课后练习38 语法填空
阅读下面短文，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（每空不多于3个单词）。
A（2018·绍兴中考）
This is Tammela School, a primary school in Finland. The students are having a math class with their robot teacher.
The “teacher” is 1____________ small blue machine about 25cm high, Reuters reported. Whenever students have problems, it helps them very 2____________（patient） and never gets bored.
“The robot can make students 3____________（active） in class than usual. I see Elias as one of the 4 （tool） to get different kinds of practice and activities into the classroom,” a teacher told Reuters.
So far the school 5____________（introduce） four robot teachers, one of whom is a language teacher that can speak 23 languages and dance to music. “6is necessary to encourage kids to come up 7 new ways to make use of technology in school life,” the head of the school 8____________（add） in the interview.
The robot teachers are used 9____________（help） improve learning. This doesn’t mean that human teachers will lose their jobs. The robots can teach well, 10____________ they are not able to keep class in order. The school still needs human teachers.
B（2017·台州中考）
At the end of the term, our ethics（伦理学） profes-sor gave us a test. He had told us 1____________（ex-pect） one and had warned us it would be included in the final grade.
The test began. Sure enough, I was 2____________confident that I finished all
the questions after forty3____________（minute） except the very last one: What is the name of the woman who cleans the lecture hall?
I thought it was 4____________ joke. I’d seen the woman many times. She’d been working in the building for at least a year. She is short 5____________ dark hair, in her fifties, and we’d even smiled at each other once or twice. But I didn’t know 6____________（she） name because I’d never thought to ask her. I handed in my test and the last question 7____________（leave） unanswered—hoping the final result wouldn’t be influenced too 8____________（bad） because of it. But then one student put up his hand. He hadn’t finished the test, 9____________. “I was just wondering,” he said, “whether it will really change my grade if I don’t complete that last question.”
“Certainly,” our professor 10____________（smile）. “In your future jobs, ...”
I’ve never forgotten that lesson. I also learned that the cleaner’s name was Sherry.
C（2018·宁波市奉化区模拟）
Henry found a job in a bookstore after graduating from middle school. He wanted to get rich 1he wouldn’t do anything.
It was a cold morning. It was snowing 2（heavy） and there was thin ice on the streets. Few people went to buy the books and the young man had nothing to do. When he 3____________（watch） the traffic, a bag fell off a truck and it landed on the other side of the street.
“It was full of expensive things,” Henry sai d to4____________. “I have to get it right now, or others will take it away.”
And then, he went out of the shop. A driver saw him 5____________（run） across the street and began to whistle（鸣笛）, but he was 6____________ hurried that he didn’t hear anything; he went on running. The driver had to drive to the side and
