Question

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

My grandfather is a 1.   (retire) worker. On summer evenings, we often sat together outside the house 2.  (enjoy) the cool air. It was the time that he told me lots of his experiences before liberation.

When my grandfather was fourteen years old, he worked in a coal mine. One day, when he and his two workmates were working in the tunnel, an 3.   (fortune) thing suddenly happened. A part of the tunnel fell down, and they were shut in it. They had no food 4.  (eat). When they were hungry, they only drank some water there. It was very cold in it. In order to keep warm, they hugged one another. In the darkness, they didn’t know whether it was day  5.  night, they only felt they had stayed there for a very long time. They were too hungry to speak or move, and thought they 6.   (die). At last, the tunnel 7.   (dig) through. They were saved. They had been there for fourteen days! My grandfather said they weren’t let out at once. If 8.  , they would have died. They were kept at the entrance to the tunnel   9.   it was very dim, and they were fed   10.  some thin porridge. After a day or two, they had recovered a bit, and they were helped out.

Answer

1.retired

2.enjoying

3.unfortunate

4.to eat

5.or

6.would die

7.was dug

8.so

9.where

10.on

【解析】

试题分析：通过本文考查学生正确运用英语单词的能力。

1.】retired句意:我的祖父是一位退休工人。本题考察过去分词做形容词， retired退休了的。

2.】enjoying 句意：夏天的晚上，我们经常一起坐在屋外享受凉风。现在分词做伴随状语，故enjoying。

3.unfortunate 句意：一天，他和另两个同时在隧道工作时，不幸的事情发生了。unfortunate不幸的。

4.to eat 句意:他们没有食物吃。eat和宾语food之间动宾关系，故用不定式。

5.or句意: 在黑暗中，他们不知道是白天还是黑夜。本题宾语从句whether…or 。

6.would die 句意:他们太饿了，不能说话也不能动，想着他们有可能会死掉。本题考察虚拟语气，故用would die。

7.was dug 句意：最后，隧道被挖通，他们得救了。考察动词的一般过去时的被动语态，故was dug。

8.so句意:如果那样的话，他们有可能回死掉。考察固定结构，if so如果那样。

9.where 句意:他们呆在通向隧道的入口处，那儿很昏暗。考察定语从句，关系词在定语从句中做状语，表地点，故用where。

10.】on 句意:喂些稀粥给他们吃。feed sb on sth 给某人提供某种食物，。

考点：语法填空和词汇应用。