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语法填空专练(一)
阅读下列短文，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。
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Robinson Crusoe is an English sailor. After many adventures and dangers, he comes to Brazil, 1. ________ he settles down and becomes a plantation owner. But the call of the sea is still too strong for him and he begins 2. ________ voyage — to West Africa, for the purpose of trading with the natives. During a storm, the ship 3. ________ (destroy) off the coast of an island without people, and he alone manages to swim ashore, 4. ________ all the rest of the crew are drowned. He builds himself a house, and lives first by hunting, then raising livestock (牲畜) and crops. He saves a savage (野人) from the hands of cannibals (食人者), gives 5. ________ the name Friday, and makes him into a perfect servant. After some time he rescues three more 6. ________ (prison) from the cannibals. For many years he manages to live on the island.
One day 7. ________ English ship visits the island, its crew intending to leave the captain and his officers ashore. Robinson succeeds 8. ________ helping the captain regain control of the ship.
Robinson, 9. ________ (take) Friday with him, is invited aboard the ship and returns to England. After some years he revisits his island colony, 10. ________ is becoming more and more prosperous, but Friday is killed during an attack by the Indians.
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Joseph Henry was an American scientist. He served as 1. ________ first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He used to tell a rather strange story about his childhood. His grandmother, 2. ________ raised him, once paid a cobbler (制鞋匠) to make him a pair of shoes.
The man measured 3. ________ feet and told Joseph that he could choose between two styles: a rounded toe (足尖部) 4. ________ a square toe. Little Joseph couldn’t decide. It seemed to be such a huge decision; after all, they 5. ________ (become) his only pair of shoes for a long time.
The cobbler allowed him 6. ________ (take) a couple of days to make 7. ________ his mind. Day after day, Joseph went into the shop, sometimes three or four times a day! Each time he looked over the cobbler’s shoes and tried to decide. The rounded-toed shoes were more 8. ________ (practice), but the square-toed shoes looked much 9. ________ (nice). He continued to hesitate and couldn’t decide!
Finally, one day he went into the shop and the cobbler handed him a small package 10. ________ was wrapped in brown paper. His new shoes! He raced home. He tore off the wrapping and found a beautiful pair of leather shoes — one with a rounded toe and the other with a square toe.
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A few close friends meant more than the best medical facilities in the world.
When Harry Truman was pushed into the US presidency after the death 1. ________ Franklin Roosevelt, a colleague and friend — Congressman (国会议员) Sam Rayburn of Bonham, Texas — 2. ________ (give) Truman some fatherly advice.
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Rayburn said, “Harry, from here on out, you’re going to have lots of people around you, 3. ________ will try to put a wall around you and cut you off from any ideas but theirs. They’ll tell you what a great man you are, Harry. But you and I 4. ________ know you aren’t.” Friends can say those things to each other.
Later, when Sam Rayburn discovered that he was seriously ill, he told his friends in Congress that he was going home to Bonham for medical tests. “5. ________ there are excellent doctors and medical facilities in Washington, D.C.,” some of them argued. “Why would you want 6. ________ (go) to Bonham?”
“Because,” the congressman replied, “Bonham is a place 7. ________ people know it when you’re sick.”
Rayburn had a need 8. ________ (great) than good medical assistance. He needed friends. Someone to ask what his grandchildren were doing. Someone to sit by him and stop by his home. Someone to care.
Who is such 9. ________ friend to you? That person is more valuable than your greatest 10. ________ (possess).
Have you said “thanks”?
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Sign language has been used by deaf communities since ancient times. 1. ________ some of these have become standardized to a degree at national level in recent times, each group developed its own set of signs. But the result is 2. ________ there are a lot of different systems around the world. American Sign Language is very different 3. ________ British Sign Language.
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