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卷标号为1-10的相应位置上。

Sometimes Chinese English teachers are puzzled by such questions, “Have you got any skills in reading comprehension?” Actually, many of the teachers can’t give students  1.  efficient (效率高的) way to deal with reading. Anyway,   2. often simply say, “Read more and practise more, and you   3. (get) more experience in reading comprehension.” Frankly, these teachers’ good  4.  (suggest) are only helpful to arouse students’ interest in reading   5.  not helpful to deal with the questions in the examinations of reading comprehension. Personally, I think the skill for reading comprehension should be based  6. the knowledge of English writing. Since the English passages  7.  (write) under some rules or principles, the science of reading and understanding may have a close relationship with writing. Reading comprehension can’t be independent from the knowledge of writing. So to do8. (well) in reading comprehension, we should learn the knowledge of writing, study  9. questions are designed and the relationship   10. questions and the reading materials.

第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15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16～25的相应位置上。

Anna pushed herself up from the bench and walked steadily with her walking sticks toward the office. As soon as she entered the room, she saw it. _____16______ blue umbrella was there, unopened, ____17______ a floor-to-ceiling window. _____18____（see） it so near, nearly within reach, Anna forgot herself and pointed to her possession.

“That is mine,” she said. “My son brought it to me from Paris and I want it back.”

The man had risen when she entered and he ___19_______(remain) standing. He turned to look at the umbrella ____20______ she pointed. “Yes. I know the umbrella is from Paris, ” he said, showing a mix of innocence and curiosity. “Actually, it ____21______(make) in Italy, but it’s sold in Paris. It’s not the one your son gave you. I bought it myself.”

Anna stared at him. Was he claiming that it was his own umbrella? She had run all the way to this office building from the shop _____22______ her umbrella was stolen.

“My son gave _____23_____ to me,” Anna countered. “ It means everything to me, because my son is ____24______(die).”

As soon as she said them, Anna knew she had made a mistake. She had opened herself up to a stranger. He had no business knowing the most important fact of her life, a grief she kept private. ___25_____could anyone understand what her son’s death meant to her?

第二节：语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15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31-40的相应位置上。
Few people would even think of beginning a new job at the age of 76, _31_____ one of America’s most famous artists did just that. Anna Mary Robertson, better known as “Grandma Moses”, turned to painting _32_____ she was too old to work on her farm.
Grandma Moses was crazy about painting soon after she picked it up and worked hard at it. She painted _33_____(care) and her works were nice. She first painted only to please _34_____, and then began to sell her works _35_____a little money. In 1993, a collector, Louis Caldor happened to see several of Grandma Moses’ works _36_____(hang) in a shop. He liked them, __37____(buy) them at once, and set out to look for _38_____. Caldor held __39____ show to introduce the works of Grandma Moses to other artists. Grandma Moses, _40_____ was world-famous, died on December 13, 1961, at the age of 101.

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，在空格处填人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16～25的相应位置上。
If you struggle against figures, maybe you were born that way, research has suggested. Being good at mathematics may be entirely pre-destined—you either have it   16  you don’t.
And those who find   17  difficult to add up the number shouldn’t feel too hopeless—mathematical talent does not appear to be linked to all-round intelligence. Previous research has indicated that "number sense" is    18   (base) to humans. We use it to estimate such things as    19   number of seats in a cinema or crowd sizes.
U.S. psychologists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore made their finding after testing children too young to have been taught mathematics. During the study, 200 four-year-olds   20  (study) in terms of number senses, calculation skills and vocabulary. The verbal test was done for the reason   21  language and maths abilities are thought to be   22  (close) linked through general intelligence.
"Unlike    23   previous studies proved, this one shows that the link   24  number sense and maths ability is already present before the beginning of formal maths instruction. One of the most important questions is whether we can train a child’s number sense   25  
(improve) his future maths ability."

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，在空格处填人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3l-40的相应位置上。

I was on my way to the Taiyetos Mountains. The sun was setting when my car   31  (break) down near a remote and poor village. Cursing my misfortune, I was wondering where I was going to spend the night when I realized that the villagers who had gathered around me were arguing as to 32  should have the honor of receiving me  33 a guest in their house. Finally, I accepted the offer of an old woman who lived alone in a little house. While she was getting me   34   (settle) into a tiny but clean room, the head of the village was tying up his horse to my car to pull it to   35   small town some 20 kilometres away   36   there was a garage.

   I had noticed three hens running free in my hostess's courtyard and that night one of them ended up in a dish on my table.    37   villagers brought me goat's cheese and hone. We drank together and talked   38    (merry) till far into the night.

    When the time came for me to say goodbye to my friends in the village, I wanted to reward the old woman   39   the trouble I had caused   40   .