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语法填空训练与完形填空

语法填空一

When the administrators of the Steere House Nursing Center adopted six cats from an animals shelter, they had no idea that among them was one ___1__ possessed a strange sixth sense to predict the death of badly in patients.

The cat ——Oscar’s story began in 2005, when the newly born cat was placed ___2__ the third floor of the nursing center, home to patients that are in the last stages of ___3___（ ill） like Alzheimer’s , Parkinson’s and cancer. The cat spent the first year lazing(消磨时光)around him and ___4__(watch) the busy activity around. Then,just before his first birthday ,Oscar began visiting each of the 41 patients on the floor ____5__(regular),just like the doctors and nurses did.

In the beginning, the hospital staff did not pay much attention to the cat’s behavior.___6_____, after some of the people that Oscar snuggled up to pass away, they began to notice __7___ pattern(模式)——the cat only went close to those that were a few hours away from dying. Otherwise, he would spend the day sleeping.

To test__8___it was just a coincidence, the staff tried to place Oscar next to a patient they believed was close to dying.But the cat refused to stay and decided to snuggle next to someone else. ___9__ turned out that he was right because “his ” patient died that same evening, while the one whose death the nurses had thought___10____(come), lived on for another two days.（关可） 二

It's easy to gain a few pounds over holidays, especially for the Chinese as the Spring Festival and its component family feasting are nearing. To get rid of those \_____1_____, is not that easy. Following is _____2____ you are supposed to do to avoid putting on extra weight. Stay _____3____( act). One of the major causes of weight gain during the holidays _____4_____( be) lack of activity. Time is spent doing holiday errands, ____5_____ makes us more tired, less motivated, and not wanting to stick to our routine. Best thing to do is to stick to your regular schedule. Not only will it help keep weight gain down, it will give ____6_____ more energy and it will reduce your stress. Don't starve yourself. Many people think _____7____ attending new year feast, they should go ____8_____(hunger)all day so that they can \later on. _____9_____ truth is you may be so hungry that you will forget about any sense of the word moderation or control. The right thing to do is _____10_____( make) sure to eat your normal and healthy meals before the New Year feast.（黄华穗） 三

Can trees talk? Yes, but not in words. Scientists have reason to believe that trees do communicate with each other. Not long ago, researchers learned some_____1____(surprise) things. First a willow tree ___2____ (attack) in the woods by caterpillars (毛虫) changed the chemistry of its leaves and ____3___ (make) them taste so terrible___4___they got tired of the leaves and stopped eating them. Then even more astonishing, the tree sent out a special smell---____5____signal causing its neighbors to change the chemistry of their own leaves and make ____6__less tasty.

_____7____(communicate), of course, doesn’t need to be in words. We can talk to each other ___8_____ smiling, raising our shoulders and moving our hands. We know

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that birds and animals use a whole vocabulary of songs, sounds, and movements. Bees dance their signals,___9__（fly） in certain patterns ____10___tell other bees where to find nectar (花蜜)for honey. So why shouldn’t trees have ways of sending message?（孟芳）

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Recently a documentary about China’s pollution problem has become a hit in the country over the weekend ， 16 attracted over 100 million viewers in less than 24 hours. 17 （show）a series of photographs and slides, Chai Jing examines 18 the pollution problem has become so serious in the country and says the project was inspired by lung illness of 19 new-born daughter. The TED Talk-style presentation was self-funded by the former TV anchor，Chai Jing 20 was released by video site Youku and the People’s Daily Online. 21 newly-appointed head of China’s environment ministry, Chen Jining, has praised Chai Jing and her documentary saying it has “aroused the public's environmental awareness 22 the public health point of view, and is worthy of 23 （admire）.\contacted Chai Jing to 24 （person）thank her. It came just days before the 2015 National People’s Congress convenes in Beijing and 25 （expect）to provoke debate on environmental policy.（莫燕群） 五

Several days ago, I was walking home from school and saw some writing on the fence of a house. 16 _____said, \is a direction, not an end. \I had been having a bad day and just reading this 17 _____(brighten) my day a little. I also took out a pen and wrote one of my favorite quotes down.

When I came back to 18 _____ fence, I saw another quote under mine in the same handwriting as the first one. I added another, and we kept doing this for quite a while. One day, I was writing another quote on the fence 19 _____ an old man, one of my neighbors, who owned the fence, saw me. He came out and I was afraid he would be mad 20 _____me for writing on his fence; he was not known to be very21 _____ (friend). He gave me a \_____ (say) a word, he said something to himself and then went back inside. I was a bit terrified for a while, and afraid to go back to the fence, 23 _____ when I did, I noticed not more quotes but two words in entirely different handwriting had been added, \

Later, I saw the old man in his front yard. He told me how my quotes had been inspiring him, how he thanked me and how he was glad to see young people still have \has changed my life. I still don’t know25 _____wrote that very first quote, but if he is out there, I’d like to say \（曾文） 六

It was a village in India. The people were poor. However, they were not unhappy. one day, some visitors from the city arrived. They told the villagers there were some people elsewhere _1____ liked to eat frog’s legs. But they did not have enough frogs _2__ their own. And so they wanted to buy frogs from other places.

This seemed like money for nothing. There were millions of frogs in the fields and ___3___ were no use to the villagers. All they had to do was catch them. Every week a

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truck arrived to collect the catch and hand over the money. For the first time, the people were able to dream of a better future. But __4__ dream did not last long. The change was hardly noticed at first, but ____5_ seemed as if the crops were not doing so well. There seemed to be more insects around lately. The villagers decided that they couldn’t just wait to see the crops ____6___ (fail) and the children getting weak. They would have to use the money earned to buy pesticides and medicines. Soon there was no money __7__(leave). Then the people realized ___8__ was happening. It was the frog. They hadn’t been _____9___.(use)They had been doing an important job---- eating insects. Now with so many frogs killed, the insects were increasing ____10____ (rapid). 七 The world’s richest self-made(白手起家的) woman, a Spanish former seamstress (女裁缝)who co-founded the fashion retailer(零售商)Zara, has died at the age of 69 in August, 2013. Rosalia Mera was the richest woman in Spain 16 an estimated worth of $6.1bn(10亿), although her fortune represented a fraction (一小部分) of the wealth accumulated by 17 former husband, Armancio Ortega. Mera suffered a stroke 18 on holiday. She died in a hospital in the town 19 she was born. 20 ( leave ) school at 11 years old, Mera worked as a seamstress as a teenager before setting up a company with Ortega that would evolve into one of the biggest clothes retailers in the world. 21 (origin ), the pair had planned to name the store Zorba, but the store sign was modified(修改) to avoid 22 (confuse ) with a nearby bar. The Zara model grew up from the idea that first sent Mera into business: 23 (produce) speedy and cheap imitations of the latest catwalk or pop culture trends. Mera was one of the great pioneers of so-called “fast fashion”. 24 her vast wealth, Mera stayed close to home and was often seen socializing in Galicia’s bars and taverns(酒馆). According to Forbes magazine, Mera was the world’s richest self-made woman, and 25 20th richest overall. 完形填空 一 Kidnappers (绑架者) are rarely interested in animals, but they recently took considerable interest in Mrs. Eleanor Ramsay’s cat. Mrs. Eleanor Ramsay, a very wealthy old lady, has shared a flat with her ___1___, Rastus, for a great many years. Rastus leads an ___2___life. He usually takes a short walk in the evenings and is always home by seven o’clock. One evening, however, he ___3___ to arrive. Mrs. Ramsay got very worried. She looked everywhere for him but could not ___4___ him. Three days after Rastus’ ____5___, Mrs. Ramsay received an anonymous letter. The writer __6___ that Rastus was in safe hands and would be returned immediately if Mrs. Ramsay paid a ransom of￡1,000. Mrs. Ramsay was instructed to place the money in a cardboard box and to leave it outside her door. At first, she decided to go to the police, but ___7___that she would never see Rastus again—the letter had made that quite clear— she changed her mind. She ___8___￡1,000 from her bank and followed the kidnapper’s ____9_____. The next morning, the ____10____had disappeared but Mrs. Ramsay was sure that the ____11___ would keep his word. Sure enough, Rastus arrived ____12____at seven o’clock that evening. He looked very well, though he was rather ___13____, for he drank half a bottle of milk.

The police were ____14___ when Mrs. Ramsay told them what she had done. She

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