2021年9月湛江市高考英语课外自选练习(4)及答案【含短文语法填空】

2021年9月湛江市高考英语课外自选练习（4）及答案【含短文语法填空】
包括短文语法填空、完形填空、阅读理解、短文改错。

短文语法填空（1）
Study in America
Nannan’s father runs an enterprise near the Ming Tombs selling batteries and drills to the Daqing Oilfield. Hoping to get the qualification to help govern it, Nannan made much _1____(prepare) and then left her motherland
with _2____ visa to study in America. _____3_____ her destination, she settled in an inn recommended by the travel agent.
As far as Nannan was concerned, she always kept it up in China. But she had to acknowledge it was not easy to adjust herself to the new academic requirements, _4______ were not parallel with China’s. ____5____ she was occupied with lectures and seminars day in and day out, the essays she drafted were still contradicted by her tutors. As for her routine life, she felt that it was hard to fit____6__, too. For example, she found English idioms
difficult___7_____(understand). And it was out of the question to eat delicious Chinese foods though many optional cafeterias served abundant substitutes. In addition, she had to wait in a queue early for the minibus that took her to school and it was usually so cold that she felt numb.__8____ bothered her most was that she received no apology when her sleeping ___9____(disturbed) by a ba rking dog in a shopkeeper’s cage.Luckily, with her parents comforting her by videophone, she became autonomous soon and eventually got her bachelor’s degree___10_____ (success). 【参考答案】Keys:
1.preparation
2.her
3.Having reached
4.which
5.Though
6.in
7.to understand
8.What
9.was disturbed 10.successfully
短文语法填空（2）
Immigrate to America
Attracted by the boom in America, my nephew teamed up with a Korean to illegally cross the Bearing Strait in the Arctic to America. __1_____(avoid) the Customs’ punishment, they hid in a small ferry called the North Pole Seagull, sitting back to back ____2______ sleeping, showering and shaving for 3 days, and had no chance to mourn their lost luggage when landing. The hardship of this crossing was apparent.
At first, he made a living by means of raising cattle and then ___3___ (hire) in aircraft industries. He lived in a Catholic district. Taking in a small percentage of Pakistani immigrants, the majority of the residents were from Italy and Denmark, ___4___ all kept up their customs and cultures. Different blocks here were distinctly marked out and indicated from the __5___(race) angle. It was unfair and needed reforming. But with nowhere else to go, my nephew lived on and managed to make a life __6___ himself.
My nephew’s fortune came when he __7___(brave) helped a conductor brake a ream to stop it from slipping out of the rails. The man was elected vice chairman of the Socialist Party later. It occurred to my nephew ___8___ he could grasp this opportunity to ask for his help. the man who was thankful helped him apply to___9__ civil authority for the right to live in America by inserting his brave deed into his documents. Unlike a great many other applicants,
__10___ application was approved by the Federal Justice Ministry. Before long, he started his own bakery and lived a better life.
【参考答案】Keys:
1.To avoid
2. without
3.was hired
4.who
5.racial
6.for
7.bravely
8.that
9.the 10.his
完形填空
【由2021界广东省东山中学高三下入学摸底考试改编】
完形填空。

阅读下面短文，把握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Behind our house is the start of a fascinating trail (小径). This trail is one of the old roads that wind through untold miles of forest. My 1 , Beans, and I walk the trail frequently. Normally, Beans sniffs alongside the 2
to follow the smell of a deer track or 3 some cause known only to him.
Beans is a white dog, quite handsome and very 4 . He not only understands what
we tell him, but also often makes sounds as if he were trying to 5 back.
One morning, we took a different route, which led us to a(n) 6 trail. I was sure this trail would eventually lead us to our familiar 7 . But, no. We seemed to be far off course. After two hours, I suddenly realized that Beans probably 8 the way home. So I urged, "Beans, take me home." He ran down a new trail. But it merely led to an intersection (岔道口) of trails.
Soon it became 9 that we were getting nowhere. I began to picture the rest of the day in the 10 , without food or drink. We had walked about ten miles. But Beans seemed totally 11 . The sniffing and exploring was going well for him.
Finally, we 12 a crossroad near a highway. Lady Luck suggested I should turn left. We did and 13 reached a cottage beside a field. I knocked on the door and explained my situation to an old man. He laughed and then 14 us home.
Since our adventure, I 15 that Beans probably knew all along how to get home.。