Question

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Green Spring Renews Life’s Promise

For me, two of the loveliest words in the English language are “Life persists”. I came across them years ago as a college freshman, sitting in the library on a beautiful spring day, bored, working on a history paper. I don’t recall 1. I was researching into. Out of nowhere, those two words came 2. (dance) off the page in a quote by Gandhi, “In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.”

After those words 3. (read) again a dozen times, suddenly I was no longer bored. Outside in the sunshine, I kicked off my shoes and danced barefoot across a spring-green lawn.

I love spring. And this year, I was especially hungry to see it. Flying home last weekend to Las Vegas, after 10 days in California, I looked down on hills that were so green that I 4. almost taste them. When I approached Vegas, the green turned a dull desert brown. We landed after sunset, and the only green to be seen was neon(霓虹灯).

But the next morning, to my surprise, I 5. (awake) to find signs of spring all over my yard. 6. my absence, all sorts of things had leafed and bloomed. Three days later, I drove to Arizona to visit a friend and get yet another taste of spring seeing the Giants play the A’s in spring training. The drive across the desert was completely great, a variety of wildflowers and blooming cactuses.

Sometimes we need the chance 7. (remind) that we’re still alive. After my husband died, a friend sent me a card which read: “Just 8. you think you will never smile again, life comes back.”

Life persists, and so do 9. in the green of spring and the dead of winter, in the birth of a child and the passing of a loved one; in the words we leave behind and the hearts of those 10. will remember us. Spring reminds us that we’re alive forever.

Answer

1.what

2.dancing

3.were read

4.could

5.awoke/was awoken

6.In/During

7.to be reminded

8.when/as

9.we

10.who

【解析】

本文是夹叙夹议文。这是一篇人生感悟，作者通过自身的经历，以及偶然读到的甘地的一段话联想到生命的意义与坚持。生命长存于寂静沙漠的植物中，长存于冬去春来的绿意中。冬去春来,生命依然长存，而我们也要继续前行。

1.考查宾语从句的引导词。句意：我不记得自己正在研究什么。分析句子结构可知，空格处引导宾语从句，引导词在从句中作宾语并且指物，意为“……东西”，应使用what引导宾语从句。故填what。

2.考查非谓语动词。句意：甘地语录：“在死亡中，生命依然坚持；在谎言中，真理依然长存；在黑暗中，光明依然永驻”。其中的那两个词life persits突然映入作者的眼帘。come后接现在分词可以表示“来”的方式。这两个词突然从书上的引语中映入作者的眼帘，dancing作为方式状语形象生动地描述了这两个词所富含的美好活力以及作者遇到它们的偶然性。故填dancing。

3.考查时态和语态。句意：我读了那些话十几遍之后，突然之间我不再无聊了。由本句的was及语境可知，该句描述的是过去的事情，应使用一般过去时且主语承受谓语动词read的动作，即read应该使用一般过去时的被动语态。故填were read。

4.考查情态动词。句意：我低头看着那么绿的小山，我几乎可以闻到它们的味道。结合语境及so…that…可知，that后面表示的是结果，使用情态动词can表示“能够”，但该句描述的是过去的事情，应使用can的过去式。故填could。

5.考查时态。句意：但是第二天早上，令我惊讶的是，我醒来后发现院子里到处都是春天的迹象。由本句的the next morning和语境可知，本句应使用一般过去时。可以使用awake的过去式awoke或者构成主系表的句子结构，使用was awkoen。故填awoke/was awoken。

6.考查固定短语。句意：在我离开家出门的时候，各种各样的植物如雨后春笋般长出来。in/during one’s absence：在某人不在的时候，它是固定短语。故填In/During。

7.考查非谓语动词。句意：有时我们需要提醒自己我们还活着。chance to do：做某事的机会。主语we承受动词remind的动作，因此chance后面的动词不定式应该使用被动形式作chance的后置定语。故填to be reminded。

8.考查时间状语从句的引导词。句意：我丈夫去世后，一个朋友给我寄了一张卡片，上面写着：“当你认为自己再也不会微笑时，生活才回来。”分析句子结构，需填入引导状语从句的引导词，结合语境，使用when/as表示“当……时候”合乎语境。故填when/as。

9.考查人称代词。句意：生命一直存在，我们也是如此，在春天的绿色和隆冬中，在孩子的出生和亲人的离世中；在我们留下的文字中和那些会记住我们的人的心中。由本句后面的we及us可知，此处使用we作主语，so do we是倒装句。故填we。

10.考查定语从句的引导词。句意：生命一直存在，我们也是如此，在春天的绿色和隆冬中，在孩子的出生和亲人的离世中；在我们留下的文字中和那些会记住我们的人的心中。分析句子结构可知，空格处引导定语从句，先行词是those，指人，它在从句中作主语，通常使用who引导定语从句。故填who。