高级中学2011—2012学年第一学期第一次测试

高三英语

第二节  语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16～25的相应位置上。

第二节：语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31 ~ 40的相应位置上。

Odysseus is a literary figure in the Odyssey   31   (write) by Homer. He rejected the comfortable life of a Greek king and made a promise to help another Greek leader, Menelaus, to get   32   wife back. But the war   33   (drag) on and on and he was away from his family for ten years. During this time the fortunes of the war were so   34   (change) that no one could predict   35   would win. Odysseus became tired of the war and the delay in Troy. He urgently wanted to return home, so   36   the Greek kings had their regular weekly meeting, he suggested that they take   37   opportunity to trick the Trojans. The Greeks built a giant wooden horse so that men could hide inside it. The Greeks then pretended to leave abroad their ships as if they   38   (courage) by the length of the war. The Trojans blessed their God   39   their good fortune and prepared to celebrate. That night the men climbed out of the horse and opened the city gates to the Greek army. The Trojans awoke to the boom of the warning bell   40   (announce) a Greek victory. So the war ended but the punishment of the Trojan people was only just beginning.

31. written   

注：考查非谓语动词。Odyssey和write 之间是被动关系

  32. his   

注：His 在这里指的是Menelaus’s

  33. dragged    

注：整篇文章都用一般过去时，drag on and on:战争一直拖延着

 34. changeable    

注： be 动词were后面要接形容词，表示情况是容易变的。

35. who

注：没有人能预料谁会赢。

36. when   

注：时间状语从句，当。。。的时候。

 37. an   

注：考查冠词的用法 opportunity 前面用不定冠词 an

38. were discouraged    

 注：被动语态，就好像他们被战争挫伤了积极性一样

39. for     

注：介词的用法，为了他们的好运而祈祷。

40. announcing

注：the warning bell  宣告了希腊的胜利，前后是主动关系。