语法填空专练（五）

林子琪

閱读下面材料，在空白处填入单词或括号内单词的正确形式（每空不超过3个单词）。

（A）

Tom： Have you ever thought    1    life would be like without innovative （富有革新精神的） people who are continually coming up with highly practical inventions？

Mary： It's hard to imagine that.

Tom： Yes. Imagine    2    （climb） up to the 80th floor of your office building without an elevator. I'm pretty sure， before you reached the 30th floor， your entire body would be wet with sweat.

Mary： You will be    3    （amaze） to find almost every aspect in our life is connected with inventions.

Tom： Now， what about having no computers， mobile phones， cars and cameras？

Mary： Life would surely be difficult for most people    4    we had no such inventions.

Tom： Yes. One example is the medical industry. Doctors， nurses and other members of the healthcare team now rely greatly    5    so many technological devices that can help patients survive.

Mary： There is no doubt that these devices    6    （provide） by companies help hospitals strengthen their commitment to patients.

Tom： Besides， professionals    7    work abroad can now communicate with their families back home with    8    use of mobile phones or computers.

Mary： You are    9    （absolute） right. It is these practical inventions    10    improve the quality of everybody's life every day.

（B）

When you read a story in English， do you read it for the story    1    for the English？ This is a question    2    is not so    3    （fool） as it may seem， for I find that many students of English pay far more attention to the story than to the English. For instance， they care for how the mystery in the story    4    （solve）， but do not remember a single sentence in the story and cannot tell what preposition is used before a certain word in the speech of a certain character.

Of course，    5    you want to know the story only， you need not bother about the language. But a student of English is different    6    a student of stories or    7    is called the general reader. As you may also have learned from the above， you ought to read not only very carefully but also aloud    8    you learn the passage by heart and can recite it as if it    9    （be） your own. On

    10    hand， this will teach you many useful words and phrases; on the other hand， it will help you to avoid many errors and faults in expression.