高一英语语言结构练习
A
Autumn came again, and with it came trouble and sorrow (悲伤). A strange disease had 1.__________ (短语动词) among the settlers. Betty Sparrow, 2._________ was Abraham Lincoln’s mother’s aunt, and her husband were the first to 3.____________ (attack) by this terrible sickness. The narrow camp 4. __________ was their home was 5. _______ cheerless place even at its best, and the disease did its work 6.__________ (quick).
And then Abraham Lincoln’s mother was stricken down. Suffering from damp and cold in the camp had robbed her of her 7. ___________ (strong) and made her easily 8. __________ (catch) the disease.
One morning, when the grey daylight was struggling 9. ___________ (介词) the gaps of the unfinished cabin(木屋), she reached out her arms and drew little Abraham before her, “My boy, I’m going 10. _________ (副词). Live as I have taught you.” Then the end came.
11. ___________ (连词) only ten years old, Lincoln was no longer a child. He was 12.___________ (determine) to be a man of the type his mother would praise and admire. Long afterward, when he had won honor and had a sure place among the great men of the world, he said, “All that I am, and all that I hope to be, I owe to my mother angel mother.”
B
Like the body, the memory improves with use. 1. __________ (介词) the body, the memory can improve with age.
For many years, doctors 2. __________ (study) the way the brain works. We all know that the brain has two sides, the left and the right. The right side controls the senses and the left side controls our logical thinking. We call the left side the “education” side of the brain. 3. __________ (副词) speaking, in western countries, people have developed this side of the brain more than the right side.
Scientists believe that our brains will work much more efficiently(高效地) 4. __________ (连词) both the right side and the left side are developed 5. __________ (equal). In many schools today, teachers try to educate children in such a way 6. __________ (关联词) both sides of the brain are used. This can be done with logical subjects 7. __________ (include)(包括) mathematics and science as well as with creative subjects, such as art. Albert Einstein, 8. _______ (冠词) great scientist, did some of his best work when he was very old. He was interested not only in his work, but also in 9. __________ (create) and imaginative activities. Because of his many different interests in life, he was able to reach the full 10. ___________ (名词) of both sides of his brain.
C
Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors, by going online to diagnose(诊断) their illness, 1. __________ (order) home health tests, or even self-treating their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies (药店). Some avoid doctors 2.__________ (介词短语) the high cost of medical care, 3. __________ (especial) if they lack health insurance (保险). Or they may stay because they find it embarrassing (令人尴尬的) 4. __________ (discuss) their weight, or couch potato (终日懒散在家的人) habits. They may also fear what they might learn about their health.
Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet for medical answers – most of them aren’t skeptical (常怀疑的) enough of what they find. The Pew Internet & American Life Project made a survey in 2002. 5. __________ (代词) found that 72 percent of those surveyed believe all or most of 6. __________ (关联词) they read on health websites. However, they should not. Look up “headache”, and the chances of finding true and complete information, 7. _________ (be) only one in ten, reports an April 2005 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rates, only 16 scored as “high quality”. Recant studies 8. __________ (find) faulty (错误的) facts about all sorts of other disorders, 9. __________ (cause) one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete, incorrect and even 10. __________ (danger) information exists on the Internet.
D
Many people of my generation say that there is no hope for the future because of the way that young people behave (举动,行为表现) today.
Their first argument is that when we were 1. ___________ (形容词) we used to look after the older people in our community and help them. They also say that young people today don’t care about anything or anyone. 2. ___________ (关联词), I think the reason why we looked after older people was that we had no 3. ___________ (名词). People had to live with their parents and grandparents because they had no money. Young people today earn more and have more freedom to live 4. __________ (连接副词) they want. In spite of this, I think that they are still interested in older people. For example, young people often 5. __________ (动词) to help me when I get on and off the bus with heavy shopping.
Their second argument is that in our day we didn’t 6. __________ (动词) to be given jobs – and that young people now don’t look for jobs, but just complain about (抱怨) unemployment. On the other hand, things were easier in the past and it was always easy to get a job 7. __________ (连接词) you had friends and contacts. It is really 8. __________ (hard) today. Young people complain about unemployment and I think they have every reason to complain.
In conclusion I think there is 9. _________ (名词) for the future. This generation, like generations before them, has new 10. __________ (opportunity) as well as old problems. If they learn from our mistakes the world will be a better place in future.
Answers to the exercises of the language structure:
A. 1. broken out 2. who 3. be attacked 4. which 5. a 6. quickly 7. strength 8. catch 9. through 10. away / off
B 1. Unlike 2. have been studying 3. Generally 4. if
5. equally 6. that 7. including 8. a 9. creative
10. development
C 1. ordering 2. because of 3. especially 4. to discuss 5. It
6. what 7. are 8. found 9. causing 10. dangerous
D 1. young 2. However 3. choice 4. where 5. offer
6. expect 7. if 8. harder 9. hope 10. opportunities