【专项训练】“语法填空+短文改错”组合练(九).docxVIP

“语法填空＋短文改错”组合练 9(限时：30 分钟) [题组一] Ⅰ.语法填空 Since the 1.____________ (begin) of the last century there have been enormous changes in the way people live. The world has become a much smaller place and life is much faster. In the first half of the twentieth century, the horse was 2.____________ (gradual) replaced by the motor car as the most popular form of transport. A hundred years ago, air travel was in its infancy (初期); now there 3.____________ (be) over 90,000 commercial flights a day worldwide. In 4.____________ 1940s, steam trains were still a common sight on the worlds railways. They have now all but disappeared from mainline routes and in a lot of 5.____________ (country), electric-powered high-speed trains can be seen racing across the countryside at around 300 kilometres an hour. And information travels faster, too, thanks 6.____________ developments in information technology, telecommunications and mass media. 7.____________ (have) your own computer at home was almost unheard of in 1970, but just 40 years later in 2010 there were well over a billion 8.____________ (person) computers in use worldwide. The telephone 9.____________ (invent) in 1876 was already fairly widely in use by 1910, with some seven million installed (安装) in the United States alone. But 10.____________ could have predicted that a century later an estimated 70 per cent of the worlds population would own a mobile phone? [语篇解读] 本文是一篇说明文。文章讲述了科技给人们的交通、通讯等带 来的变化。 1．解析：考查名词。由设空处前的 the 可知，设空处应填名词，且此处意 为“开始”，故填 beginning。 答案：beginning 2．解析：考查副词。设空处作状语修饰动词replace，表示“逐渐地”，故 填 gradually。 答案：gradually 3．解析：考查主谓一致。本句中主语是复数名词 over 90,000 commercial flights，且描述现在的情况，故填 are。 答案：are 4．解析：考查定冠词。定冠词用于逢 10 的复数形式的数词前，可表示一 个世纪的某某年代。in the 1940s 意为“在二十世纪四十年代”。 答案：the 5．解析：考查名词复数。设空处前面有 a lot of 限定，故填 countries。 答案：countries 6．解析：考查固定结构。thanks to 意为“由于”。 答案：to 7．解析：考查动词-ing 形式作主语的用法。设空处与 your own computer at home 一起在句中作主语，且在逻辑上是动词 unheard of 的宾语，故填 Having。 答案：Having 8．解析：考查形容词作定语的用法。设空处修饰 computers，表示“个人的”， 故填 pe