2016届高考英语增分专练：语法填空集训1

　　2016高考英语语法填空集训（十）

　　【增分专练】第二节

　　语法填空（共10个小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

　　阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

　　Passage 1

　　Aesop(伊索) was a slave living around 550 BC. We call the stories he wrote fables, as every story has a moral. Almost all the fables he wrote are ___61___ (humor) and entertaining, appealing to people ___62____ all ages. To date, Aesop’s fables ____63____ (translate) into many languages and are known all over the world. Not only ___64___ the fables themselves lived for nearly 1500 years, but ___65___ (express) from them have entered various languages.

　　One fable, for instance, is about a farmer who was driving his cart along a country road. The cart got ___66___ (stick) in the mud, but the farmer made ___67___ effort to get it out. Instead, he began to pray to the gods for help. The god Hercules finally appeared and told ___68___ man to get busy and push ___69___. “Push your shoulder to the wheel.” Hercules advised.

　　The moral of the story is clear. We mustn’t rely on others for help. Another saying which has come from the fable is “God helps those ___70___ help themselves.”

　　Passage 2

　　When Jack was a small boy, he was once asked to give a speech about “A Big Challenge in My Life”. To talk before the whole class, he was

　　41 (terrible) shy the moment he thought of so many eyes

　　42 (stare) at him. He had no other

　　43 (choose), though. First Jack was to draft the speech, which was just a piece of cake for him because he was a good writer. But the hard part

　　44 (lie) in his oral presentation, for it was not allowed to read from the paper. He had to give the speech

　　45

　　his memory and in front of such a big audience!

　　A real trial began when Jack stood on the platform with his legs trembling and his mind blank. How much time had passed by, he didn’t know. His listeners were still waiting patiently and without any signs of laughing. Gradually he found himself back,

　　46 (give) out his speech without much difficulty. After what seemed to be a hundred years, he found the audience applauding. He made

　　47 ! From then on, his fear of talking before an audience disappeared. Actually with his confidence

　　48 (build) up, Jack now turns out to be a great speaker. As we know, the greater difficulty we meet on our way to

　　49 (success), the

　　50

　　likely we will be to achieve our goals.

　　Passage 3

　　Hongbao, a red envelope containing small

　　61

　　of money, is a gift that

　　62 (guarantee) to be warmly received, not just because of the cash, but also because of its traditional symbolism and

　　63

　　(good) wishes for the future. The tradition has survived millennia(千年) and giving hongbao to children and

　　64

　　elderly remains popular among Chinese people all over the world. It has also made

　　65

　　way into workplaces where bosses often give employees hongbao,

　　66

　　(hope) their companies and staff members have a good start. And most

　　67

　　(recent), the tradition of red envelopes has moved into the virtual world. Companies have adopted online marketing strategies

　　68

　　hongbao are distributed. The first two days of this Spring Festival

　　69

　　(see) more than 5 million people nationwide taking part in online red envelope activities,

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　　more than 20 million red envelopes being handed out.

　　Passage 4

　　There is much discussion about the necessity of daily homework for students. Some say homework is necessary since only practice

　　41

　　(make) perfect, while others disagree. In my opinion, daily homework is necessary for students. However, this might be misleading that one may believe all forms of homework

　　42

　　necessary. Actually , only proper amount of homework in proper form is

　　43

　　( accept); some homework may not only fail to help the students, but on

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　　contrary bore them so much that they may lose their interest in studying. “Proper” homework, in my opinion, should

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　　(vary) in its forms,

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　　might be some extensive reading, a paper, or even just a game, as well as other ordinary exercise. And it should leave enough

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　　(free) to the students so that they could do things they really like to do with self-motivation, rather than unwillingness. We should always remember that homework is something for us to guide the students, rather than

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　　(drive) them. Only if a teacher

　　49

　　(keep) this

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　　his/her mind, the homework could be of most help to the students.

　　Passage 5

　　A farmer once organized a competition between his dog and his rabbit. He dug a hole in one of his biggest fields, and hid a carrot and a bone in it. He wanted to see

　　41

　　animal would find them first.

　　The

　　42

　　(cheer) and optimistic rabbit threw himself into looking for the carrot,

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　　(dig) here and there, totally convinced that he would find it. But the dog, after sniffing around for a bit,

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　　(lie) down and began to complain about how difficult it was to find one bone in such a big field.

　　The rabbit dug

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　　hours, and with every new hole the dog complained even more about how difficult this was, even for the rabbit.

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　　the rabbit thought that each hole dug was one hole less that needed to be dug. When there was no place in the whole field

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　　(leave) to dig, the rabbit dug a tunnel right to

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　　the dog had been lying all the time. There he found the carrot and the bone.

　　This is how the dog lost the game. He had come to

　　49

　　right place at the very beginning but failed to find the bone

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　　he only complained and didn't try at all.

　　Passage 6

　　Steve is interviewing the famous biographer（传记作家）Caren Thomas.

　　Steve Thomas, 61.

　　a famous writer, would you please tell us something about yourself and your new books?

　　Garen Of course.

　　Steve Where were you born?

　　Garen I was born in Chicago, but I spent most of my childhood in New York.

　　Steve 62.

　　was your childhood like?

　　Garen I had pretty strict parents. They wished me to be successful in studies. So I think my childhood was 63.

　　（bore）and I was always complaining about it.

　　Steve Do you get along well 64.

　　your parents now?

　　Garen Oh sure, I have reached middle age now. So far I 65.

　　（understand）their loves to me.

　　Steve Where did you go to university?

　　Garen I graduated 66.

　　Yale University with a degree in English Literature.

　　Steve How did you start writing?

　　Garen I like writing from young, 67.

　　it is not easy for me to enter this occupation. You know, I once worked in companies. I started writing for magazines and eventually was

　　68.

　　（ask） to write books, so I was pretty lucky.

　　Steve 69.

　　did you begin to write the book about the president Obama?

　　Garen From the beginning of 2008, it 70.

　　（take） me 6 months to prepare for it, interviewing and finding information about him. Obama told me many stories about his life and family.

　　Steve Sounds interesting.

　　Passage 7

　　Have you ever wondered whether there is life on Mars? The big Red Planet is a mystery to us but __61__(hope) not for much longer.

　　On November 11, the Mars rover(漫游者) __62__(name) Curiosity started its journey into space. After eight months flying in a rocket, Curiosity covered more than 566 million kilometers and finally landed on Mars—according to BBC reports.The rover is there to find out __63__there is, or ever was, life on the cold, desert-like planet.

　　The place __64__Curiosity landed is called Gale Crater, a huge hole on Mars. Scientists believe that there was once water and even life there.

　　In order to do its job, Curiosity is packed with many useful tools, __65__it is only three meters long, about the size of a small car.

　　It has a robot arm that can collect soil and drill into rock. It also carries __66__ own laser gun. The gun can turn __67__small amount of rock into gas, so that Curiosity can study what the rock __68__(make) up of.

　　__69__the help of these tools, Curiosity will act as a robot geologist. For the next two years, it will stay and travel inside Gale Crater, __70__(collect) and studying rock and soil.

　　2016高考英语-语法填空集训（）答案

　　Passage 1

　　61. humorous/humourous

　　62. of

　　63.have been translated

　　64.have 

　　65.expressions 

　　66.stuck 

　　67. no/little

　　68.the

　　69. it

　　70. who

　　Passage 2

　　41. terribly

　　42.staring

　　43. choice

　　44.lay

　　45.from

　　46.giving

　　47. it

　　48. built

　　49.success

　　50.more

　　Passage 3

　　61.amounts

　　62.is guaranteed

　　63.best

　　64.the

　　65.its

　　66.hoping

　　67.recently

　　68.where

　　69.saw

　　70.wth

　　Passage 4

　　41.makes

　　42.are

　　43.acceptable

　　44.the

　　45.vary

　　46.which

　　47.freedom

　　48.drive

　　49.keeps

　　50.in

　　Passage 5

　　41. which

　　42. cheerful

　　43. digging

　　44. lay

　　45. For

　　46. But

　　47. left

　　48. where

　　49. the

　　50. because /since/as

　　Passage 6

　　61. as

　　62. What

　　63. boring

　　64. with

　　65. have understood

　　66. from

　　67. but

　　68. asked

　　69. When

　　70. took

　　Passage 7

　　61.hopeful

　　62.named

　　63.if/whether

　　64.where

　　65.although/though/while

　　66.its

　　67.a

　　68.is made

　　69.With

　　70.collecting