) easy but mastering (精通)           is very difficult. One must hold the knife upright (竖直地) and press on the paper without much strength. Any carelessness will lead
        damage to the whole image. Craftsmen try________ (create) a circle like the moon, a straight line like a stem(干) of wheat, and a square like a brick. They have to be careful and keep practising to make the scenes seem as alive as possible.

The Internet is the biggest source of information in the world, consisting of millions of pages of data. In 1969, DARPA,      US defence organization, developed a way for all their computers to “talk” to each other through the telephone. They created a network of computers and only the US army could use    in the following 15 years. Then in 1984, the US National Science Foundation started the NSF network, also known   the Inter-network or ”Internet”. It then became possible for universities to use the system as well.  The World Wide Web,     (invent) in 1991 by an English scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, is a computer network that makes the information from millions of websites   (access) to computer users. At the moment, about
80 % of web traffic is     English, but by 2020, Chinese could take the lead. Obviously, it was Berners-Lee     made it possible for everyone to use the Internet, not just the universities and the army. He designed the first “web browser”,     allowed computer users to access documents from other computers. With the web and the Internet     (grow), the number of Internet users rose rapidly from 600,000 to 40 million within 5 years.
So far, the Internet     (create) thousands of millionaires all over the world, but Berners-Lee is not one of them.

Many people think that teachers give pupils too much homework．They say that it is unnecessary for children to work at home in their free time．Moreover, they argue that most teachers do not (proper)plan the homework tasks they give to pupils．The result is that pupils have to repeat tasks that they(do)at school already．
In Greece，many parents complained about the difficult homework that teachers gave to their children．The parents said that most of the homework was waste of time，and they wanted to stop it．Spain and Turkey are two countries  stopped homework．In Denmark，Germany and several other  (country)in Europe，teachers cannot set homework at weekends．In Holland，teachers allow pupils (stay)at school to do their homework．The children are free to help one another．Similar  (arrange)also exists in some British schools．
Most people agree that homework is not fair．A pupil doing his homework in a quiet and comfortable room is in a much (good)position than a pupil who does his homework in a small，  (noise)room with the television on．Some parents help their children with their homework．Other parents take no interest  their children’s homework at all．

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.”