中小学教育资源及组卷应用平台 期末培优 语法填空 一．语法填空（共15小题） 1．（2024秋 赣州期中）It was the ambition of an eleven year old boy in Kansas City to be an engine﹣driver．Born without arms，he had been sent to special schools（1） he learned to use his（2） （foot）as "hands"．He spent all his spare time（3） （watch） trains and one day his dream came（4） （truth）．Seeing a deserted engine，the boy climbed in，he had no（5） （difficult） in starting it up with his feet．Soon he was traveling along（6） forty miles an hour．Signalmen could not see the young driver，so they set out（7） （stop） the train．Meanwhile the boy reached Missouri，stopped the engine himself，and then（8） （make） it go backwards．When he was near home，a railway﹣man caught up with the engine and stopped it．At first，he was very angry，but he smiled when the boy said（9） （simple），"I like trains．" "Well，I'm glad you don't like planes!" answered（10） railway﹣man． 2．Earthquakes are quite common.In fact，thousands of earthquakes（1） （happen）almost at every moment.（2） ，most of them are too weak to feel.During a big earthquake，there is often a big noise first.Then the earth shakes（3） （terrible） and many houses fall down. As one of the most deadly （4） （nature）disasters in the world，earthquakes often result in many people being injured or killed.In 2008，a severe earthquake hit China's Sichuan Province，（5） （kill） lots of people there. Besides the great damage and （6） （death）caused by the earthquake，other accidents such（7） fires often follow.More buildings may be damaged and more（8） （injure）may be caused.For centuries，people（9） （be）making studies of earthquakes.It's said that about 2，000 years ago，for example，someone invented a machine which could find out the direction （10） the earthquake waves came. 3．A colossal（巨大的）volcanic eruption caused a tsunami（海啸）（1） struck the island nation of Tonga.Two days after that，severed communication lines left people around the world waiting （2） （anxious）for news of their loved ones. （3） last Saturday night，an undersea volcano about 40 miles north of Tonga's main island belched（喷出） ash，gas and steam more than 12 miles into the air，creating a cloud of sulfur dioxide（二氧化硫）over （4） region，and disabling a crucial（至关重要的）submarine Internet cable（电缆）．It was believed to be the largest volcanic eruption in three （5） （decade），with the shock wave （6） （travel） thousands of miles. Hours later，Tonga，a country of around 100，000 people，（7） （attack） by a tsunami.Waves up to four feet hit Nukualofa，the Tongan capital．Footage（片段镜头）（8） （share） in the final moments before the Internet connection was cut showed people running inland，searching desperately for （9） （high） ground in ... ...
