语法填空（二）1、阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。 Of the three major drinks of the worldtea, coffee and cocoatea is consumed by the_(large) number of people. China is the homeland of tea. Human cultivation of tea plants dates back to two thousand years ago. Tea from China, along_her silk and porcelain (瓷器), began to be known to the world more than a thousand years ago and since then it_(be) an important Chinese export. At present more than forty countries in the world grow tea with Asian countries,_(produce) 90% of the worlds total output. All tea trees in other countries have their origin directly or indirectly in China. The word for tea leaves or tea as_drink in many countries are derivatives(衍生物)from the Chinese character “cha”. The Russians call it “chai”, _sounds like “chaye”(tea leaves) as it is pronounced in northern China, and the English word “tea” sounds similar to the pronunciation of_(it) counterpart(对应物) in Xiamen. The Japanese character for tea is written_(exact) the same as it is in Chinese, though_(pronounce) with a slight difference. The habit of tea drinking spread to Japan in the 6th century, but it was not introduced to Europe and America_the 17th and 18th centuries. Now the number of tea drinkers in the world is still on the increase.2、阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。 The ancient wisdom of Confucius is timeless. His thinking _(lead) the Chinese for thousands of years. However, English teaching seems to be one place _his wisdom is forgotten. I came to China 6 years ago, and quickly saw the plight (困境) of so many students _(struggle) to learn English. They know a lot “about” English,_they never master the language. They learned far more grammar than students in Western cultures and almost no oral training. They were made _(recite) sentences and passages from their books. Their teachers were spending 90% of the class talking to them “about” English in Chinese. All effective language teaching in the world is built _the basis of oral language. Students who excel in English are those that follow the wisdom of Confucius: they use language! They use it primarily by speaking and listening, _(eventual) supplemented (补充) by reading and writing. Every language is taught by gaining speaking competence long before grammar, reading and writing _(introduce). Chinese students work so hard._they learned English with correct spoken instructions and classroom practice, they would have the_(high) English scores in the world and they would conquer English.3、阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。 Chengdu has dozens of new millionaires, Asias biggest building, and fancy new hotels. But for tourists like me, pandas are its top _(attract). So it was a great honour to be invited backstage at the not-for-profit Panda Base, where ticket money helps pay for research, I _(allow)to get up close to these cute animals at the 600-acre centre. From tomorrow, I will be their UK ambassador. The title will be _(official) given to me at a ceremony in London. But my connection with pandas goes back _my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, _I was the first Western TV reporter _(permit) to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild. My ambassadorial duties will include _(introduce) British visitors to the 120-plus pandas at Chengdu and others at a research in the misty mountains of Bifengxia. On my recent visit, I help a lively three-month-old twin that had been rejected by _(it) mother. The nursery team switches him every few _( day) with his sister so that while one is being bottle-fed, _other is with mum-she never suspects.4、阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。 My grandfather is a _(retire) worker. On summer evenings, we often sat together outside the house _(enjoy) the cool air. It was the time that he told me lots of his experiences before liberation. When my grandfather was fourteen years old, he worked in a coal mine. One day, when he and his two workmates were working in the tunnel, an _(fortune) thing suddenly happened. A part of the tunnel fell down, and they were shut in it. They had no food _(eat). When they were hungry, they only drank some water there. It was very cold in it. In order to keep warm, they hugged one another. In the darkness, they didnt know whether it was day _night, they only felt they had stayed there for a very long time. They were too hungry to speak or move, and thought they _(die). At last, the tunnel _(dig) through. They were saved. They had been there for fourteen days! My grandfather said they werent let ou