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16-25的相应位置上。

The disappearance of the famous crime writer, Agatha Christie, was as mysterious as any of her exciting stories.

At about 11 o'clock on the evening of F day, December 3rd in 1926, Mrs. Christie got into her car and took a drive without saying _____16_____ she was going. She didn't return.

The next morning her car was found without _____17_____ driver at Newlands Corner, Surrey. People imagined that she might _____18_____ (kill) herself. _____19_____ as the days went by, it was suggested that she was murdered. The press and the public _____20_____ (natural) took great interest in the case, with at least one newspaper _____21_____ (offer) a reward to anyone who could find Mrs. Christie.

Agatha finally was found alive on Tuesday, December 14th, _____22_____ she was reunited with her husband at a hotel in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, _____23_____ was located around 50 kilometers away from her car. _____24_____ was said that, for ten days, the writer had been staying at the hotel under the name of "Mrs. Theresa Neele". Her husband said, "She has suffered _____25_____ the most complete loss of memory and I do not think she knows who she is."

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，在空格处填人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l6-25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   1.   the bus stop.

Home was only two blocks away   2.  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   3.   (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   4.  (astonish), barely believing that the man,   5.   existence was unknown to me only moments ago, could be so   6.  (thought). “Come on, give this to your mummy,” he said to my older son. I gratefully accepted the offer,   7.  (thank) him and watched the truck disappear down the road.

This man might have needed the umbrella for   8.  later during the day but preferred to give it to me. It was a lesson to me   9.  it’s possible to give without expecting anything   10.  return.

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，在空格处填人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26—35的相应位置上。

It was a bright spring afternoon when Freda told Tim she wouldn’t need him any more. Tim had just finished his four-hour work—moving up and down the stairs of her three-storey house,    26    (clean) the floor and washing the dishes. She was wearing jeans and a sweater. Her husband’s pay would    27    （reduce）by 30%. And they were trying to live as if it’d already happened. Tim felt sorry for her, but he also felt a sense of    28    (lose).

Tim had been cleaning Freda’s house for five years and had developed    29    unexpected relationship with the family. It was not just that Tim had become an expert    30      scraping(刮掉) dirt stuck to their    31    (wood) floor, or that he had learned exactly 32      to place toys on the girl’s beds. It was more than that,    33    he felt he’d become a part of their life.

Now he was fired, but the strange thing was    34    he still wanted to keep scraping away the dirt and dust for the family. He left Freda’s house that day, wondering about the nature of his relationship with the hosts. “Who am I to    35   ? Actually, they are my employers, but I am only an employee. ”

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16—25的相应位置上。

       Keeping a diary in English is one of the 16__________ (effect) ways to improve our English writing ability.

       17._____________ (compare) with other forms of writing, it is shorter and takes 18.____________ time. It can help us to develop the habit of thinking in English. 19.____________ we persist in this practice, gradually we’ll learn how to express ourselves in English. In keeping a diary in English, we certainly run up against many 20.__________. In the first place, 21.____________ often happens that we have trouble finding appropriate words and phrases to give expression to our mind. Secondly, there are many idiomatic ways of saying things in Chinese. And it is extremely hard for us to put them into English properly.

       As far as I _22. ______________ (concern), my  23._____________(suggest) is that we should always have a notebook and a Chinese-English dictionary within easy reach. Whenever something beats us, we can first put it down in our notebook and then consult our dictionary. We can also turn to our English teacher for help, if necessary. In short, I believe that it is 24.___________ great use to keep a diary in English for 25.___ ________ development of our writing skills.

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16-25的相应位置上。

  In most cities,   1.   or poor, it is the less well off that are most at risk from floods and natural disasters. It was the poor of New Orleans, nearly a   2.  (three)of the population, who lived in the lowest-lying parts of the city and  3.  (suffer)most from Katrina's(卡特里娜飓风) wrath (愤怒).  4.   (similar), it was the urban poor of Honduras(洪都拉斯) and its neighbors who were struck hardest   5.  Hurricane Mitch in 1998. And it is the people of the slums (贫民窟) more widely in Latin America  6. are most capable of being attacked.

 In some places, too little water, not too much, is the problem. China's thirst for industry and  7.   (irrigate) has combined with climate change to drain the aquifers(蓄水层). Droughts seem to be ever more frequent in northem China, and southern cities such as Guangzhou are also affected. Rivers are drying up: the Yellow River now flows to the sea for only   8.  few weeks a year. And the rain,when it comes, is intensely acid. To make matters  9.  (bad), the glaciers on which both China  10. India partly depend are melting. Any benefits from extra water supplies will be short-term, and damaged by floods.