Question

【题目】Directions; Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United States. He became a【1】 voice in the year before the Civil War.

A few weeks ago, the National Park Service (NPS) 【2】Douglass’s birth and Black History Month with reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a【3】 site in Washington. D.C. The two-story house, which contains many of Douglass’s personal possessions, had undergone a three-year 【4】. (Thanks to the NTS website, however, you don’t have to live in the nation’s capital to visit it. Take a tour online.)

He was born in Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father who never knew Douglass grew uo to become the first black 【5】 to hold a government office--- as US minister and consul general （总领事）to Haiti.

As a youth, he never went to school. Educating slaves was illegal in the South, so he 【6】 taught himself to read and write. At 21 years old, he escaped from his slave owner to Massachusetts and changed his last name to Douglass, to hide his identity.

In the 1850s, Douglass was involved with the Underground Railroad, the system 【7】 up by antislavery groups to bring runaway slaves to the North and Canada. His home in Rochester, N.Y. was near the Canadian border. It became an important station on the 【8】, housing as many as 11 runaway slaves at a time.

He died in 1895. In his lifetime, Douglass 【9】 the end of slavery in 1865 and the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution （美国宪法修正案）, which 【10】 African-Americans the right to vote.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】J

【2】A

【3】C

【4】I

【5】E

【6】D

【7】B

【8】G

【9】K

【10】F

【解析】

本文是一篇人物传记，介绍了黑人领袖弗雷德里克道格拉斯的生平和贡献。

【1】考查形容词。句意：他在内战前一年成为了一个主要的声音。修饰名词voice用形容词，表示“主要的”，故填J

【2】考查动词。句意：几周前，国家公园管理局为了纪念道格拉斯的出生和黑人历史月，重新开放了他位于华盛顿雪松山的家，这是一处华盛顿地区的历史遗迹。此处缺少及物动词作谓语，表示“纪念”，故填A。

【3】考查形容词。句意同上，a historic site表示“历史遗迹”，故填C。

【4】考查名词。句意：这栋两层楼高的房子里存放着道格拉斯的许多私人物品，经历了三年的修缮。作动词undergone的宾语用名词，表示“修缮、复原”，故填I。

【5】考查名词。句意：他从不知道道格拉斯长大后成为第一位担任政府公职的黑人公民。此处缺少名词作表语，表示“公民”，故填E。

【6】考查副词。句意：在南方，教育奴隶是非法的，所以他偷偷地自学读写。修饰动词taught用副词，表示“偷偷地”，故填D。

【7】考查非谓语动词。句意：19世纪50年代，道格拉斯参与了“地下铁路”运动，该运动由反奴隶制团体发起，目的是将逃跑的奴隶带到北方和加拿大。set up 表示 “建立、发起”，the system 与set up之间是动宾关系，表示被动，用过去分词做后置定语，故填B。

【8】考查名词。句意：它成了这条路线上的一个重要站点，一次可以容纳多达11名逃跑的奴隶。on the route表示“在路上、在某一路线”，故填G。

【9】考查动词。句意：在道格拉斯的一生中，他见证了1865年奴隶制的终结以及美国宪法第15条修正案的通过，该修正案赋予非裔美国人投票权。此处用动词作谓语，表示“见证”，故填K。

【10】考查动词。句意同上，此处用动词作谓语，表示“合法地（授予）”，故填F。