Section A
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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.
Lisa was running late. Lisa, 25, had a lot to do at work, plus visitors on the way: her parents were coming for Thanksgiving rom her hometown. But as she hurried down the subway stairs, she started to feel uncomfortably warn. By the time she got to the platform. Lisa felt weak and tired—maybe it hadn't been a good idea to give blood the night before, she thought. She rested herself ____1____ a post close to the tracks.
Several yards away, Frank, 43, and his girlfriend, Jennifer, found a spot dose to ____2____ the front of the train would stop. They were deep in discsussion about they were thinking of buying.
Bur when he heard the scream,____3____ (follow) by someone yelling. “Oh, my god, she fell in!” Frank didn't hesitate. He jumped down to the tracks and ran some 40 feet toward the body lying on the rails. “No! Not you!” his girlfriend screamed after him.
She was right to be alarmed. By the time Frank reached Lisa, he ____4____ feel the tracks shaking and see the light coming. The train was about 20 seconds from the station.
It was hard to lift her. She was just out. But he managed to raise her the four feet to the platform ____5____ bystanders could hold her by the arms and drag her away from the edge. That was where Lisa briefly regained consciousness, felt ____6____ being pulled along the ground, and saw someone else holding her purse.
Lisa thought she ____7____ (rob). A woman held her hand and a man gave his shirt to help stop the blood ____8____ (pour) from her head. Then she tried to talk but she could not, and that was the time when she realised how much pain the was in.
Police and fire officials soon arrived, and Frank told the story to an officer. Jennifer said her boyfriend was calm on their 40-minute train ride downtown—just as he had been seconds after the rescue, ____9____made her think about her reaction at the time. “I saw the train coming and I was thinking he was sure ____10____ (die),” she explained.
【答案】1. against
2. where 3. followed
4. could 5. in order that##so that
6. herself 7. had been robbed
8. pouring 9. which
10. to die
【解析】
【分析】本文是一篇記敘文,文章主要講述了弗蘭克在地鐵救了暈倒的麗薩的故事。
【1題詳解】
考查介詞。句意:她靠在鐵軌上的一根柱子上休息。against靠在…之上,結(jié)合句意可知,是靠在鐵軌上的一根柱子上。故填against。
【2題詳解】
考查定語從句。句意:在幾碼外,43歲的弗蘭克和他的女友珍妮弗找到了一個離列車前站不遠的地方。本句是個定語從句,先行詞是spot,指地點,從句缺少地點狀語,用where引導。故填where。
【3題詳解】
考查非謂語動詞。句意:但當他聽到尖叫聲,后面還有人在大喊大叫。根據(jù)空后的“ by someone ”可知,使用過去分詞作狀語。故填followed。
【4題詳解】
考查情態(tài)動詞。句意:當弗蘭克到達麗莎身邊時,他能感覺到鐵軌在晃動,并看到了亮光。根據(jù)句意及空后是動詞原形feel可知,此處使用情態(tài)動詞could(能夠),表示過去,故填could。
【5題詳解】
考查狀語從句。句意:但他還是設(shè)法把她抬到四英尺高的平臺上,這樣旁觀者就可以抓住她的胳膊,把她從站臺邊拖走。根據(jù)句意可知,此處是目的狀語從句,用in order that/so that引導。故填in order that/so that。
【6題詳解】
考查代詞。句意:在那里,麗莎短暫地恢復(fù)了意識,感覺到自己在地上被拖著走,并看到有人拿著她的錢包。根據(jù)句意并分析句子可知,此處是指主語 Lisa 感到自己被拖走,因此使用反身代詞herself。故填herself。
【7題詳解】
考查時態(tài)。句意:麗薩感覺自己被搶劫了。主語she與rob之間是被動關(guān)系,根據(jù)主句的thought可知,發(fā)生在過去的過去,因此使用過去完成時。故填had been robbed。
【8題詳解】
考查非謂語動詞。句意:一名女子握著她的手,一名男子將自己的襯衫遞給她,以阻止血液從她的頭部涌出。stop doing sth阻止做某事,結(jié)合句意。故填pouring。
【9題詳解】
考查定語從句。句意:詹妮弗說,她的男友在40分鐘的火車旅程中很平靜,就在救援發(fā)生幾秒鐘后,這讓她想起了自己當時的反應(yīng)。本句是非限制性定語從句 ,指代整個主句的內(nèi)容,從句缺少主語,用which引導。故填which。
【10題詳解】
考查非謂語動詞。句意:她解釋說:“我看到火車開過來了,我想他肯定會死。” be sure to do sth確定做某事。故填 to die。