强化集训 10

I. 根据语境，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

1. The shelves were filled with all sorts of vegetables—eggplants, cucumbers, cabbages and ______（tomato）.

2. Today Chinese characters are quite popular ______ Western youth.

3. This man may have killed others but ______（fortunate）we have no firm evidence.

4. I was on the point of telephoning him when his letter ______（arrive）.

5. I feel it a great honor to have this precious opportunity ______（make）a speech here.

6. He must have done it, for there ______（be）no one else in the room.

7. Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of ______ you react to it.

8. ______ you want to get a higher degree, you should strike while the iron is hot.

9. Only those ______ have no sense of shame can do such shameful things.

10. Our school has a long history. There ______（be）a tower and some houses in the campus at present.

II. 单项选择。

1. Sarah looked at ______ finished painting with ______ satisfaction.

A. 不填; a

B. a; the

C. the; 不填

D. the; a

2. It is by no means clear ______ the president can do to end the strike.

A. how

B. which

C. that

D. what

3. Mary is really good at taking notes in class. She can ______ almost every word her teacher says.

A. put out

B. put down

C. put away

D. put together

4. The party will be held in the garden, weather ______.

A. permitting

B. to permit

C. permitted

D. permit

5. This restaurant wasn’t ______ that other restaurant we went to.

A. half as good as

B. as half good as

C. as good as half

D. good as half as

6. I ______ use a clock to wake me up because at six o’clock each morning the train comes by my house.

A. couldn’t

B. mustn’t

C. shouldn’t

D. needn’t

7. Film has a much shorter history, especially when ______ such art forms as music and painting.

A. having compared to

B. comparing to

C. compare to

D. compared to

8. I had been working on math for the whole afternoon and the numbers ______ before my eyes.

A. swim

B. swum

C. swam

D. had swum

9. You have to move out of the way ______ the truck cannot get past you.

A. so

B. or

C. and

D. but

10. If she doesn’t want to go, nothing you can say will ______ her.

A. persuade

B. promise

C. invite

D. support

III. 阅读下面短文，在空白处填写1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

A

The Bai Ethnic Group

The Bai ethnic group has a population of around two million, and 90% of 　1　 live in Yunnan. Their native region is the Erhai region of Yunnan, 　2　 main city is Dali. The Bai have their own dialect which resembles Chinese; however, Chinese is mostly spoken today.

The Bai have an agricultural economy, their main crops 　3　 （be）rice, wheat, beans and cotton. Their staple foods are pork, rice and wheat. The Bai have a tradition of building houses as a community, 　4　 （usual）beginning on a festival day. The houses are in the style of 　5　 （tradition）Chinese architecture. They also build halls known as Yunhe halls, which can hold about 200 　6　 （people）and are used as community centers.

Known as good singers and dancers, the Bai have an opera, which 　7　 （combine）both music and dance. Another tradition is the Bai tea ceremony, in which tea 　8　 （serve）three times. The most well-known Bai festival is the Torch Festival, held 　9　 June 25th of Chinese lunar calendar.

During this festival, a tree, 　10　 （know）as the torch tree, is burnt. Young mothers and their children walk round the tree three times for good luck, while others wish for a happy life for the village.

B

History of Slavery in France’s Wine Capital

The southwestern French city of Bordeaux（波尔多）is a center of the wine trade. But hundreds of years ago, it 　1　 （be）the second-largest slave-trading port in France.

From the 17th to the 19th century, the city sent hundreds of ships carrying 130,000 　2　 （slave）to America. The ships returned to Bordeaux with cotton, tobacco, sugar and rum（朗姆酒）, 　3　 （help）the city and its merchants grow rich.

Some former slave-trading cities have remembered that history with large public memorials. There is no such memorial in Bordeaux.

Karfa Diallo wants to change that. He is the 　4　 （direct）of the Memory and Sharing Association, which tells about Bordeaux’s slave-trading past. He believes the city has not yet dealt 　5　 its history or admitted the benefits it received from slavery.

His group offers travelers a two-hour trip through areas in the city 　6　 slave-trading activities took place.

He explains that more than 12 city streets in Bordeaux 　7　 （name）after well-known slave traders. Diallo had asked the city to consider renaming those streets. But now, he is asking officials to place signs near the streets explaining 　8　 history of their names.

Even people who live in the city do not know much about 　9　 （it）role in the slave trade.

The city government has created a group to study Bordeaux’s slave-trading history. It has asked people who live in the city 　10　 they believe the government should do to remember the city’s history.