题目内容
课文填空 （根据课文内容填入单词或词组、句型，共16分）
1.I wonder if it’s because I haven’t been able to be outdoors for so long that I’ve ____________everything to do with nature. I can well remember that _____________________ a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me spellbound.
2.I stayed awake __________ until half past eleven ____________ have a good look at the moon by myself.
3.The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me ______ in their power; it was the first time in a year and a half that I had seen the night _______________.
4.These new settlers enriched the English language and especially its vocabulary. So by the 1600’s Shakespeare was able to _______________ a wider vocabulary than ever before.
5.At that time, two big changes in English spelling happened: first Samuel Johnson wrote his dictionary and later Noah Webster wrote The American Dictionary of English Language. The latter ___________________________ to American English spelling.
1.grown/been so crazy about ；there was a time when
2.on purpose；in order to
3.entirely；face to face
4.make use of
5.gave a separate identity
【解析】
1.…痴狂/狂热”：grown/been so crazy about . “曾经有一段时间…”：there was a time when…
2.on purpose，根据下文我要好好看一看月亮，所以我是“故意”熬到十一点半的。“为了做…”in order to.
3.黑夜、雨夜、风天、闪电云，让我“彻底”沉浸在它们的能量之中”，故副词选用entirely；第二句句意：“这是我一年半以来，第一次‘面对面地’看到夜晚。”，故使用face to face（面对面）。
4.make use of：“利用，使用”，该句句意：“这些移民丰富了英语，特别是它的词汇。所以到17世纪，Shakespeare能够使用比之前任何时候都更为宽泛的词汇了。”
5.后者体现了美国英语拼写的不同特色。”，故该空正确答案为gave a separate identity.
考点：重点词汇、短语及句型
