高中语法填空专练

高中语法填空专练

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。

A

I’m a 34-year-old man, live in a nice house, and have a ___1____(success) job as an educator. But my life was not always so great. I had a learning disability from an early age. I went to a special school __2___ I got plenty of extra help. Still, I suffered the rest of my school ___3__(day) in public schools.

My life became better when I discovered art. The art world gave a chance to expreww myself without words. I went to a workshop and __4__(gradual) got good at making things with clay(黏土). Here I learned my first important lesson: I could still be smart and well express __5__(me) with clay though I was weak in language.

I got my next lesson from rock climbing. It was a fun thing ___6__ I was frighented of it from the start. I soon noticed it wasn’t a talent thing; it was practice. So I did it more. After about five years of climbing, I found myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall. I learned that if you fall__7__ love with something and do it all the time, you will get better at it.

Later I made up my mind___8__(learn) how to read and write. Every day I practiced so hard __9___ after two years I was quite able to read and write.

Having gone through the long process with art, rock climbing, and reading and writing, up to now I __10___(reach) a point in my life where I know I am smart enough to dive into a field which is totally unknown, hard, but interesting.

B

Paper was first created about 2000 years ago in China. After its invention ____1___people start to make books. In those days, books were only ____2___(produce) one at a time by hand. As a result, there were not many books, and they were expensive. So, few people ___3__ the chance to learn to read.

Printing was invented in China during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Later, developments in printing made___4__possibe to produce books more quickly and cheaply. A trade in books resulted, and more people learnt to read. Knowledge and ideas spread ___5__(fast) than ever before. In a day, we can compare the invention of paper and printing___6___the introduction of the Internet in the twentieth century.

___7___the Internet is still young, it is growing very fast, and may become more powerful than printing. A much larger amount of information can ___8___(store) in more varied forms on the Internet than in books. And the __9___(machine) we use to read it are now small and light, often smaller and lighter than a single book.

Computers and the Internet are used in classrooms now, and newspapers and magazines are already read online. So what direction will traditional printing take in the future? Will the Internet take__10__place of books? Let’s wait and see.

C

Near the town of Montignac in Southern France, visitors can find some of the most beautiful cave paintings in the world—the Lascaux Cave Paintings（拉斯科洞窟壁画）. The history of these paintings is very interesting. Most caves are formed1nature