最新高考二轮复习(经典)语法填空专练(一)

语法填空专练(一)

阅读下列短文，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。

A

Robinson Crusoe is an English sailor. After many adventures and dangers, he comes to Brazil, 1. ________ he settles down and becomes a plantation owner. But the call of the sea is still too strong for him and he begins 2. ________ voyage — to West Africa, for the purpose of trading with the natives. During a storm, the ship 3.

________ (destroy) off the coast of an island without people, and he alone manages to swim ashore, 4. ________ all the rest of the crew are drowned. He builds himself a house, and lives first by hunting, then raising livestock (牲畜) and crops. He saves a savage (野人) from the hands of cannibals (食人者), gives 5. ________ the name Friday, and makes him into a perfect servant. After some time he rescues three more 6. ________ (prison) from the cannibals. For many years he manages to live on the island.

One day 7. ________ English ship visits the island, its crew intending to leave the captain and his officers ashore. Robinson succeeds 8. ________ helping the captain regain control of the ship.

Robinson, 9. ________ (take) Friday with him, is invited aboard the ship and returns to England. After some years he revisits his island colony, 10. ________ is becoming more and more prosperous, but Friday is killed during an attack by the Indians.

B

Joseph Henry was an American scientist. He served as 1. ________ first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He used to tell a rather strange story about

his childhood. His grandmother, 2. ________ raised him, once paid a cobbler (制鞋匠) to make him a pair of shoes.

The man measured 3. ________ feet and told Joseph that he could choose between two styles: a rounded toe (足尖部) 4. ________ a square toe. Little Joseph couldn’t decide. It seemed to be such a huge decision; after all, they 5. ________ (become) his only pair of shoes for a long time.

The cobbler allowed him 6. ________ (take) a couple of days to make 7.

________ his mind. Day after day, Joseph went into the shop, sometimes three or four times a day! Each time he looked over the cobbler’s shoes and tried to decide. The rounded-toed shoes were more 8. ________ (practice), but the square-toed shoes looked much 9. ________ (nice). He continued to hesitate and couldn’t decide!

Finally, one day he went into the shop and the cobbler handed him a small package 10. ________ was wrapped in brown paper. His new shoes! He raced home. He tore off the wrapping and found a beautiful pair of leather shoes — one with a rounded toe and the other with a square toe.

C

A few close friends meant more than the best medical facilities in the world.

When Harry Truman was pushed into the US presidency after the death 1.

________ Franklin Roosevelt, a colleague and friend — Congressman (国会议员) Sam Rayburn of Bonham, Texas — 2. ________ (give) Truman some fatherly advice.

Rayburn said, “Harry, from here on out, you’re going to have lots of people around you, 3. ________ will try to put a wall around you and cut you off from any ideas but th eirs. They’ll tell you what a great man you are, Harry. But you and I 4.

________ know you aren’t.” Friends can say those things to each other.