Question

语法填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

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，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为1-１0的相应位置上。

Many Chinese students studying abroad like to stay with host families to learn their language and culture. Nowadays, many Shanghai white-collar workers have received native English-speaking   1    (national) students as their host families, too, in order to learn English from them.

  It is usually free for foreign students to stay in a host family in Shanghai, but he/she must take   2   the responsibility of teaching English to at least one certain members of the family. Miss Li has always worried about her   3   (limit) English. “I never knew what to say to an English-speaking person,” said she. She has taken a number of English courses, but   4   has proved to be useful. Last year, she saw  5    advertisement recruiting（征募） host families for foreign students, and that was how Carey (from Chicago, US) came to her home. Carey is actually not a student, but a manager. She stays in Li's apartment for free,  6    has to teach Li oral English for 1 hour every day. “She could hardly speak Chinese at the beginning, and we had to guess   7   each other meant through gestures, ”said Li.

  Two months later, they could talk to each other   8   gesticulating（做手势）. Now, Li can communicate with any English-speaking person freely. About one hundred Shanghai families have received foreign boarding students, and the figure   9   (rise). However, foreign boarding students can only help improve oral English, but   10   examination skills.

Answer 1

1. international      2.up                    3. limited         4. none              5. an

6. but                          7. what              8. without         9. is rising        10. not