2016届高考英语增分专练 语法填空集训（十）.docVIP

2016高考英语语法填空集训（十） 【增分专练】第二节 语法填空（共10个小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分） 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 Passage 1 Aesop(伊索) was a slave living around 550 BC. We call the stories he wrote fables, as every story has a moral. Almost all the fables he wrote are ___61___ (humor) and entertaining, appealing to people ___62____ all ages. To date, Aesop’s fables ____63____ (translate) into many languages and are known all over the world. Not only ___64___ the fables themselves lived for nearly 1500 years, but ___65___ (express) from them have entered various languages. One fable, for instance, is about a farmer who was driving his cart along a country road. The cart got ___66___ (stick) in the mud, but the farmer made ___67___ effort to get it out. Instead, he began to pray to the gods for help. The god Hercules finally appeared and told ___68___ man to get busy and push ___69___. “Push your shoulder to the wheel.” Hercules advised. The moral of the story is clear. We mustn’t rely on others for help. Another saying which has come from the fable is “God helps those ___70___ help themselves.” Passage 2 When Jack was a small boy, he was once asked to give a speech about “A Big Challenge in My Life”. To talk before the whole class, he was 41 (terrible) shy the moment he thought of so many eyes 42 (stare) at him. He had no other 43 (choose), though. First Jack was to draft the speech, which was just a piece of cake for him because he was a good writer. But the hard part 44 (lie) in his oral presentation, for it was not allowed to read from the paper. He had to give the speech 45 his memory and in front of such a big audience! A real trial began when Jack stood on the platform with his legs trembling and his mind blank. How much time had passed by, he didn’t know. His listeners were still waiting patiently and without any signs of laughing. Gradually he found himself back, 46 (give) out his speech without much difficulty. After what seemed to be a hundred years, he found the aud