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。

It was a very cold evening, an old man was waiting for a ride across the river. He saw several horsemen pass by but he didn’t ask for any help. The wait seemed   31  (end). Then came another rider, the old man   32  (catch) his eye and said, “Sir, would you mind doing me a favor?”

Stopping his horse, he replied, “Of course.” Almost   33  (freeze), the old man could not get   34   the ground. The horseman helped him onto his horse. He took the o1d man not just across the river,   35   to his home.

“Sir, you didn’t even ask the other riders for help, why? What   36   I had said ‘no’ and 1eft you there?” the horseman asked.

The old man looked at him straight in the eyes and said, “I looked into their eyes, I found they didn’t care,   37   told me it would be useless, but when I looked into   38  , I saw kindness.”

These words touched the rider deeply. “Thank you for   39   you’ve said, I hope I will never be too busy to help others.” With that, Thomas Jefferson, the   40  (three) president of the US, turned his horse around and went away．

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。
Child labor has been a problem for many years. Over a hundred years ago, Charles Dickens shocked many of his readers when    31  （describe）the conditions under which young children worked in British factories.    32    conditions Dickens described continue, almost unchanged today, in many parts of the world. The only difference is    33    today’s employment of children is confined to small industries and family businesses, such as hotels, restaurants and    34    (particular) farms, rather than to large factories. The children not only receive nothing or very    35   for their long hours of work, but also they    36    (prevent) from attending school. Therefore, when they become older they are    37   (able) to do any other kind of work.
The solution    38    the problem of child labour is clearly better laws to protect young children greater supervision (监督) of industry and heavier fines for    39    who break the laws. Only    40    this way can young boys and girls be allowed to enjoy the most valuable time of their lives --- childhood.

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，并将答案填写在答卷标号为
31—40的相应位置上。
Crying marriage? 31   (surprise), isn't it? Factually, the custom of crying
marriage existed a long time ago in many areas of Southwest China's Sichuan
Province, and  32 (remain) in fashion  33  the end of the Qing Dynasty.Though not so popular as before, the custom is still observed by people in manyplaces, especially Tujia people, who view it as a   34  (necessary) to marriage procedure.
It is very much   35   same in different places of the province. According to
elderly people, every bride had to cry at the wedding.36,the bride's neighbors
would look down upon  37   as a poorly cultivated girl and she would become the
thelaughingstock of the village. In fact, there were cases   38  which the bride wasbeaten by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony.
In a word, crying at wedding is a  39  by custom to set off the happiness of
the wedding through falsely sorrowful words. However, in the   40   (arrange)
marriages of the old days of China, there were indeed quite a lot of brides who cried
over their unsatisfactory marriage and even their miserable life.

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。
It was a cold and cloudy afternoon. I was on the bus with my children, aged four and two, heading home when it started to rain. I realized this would mean a wet walk home   31   the bus stop.
Home was only two blocks away   32   it was not a pleasant walk with one small boy fast asleep in the pram (手推婴儿车), the other one in a raincoat and no umbrella for myself. A pick-up truck passed us on the road and, a few minutes later, I saw it   33   (pull) back and the driver looking directly at us.
A young man put the window down. “Hey, here’s an umbrella for you --- please take it.” He called out.
I stood there   34  (astonish), barely believing that the man,   35   existence was unknown to me only moments ago, could be so   36  (thought). “Come on, give this to your mummy,” he said to my older son. I gratefully accepted the offer,   37  (thank) him and watched the truck disappear down the road.
This man might have needed the umbrella for   38   later during the day but preferred to give it to me. It was a lesson to me   39   it’s possible to give without expecting anything   40   return.

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。
Child labor has been a problem for many years. Over a hundred years ago, Charles Dickens shocked many of his readers when he described the conditions ___31___ which young children worked in British factories. The conditions Dickens described continue, almost unchanged today, in many parts of the world. The only difference is ___32___ today’s employment of children is confined to small industries and family businesses, such as hotels, restaurants and ___33___ (particular) farms, rather than to large factories. The children not only receive nothing or very ___34___ for their long hours of work, but also they ___35___ (prevent) from attending school. Therefore, when they become older they are ___36___ (able) to do any other kind of work.
The solution ___37___ the problem of child labour is clearly better laws to protect young children greater supervision (监督) of industry and heavier fines for ___38___ who break the laws. Only in this way ___39___ young boys and girls be allowed to enjoy the most valuable time of ___40___ lives --- childhood.