（英语）高考英语语法填空专项训练及答案及解析
一、高中英语语法填空
1．Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blanks with the proper form of the given word; for the blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
When I worked part-time in a local bookstore at my early age -- so easily - pictured, if you do not work in one, as a kind of paradise where not only ________ one read his own favorite books but also encounter charming young ladies (one of my personal fantasies) who browse eternally among Toni Morrison or Ernest Hemingwast thing that chiefly struck me was that really bookish people are a rarity, ________ there are vast numbers of those who consider themselves to be such. Often they will introduce themselves when they enter the bookshop ________ 'book people' and insist on telling you that 'we love books'. They will wear T-shirts or carry bags with slogans explaining exactly how much they think they adore books. It is clear that the way they dress themselves is quite similar to that of us bookish people, but that is ________ the similarities between them and us begin and end. And ________ (sure) means of identifying them is that they never, ever buy books.
These days it is so rare that I find time to read that, when I do, it feels like indulgence, more so than any, other sensory experience. When an important relationship in my twenties ________ (break) up the only thing I could do was to read, and I amassed a pile of books ________ I sank and escaped from the world around me and inside me. The landscapes of Yu Hua, Wang Shou, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Harper Lee and others protected me from my own thoughts, which were pushed into the background, where ________ could silently process without bothering me. I created a physical wall on my desk, ________ (make) from the books, and as I read them the wall slowly came down until it was gone.
In a more real sense, books are the best way in which one enriches his own life and the enormous numbers of them out there in the world excite me, especially when I visit second-hand bookstores with no intention ________ (search) for a certain book. It is like casting a net and never knowing what you will find when you gather it in. As Goglo put in it in Dead Souls: "Once, long ago, in the years of my youth, in the years of my childhood, which have flashed irretrievably(不能挽回地）by, it was a joy for me to drive for the very first time to a place unknown."
【答案】can；although；as；where；the surest；broke；into which；they；made；to search
【解析】【分析】本文是一篇记叙文，作者记叙了自己热爱读书的感受以及读书对自己的影响。
（1）考查情态动词。句意：在书店里，一个人不仅可以阅读自己喜欢的书，还会遇到迷人的年轻女士，她们总是在托妮·莫里森和欧内斯特·赫明之间流连。根据句意，该空表示“可以，能够”，故填can。
（2）考查状语从句。句意：让我印象最深刻的是，真正爱读书的人是罕见的，尽管有很多人认为自己是这样的人。根据句意，该空表示“尽管”，且引导从句，故填although。
