Unit 10 -Unit14语法填空专项练习题(附答案)
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内所给单词的正确形式。
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One day,a baby snail found that he had to carry a big and heavy shell at any time. He asked his mother,“Why was I born with a shell It 1._______(grow) so hard and heavy.” His
mother said,“Because we don’t have bones 2.___________(support) us. We move slowly,so we need a shell to protect us.”
The baby snail asked again,“The caterpillar has no bones,either,and she can’t move quickly. Why can she live3.________ a shell ” The mother snail answered 4.__________
(patient),“That’s because she will become a butterfly. She can fly high into 5._____ sky which can protect her.”
The baby snail then cried,“We are so poor! We have no 6.___________(protect) like that!” His mother smiled at him,“That’s why we have a shell. My dear,imagine 7.___we don’t have the shell,what will happen to us Our bodies will be 8._______(dry) out by the hot sun and we’ll have nowhere to sleep.What’s 9._______(bad),we’ll die in the heavy rain. We don’t depend on
the sky. We should depend on 10.__________(we).”
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When teacher Margret Atkins,39,went to ride her bike to school last Friday,she was shocked to discover it was 11._______(steal).When our reporter spoke to her,she told him that she’d been angry when she realized her bike was gone. It was quite 12.____ old bike her grandpa had given her years ago. She said it was the most 13._________(value) gift she’d ever received. So what did she do She decided 14._________(write) a note to the thief and put it where the bike had been taken away. To her surprise,she 15._______(find) the thief had returned the bike,together with a written apology later that day.“What I did was 16.___________(complete) wrong.I’m really sorry I took your bike. Hope you can accept 17._____(I)
apology!”
Mrs. Atkins told reporters she was not going to call the police 18._________ she was no longer angry. She was just thankful that she could go to school on her bike again. She added that she’d probably write another passage to the thief.“I want to thank him 19._____ returning the
bike and tell him I’ve forgiven(原谅) him,” she explained.“People sometimes make 20._________(mistake),but the important thing is that they own up to what they’ve done,” she said.
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Zu Chongzhi was one of the greatest mathematicians( in ancient China. He was
born during the Northern and Southern 21.__________(dynasty). From a young age,Zu was taught natural science,astronomy,math and so on. The little boy was 22.__________(interest) in all of these subjects,23.__________(especial) in math.Zu was best known for his calculation of pi(π).
According to the record,he did all the work using nothing but wooden sticks. It took him lots of time 24._________(work) out the value—between 3.1415926 and 3.1415927. No one 25.____ that time was able to do better than Zu. And now the achievement is still praised by people around the world. In order to remember Zu,some mathematicians suggest 26.________(call) pi “Zu Lv”.Zu was successful not only in math,but also in astronomy. He
worked out that a year should be 365.24281481 days long and created the Daming Calendar.27.__________,government officials at that time did not agree with him. The great mathematician never 28._____(see) his calendar put into use. Almost ten years after
his 29._______(die),the new calendar was finally accepted.Zu was 30.____ an inventor,too. He once made a vehicle that carried a pointer(指针). No matter how the vehicle turned,the
pointer always pointed to the south.
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Hi,I’m Mike. I run a clothes store. I think life is full of the 31._____(expected).Don’t you think so?Last Tuesday night I stayed up late. The next morning my alarm clock didn’t ring. Of course,I 32.__________(oversleep). When I got up,it was about nine o’clock. There 33._____(be) nobody at home except me. My family had gone to work. I had no time 34._______(eat) breakfast. By the time Irode my motorbike 35.____ the way to my store,I found the gas had run out.Luckily,my neighbor Mr. Green saw me on the street.
He gave me 36.___ lift in his car. At about ten o’clock I got to my clothes store. At that time,I found many people had crowded around Mrs.Cooper’s clothes store,which is not far from 37.______(my). Then I saw the black smoke 38._______(rise) from the burning clothes store and lots of firemen putting out the fire. Someone told me Mrs. Cooper died 39._________ of the fire. I was shocked and sad. Although I felt very lucky to be 40.______(live),if I hadn’t gotten up late,perhaps I could have saved Mrs.Cooper.
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Everyone has a dream.Catherine’s is to own a bakery.The 14-year-old American girl became fond of baking and decorating cakes when her mother first 41._______(teach) her how to do it. Her parents found that she is talented 42.____ making cakes. She made her first cake for her sister’s birthday.“I had never 43._______(real) done anything like it before,” she said.“It was pretty good and I actually realized how much I liked cake decorating.”
After making her sister’s birthday cake,Catherine tried making the 44.________(two) one for herself.
Catherine had thought about starting her own business years ago,but she didn’t start receiving orders until she put pictures 45.____ her cake designs on Facebook.
A few hours later,somebody saw Catherine’s cake designs and called to order a cake for $15. That was her first 46.______(pay) cake. It proved to be a 47.__________(success) experience.
Realizing the public’s interest in Catherine’s designs,her family decided 48.__________(create) a business for her. She has made about 35 cakes49.______ she started,including birthday cakes
and wedding cakes. And she made her cakes without drawing sketch(草稿) first.
Catherine’s 50.___________(customer) were surprised that she could create such impressive designs at such a young age.
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My brother Claudio is one of the people I love most. He is wise and always helpful,taking care of me and 51._____(we) young sister,Sarah. The day when he left home to go to college,I
52.____________(teach) the importance of being a man.It was a 53._______(rain) Saturday morning in August. We were woken up by the sound of Sarah playing the piano as usual.
In the kitchen,there was 54.___ surprise for Claudio—his favorite pancakes.
Mom gave us a big smile and told us 55._______(sit) down for the breakfast. This was an important day for all of us!
While we were 56._______(eat) breakfast,Claudio went upstairs to collect his things. I suddenly heard him calling my name. When I walked 57._____ the room we shared,I found Claudio sitting at my bedside.“It’s time,brother,” he said. I thought he was saying that it
was time for him to leave the house,58._____ in fact he told me that I should take on a bigger role in the family from then on. He said I should do 59.______(many) for Mom than before after he was gone.
I thought about his words very 60._________(careful) and then understood everything. That day I learned about family,love and duty.
参考答案
1.grows 2.to support 3.without 4.patiently 5.the
6.protection 7.if 8.dried 9.worse 10.ourselves
11.stolen 12.an 13.valuable 14.to write 15.found
pletely 17my 18.because 19.for 20.mistakes
Dynasties 22.interested 23.especially 24.to work 25.at
26.calling 27.However 28.saw 29.death 30.an
31.unexpected 32.overslept 33.was 34.to eat 35.on
36.a3 7.mine 38.rising 39.because 40.live
41.taught 42.in 43.really 44.second 45.of
46.paid 47.successful 48.to create 49.since 50.customers
51.our 52.was taught 53.rainy 54.a 55.to sit
56.eating 57.into 58.but 59.more 60.carefully
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