一、单句填空
1.The time he has devoted in the past few years to (help) the disabled is now considered to be of great value.
2.It is the protection for trees really matters,rather than how many trees are planted.
3.Although no further financial problem ( arise),their small factory once couldn’t make both ends meet.
4.There was once a town in this country where all the living things seemed to live in (harmonious)with its surroundings.
5.Jim knows little about computer,so his wife thinks he can’t keep pace the development of times.
6.(2012全国Ⅱ,11)I had hardly got to the office my wife phoned me to go back home at once.
7.(2012课标全国,32)Film has a much shorter history,especially when (compare)to such art forms as music and painting.
8.(2014湖南两校11月联考,21)I can’t remember how the tune goes, I’ll recognize it when I hear it.
9.(2014山东诸城一中10月测试,4)—Why do you hang that photograph above the fireplace?
— (remind)visitors of the memorial days of the Long March,Sir.
10.I think Tom,as the head of a big department,should either study regularly or (quit)his job.
二、语法填空
When I looked out at the white blanket that covered the ground,I couldn’t help but smile a bit.It was so beautiful.It softened the bare trees and hid the dead grass.In the 1 (distant),I could hear the sound of the snow falling on the road,the barking of a happy dog,and the 2 (laugh)of children playing outside,enjoying their day off from school.
The sweet music of that laughter 3 (bring)back a hundred memories of past winters.I remembered 4 (catch)snowflakes on my tongue,building snowmen,making snow angels,sledding down hills,and always losing the snowball fights with first 5 brothers and then my own children.Standing there in that warm coat of remembering made the wind 6 (little)cold.I looked up,stuck out my tongue,and 7 the first time in years caught a snowflake on it.It tasted so fresh 8 clean.It tasted like youth,like joy,and like love.I looked up to the heavens and thanked God for all of my memories and for the simple 9 (true)that you are never 10 old to be young again.
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6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
三、完形填空
(2014江苏)
Dale Carnegie rose from the unknown of a Missouri farm to international fame because he found a way to fill a universal human need.
It was a need that he first 1 back in 1906 when young Dale was a junior at State Teachers College in Warrensburg.To get an 2 ,he was struggling against many difficulties.His family was poor.His Dad couldn’t afford the 3 at college,so Dale had to ride horseback 12 miles to attend classes.Study had to be done 4 his farm-work routines.He withdrew from many school activities 5 he didn’t have the time or the 6 .He had only one good suit.He tried 7 the football team,but the coach turned him down for being too 8 .During this period Dale was slowly 9 an inferiority complex(自卑感),which his mother knew could 10 him from achieving his real potential.She 11 that Dale join the debating team,believing that 12 in speaking could give him the confidence and recognition that he needed.
Dale took his mother’s advice,tried desperately and after several attempts 13 made it.This proved to be a 14 point in his life.Speaking before groups did help him gain the 15 he needed.By the time Dale was a senior,he had won every top honor in 16 .Now other students were coming to him for coaching and they, 17 ,were winning contests.
Out of this early struggle to 18 his feelings of inferiority,Dale came to understand that the ability to 19 an idea to an audience builds a person’s confidence.And, 20 it,Dale knew he could do anything he wanted to do—and so could others.
1.A.admitted B.filled C.supplied D.recognized
2.A.assignment B.education
C.advantage D.instruction
3.A.training B.board C.teaching D.equipment
4.A.between B.during C.over D.through
5.A.while B.when C.because D.though
6.A.permits B.interest C.talent D.clothes
7.A.on B.for C.in D.with
8.A.light B.flexible C.optimistic D.outgoing
9.A.gaining B.achieving C.developing D.obtaining
10.A.prevent B.protect C.save D.free
11.A.suggested B.demanded
C.required D.insisted
12.A.presence B.practice
C.patience D.potential
13.A.hopefully B.certainly
C.finally D.naturally
14.A.key B.breaking C.basic D.turning
15.A.progress B.experience
C.competence D.confidence
16.A.horse-riding B.football
C.speech D.farming
17.A.in return B.in brief C.in turn D.in fact
18.A.convey B.overcome C.understand D.build
19.A.express B.stress C.contribute D.repeat
20.A.besides B.beyond C.like D.with
