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26—35的相应位置上。

It was a bright spring afternoon when Freda told Tim she wouldn’t need him any more. Tim had just finished his four-hour work—moving up and down the stairs of her three-storey house,    26    (clean) the floor and washing the dishes. She was wearing jeans and a sweater. Her husband’s pay would    27    （reduce）by 30%. And they were trying to live as if it’d already happened. Tim felt sorry for her, but he also felt a sense of    28    (lose).

Tim had been cleaning Freda’s house for five years and had developed    29    unexpected relationship with the family. It was not just that Tim had become an expert    30      scraping(刮掉) dirt stuck to their    31    (wood) floor, or that he had learned exactly 32      to place toys on the girl’s beds. It was more than that,    33    he felt he’d become a part of their life.

Now he was fired, but the strange thing was    34    he still wanted to keep scraping away the dirt and dust for the family. He left Freda’s house that day, wondering about the nature of his relationship with the hosts. “Who am I to    35   ? Actually, they are my employers, but I am only an employee. ”

As a boy，Tim was much influenced by books about the sea, but in fact by the age of fifteen he had decided to become a doctor rather than a sailor. His father was a dentist and as a result Tim had the opportunity of meeting many doctors either at home or elsewhere. When he was fourteen he was already hanging around the clinic of a local doctor where he was supposed to be helping to wrap up medicine bottles，but was actually trying to listen to the conversations taking place between the doctor and his patients in the next room.

During the war Tim served in the Navy as a surgeon（外科医生）.“That was the happiest time of my life. I was dealing with very real suffering and on the whole making a success of it .”In California he taught the country people simple facts about medicine. He saw himself as a life-saver. He had proved his skills to himself and his ability to take decisions. Thus，while he was able to tell them what to do, he could feel he was serving them. After the war, he got married and chose to be a doctor in the countryside，working under an old doctor who was popular in the area，but who hated the sight of blood and believed that the secret of medicine was faith. This gave the younger man many opportunities to go on working as a life –saver.

1.Tim decided to become a doctor at fifteen mainly because      

2.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

3.From the passage we can infer that Tim        .

4.The passage is mainly about        .

As a boy of six,            .

    A. Tim’s parents asked him to play the piano every day.

    B. Tim and his parents would play the piano together.

    C. Tim had to practice playing the piano every day.

    D. to learn playing the piano is too hard for Tim.

As a boy，Tim was much influenced by books about the sea, but in fact by the age of fifteen he had decided to become a doctor rather than a sailor. His father was a dentist and as a result Tim had the opportunity of meeting many doctors either at home or elsewhere. When he was fourteen he was already hanging around the clinic of a local doctor where he was supposed to be helping to wrap up medicine bottles，but was actually trying to listen to the conversations taking place between the doctor and his patients in the next room.

       During the war Tim served in the Navy as a surgeon（外科医生）.“That was the happiest time of my life. I was dealing with very real suffering and on the whole making a success of it .”In California he taught the country people simple facts about medicine. He saw himself as a life-saver. He had proved his skills to himself and his ability to take decisions. Thus，while he was able to tell them what to do, he could feel he was serving them. After the war, he got married and chose to be a doctor in the countryside，working under an old doctor who was popular in the area，but who hated the sight of blood and believed that the secret of medicine was faith. This gave the younger man many opportunities to go on working as a life –saver.

Tim decided to become a doctor at fifteen mainly because      

A. hisfather wanted him to be so         

B．his father was a surgeon himself

C. e had read many books about medicine 

D. e had chances to meet many doctors through his father

Which of the following is true according to the passage?

       A. Tim got married to the old doctor’s daughter. 

B.Tim continued working as a surgeon after the war.

       C．Before the war，Tim worked as a doctor at a local clinic．

       D．While working in California，Tim taught life-saving to the patients.

From the passage we can infer that Tim        .

       A．was sent to Europe during the war              B．worked as a surgeon during the war

       C．was satisfied with his career as a surgeon.         D．decided to give up medicine for faith

The passage is mainly about        .

A．Tim’s life story       B．Tim’s dream     C．Tim’s marriage      D．Tim’ s patients

When he was a boy, Tim was much influenced（影响） by the books about the sea, but in fact by the age of fifteen he had decided to become a doctor rather than a sailor. His father was a dentist and as a result, Tim had the opportunity of meeting many doctors either at home or elsewhere. When he was fourteen he was already hanging around the clinic (诊所) of a local doctor where he was supposed to help to wrap up medicine bottles, but was actually trying to listen to the conversations taking place between the doctor and his patients in the next room.
During the war Tim served in the Navy (海军) as a surgeon (外科医生). “That was the happiest time of my life. I was dealing with very real suffering and on the whole making a success of it.” In California he taught the country people simple facts about medicine. He saw himself as a life-saver. He had proved his skills to himself and his ability to take decisions. Thus, while he was able to tell them what to do, he could feel he was saving them. After the war, he got married and chose to be a doctor in the countryside, working under an old doctor who was popular in the area, but who hated the sight of blood and believed that the secret of medicine was faith. This gave the young man many opportunities to go on working as a life-saver.
【小题1】Tim decided to be a doctor when he was________.