Question

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

I tried driving on the highway a week later-and again, panic drove me to the first exit. After that, I took only smaller, 1. (slow) roads. Weeks later, I moved to Bermuda where we did not have a car. I was so relieved. I hadn't told my husband about the episodes; I knew he loved my independence and 2. (strong), and I felt ashamed of being so weak.

To get around, I'd take the bus when I went somewhere 3. my own, but one day as I rode the bus into town 4. (do) some shopping, my heart started racing. Sure enough, next came the sweating, my legs turning soft, and the 5. (feel) that somehow, I'd lose control or "go crazy."

I hadn't reached my destination, but I rang the bell to exit 6., in tears, walked home. A

few days later, I tried 7. bus again, and the same thing happened. The thing that 8.(force)me to avoid highway driving was now forcing me to avoid public transit.

That evening, I told my husband about that. But he was as 9. (puzzle) as I was. We searched online for "fear of highways" and "fear of public transportation" and got lots of hits, 10. is when we learned that the episodes were actually classic panic attacks.

Answer

1.slower

2.strength

3.on

4.to do

5.feeling

6.and

7.the

8.had forced

9.puzzled

10.which

【解析】

这是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述作者在高速公路上开车的恐惧转变成了对公共交通工具的恐惧。

1.考查形容词比较级。此处应填形容词修饰名词road，根据smaller判断用slow的比较级，故填slower。

2.考查名词。此处用and连接两个名词作为love的宾语，故填strength。

3.考查介词。此处考查短语on one’s own独自地;独立地，故填on。

4.考查非谓语动词。句中已有动词rode，故此处用非谓语动词，结合上下文可知此处意为“我乘公交车去镇上买东西”，“买东西”是“去镇上”的目的，表目的用不定式，故填to do。

5.考查名词。此处and连接三个名词结构作为句子主语，feeling(感觉)不可数，故填feeling。

6.考查并列连词。句意：我没有到达目的地，而是按铃下了车，然后含泪走回了家。结合句意可知，此处rang和walked是并列谓语动词，应用and连接，故填and。

7.考查冠词。结合语境可知，此处是指作者几天之后决定再次尝试乘坐这路公交车，所以是特指，应用定冠词，故填the。

8.考查时态。分析句子结构可知，此处是定语从句的谓语动词，结合上下文可知“迫使我避开高速路”的动作发生在“迫使我避开公共交通转运”之前，即过去的过去，应用过去完成时，故填had forced。

9.考查形容词。此处应填形容词作为表语，又修饰主语he，故用v-ed形式的形容词，故填puzzled。

10.考查定语从句。分析句子结构可知，此处是非限制性定语从句的关系词，先行词是前面的整个句子，它在从句中充当主语，故用关系代词，又非限不能使用that，故填which。