Question

阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空。

Oseola McCarty spent more than 75 years washing and ironing other people’s clothes. As a laundrywoman, she 1. (pay) only a few dollars each time. Certainly nobody would consider her rich, so they were all 2. (surprise) when Miss McCarty decided to donate $ 150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi.

The money was in fact her life savings. She could save such a large amount of money because she lived 3. very simple life. She never learned to drive, and when she wanted to go somewhere, she just walked. She never 4.(fly) to anywhere till she donated the money，and in 50 years she had been out of the South only once. The house 5. she lived was also a rather modest one her last uncle left her. Only after she became known in America 6.(do) she begin to travel all over the country. Since then, she had been the subject of many interviews and articles and was even invited 7. the White House by the president.

Her 8.(donate) was for students who clearly needed financial help. She herself left school in the sixth grade and had never married 9. had children. She said to the reporters that the idea of helping somebody’s child go to college gave her much 10. (please).

Answer

1.was paid

2.surprised

3.a

4.flew

5.where

6.did

7.to

8.donation

9.or

10.pleasure

【解析】

这是一篇记叙文。主要记叙了花了75年多的时间为别人洗衣服、熨衣服的Oseola McCarty，决定向南密西西比大学捐赠15万美元，大家都很惊讶。

1.考查动词时态语态。本句中主语与谓语动词构成被动关系，且事情发生在过去应用一般过去时，主语为she，谓语动词用第三人称单数形式。故填was paid。

2.考查形容词。根据上文were可知应填形容词作表语，且修饰人应用-ed结尾形容词，故填surprised。

3.考查冠词。life为可数名词，此处表示泛指应用不定冠词，且very为辅音音素开头的单词，故填a。

4.考查动词时态。根据后文till she donated the money可知应用一般过去时，故填flew。

5.考查定语从句。本句为定语从句修饰先行词house，且先行词在从句中做地点状语，应用关系副词where。故填where。

6.考查倒装句。本句为only+状语从句位于句首，句子要用部分倒装，根据上文became可知为一般过去式，故将助动词did提前。故填did。

7.考查介词。句意：从那以后，她成为了许多采访和文章的主题，甚至被总统邀请到白宫。根据短语be invited to表示“被邀请去”，用不定式作目的状语。故填to。

8.考查名词。根据上文her为形容词性物主代词可知应填名词donation，根据后文was可知应填单数名词。故填donation。

9.考查连词。句意：她自己六年级就辍学了，从未结过婚，或有过孩子。此处表示“或者”应用连词or。故填or。

10.考查名词。她对记者说，帮助别人的孩子上大学给了她很多乐趣。much为形容词修饰不可数名词pleasure，表示“乐趣”。故填pleasure。