辽宁省法库县2016高考英语二轮复习短文语法填空选练(3)

辽宁省法库县2016高考英语（二轮）短文语法填空选练（3）2016高考训练题。

语法填空。

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或者括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为41～50的相应位置上。

People are like potatoes. After potatoes have been harvested they have to 41 (spread) out and sorted in order to get the maximum market dollar. They are divided according to size---big, 42 and small. After the potatoes have been sorted and bagged, 43 are loaded onto trucks. All Idaho potato farmers use this method---all but 44 .One farmer never bothered to sort the potatoes at all. Yet he made the most money.A 45 (puzzle) neighbor finally asked him, “ 46 is your secret?” He said, “It’s simple. I just load up the wagon with 47 and take the roughest road to town. During the eight-mile trip, the little potatoes always fall to the 48 . The medium potatoes land in the middle, 49 the big potatoes rise to the top.” That’s not only true 50 potatoes. It is a law of life. Big potatoes rise the top on tough roads, and tough people rise to the top I rough times.参考答案41. be spread 42. medium 43. They 44. one 45. puzzled 46. what 47. potatoes 48. bottom 49. while 50. of【语法填空】Pronunciation and Status An ambassador and a referee were consulting a professor on the caption of a Buddhistic alphabet when a sobbing woman stopped them to sell an antique musical bathtub. Her dirty garment and the handkerchief ___1___ her waist were badly in need of sending to a laundry. The ambassador___2____(comfortable) gave her a ha ndful of pence from his wallet and said, “Take this fortune away, troublesome woman.”___3___ her figure faded away, the brilliant professor said, “You are mistaken and your improper remark on her should be condemned. In terms of this extraordinarywo man, you can’t classify her status by __4___ horrible clothes or disgusting nails. Her clean woolen vest and stockings, especially her classic pronunciation, all___5___(suggest) her upper status.” The ambassador gave a whistle in amazement, and advised ____6___(make) her acquaintance. The professor hesitated for a while, then compromised.The outcome was ___7__ she was an authentic superior police officer. When they ___8____(show) in her office and saw her once more, she brought them a teapot of tea and some cookies, laughing and saying, “I rubbed some cream and wax on my garment and passed myself off as a shabby woman ___9___thieves and robbers to investigate a plot. Generally speaking, your overlooking me and my adaptation are the best help. But my pronunciation seemed __10____ (betray) me.”【参考答案】Keys:1. around2. uncomfortably3. When4. her5. suggested6. making7. that8. were shown9. among 10. to have betrayed【语法填空】A Sly MurderWhen giving a lecture about the significance of punctuation, the academic professor was interrupted and arrested by the police for murdering his wife, a receptionist of a kindergarten. The police found some photos he deleted from their e-album ___1___(show) that they used to have a gay life. But, fed up with her wrinkled face, he murdered her instead of divorcing her __2___(avoid) fortune division. He cut up a kind of seashell ___3__ a sharpened knife, and hammered it into powder on a skateboard, and made at most one gram, which was enough to accelerate one’s pulse __4___he or she dies. This kind of poison can date back to 10,000 BC ___5___ people rubbed it on spears to kill beasts. The professor mixed the poison with onion, watermelon and yogurt ___6__ his wife. Howling and scratching her chest, she felt dizzy and died soon.After tentative examination, the police assumed ___7__ died of heart disease. Butsystematic botanical analyses showed that the watermelon spit on the messy mat andthe quilt was ___8____(poison). Regardless of exhaustion and starvation, the acuteand skilful policemen __9__ (use) radioactive equipment to make sure the categoryof the poison. Primitive and not ample __10____ their alternative equipment was, theygot perfect accuracy somehow.People applauded the police and the woman’s family can look ahead wit h relief now.【参考答案】Keys:1. showing2. to avoid3. with4. until5. when6. for7. she8. poisonous9. used 10. as广东省2014语法填空(共10小题；每小题l 5分．满分l5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1--10的相应位置上。

Ms. Mary was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like half her age. Sheloved driving very fast, and boasted of the fact 1. she had never, inher thirty-five years of driving, been punished 2. a driving mistake.Then one day, she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her, and thepolicemen in it saw her pass a red light without 3. (stop).When Ms. Mary came before the judge, he looked at her severely and said that shewas too old to drive a car, and that the reason 4. she had notstopped at red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak 5old age, so that she had simply not seen it.When the judge had finished 6. he was saying, Ms. Mary opened thebig handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she 72. (choose) a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at the first time.When she had 28 (success) done this, she took the thread outof the needle again and handed both the needle and thread to the judge, saying, “Nowit is your turn. I suppose you can drive a car well, and you have no doubts 9. your eyesight.”The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen times,he had still not succeeded. The case against Ms. Mary 10. (dismiss), and herrecord remained unbroken.【参考答案】（1）1. that2.for3.stopping. 4why 5.with6.what7. chose8. successfully9.about 10. was dismissed广东省2014语法填空。