语法填空专项训练(附答案及解析)

语法填空A jobless man applied for the position of “office boy” at a big firm.The HR manager ___31__ (interview) him, then a test: clean the floor. “You are hired,” he said, “give me your email address, ___32__ I’ll send you the application to fill.” The man replied “I don’t have a computer, ___33__ an email”.“I’m sorry,” said the HR manager, “that means you do not exist. And ___34__ doesn’t exist cannot have the job.” The man left ___35__ no hope at all. He didn’t know what to do, with only $10 in his pocket.He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10 KG tomato crate. He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round. In less than two hours, he ___36__ (success) in doubling his capital. He repeated the operation 3 times, and returned home with $60.5 years later, the man is one of the ___37__ (big) food retailers(零售商) in the US. He started to plan his family’s future, and decided to have a life insurance.He called ___38__ insurance broker, and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his email. The man replied: “I don’t have an email”. The broker replied ___39__ (curious), “You don’t have an email, and yet have established an empire! Do you imagine ___40__ you could have been if you had an email?The man thought for a while, and replied: “An office boy!”( 2)There was once a boy who had a temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he ___31__ hammer a nail into the back of the fence.The first day the boy ___32__(drive)37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered ___33__ (gradual) decreased. He discovered ___34__ was easier to hold his temper than to drive nails into the fence.Finally the day came ___35__ he didn’t lose his temper. He told his father and his father suggested that the boy now___36__ (pull) out one nail for each day so that he was able to hold his anger. The days passed and the boy told his father that all the nails were gone.The father took the boy ___37__ the hand and led him to the fence. He said, “Look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger; they leave a scar (疤痕) just like the___38__ on the fence. It won’t matter how many times you say I am sorry, ___39__ wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Friends are very rare. They make you smile and encourage you ___40__ (success). They lend an ear, and always want to open their hearts to us.”( 3)An old man who lived in a small street in the city of Mumbai had to put up ___31__ the nuisance (烦心事) of having boys play cricket outside his house at night.One evening when the boys were ___32__ (particular) noisy, he went out to talk to them. He explained that he was happiest ___33__ he could see or hear boys playing his favourite game, cricket. He said he would give them 25 rupees (卢比) each week to play in the street at night.The boys were thrilled. They were being paid to do something they enjoyed! At the end of the first week they ___34__ (knock) at the old man’s door and asked him to pay them, and so he did.The second week when they asked for ___35__ (pay) he said he had run out of money and sent them away with only 15 rupees. The third week the man said he had not ___36__ received his pension and gave them only 10 rupees. The boys were very ___37__ (disappoint) but there was not much they could do about ___38__. The fourth week the man said he could not afford to pay them 25 rupees ___39__ he had promised, but would give them 5 rupees each week without fail. This was too much for the boys.“You expect us to play seven days ___40__ week for a merely 5 rupees!” they yelled. “Go to blazes.” They stormed away and never played on the street again.( 4 )Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I got to know a little girl ___31__(name) Liz who was suffering from a rare and serious disease. Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion（输血）___32__ her 5-year-old brother, ___33__ had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to fight the ___34__(ill).The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate for a moment ___35__ taking a deep breath and saying, “Yes, I’ll do it ___36__ it can save Liz.”___37__ the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, ___38__(see) the color returning to her cheeks. Then ___39__ face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, “Will I start to die right away?”Being young, the boy had___40__(understand) the doctor; he thought he was going to have to give his sister all of his blood.( 1 )31. interviewed这里应填谓语动词的过去时，HR manager: 人力资源部经理。