Question

【题目】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的相应位置上。
Although most people believe that formal schooling is required for scientific success, a college degree is not always necessary. excellent example of a man who won fame as a scientist academic(学术的) training is Vincent J. Schaefer. His formal education ended two years of high school when he had to go to work in an untrained job at General Electric. Because his inventive mind and his skill as a model maker, he was soon allowed to try his own experiments in the company laboratory. His natural (curious) made him wonder about clouds. He developed, after many tries, a method of making clouds rain they would not normally do so. This method, (call) seeding, has been very (help) to farmers, and made him win much fame.
Schaefer believes that for people, most of all, are interested in the world and everything in it, a college degree is unnecessary.

Answer 1

【答案】an；without；after；of；curiosity；when；called；helpful；it；who
【解析】⑴an 因excellent以元音音素开头，应用不定冠词an。

⑵without 根据前面说a college degree is not always necessary可知，此处填without，表示“没有”。

⑶after 表示一段时间之后应用介词after。

⑷of because of是复合介词，意为“因为”，后接名词或代词。

⑸curiosity 此处需用名词作主语，curious的名词形式是curiosity。

⑹when 此处表示时间，句意表示“当它们通常不会这样的时候”，用when引导时间状语从句。

⑺called this method与call存在被动关系，应用过去分词作定语。

⑻helpful very后应接help的形容词helpful，表示“有益的”。

⑼it it指代前一句提到的this method。

⑽who who用来引导定语从句，在从句中作主语，先行词是people。