综合填空(四) 人物故事 +旅游与交通 +志愿活动 +发明创造
A [2020·嘉兴改编] My brother Claudio is one of the people I love most. He is wise and always helpful, taking care of me and 1.
(we) young sister, Sarah. The day when he left home to go to college, I 2.
(teach) the importance of being a man.
It was a 3.
(rain) Saturday morning in August. We were woken up by the sound of Sarah playing the piano as usual. In the kitchen, there was a surprise for Claudio—his favorite pancakes.
Mom gave us a big smile and told us 4.
(sit) down for the breakfast. This was an 5.
(importance) day for all of us!
While we 6.
(eat) breakfast, Claudio went upstairs to collect his things. I suddenly heard him 7.
(call) my name. When I walked into the room we shared, I 8.
(find) Claudio sitting at my bedside. “It’s time, brother,” he said. I thought he was saying that it was time for him to leave the house, but in fact he told me that I should take on a bigger role in the family from then on. He said I should do 9.
(many) for Mom than before after he was gone.
I thought about his words very 10.
(careful) and then understood everything. That day I learned about family, love and duty.
B [2021·原创] British roads are some of the safest in the world. A study 1.
(compare) more than 30 countries and found that 3.8 people per 100,000 died in traffic accidents in the UK. This number was 2.
(low) than any other country. So, what did British 3.
(drive) do to achieve this? Here are five top tips for people who
4.
(plan) a trip to the UK now.
British people feel that 5.
(wait) should be fair for everybody. If you are in a queue of traffic, don’t try to push past the cars in front of 6.
(you). This 7.
(call) “jumping the queue”. You must wait for your turn; otherwise people may get angry with you.
If another driver flashes(闪烁) his car’s lights at you, he is 8.
(probable) trying to tell you that he will wait for you to go first. British people don’t prefer 9.
(use) their car horn(喇叭) much and they think people who do so are rude.
If you get in an accident, don’t try to pay the police. The UK police never 10.
(take) money, and if you try to offer them some, you could end your holiday visiting British prison.
C [2021·原创] Fredette has a lot of things to deal with. Not only is she a high school student, but she has also set up her own
1.
(organize). She volunteered 2.
(serve) poor kids and families.
To remember her best friend who died of cancer nearly 10 years ago, Fredette decided to serve those who are
3.
(lucky) than she is.
She began with the simple idea of 4.
(collect) donated bears. Then she 5.
(offer) the bears as gifts to the homeless children during the holiday season.
Fredette and volunteers also hold many activities 6.
(wide) every year, where they not only give out the bears, but also clothing, meals, and other things.
“So far, I 7.
(make) relationships with many people I serve,” Fredette said. “The thanks they have, hearing their stories and seeing how happy they are, it’s so cool.”
Future plans for Fredette include building a public food bank and providing a self-development class for students who 8.
(attend) college soon.
Heading to college 9.
(she) in the fall, Fredette is looking to stay local and continue to help out in her hometown. In fact, she 10.
(consider) as a “Dreamer & Doer” not long ago for her work in improving her community, along with 32 other high school students.
D [2021·原创]
China is a great country with a long history. Its “rice bowl” culture 1.
(influence) some Asian countries such as Japan, Korea and Vietnam since we started to use chopsticks while eating food.
The chopsticks 2.
(they) are usually very common. They may be two long thin pieces of wood or bamboo. They can also 3.
(make) of plastic, animal bones or metal. The most important thing is that chopsticks are a great 4.
(invent) in China.
Five thousand years ago, people usually cooked their food in large pots, 5.
(use) twigs(小树枝) to remove it. As the population 6.
(grow), people began cutting food into small pieces. Food in small pieces could be eaten 7.
(easy) with twigs by people. And twigs were gradually changed into chopsticks.
Some people think that the famous 8.
(teach) Confucius living from about 551 BC to 479 BC pushed the use of chopsticks. Confucius believed that using chopsticks instead of knives would remind people 9.
(stay) away from killing at table.
We enjoy our delicious food with our family members or friends while feeling the 10.
(peace) and people-loving world by using chopsticks at table anytime.
【参考答案】
A 1.our 2.was taught 3.rainy 4.to sit 5.important 6.were eating 7.calling 8.found 9.more 10.carefully B 1.compared 2.lower 3.drivers 4.are planning 5.waiting 6.yours 7.is called 8.probably 9.to use 10.take C 1.organization 2.to serve 3.less lucky 4.collecting 5.offered 6.widely 7.have made 8.will attend 9.herself 10.was considered D 1.has influenced 2.themselves 3.be made 4.invention 5.using 6.grew 7.easily 8.teacher 9.to stay 10.peaceful