高中英语语法填空试题

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One day, Nick invited his friends to supper. He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen. Suddenly, he ______(find) that he has run out of salt. So Nick called to his son, “Go to the village and buy some salt, but pay a fair price for it: neither too much ______too little.”
His son looked surprised. “I can understand why I shouldn’t pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less, ______not save a bit of money?”
“ That would be a very ______(reason) thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy a small village like ours,” Nick said.
Nick’s guests, ______had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy salt more cheaply if they could. Nick replied, “The only reason a man would sell salt _____a lower price would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect _____the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it.”
“But such a small thing couldn’t _____(possible) destroy a village.”
“In the beginning, there was only _____very small amount of unfairness in the world, but everyone added a little, always _____(think) that it was only small and not very important, and look where we have ended up today.”

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Since the one-baby policy ______(carry) out in China, Chinese families have been shrinking from one with over 10 members to the other with only three including parents and baaby. Things are usually out of our expectation. Apart from the benefits _______ have been mentioned enough, small families are now beginning to have ______own problems. Because parents are having fewer children, they increasingly feel the need _______(control) the lives of those children. As a result, many children are becoming less _______(depend), determined and ambitious than in the past.
Parents today discourage their children from doing housework, extracurricular activities and socializing ______ they fear it will interrupt their education. For example, when I was younger I wanted to learn the guitar ______ my parents wouldn’t allow me because they believed it would distract me from my studies. They are happy as long as I perform ______(wonder) in my exams but don’t seem concerned about how I develop ______ a person.
To some extent, I understand parents’ concerns, but I think they should love their children for ____ they are, not what they want them to be. We deserve the chance to chase our own dreams and learn on our own. Even if we fail, we can learn from those failures.

第二部分：英语知识应用（共两节，满分45分）
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
语法填空：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。
Mary: Hey,John!
John: Hey! I didn’t expect _____ (meet) you here!
Mary: Well, this is my first time that I ______ (come) to this Internet bar. Do you often come here?
John: Yes. I come here often to check my e-mail and keep in _____ with my friends and relatives.
Mary: Why don’t you do that in your office? You have _____ computer on your desk, don’t you?
John: Yes. But ____ is not very convenient for me to surf the Internet there.  _____ (do) that at work is not allowed.
Mary: I see. Your boss _____ be unhappy.
John: And how about you? What are you doing here?
Mary: Well, I want to get some information about foreign colleges. You know I’ll graduate in July. I want to go abroad for ____ (far) study.
John: You should e-mail them ____ you want to get in touch with them. It saves time, and it’s very convenient.
Mary: That’s right. And ____ , it’s cheap for us students.
John: You should open a Yahoo or Hotmail e-mail account. Both are very easy and free.
Mary: That’s what I want. Thank you very much!

People in communities have slowly been pushed apart through the years, mostly because people simply aren’t taking the time to say a simple “hello”. After considering this phenomenon, I decided I was going to change the way I got on      others.
My opportunity came one morning when I was in the community library. I passed by a girl    dropped her books out of her locker.     (think) that someone else would help her pick them up, I continued    way. However, when I had to go back    I forgot my book, I noticed she had just finished picking them up by herself. No one had stopped    (help) her.
“OK,” I thought to myself, “this is where I should have changed.”
My best opportunity came a few days later when I saw a man sitting by himself waiting for the library to open, so I sat down next to him and    (begin) a conversation.     was difficult to get started ,and even when I had to say goodbye, almost every response from my new friend had a tone (语气) of doubt in it .And who could blame him?
People aren’t used to making    unprepared chat with a stranger. But a change, no matter how desperately it is needed, doesn’t just happen. It takes people like us to make it possible. I advise you to take a small step out of your comfort zone and try to make someone’s day a little    
(bright) .Together, we can really make our society come closer as a whole.

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Do you like travelling? Staying     (health) while     (travel) can help to ensure your trip is a happy and enjoyable one.    you are travelling abroad, here are the tips you need to make your trip much    (easy)
Make sure you have got signed passport(护照) and visas. Also, before you go, fill in the emergency information page of your passport! Make two copies of your passport identification page. This will help a lot if your passport     (steal). Leave one copy at home with friends or relatives. Carry the other     you in a separate place from your passport.
Read the Public Announcements or Travel Warnings for the countries you plan to visit. Get yourself familiar with local laws and customs of the countries to     you are travelling.
Leave a copy of your itinerary(旅行日程) with family or friends at home so that you can be contacted in case of an emergency.
Do not accept packages from strangers. Do not carry too much money or   (necessary) credit cards. If we make enough (prepare), we will succeed. Have    good time!

When I was a little girl, every time my dad was repairing something, he    ask me to hold the hammer, and meanwhile, have a conversation with me. I never saw my dad drinking or taking a night out. All he did after work was taking care of his family.
I grew up and left home for college and       then, my dad had been calling me every Sunday morning, no matter what. Several years later I bought a house,         my dad painted by himself for three days in the 80-degree summer heat. All he asked was         me to talk to him. But I was always busy,       (able) to find any time for conversation with him.
One Sunday morning we had a telephone talk as usual. I noticed that my dad had forgotten some things we discussed lately. I was in a hurry, so our conversation was short. Later that day came a call      (say) my father was in hospital. Immediately I bought a ticket for a flight and on my way I was thinking about all the       (miss) occasions to have a talk with my dad.
     the time I got to hospital, my father had passed away. Now it was         who did not have time for a conversation with me. I realized      little I know about my dad, his deepest thoughts and dreams. After his death I learned more about him, and even more about myself.

In order to know a foreign language thoroughly(彻底地), four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear  ______________ spoken.. Secondly, we must be able to speak it correctly with confidence(自信) and without hesitation(犹豫). ____________ , we must be able to read the language , and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are grammatically correct.
There is no easy way to success ____________ language learning. _____________ good memory is of great help, but it is not enough only _____________(memorize) rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long list of words and _______________meaning, studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the language. ______________we are satisfied with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. “Learn through use” is a good piece of ___________(advise) for those ____________are studying a new language. Practice is important. We must practise speaking and ________(write) the language whenever we can.

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，在空格处填人一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空（不多于3个词），并将答案填写在答题纸的相应位置上。
Wang Peng felt very frustrated when he saw none of his regular customers __________ (eat) in his restaurant. In his opinion, __________ could be better than his fried, mutton kebabs, fatty pork or his sugary cola. Who won his customers? __________ (curious) drove him into Yong Hui’s newly-opened __________ (slim) restaurant and was amazed at the menu there: raw vegetables, fruit and water. It was obvious __________ Yong Hui was telling __________ when promising to make the customers thinner. In order to win his customers back, he went to the library to do some research, __________ showed Yong Hui’s menu didn’t give the customers energy-giving food. __________ finding out the weakness of Yong Hui’s menu, Wang Peng wrote his own sign, saying “Energy-giving food served”. In fact, there was weakness in Wang Peng’s menus, too. Food at his restaurant contains too much fat. So __________ only solution is to combine the two menus together to provide a __________ (balance) menu with food full of energy and fibre.

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.

阅读下面短文，根据以下要求：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。（每题1分；共10分）
All the students present, may I have your attention, please? I'm Elizabeth Taylor. As editor of the Voice, I'd like to i_____ you to our school newspaper. We need new hands to help us ______ can tell the students what's new every day through our newspaper. Experience isn’t quite necessary, but writing and typing skills are in great      . We need people to read our ______（文章）to type and check them. We could also use a good photographer and several engineers. Since the voice comes       five days a week, we need good students who know how to make the _____ of their time. There’s some money for salaries d______ on how much work to do, but don't expect to get rich, this isn’t something you do for money. Mostly it's just for fun. Anyone who’s w______ to joining us should speak to me ______（立刻）after this meeting. Be p______ to start right away. Our first paper appears tomorrow.

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。
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.

For many times in the past years I went to the hospital for some minor ____(treat) during my travel in other cities. It was the ___(sad) moment of my life, I think，because nobody would come to the hospital to visit me. ___ patients had family or friends to visit them during the visiting hours. I felt really alone. ____ is it possible that out of a whole world full of people，___ would come to visit me for just an hour? The answer in my case was simple. With a bit of medication (药物治疗), I was back in the stream of life again. But I___(leave) with a deep thought for all the people and the elderly. ___ knows how many others that lie in the hospital with nobody ___(visit) them or give a kind word of comfort? I had this wonderful idea of forming __ organization in cities around the world，getting to hospitals to visit the patients who never get a visit and someone local could drop ___ with a smile and a kind word. Wouldn’t it be nice and relatively easy to do?

Long before, there was a large mountainside, where rested an eagle's nest with four large eagle eggs. One day      earthquake rocked the mountain, causing one of the eggs to roll down the mountain to a chicken farm     (locate) in the valley below. The chickens were kind enough to care for the eagle's egg, and an old hen volunteered to nurture (哺育) and raise the large egg.
One day, the egg hatched and a beautiful eagle was born. Sadly,  , the eagle was raised to be a chicken. Soon, the eagle believed he was nothing more    a chicken. The eagle loved his present family, but his spirit cried out     more. While playing on the farm one day, the eagle happened to notice a group of mighty eagles soaring in the skies. "Oh," the eagle cried, "I wish I could soar like those birds."
The chickens roared with  (laugh), “You cannot soar with those birds. You are a chicken and chickens do not soar."
The eagle continued staring at his real family up above,   (dream) that he could be with them. Each time the eagle would let his dreams   (know), he was told it couldn't be done. That is    the eagle learned to believe. The eagle, after time, stopped dreaming and continued to live like a chicken. Finally, after a long life as a chicken, the eagle passed away.
You become what you believe you are. So, if you ever dream of becoming an eagle, follow     dreams... not the words of a chicken.

At one point along an open highway，I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was alone on the road by now, but ___ I drove up to the light，it turned red，and I braked to a halt. I looked left, right，and behind me. Nothing，___a car，no suggestion of headlights, but there I sat，__(wait) the light to change，the only human being for at least a mile in any direction.
I started wondering __I refused to run the light. I was not afraid of ___(catch) by the police, because there was obviously no cop anywhere around and _certainly would have been no danger in going ___ it.
Much later that night，the ___ question of why I’d stopped for that light came back to me. I think I stopped because it’s part of a contract(合同) we all have with each other. It’s not only the law, but it’s an agreement we have，and we trust each other to honor ___：We don’t go through red lights. Like most of us, I’m more ready to be stopped from doing something bad by the social agreement that disapproves of it ___ by any law against it.

A new campaign to ban smoking in taxis is part of a wider push to clean up the city’s image before the 2010 World Expo(2010年世界博览会). The Shanghai Dazhong Taxi, a taxi company, said drivers __(find) smoking in their cabs could “possibly” be fined or even temporarily banned ___ working. Signs __(place) in all of the taxi company’s 9,100 strong fleet (车队) saying “No Smoking in Taxis. Welcome to Shanghai World Expo”．
“We hope the sanitation(卫生环境) of cabs in the city will be improved through our no-smoking campaign，___ is a mutual benefit for ___ drivers and passengers. ”
Dazhong said it would ___(close) monitor the campaign’s progress.
Drivers caught smoking will undergo the company’s training and inspection program. “Cabs found to have cigarette smell will be called back”， Zhao said.
Many taxi drivers smoke ___(relax) from working long hours. The official admitted ___ would not be an easy task to achieve a total smoke ban in a short time.
“Promoting non-smoking taxis in the whole city is ___ long journey，” Zhao said. “___ having a long way to go, we are confident of fulfilling our ‘smoke-free taxi’ program in the city through our diligence.”