高考英语语法填空专项(一)
仔细阅读下面短文，短文中有10格空格，请按照语境及括号里的具体要求完成语法填空、词形变化等，答案填写在答题卡上标号为1－10的对应位置。
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Many rules govern drivers on American streets and highways. 1 most common one is the speed limit. The speed limit controls 2 fast a car may go. On streets in the city, the speed limit is usually 3 5 and 35 miles per hour. On the highways between cities, the speed limit is 4 (usual) 55 miles per hour. When people drive faster than the speed limit, a policeman can stop them. He gives them pieces of paper which people call traffic 5 . They tell the drivers how much money they must pay. 6 drivers receive too many of them, they probably 7 not drive for a while. The rush hour is when people are going to work or going home from work. At the rush hour there are 8 cars on the streets and traffic moves very slowly. 9 (Near) all American cities have rush hours. Drivers do not break the rule for speeding during the rush hours 10 they have to drive slowly.
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Although English is not as old as Chinese, it is spoken by many people around the world every day. English speakers are always s making new words and we should be able to know 1 most words come from.
Sometimes, however, no one may really know where 2 word comes form. Did you ever think about why hamburgers are called hamburgers, 3 (especial) when they are not made 4 ham? About a hundred years ago, some men went to America from Europe. They came from a big city in Germany called Hamburg.
They did not speak good English, 5 they ate good food. Some Americans saw the eating round pieces of beef. Never 6 they seen such ad strange way. They couldn’t help 7 (ask) the Germans what it was. The Germans did not understand the question and answered, “we came from Hamburg.” One of these Americans owned a restaurant, and had an idea. He 8 his mind to do something new. He cooked some round pieces of the beef like what the men from Hamburg ate and sold it quite a few 9 (country) around the world.
Whether this story is true or not, it certainly is 10 (interest).
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Though my father has passed 1 for several months. I still think he is alive at least in my heart. As a middle-aged man, I already have got a son of 19 2 old. It is because of having my own son to bring up 3 I understood my father better. Things date back 4 the year of 1978, when I studied in Jingxi High School, 5 is 62 kilometers from my village. Of course we had no computers at that time, let alone the Internet. So we corresponded with each other by letter. He always 6 me into 7 (value) the time. As I always relied on him, I did everything in his own way and never took anything for 8 (grant). Later I succeeded in going to university and became 9 famous writer and got a lot of reward from the government. What I have gained today should owe 10 him.
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Jim is a 1 (talent) man who can do quite a lot of things. He is an honest man as 2 as a kind man., but he is never at 3 mercy of anybody. In a way, it’s his shortcoming. The 4 day, he and I went to the zoo together. When he saw the tiger in the distance, he thought of a foolish 5 to control the tiger by attempting 6 (ride) it! If the adults had not come in time, he wouldn’t have escaped from the jaws of 7 (die). Another time I went surfing with him. When he 8 loose, he surfed in the direction of the middle of the sea without anybody following him. I 9 next to him at the beginning, but he surfed so fast that I couldn’t keep up with him. Gradually, we couldn’t see him at all. It was not until late in the afternoon 10 he returned to the shore.
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Keys:
一、1.the 2.how 3.between 4.usually 5.tickets 6.If 7.can/will 8.many 9. Nobody 10.because
二、1.where 2.a 3.especially 4. of 5. but 6. had 7. asking 8. made up 9. countries 10. interesting
三、1、away 2. years 3. that 4. to 5. which 6.talked 7. valuing 8. granted 9. a 10. to
四、1. talented 2. well 3. the 4. other 5. idea 6. to ride 7. death 8.set 9. was 10. that