语法填空题考查形式及考点分布

例7.King Edgar was the first  monarch to be buried at Westminster Abbey in 1065. In the Mid-13th Century,  King Henry III decided to rebuild it as a great gothic cathedral to rival（与……相匹敌）__________  in France.

【答案】those

例8.So far, the sinking of this  city remains a mystery. Goddio isn’t sure how the city sank. He thinks that  earthquakes or tidal waves might have caused it to fall into the sea.  “Stories from long ago tell of other cities in this area disappearing because  of either or __________  of those  things,” explains Goddio.

【答案】both

介词解题技巧：

判断：句子不缺主语、表语，及物动词不缺宾语时，(已有限定词的)名词，V-ing，代词或从句前面，一定是填介词。

介词解题技巧讲解：

技巧1：与名词相连，构成短语。

技巧2：与不及物动词构成动词短语

技巧3：多识记一些关于介词的固定搭配。

【例题精讲】

例1.__________ the Hong Kong  singer's current popularity, she was largely unknown in the Chinese mainland  before the talent show.

【答案】Despite

例2.The panda is such a rare  animal that we can’t find it anywhere __________  in the mountains in China.

【答案】except

例3.Children need friends  __________  their own age to play with.

【答案】of

例4.__________   most students, she was always well  prepared and never came to class late.

【答案】Like

例5.This article is so difficult  that it is  __________   our understanding.

【答案】beyond

例6.A 12-year-old might need to be  shown that raiding the biscuit tin without asking permission is acceptable,  but that borrowing a parent’s clothes __________  permission is not.

【答案】without

时态与语态

时态常用句式总结：

（1）It  is/has been 10 years since he left.

（2）It  is the first time that she has visited Beijing.

（3）It  was the first time that she had visited Beijing.

（4）By  the time John gets home, his mother will have left for Shanghai.

（5）By  the time John got home, his mother had left for Shanghai.

知识点四：完成时

现在完成时：

表示动作从过去到现在，并且包含现在的这一刻。

She  worked as a designer for almost 20 years, and now she is the CEO of the  company.

常用句型：

（1）It  is the first / second time.... that…结构中的从句部分，用现在完成时。

例如：

It is  the first time that I have visited the city. 这是我第一次访问这城市。

This is  the first time (that) I've heard him sing.这是我第一次听他唱歌。

注意：It was the third time that the  boy had been late.

（2）This  is +形容词最高级+that…结构，that 从句要用现在完成时。

例如：

This is  the best film that I've (ever) seen. 这是我看过的最好的电影。

现在完成进行时：

（1）表示动作从过去到现在为止，在此期间动作持续；或者

（2）表示动作从过去到现在，并将继续持续下去。

I have  been cleaning the room all the morning!

She has  been written a book recently, but I don’t know when she can finish it.

【例题精讲】

例1.The job proved to be much more  difficult than I__________ (expect).

【答案】had expected

例2.I__________ (think) of writing  a letter of complaint to the manager the whole morning. And I'd like to start  it now.

【答案】have been thinking

例3.We__________ (catch) in the  rainstorm on our way to Jimmy's wedding, so we felt very sorry that we  couldn't share that moment of happiness.

【答案】were caught

例4.The number of deaths from  heart disease will be reduced greatly if people__________ (persuade) to eat  more fruit and vegetables.

【答案】are persuaded

例5. The local government is  trying all out to find out who is __________ (blame) for the forest fire?

【答案】to blame

例6.One day Gene and Hannah  Bortnick heard piano music coming from their living room. They thought their  3-year-old son Ethan __________   (listen) to a CD. Then they walked into the room. To their amazement,  they found him playing music on his toy piano!

【答案】was listening

例7. Jane completed her last novel  Persuasion in 1816, but __________   (not publish) until after her death. Persuasion is partly based on  Jane’s naval brother.

【答案】was not published

例8.AIDS wasn't something we  talked about in my country when I __________   (grow)up.

【答案】was growing

例9.Running is becoming  increasingly popular in cities because it is a good way of keeping fit. More  importantly, it __________  (signal) a  society's awakening against the slavery imposed by the modern way of life,  complete with the Internet, mobile phones, iPads and apps which make people  lazy, says Liao Baoping in an article in Xinhua News Telegraph.

【答案】signals

例10.When your mood is dark, how  do you know whether you are depressed or just sad? Think about how long the  feelings __________  (last).

【答案】have lasted