高考英语语法强化集训 15

强化集训 15

I. 根据语境，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

1. It was in the ______（eleven）century in China that we had paper money for the ______（one）time.

2. At first he was a little shy, ______ now he acts more natural.

3. I believe the book is now out of print, but it can ______（easy）be borrowed from libraries.

4. —Why, Jack, you look so tired!

—Well, I ______（paint）the house and I must finish the work tomorrow.

5. He said, “China is a developing socialist country ______（belong）to the third world.”

6. The birds are quiet, too, the drops increasing in frequency, so it must ______（rain）above the forest.

7. Our hometown has changed a lot, and now it is quite different from ______ it used to be a few years ago.

8. The man in the store ______（not give）him change for the phone unless he buys something.

9. Mr. White wrote many articles, some of ______ were translated into Chinese.

10. Don’t go out, please. It ______（rain）heavily outside.

II. 短文改错。

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的一篇作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词；删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉；修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出改正后的词。注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

A new park for children has set up to welcome the coming of Children’s Day. A park is in the south of our city, covered an area of 0.3 million square meters. If you enter into the park, you can see statues of children in different races. We are hand in hand, what is the symbol of the world peace. In the middle is a lake, around which is all kinds of trees and flowers. To the south of the lake is hill with a lot of monkey on it. The Children’s Palace lie to the east. I’m sure the children in our city will have a happily festival this year.

III. 阅读下面短文，在空白处填写1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

A

Crying marriage? 　1　 （surprise）, isn’t it? Factually, the custom of crying marriage existed a long time ago in many areas of Sichuan Province, and 　2　 （remain）in fashion 　3　 the end of the Qing Dynasty. Though not so popular as before, the custom is still observed by people in many places, especially Tujia people, who view it as a 　4　 （necessary）to marriage procedure.

It is very much 　5　 same in different places of the province. According to elderly people, every bride had to cry at the wedding. 　6　 , the bride’s neighbors would look down upon 　7　 as a poorly cultivated girl and she would become the laughingstock of the village. In fact, there were cases 　8　 which the bride was beaten by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony.

In a word, crying at wedding is a means by custom to set off the 　9　 （happy）of the wedding through falsely sorrowful words. However, in the 　10　 （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.

B

Sailors used to speak of a “Jack” when they meant a flag which was set near the bow of a sailing ship. The flag showed the country 　1　 which the ship belonged. The Union Jack became the flag of Great Britain. Australia’s flag 　2　 （have）the Union Jack in the top left hand corner together with the stars of the Southern Cross. They have kept this small part of Britain on their flag 　3　 their country was first settled by people from Britain.

Australia’s flag is the same color as the Union Jack—red, white and blue. The act of 　4　 （join）together is called a “Union”. The Union Jack was the name of the flag made when England, Scotland and Ireland joined together 　5　 （make）one country.

It all began in 1707 when England and Scotland joined together to become one nation. A flag was made 　6　 （use）two crosses—one for the patron saint of each country. The word “patron” means protector. Many 　7　 （century）before the English had taken St. George as their patron saint, his emblem（标志）was a red cross on a white background. The Scottish patron saint was St. Andrew. In memory of him, they used a white cross on a blue background. This cross was shaped like the letter “X”. The new flag was a 　8　 （mix）of both flags with two sets of crosses. When Ireland joined England and Scotland in 1800, another cross 　9　 （add）. St. Patrich’s cross of Ireland was red and also shaped like 　10　 “X”. All three flags made up the Union Jack.