Question

【题目】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Barditch High School decided to hold an All-School Reunion．Over 450 people came to the event. There were tours of the old school building and a picnic at Confederate Park. Several former teachers were on hands to tell stories about the old days. Ms. Mabel Yates, the English teacher for fifty years,【1】(wheel) to the Park．

Some eyes rolled and there were a few low groans(嘟囔声) when Ms．Yates was about to speak．Many started looking at their watches and coming up with excuses to be anywhere instead of preparing to listen to a lecture from an old woman who had few kind words for her students and made them work harder than all the other teachers【2】(combine)．

Then Ms. Yates started to speak:

“I can’t tell you how pleased I am to be here．I haven’t seen many of you since your graduation, but I 【3】(follow) your careers and enjoyed your victories as well as cried for your tragedies．I have a large collection of newspaper photographs of my students. 【4】I haven’t appeared in person, I have attended your college graduations, weddings and even the birth of your children, in my imagination.”

Ms. Yates then stopped【5】(cry) a bit before she continued:

“It was my belief 【6】 if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me and 【7】would succeed to annoy me．Regardless of our motives, I 【8】 see that you have all been successful in your chosen path.”

“There is no【9】(great) comfort for an educator than to see the result of his or her years of work．You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I want you to know I love you all from the bottom of my heart.”

There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started clapping. The clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar. Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and models were rubbing their eyes or crying openly with no shame all 【10】the words from a long forgotten English teacher from their hometown．

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】was wheeled

【2】combined

【3】have followed

【4】Though

【5】to cry

【6】that

【7】others

【8】can

【9】greater

【10】because of

【解析】

本文是一篇记叙文，讲述了毕业多年后的同学聚会上，英语老师马贝尔·耶茨女士给大家做了一段感人肺腑的演讲。

【1】考查动词时态和语态。句意：当了50年英语老师马贝尔·耶茨女士被推到了公园。Ms. Mabel Yates

与wheel是被动关系，而且事情发生在过去，所以用一般过去时的被动语态，且主语是第三人称单数，故填was wheeled。

【2】考查非谓语动词。句意：一位老妇人，很少对学生说好话，比所有其他老师加起来还要让他们用功。all the other teachers与combine是逻辑上的动宾关系，表示被动，用过去分词做后置定语，故填combined。

【3】考查时态。句意：自从你们毕业以来，我没有见过你们中的许多人，但我一直关注着你们的事业，享受着你们的成功，也为你们的失意而流泪。“haven't seen”表明此处用现在完成时，故填have followed。

【4】考查让步状语从句。句意：尽管我没有亲自出现，但在我的想象中，我参加了你们的大学毕业典礼、婚礼，甚至孩子的出生。根据句意可知前后是让步关系，此处表示“尽管”，故填Though。

【5】考查非谓语动词。句意：耶茨停下来哭了一会儿，然后继续说下去。stop to do表示“停下来去做某事”，故填to cry。

【6】考查同位语从句。句意：我相信，如果我尽我所能地逼迫你们，你们中的一些人会让我高兴，另一些人会惹恼我。此处为同位语从句，解释说明belief的内容，从句成分完整，所以用that仅起连接作用，无实义，故填that。

【7】考查代词。句意同上，根据“some”可知此处指“其他人、另一些人”，some...others...“一些人……其他人……”是常用搭配，故填others。

【8】考查情态动词。句意：不管动机如何，我可以看出你们都在自己选择的道路上取得了成功。空后是动词原形，此处需要填情态动词，根据句意可知此处表示“能、可以”，故填can。

【9】考查形容词比较级。句意：对于教育工作者来说，没有什么比看到自己多年工作的成果更令人欣慰的了。空后的“than”表明此处用形容词比较级形式，故填greater。

【10】考查介词短语。句意：律师、卡车司机、银行家和模特们都在揉着眼睛或留下眼泪，这一切都是因为一位早已被遗忘的英语老师说的一番话。根据句意可知此处表示“因为、由于”，空后是名词the words，故填because of。