2020高考英语语法填空10篇附解析 Day 16
Passage 1
Chopsticks, or kuaizi in Chinese, are a pair of small equal-length sticks, usually made of wood, used for eating. We Chinese eat____1____chopsticks.
It
is
believed
the
first
chopsticks
____2____(develop) over 5, 000 years ago in China. Excavated (出土) from the Ruins of Yin near Anyang, Henan province, dating back to roughly 1, 200 BC was the____3____(early) evidence of a pair of chopsticks made out of bronze. Chopsticks, ____4____are roughly uniform in size throughout China, can be made of a variety of____5____(material), including bamboo, wood, plastic, silver and gold.
Chopsticks play____6____important role in Chinese food culture. Chinese chopsticks are usually 9 to 10 inches long. They are round on the eating end which symbolizes heaven, and the other end is square which symbolizes earth. This is because____7____(maintain) an enough food supply is the greatest concern between heaven and earth.
There is an old Chinese custom making chopsticks part, of a girl's dowry (嫁妆) since the____8____(pronounce) of kuaizi is similar to the words for “quick” and “son”.
Chopsticks are ____9____(frequent) used in daily life. They have become more than a kind of tableware and have established a set of etiquette (礼仪) and customs of____10____(they) own.
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Passage 2
Cruz Genet, 11, and Anthony Skopick, 10, couldn’t agree. Were the birds out on the ice ducks or geese? There was only one way to find out.
So on a chilly January evening last year, the two friends ventured (冒险) onto the frozen pond near their homes in Frankfort, Illinois, ____1____(get) a better look. First they cast a rock onto the ice to test it, then they stepped on it.____2____(convince) the ice would hold their weight, Anthony took a few steps, then … FOOMP. He crashed through the seemingly frozen surface. There was no sound, he just fell instantly.
Cruz rushed to help his terrified friend. FOOMP -- the pond swallowed him too. Cruz managed to lift
____3____out of the frozen water and onto a more solid section. He then cautiously worked his way toward Anthony. But the ice ____4____(not hold), and he fell in again. This time, he couldn’t get out. The boys were up to their necks in icy water and quickly losing feeling in their limbs. There was not much chance ____5____they could free themselves from the trouble. Cruz was sure he was going to die.
Anthony’s older sister had seen the boys ____6____(fall) into the pond and started creaming for help. John Lavin, a neighbor driving nearby on his way to the grocery store, heard her. He quickly pulled over. Seeing the boys, he grabbed a nearby buoy(浮标)，kicked off his shoes, and ran into the water, ____7____(chop) his way through the ice with his free fist.
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Lavin made his way____8____Cruz and Anthony and pull them back to land. They were taken to the hospital, where doctors discovered that their five-minute stay in the water____9____(lower) their body temperature nearly ten degrees.
Fortunately, the boys have fully recovered, ____10____they are still a little awestruck(惊叹的)by their fearless neighbor. “Just to think, ” says Cruz, “If he hadn’t been there, I would have died.”
Passage 3
High-quality books on traditional Chinese culture are being brought back, ____1____(judge) from the results of the 12th annual Wenjin Awards, China's national-level comprehensive book award to encourage public reading.
The results were announced on the World Book and Copyright Day. Awards from the National Library of China were given to 10 winning books from about 80 finalists ____2____(choose) by 14 top librarians and scholars. Before that, several rounds of selection had been carried out among a field of 1, 800 books ____3____were published in China last year.
The award has three categories: humanities, popular sciences and children’s books. Half the winners this year dealt with different ____4____(aspect) of traditional Chinese culture. The mixing of social and physical sciences was a trend, and the winning children’s books were
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____5____(suit) for adult readers too.
“Many good children's books ____6____(introduce) into China from other countries in recent years. They helped broaden people's horizons and inspired ____7____(we)writing, ” said Yu Hongcheng, author of the award-winning Dishes on Plate. “However, ____8____worries me that Chinese children may not have enough self-confidence from a cultural viewpoint when exposed to a market____9____(main) filled with translations.” That concern encouraged her to create the picture book, which focuses____10____Chinese agricultural culture- starting with rice, a foundation of Chinese cuisine.
Passage 4
Tea is one of the____1____(much) popular drinks in the world. You make it by pouring hot water over the dried leaves of a tea plant. For ____2____ (hundred) of people believed that tea could cure illnesses, and they used ____3____as medicine. Today scientists know that tea contains chemicals that prevent cells from dying. Most teas have caffeine in them, ____4____makes you feel more active. Some people have problems____5____(drink) tea because it can cause sleeplessness.
The tea plant____6____(grow) best in tropical and temperate places where rain falls throughout the year. Teas can be grown from sea level____7____about, 000 metres, but the best quality grows in higher
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regions.
Tea comes from the leaves and buds of tea plants. Wild plants can be up to 9 metres high, however, on tea plantations, ____8____(pull ) the leaves ____9____ (easy), people cut them back to a bush of about a metre in height. It takes a plant three to five years before it is ready for picking.
A picker can harvest about 20 kg of tea____10____day. On large tea plantations the leaves are harvested by machines, but the quality of tea is higher when the leaves are picked by hand.
Passage 5
Texting while walking is something that most of us are guilty of. We can’t help ____1____(reply) to that message we just received. However, while ____2____ is fun to keep up with the latest news, we may actually be putting ourselves in danger. “I ____3____ (spot) a person in front of me walking very slowly and weaving, and I thought, ‘Is this person drunk?’ But it turned out that the person was just texting.” said Matthew Timmis. ____4____ (inspire) by this, Timmis and his team set out to seek the effects of phone use on ____5____ (passer-by). A group of 21 volunteers were asked to walk around a certain street. The participants traveled the course a total of 12 times each, either writing ____6____reading a message, making a call, or with no phone at all. It took the volunteers 118 percent ____7____ (long) to complete the course when using a phone. They also
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2020高考英语语法填空10篇附解析 Day 16
