语法填空专题练习
Passage 1
Thirty-two people watched Kitty Genovese _____1 (kill) right below their windows. She was 2 neighbor. Y et 3 of the 32 helped her. Not one even called the police.
John Barley and Bib Fatane went beyond the headlines to research into the 4 why people didn‟t act. They found that a person has to go through two steps 5 he can help. First he has to notice that it is 6 emergency（紧急情况）.
Is the smoke coming into the room 7 a leak in the air conditioning? Is it “steam pipes”? Or is it really smoke from a fire? It‟s not always easy to tell if you are faced with a real emergency. Second, and 8 important, the person faced with an emergency must feel personally 9 (responsibility). He must feel that he must help, 10 the person won‟t get the help he needs.
Passage 2
More than 220 people were killed in the fire ___1_____ destroyed the Capital Building on February 4th, 1974. The building was finished only a few months ___2_____ the fire; it was Sao Paulo‟s newest building. All the 25 ___3____ of the office building were completely destroyed. __4____ fire also destroyed cars which belonged to people who worked in the building.
Over 500 people were working in the building when the fire ____5__on the 11th floor. ___6___knows how the fire started. Perhaps it was started by an ___7___(electricity) fire in the ceiling of one of the offices. Office workers tried to put out the fire, _8___ it was impossible to control __9__ . Soon the whole floor was on fire and it was impossible for people on the floors above ____10___(escape).
Passage 3
People are not so honest as they once 1 (be). The temptation to steal is greater than ever before----especially in large shops. A detective 2_______ (recent) watched a well-dressed woman who always went into a large store on Monday mornings. One Monday, there were _____3_____ people in the shop than usual when ____4____ woman came in, 5 ______ it was easier for the detective ____6____ her. The woman first bought a few small articles.
After a little time, she chose ____7____ of the most expensive dresses in the shop and handed it to an assistant ____8____ wrapped it up for her as quickly as possible. Then the woman simply took the parcel and walked out of the shop ____9____ paying. When she was arrested, the detective found out that the shop assistant was her daughter. The girl …gave‟ her mother a free ____10____ once a week!
Passage 4
Charlie Chaplin developed his own manner of acting, the one that was to become world-famous. He wore a small black hat, very wide trousers, a moustache and carried a stick that he swung in the air __1__ he walked. During his first year, Chaplin acted in 35 films, many of __2___ he wrote and directed himself. Chaplin‟s earliest films __3____ silent, __4___ the equipment for adding sound to films had not yet been developed.
The ___5_____ (develop) of films with sound became a problem for Chaplin, as he was uncertain about __6___ (make) films with dialogue. Instead, he continued to make films without dialogue, but he added music. Chaplin‟s later films, __7____, were not well received. He made only six films __8____ 1940 and 1966 and only the first of these is still popular today. Before he died in 1977, he ___9__ (honour) in a number of ways for __10___ contributions to the film industry.
Passage 5
At 3:42 a.m. everything began to shake. It seemed 1 the world was ____2___ an end! Eleven kilometers____3_____(direct) below the city the greatest earthquakes of the 20th century began. It was heard in Beijing, ____4___ is one hundred kilometers away. One - third of the nation felt it. A huge crack that was eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide cut __5____ houses, roads and canals
Steam burst from 6 (hole) in the ground. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins . Two-thirds of the people died or _____7________(injure) during the earthquake. Thousands of families 8 ( kill) and many children were left ___9___ parents. The number of people 10 were killed or injured reached more than 400,000. Passage 6 (07广东英语考试大纲说明)
Sports should help a man to learn fairness, not only in games but also in and for life. If two teams play 31 ___ game, one team must lose. If a dozen teams attend an athletic competition, 32 ___ team will get the most points and all the 33 _____ eleven teams will get 34 _____ points. If a school team comes out last, that is no loss of face. 35 ____ that team and that school must do is admit that it 36____ (lose). The only intelligent reaction 37 ____ defeat must be: next year we will do our best to come out on top, because from now on our team will devote 38 ______ to a stricter course of training under competent instructors.
Lessons 39 _______ (learn) in sports can help us in our dealing with other people. But even more 40 _______(value)are the lessons learned in extra-curricular activities in school: in speech, dramatic and musical contests, in “house”activities, and , especially, in the student council.
