高中英语语法专项训练二(附答案).pdfVIP

高中英语语法填空专项训练二 A We often read in novels how a 1. ____________ (seem) respectable person or family has some terrible secret which has been concealed from strangers for years. 2. _________ English language possesses a vivid 3. ___________ (say) to describe this sort of situation. The terrible secret is called a skeleton in the cup board . At some dramatic moment in the story the terrible secret becomes known and a reputation 4. ____________ (ruin). The readers hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine, a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands. It is all very well for such things to occur in fiction. 5. __________ varying degrees, we all have secrets which we do not want even our closest friends to learn, but few of us have skeletons in the cupboard. The only person I know who has a skeleton in the cupboard is George Carlton, and he is very 6. ___________ (pride) of the fact. George studied medicine in his youth. Instead of becoming a doctor, however, he became a successful writer of detective stories. I once spent an 7. _____________ (comfortable) week-end which I shall never forget at his house. George showed me to the guestroom which, he said, was 8. ___________ (rare) used. He told me to unpack my things and then come down to dinner. After I had stacked my shirts and underclothes in two empty drawers, I decided to hang in the cupboard one of the two suits I had brought with me. I opened the cupboard door and then stood in front of it petrified. A skeleton was dangling before my eyes. The sudden movement of the door made it sway slightly and it gave me the impression that it was about to leap out at me. 9. ____________ (drop) my suit, I dashed downstairs to tell George. This was 10. ____________ (bad) than a terrible secret; t