高考真题-语法填空10练
一、补全短文（共100小题；共100分）
A
Yangshuo, China
It was raining lightly when I 1. (arrive) in Yangshuo just before dawn. But I didn't care.
A few hours 2. , I'd been at home in Hong Kong, with 3. (it) choking smog. Here, the air was clean and fresh, even with the rain.
I'd skipped nearby Guilin, a dream place for tourists seeking the limestone mountain tops and dark waters of the Li River 4. are pictured by artists in so many Chinese 5. (painting). Instead, I'd head straight for Yangshuo. For those who fly to Guilin, it's only an hour away 6. car and offers all the scenery of the better-known city.
Yangshuo 7. (be) really beautiful. A study of travelers 8. (conduct) by the website TripAdvisor names Yangshuo as one of the top 10 destinations in the world. And the town is fast becoming a popular weekend destination for people in Asia. Abercrombie & Kent, a travel company in Hong Kong, says it 9. (regular) arranges quick getaways here for people 10. (live) in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
B
Mary will never forget the first time she saw him. He suddenly appeared in class one day, 11. (wear) sun glasses. He walked in as if he 12. (buy) the school. And the word quickly got around that he was from New York City.
For some reason he sat beside Mary. Mary felt 13. (please), because there were many empty seats in the room. But she quickly realized that it wasn't her, it was probably the fact that she sat in 14. last row.
15. he thought he could escape attention by sitting at the back, he was wrong. It might have made it a little 16. (hard) for everybody because it meant they had to turn around, but that didn't stop the kids in the class. Of course whenever they turned to look at him, they had to look at Mary, 17. made her feel like a star.
“Do you need those glasses for medical reasons?” the teacher asked. The new boy shook his head. “Then I'd appreciate it if you didn't wear them in the class. I like to look at your eyes when I'm speaking to you.” The new boy looked at the teacher 18. a few seconds and all the other students wondered 19. the boy would do. Then he took 20. off, gave a big smile and said, “That's cool.”
C
Mr. Johnson lived in the woods with his wife and children. He owned 21. farm, which looked almost abandoned. 22. (lucky), he also had a cow which produced milk every day. He
sold or exchanged some of the milk in the towns nearly 23. other food and made cheese and butter for the family with what 24. (leave). The cow was their only means of support, in fact. One day, the cow was eating grass 25. it began to rain heavily. While making great efforts to run away, she 26. (fall) over the hill and died. Then the Johnsons tried to make a living 27. the cow. In order to support his family, Mr. Johnson began to plant herbs and vegetables. Since the plants took a while to grow, he started cutting down trees 28. (sell) the wood. Thinking about his children's clothes, he started growing cotton too. When harvest came around, he was already selling herbs, vegetables and cotton in the market 29. people from the town met regularly. Now it occurred to 30. that his farm had much potential and that the death of the cow was a bit of luck.
D
One day, Nick invited his friends to supper. He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen. Suddenly, he 31. (find) that he had run out of salt. So Nick called to his son, "Go to the village and buy some salt, but pay a fair price for it: neither too much 32. too little."
His son looked surprised. "I can understand why I shouldn't pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less, 33. not save a bit of money?"
"That would be a very 34. (reason) thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy a small village like ours," Nick said.
Nick's guests, 35. had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy salt more cheaply if they could. Nick replied," The only reason a man would sell salt 36. a lower price would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect 37. the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it."
"But such a small thing couldn't 38. (possible) destroy a village."
"In the beginning, there was only 39. very small amount of unfairness in the world, but everyone added a little, always 40. (think) that it was only small and not very important, and look where we have ended up today."
E
A young man, while traveling through a desert, came across a spring of clear water.
41. water was sweet. He filled his leather container so that he could bring some back to an elder 42. had been his teacher. After a four-day journey, the young man
43. (present) the water to the old man. His teacher took a deep drink, smiled
44. (warm), and thanked his student very much for the sweet water. The young man went home 45. a happy heart.
After the student left, the teacher let 46. student taste the water. He spit it out, 47. (say) it was awful. Apparently, it was no longer fresh because of the old leather container. He asked his teacher, "Sir, the water was awful. Why did you pretend to like 48. ?”
The teacher replied, "You tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of kindness and love. Nothing could be 49. (sweet).”
