语法填空短文改错练习

一、语法填空专项练习

（一）

A scientist got 1. ______ a train to go to New York. In his car there was also a poor farmer. 2. ______ (pass) the time, the scientist suggested a game to the guy.

“I can answer 3. ______ question you ask me. If I can‟t, I will pay you 10 dollars. 4. ______ if you can‟t answer 5. ______ (I), you only have to give me one dollar. Get it?”

The farmer nodded and thought for a while. “I have a question. What has three legs and 6. ______ (use) 10 hours to climb a palm tree but only 10 seconds to get back down?”

The scientist was 7. ______ (puzzle) by the question so he thought long and hard about it. In fact, when they got to New York he still didn‟t have an answer. As the train pulled into the station, the scientist took out 10 dollars and gave 8. ______ to the farmer.

“I don‟t know. What‟s the answer?” The farmer took 9. ______ 10 dollars and put it in his pocket. Then he took out a dollar and handed it to the scientist. “I don‟t know, 10. ______.”

（二）

I learned how to accept life as it is from my father.

My father was once a strong man 1. ______ loved being active, but a terrible illness took all that away. Now he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even 2. ______ (talk) is difficult. One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started talking about life, and I told them about one of my 3. ______ (believe).

I said that we must give things up as we grow, but 4. ______ always seems that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father spoke up. He sai d: “But, Peter, I gave up everything! 5. ______ did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I 6. ______ not think of anything to say. 7. ______ (surprise), he answered his own question: “I 8. ______ (gain) the love of my family.”

In this way, I learned the power of acceptance from my father. After that, when I began to feel 9. ______ (annoy) at someone, I would remember his words and become calm. If he could replace his great pain 10. ______ a feeling of love for others, then I should be able to give up my small annoyances.

（三）

One day, as I opened the garage door, I saw a large moth (飞蛾) on the wall. It was a very beautiful moth, 1. ______ had big brown wings.Perhaps because of the sound of the door opening, the moth 2. _____ (try) to fly out. There was a window on the ceiling. The moth couldn‟t get out because of the invisible (看不见的) wall of the window glass.

I raised the garage door wider in hopes of 3. ______ (help) the moth to escape from the garage. However, it tried to fly higher and 4. ______ (far) from the door and got 5. ______ (trap) in a spider‟s web. Worrying that the beautiful moth would become a spider‟s dinner, I picked up a broom 6. ______ (help) it fight against the spider‟s web. However, it became even more 7. ______ (frighten). After it got away from the web, the moth ran into the glass. But no matter 8. _____ hard it tried, the moth remained in the cage of the garage.

I left the garage with the door open. I thought 9. ______ simply turning his focus to one side, he could escape the garage through the door. Sometimes, people need to choose 10. ______ right way before applying effort.

（四）

My wife and I were raised in different 1. ______ (culture).Shortly after we were 2. ______ (marry), we found ourselves 3. ______ (wander) through a supermarket. Linda asked me 4. ______ I would like to have for dinner. I suggested turnips (萝卜). As I picked one up and put 5. ______ in our basket, she said: “Well, I‟m not going to eat that.”“Why not? I 6. ______ (think) you liked turnips?” I asked.“I do, but I wouldn‟t eat that. It‟s the root of the turnip ... we feed that to the pigs.”

You know, as strange 7. ______ this may seem, I had never heard it 8. ______ (refer) to as the root of the turnip! It was always just a turnip to me.

“Well, what do you eat?” I asked.“We eat the green of the turnip.”“Isn‟t that strange? We feed the greens to the pigs.”

I have never eaten turnip greens. I put the turnip back and we went on our way. But I began wondering how far back I would have to go into our family history 9. ______ (find) out who made the decision 10. ______ we would eat the root of a turnip and feed the green to the pigs. It makes me think of all the old ideas that control our lives.