冲刺突破三十七篇

语法填空（每篇共10小题; 每小题1.5分，满分15分）

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Many people like to read the (31) ___________________（late）newspapers. But  (32) _______________ is it produced so quickly?

The most important man may be the chief editor. He decides (33) ______________ to do. Every morning the (34)________________ (journal) are sent to cover the events. Sometimes they need a face-to-face interview with people (35) _____________ do telephone interviews. Meanwhile, the picture editor sends (36) _______________ (photograph) to take the pictures they need.

Later in the day, they pass the stories and the (37)_________________ (develop) photos to the editor. Then the chief editor will choose the most important news for the front page. (38)_________________ editors read the stories, make some necessary changes and write headlines for them. (39)__________________ the newspaper is printed and (40)_________________（deliver）to different places.

Gandhi, an Indian national hero, (31)         ______(honor) as the father of the Indian nation. He has been respected and beloved by the Indians.

He was born in India in 1869. Following the local custom, he got (32)    _____     (marry) at the age of 13. In 1888 he sailed to England, (33)               he studied law for three years and then became a (34)               (law). On his return to India, he was sent to South Africa to work on a law case.

In South Africa he (35)         ______ (surprise) found that the problem of racial discrimination was serious. There he formed an (36)       ______(organize) and started a magazine to fight for equal rights.

Gandhi returned to India in 1915, when India was controlled by the British.  He led the Indians to fight for an end to the British rule and (37)        ______ (depend) for his country. In the political movement many Indians, ____________ (38)         (include) Gandhi, were put in prison. (39)       ______, the struggles never stopped. The British  government  had  to  give  in  and India won its independence in 1947. (40)    ______     (fortunate)，Gandhi was shot by an Indian who opposed his views and died on January 30th, 1948.

A little boy invited his mother to attend his elementary school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s (31) ________________(happy), she said she would go. This would be the first time that his classmates and teacher met his mother and he was embarrassed by her (32) ________________ (appear). Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar (33) _____________covered nearly the whole right side of her face. The boy never wanted to talk about why or how she got the scar.

At the meeting, the people (34) _______________ (impress) by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother though she had a scar on her face, but the little boy was still embarrassed and (35) _______________ (hide) himself from everyone. He did, however, get within earshot of a conversation (36) _______________ his mother and his teacher, and heard them speaking.

‘‘How did you get the scar on your face? ’’ The teacher asked.

The mother replied, ‘‘When my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught on fire. Everyone was too afraid to go in (37) _______________the fire was out of control, so I went in. As I was rushing toward his bed, I saw a beam coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked unconscious but (38) _______________ (fortunate), a fireman came in and saved both of us.’’ She touched the burned side of her face. ‘‘This scar will be on my face for ever, but to this day, I have never regretted doing (39) _______________I did.’’

At this point, the little boy came out (40) _______________(run) towards his mother with tears in his eyes. He hugged her and felt a great sense of the sacrifice that his mother had made for him. He held her hand tightly for the rest of the day.

Finishing their shopping at the supermarket, a middle-aged couple found their new car   31       (steal). They filed a report   32        the police station and a detective drove them   33       to the parking lot（停车场）to look for evidence.

To their   34         (amaze), the car had been returned and there was a note in it ,  35  _______  said: “I apologize for taking your car. My wife was having a baby and I had to send her to the hospital as soon as possible. Please forget the          36           (convenient). There are two tickets   37        tonight’s Rowan Atkinson concert.”

Their faith in humanity restored(恢复). The couple attended         38       concert. But   39          they returned home, they immediately found that their house had been ransacked (洗劫). On the bathroom mirror was           40           note: “I have to put my kid through college somehow, don’t I?”

A guest comes up to Mrs. Dale, the Duty Manager, telling her 31        (anger) about the Hall Porter’s Department. Since there are 32        guests present, the Duty Manager invites the guest to come to her office 33         (talk) things over.

The guest says that the Hall Porter yesterday 34           (promise) to get theatre tickets 35          a show in the city. He says that today, 36            he went to collect the tickets there was  37          porter on duty. The porter could not find any tickets for the guest, and could not find any record of the request for       tickets. It seems that the porter on duty today did not believe 38                the guest had made any request for tickets. The guest says that the tickets were promised,   38                 he has planned to go to the theatre that night, and that it is the 40                (hotel) job to provide the tickets.

Young people should travel not only to find out about the present 31           to find out about the future. A grand tour today should be the opposite of 32          it was in the past. It should not include museums, castles and ruins. It should go       33           human life is, to places that throw you images of the future. It should not be an escape of 34            (real) but a challenge with 35           .

Young people of today should go to the wildest, farthest, poor place they can think of. They should go to the wild places of Asia, Africa, and South America. Young people should go to 36         many such places as they can, 37           these places are closing up and in time they’ll become impossible.

The other area young people should travel 38  ____________  is the same sort of area within their own country, places that are a kind of 39  ____________  (know) land, 40   _______  as the Congo Basin.

Although anyone can do it, storm chasing is extremely dangerous. The power of a big storm 31         throw a cow into the air 32         destroy a whole house in seconds. Storm chasers are also often hurt in accidents 33          (cause) by driving in 34         heavy rain. If you are a 35         (begin), it is much safer to join a group for storm-chasing vacations 36____________ the storm season.

However, for storm chasers, it is all worth it . “37                   you get 38            (close)to a storm, it is the most 39             (excite) sight you will 40             see in your life,” says Jasper Morley. “Every storm is an example of the power of nature. It is the greatest show on Earth.”

In ancient times, the most important examination was spoken, not written. In the schools of ancient Greece and Rome, testing usually consisted   31       saying poetry aloud or giving speeches.

Generally, however, modern examinations are written. The written examination, where all students are tested on the same questions, was probably not known 32_________    the nineteenth century. Perhaps it came into   33        (exist) with the great increase in population and the development of modern industry.

Two types of tests are   34         (common) used in modern schools. The first type is sometimes called an “objective” test. It   35   ___________  (intend) to deal with facts, not personal opinions. On objective tests, the student has just one task: he must recognize the correct answer and then he must copy its letter or number onto his examination paper. Sometimes there is   36        answer sheet on which the four letters or numbers are printed. Then the student only has to circle the one         37        go with the correct answer.

For testing some kinds of learning, however , such a test is not very satisfactory. A lively student   38       guess the correct answer without really knowing the material.

For a clearer picture of   39        the student knows, most teachers use another kind of examination in addition to objective tests. They use “essay” tests, and the tests require students to write long answers to broad, general questions. When some essay questions are used along with some objective questions,  40       , a fairly clear picture of the students’ knowledge and ability can usually be obtained.

We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it         31        whatever we’ve become used to suddenly  32        (disappear). Take, for example, the neatly-dressed woman I used to see.

For three years, no matter 33         the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a.m. On 34  ________   (snow) days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of 35    ____________   (wool) gloves. Of course I remember all 36  _______   only after she was seen no more .It was 37       that I realized how much 1 expected to see her each morning.

“Did she have an accident? Something  38     ______   ?” I thought to myself about her disappearance. Now that she was gone, I felt that I 39   __________   (know) her. I began to realize that part of our daily life probably includes such chance meetings       40  _________   familiar strangers: the milkman you see at dawn, and the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are important markers in our lives. They add weight to our sense of place and belonging.

In France, most of the people want to have a very long time for lunch. In Britain it doesn’t seem to be important 31             people take a cup of tea and a very quick sandwich and it’s OK.

Another very 32           (surprise) thing for the foreigner is the way the people obey the law — you seem to have much more discipline 33          in France, and you respect the police 34           more than we do. For instance, people park their car 35         , and they know it is forbidden 36            they do it — in Britain people don’t do that.

In England, it’s 37          (easy) to feel alone. People don’t bother you, don’t look after you or worry 38          you so much, so it’s easy to get lost or to hide away here. When you’re in the United States people want to know 39____________     you are, they tend to speak to you, to find out who you are,40         you’re doing.