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。

Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and have more respectable jobs. But in the executive(主管的) circle,   31   can become a disadvantage.

While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is   32 

(harm) to a woman. Handsome male executives are considered having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability usually lead  33  their success. Attractive female executives are considered to have less honesty than unattractive  34  ；people do not connect their success with ability   35  with factors such as luck. All unattractive women executives are thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. However, interestingly, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes  36  (connect) more to personal relationships and less to ability.

Attractive women are not thought to be able. This is true even in politics. Anne Bowman, a writer,

  37  recently made a study, asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. And then the students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote  38  them. The results showed that attractive males  39  (complete) defeated unattractive men, but the women   40  (rank) most attractive by the students unchangeably received the fewest votes.

（1）语法填空

Started at the height of the economic boom and built by some 12,000 laborers, the world's tallest building opened on January 4, 2010 in Dubai. ___1___ $1.5-billion tower reaches up 828 meters, 200 storeys into the sky. It surpasses the next highest building, Taiwan's Taipei 101, ___2___ more than 300 meters.

Burj Dubai, whose opening ___3___(delay) twice since construction began in 2004, will mark another milestone for the deeply indebted emirate（酋长国）.

Dubai, one of seven members of the United Arab Emirates, gained a reputation for excess with the creation of man-made islands ___4___(shape) like palms and an indoor ski slope in the desert.

With investor confidence in Dubai ___5___(bad) frustrated by the emirate's announcement in November ___6___ it would seek a debt standstill for one of its largest enterprises, the Burj Dubai is seen ___7___ a positive start.

The project has been examined carefully by human rights groups, who have objected to its ___8___(treat) of laborers, as well as by environmentalists ___9___ said the tower would act as a power vacuum, increasing the city's already massive carbon footprint.

But despite the criticism, many say the tallest building, believed ___10___(cost) $1.5 billion to build, is an architectural miracles.

. Danny left word with my mother _____ he would call again in the afternoon.

  A. who       B. that        C. as        D. which

. I’d appreciate_______if you would like to teach me how to use the computer.

A. /                    B. this                 C. it                   D. that

 ---Did you do anything last week?

   ---I _________ to go skiing or do some shopping, but ______ studying.

   A. had planned, ended up               B. planned, ended up

   C. had planned, end up                 D. planned, end up                 

. I was still sleeping when the fire______, and then it spread quickly.

A. broke out         B. put out             C. run out      D. came out

Unlike modern animal scientists, dinosaur scientists cannot sit on a hillside and use telescopes to watch dinosaurs in order to know how they lived and whether they were good parents. Instead, they have to search hard for dinosaurs died out millions of years ago.

It’s very difficult for the scientists to reach an agreement because different results can be got from the same fossils. Many fossils of the same kind of dinosaurs have been dug out from one place. They might have formed when an entire group of dinosaurs got stuck all at once. Or they might have been the result of dinosaurs getting stuck one after another over a course of a few centuries. Thus we can say that dinosaurs might have in the first case lived in big groups and in the second lived alone.

Though there are two different results, dinosaur scientists now generally agree that at least some kinds of dinosaurs lived in big groups. “That’s pretty much settled at this point.” Says Paul Sereno. A kind of dinosaurs called Sauropods left behind tracks in the western United States that appear to run north and south, suggesting that they even moved long distances together.

As to whether dinosaurs cared for their young, dinosaur scientists have turned to the closest living relatives of dinosaurs-birds and crocodiles – for possible models, Birds give a lot of care to their young, while crocodiles just help their young to the water. The discovered fossils of dinosaurs sitting on their eggs and staying with their young suggest the parents were taking care of their babies, but we still cannot say that all dinosaurs did the same.

There is still a long way to go before the above questions could be answered. Dinosaur scientists will have to find more proof to reach an agreement.

1. Dinosaur scientists can get information directly by ______.

  A. studying dinosaur fossils         B. examining modern animals

  C. watching dinosaurs              D. using telescopes

2. What is pretty much settled according to Paul Sereno?

  A. Half of the dinosaurs lived alone.     B. Most dinosaurs moved long distance.

  C. Many dinosaurs settled in the north.   D. Some dinosaurs lived in big groups.

3. Dinosaur scientists can probably know whether dinosaurs were good parents by ____.

  A. watching many kinds living relatives    B. studying dinosaurs’ living relatives

  C. watching birds flying                 D. working hard in labs 

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the paragraph?

  A. Birds hardly pay attention to their young.

  B. Baby crocodiles can look after themselves well.

  C. Some dinosaurs took care of their young.

  D. Birds and crocodiles take good care of their young.

Peter, I’m really grateful to you. Your advice is much more useful for me than ___ given by Mike.

A．the one     B．it      C．those D．that

. China as well as the other two super countries _____ sent a man into ____ space.

  A. has; the         B. have;/        C. has;/                 D. have; the

Studies have shown that scientists produce not only some of the best ideas, but also _____ bad ones.

   A. a great many of                     B. a great deal of

   C. ;a large amount of                   D. a great many