强化集训 10
I. 根据语境，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
1. The shelves were filled with all sorts of vegetables—eggplants, cucumbers, cabbages and ______（tomato）.
2. Today Chinese characters are quite popular ______ Western youth.
3. This man may have killed others but ______（fortunate）we have no firm evidence.
4. I was on the point of telephoning him when his letter ______（arrive）.
5. I feel it a great honor to have this precious opportunity ______（make）a speech here.
6. He must have done it, for there ______（be）no one else in the room.
7. Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of ______ you react to it.
8. ______ you want to get a higher degree, you should strike while the iron is hot.
9. Only those ______ have no sense of shame can do such shameful things.
10. Our school has a long history. There ______（be）a tower and some houses in the campus at present.
II. 单项选择。
1. Sarah looked at ______ finished painting with ______ satisfaction.
A. 不填; a
B. a; the
C. the; 不填
D. the; a
2. It is by no means clear ______ the president can do to end the strike.
A. how
B. which
C. that
D. what
3. Mary is really good at taking notes in class. She can ______ almost every word her teacher says.
A. put out
B. put down
C. put away
D. put together
4. The party will be held in the garden, weather ______.
A. permitting
B. to permit
C. permitted
D. permit
5. This restaurant wasn’t ______ that other restaurant we went to.
A. half as good as
B. as half good as
C. as good as half
D. good as half as
6. I ______ use a clock to wake me up because at six o’clock each morning the train comes by my house.
A. couldn’t
B. mustn’t
C. shouldn’t
D. needn’t
7. Film has a much shorter history, especially when ______ such art forms as music and painting.
A. having compared to
B. comparing to
C. compare to
D. compared to
8. I had been working on math for the whole afternoon and the numbers ______ before my eyes.
A. swim
B. swum
C. swam
D. had swum
9. You have to move out of the way ______ the truck cannot get past you.
A. so
B. or
C. and
D. but
10. If she doesn’t want to go, nothing you can say will ______ her.
A. persuade
B. promise
C. invite
D. support
III. 阅读下面短文，在空白处填写1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
A
The Bai Ethnic Group
The Bai ethnic group has a population of around two million, and 90% of 1 live in Yunnan. Their native region is the Erhai region of Yunnan, 2 main city is Dali. The Bai have their own dialect which resembles Chinese; however, Chinese is mostly spoken today.
The Bai have an agricultural economy, their main crops 3 （be）rice, wheat, beans and cotton. Their staple foods are pork, rice and wheat. The Bai have a tradition of building houses as a community, 4 （usual）beginning on a festival day. The houses are in the style of 5 （tradition）Chinese architecture. They also build halls known as Yunhe halls, which can hold about 200 6 （people）and are used as community centers.
Known as good singers and dancers, the Bai have an opera, which 7 （combine）both music and dance. Another tradition is the Bai tea ceremony, in which tea 8 （serve）three times. The most well-known Bai festival is the Torch Festival, held 9 June 25th of Chinese lunar calendar.
During this festival, a tree, 10 （know）as the torch tree, is burnt. Young mothers and their children walk round the tree three times for good luck, while others wish for a happy life for the village.
B
History of Slavery in France’s Wine Capital
The southwestern French city of Bordeaux（波尔多）is a center of the wine trade. But hundreds of years ago, it 1 （be）the second-largest slave-trading port in France.
From the 17th to the 19th century, the city sent hundreds of ships carrying 130,000 2 （slave）to America. The ships returned to Bordeaux with cotton, tobacco, sugar and rum（朗姆酒）, 3 （help）the city and its merchants grow rich.
Some former slave-trading cities have remembered that history with large public memorials. There is no such memorial in Bordeaux.
Karfa Diallo wants to change that. He is the 4 （direct）of the Memory and Sharing Association, which tells about Bordeaux’s slave-trading past. He believes the city has not yet dealt 5 its history or admitted the benefits it received from slavery.
His group offers travelers a two-hour trip through areas in the city 6 slave-trading activities took place.
He explains that more than 12 city streets in Bordeaux 7 （name）after well-known slave traders. Diallo had asked the city to consider renaming those streets. But now, he is asking officials to place signs near the streets explaining 8 history of their names.
Even people who live in the city do not know much about 9 （it）role in the slave trade.
The city government has created a group to study Bordeaux’s slave-trading history. It has asked people who live in the city 10 they believe the government should do to remember the city’s history.
