2026届高考英语二轮复习：语法填空(7篇)主题 课件(共46张PPT)

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Sled Dogs as Heroes
2025年完胜高考语法填空
(7篇)
The Last Great Race on Earth
Life is different in Anchorage, Alaska, at the beginning
of March. Every year at this time, the downtown streets
become 1.________(crowd) with people. But these are not just regular pedestrians. In addition 2.______ the people walking through the streets, there are hundreds
of dogs. It is time for the Iditarod—the famous dogsled race of Alaska.
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The name of the race comes from the name of an Alaska gold rush town, Iditarod. It means “distant” or “distant place.” It comes from one of the languages of native Alaskans.
More than sixty sled teams begin the race in Anchorage. When the teams reach the outskirts of town, they get 3._____ taste of Alaska’s wilderness. For about two weeks, they will ght the 4.___________(bearable) cold, wind, snow, and ice 5._________( nish) the race. The temperature on the trail is often well below zero degrees.
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unbearable
to nish
The Iditarod trail 6._________(stretch) for about a thousand miles. It has many rendezvous points. At these meeting places, race teams “check in” to let of cials know how they are doing. Some teams get into trouble along the way. Of cials will intercept them on the trail and give them the help they need. For example, of cials might stop a team’s progress to give rst aid 7.______ to collect an injured or tired dog. These dogs are cared for and reunited with their owners after the race.
stretches
or
The Iditarod trail is an important part of Alaska’s history. A part of the trail was used by some heroic dogs and humans in 1925. In Nome, Alaska, many people were catching the 8._______(dead) disease diphtheria(白喉). The whole town was in quarantine(隔离检疫期), or isolation, in order to stop this epidemic. The only way to get medicine to Nome was by dogsled. About twenty “mushers,” or dogsled drivers, offered to help. They wanted to save the people of Nome from this terrible plight(困境).
deadly
Today the Iditarod race honors this heroic journey and all of the 9.________(journey) on the famous trail. 10.____ the race organizers say, the Iditarod is “the last great race on Earth.”
journeys
As
The Great Serum Race
In March every year, dog sled teams and drivers from all over the world compete in the Iditarod TrailSled Dog Race. This race, over a thousand miles from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, commemorates(纪念) the famous serum run of1925. It is the 1._______(long) sled dog race in the world. In this selection, you will read about 2.______ it all began.
longest
二
how
3._____ a dusky January afternoon in 1925, Dr. Welch walked quickly toward the outskirts(郊区) of Nome. Sled dogs howled from their yards. Outside a small cabin, a 4.________(worry) Inupiat Eskimo mother greeted the doctor. She led him into her home where two small children lay in bed, 5._________(struggle) to breathe.
On
worried
struggling
“Can you open your mouth ” Dr. Welch asked the three-year-old boy.
The weak child tried to open his mouth, 6.______ it was too painful for his swollen throat. His fever was 7.__________(extreme) high. Dr. Welch comforted the mother and children, but there was little he could do. The next day, 8.______ children died.
but
extremely
both
Soon after, another girl, Bessie Stanley, 9.____(be) miserable with the same symptoms. But this time, Dr. Welch could examine Bessie’s throat. He immediately recognized the symptoms of diphtheria. Poor Bessie
would not live through the night.
was
Diphtheria. Dr. Welch 10.___________(not see) a case in twenty years. This fast-spreading disease could wipe out
the entire community of more than 1,400 people. Dr.
Welch immediately met with the city council and
recommended a quarantine. The schools and other public
places were munity leaders told people to stay
in their homes.
had not seen
There was only one way to ght diphtheria. The town
needed a supply of antitoxin serum(抗毒素血清). Dr.
Welch sent out a desperate plea(恳求) for help by radio
telegraph. The message soon reached Governor Bone in
Juneau and other important officials. Newspapers across
the nation picked up word that 1._____ historic gold rush
town needed emergency help.
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the
The nearest supply of serum was at a hospital
in Anchorage, 1,000 miles away, across a snowbound wilderness. Officials considered 2.______( y) the
serum to Nome, but it was too dangerous to operate
open cockpit planes in extreme cold temperatures. In
those days, planes were used only during the summer. Nome was an icebound port, so boats were not an
option. The serum could travel partway by train, and then the only safe means of transport was by sled dog team.
ying
On January 26, an Anchorage doctor carefully packed the glass bottles of serum for the long journey. The bottles had to be protected to keep the serum from freezing. He gave the twenty-pound bundle to the conductor at the train station.
Soon, steam engine 66 began to chug its way north to Nenana, the 3._______(close) railroad link to Nome. Nenana lay nearly 300 miles away, beyond the tallest mountains of North America.
closest
On the frozen Tanana River, ve-year-old Alfred John could hear the distant roar of the steam engine. His Athabaskan Indian family lived in a cabin near the train station in Nenana. 4.________ it was late at night and nearly fty degrees below zero, Alfred and his mother bundled up in their warmest caribou legskin boots and
fur-lined parkas and walked to the station to greet the train.
Although
As they waited by the tracks in the moonlight, Alfred watched the huge locomotive hiss steam into the frozen sky and slow to a screeching halt. He saw men unload the freight, and the conductor hand the serum package to Bill Shannon. Bill was the rst of twenty mushers 5.________(carry) the serum in a dog team relay to Nome. These brave men and their best dogs would travel nearly 700 miles on a snow-packed mail trail.
to carry
Bill covered the serum with a bear hide and lashed it to the sled. His strongest team of nine malamutes barked and were anxious to move. Just before midnight on January 27, Bill waved good-bye 6._____ Alfred and shouted to his dogs. Swoosh! Into the winter night, the dog team 7.______(speed) toward Tolovana, the rst relay stop some fty-two miles away.
sped
to
Bill knew every turn of the trail. Like many of the mushers, his regular job was to transport mail and freight with his dog team. Traveling long distances in the extreme cold was a dangerous challenge. If the dogs ran too fast and breathed too deeply, they could frost their lungs. When the team reached bitter-cold stretches along the river, Bill slowed his dogs to protect them. He often ran behind the sled to keep 8.________(he) warm.
himself
Hundreds of miles away, Togo leaned into his harness and waited patiently for Leonhard Seppala to position Scotty and the other huskies. Togo, now twelve years old, was a proven leader for one of the strongest dog 9._______(team) in the world. Leonhard, dressed in his warmest squirrel parka, sealskin pants, and reindeer mukluks, had carefully chosen twenty of his best dogs. Officials had asked the famed Norwegian musher to intercept the serum at Nulato, a village located halfway between Nome 10.______ Nenana.
teams
and
Jingle, jangle—the bells on Leonhard’s sled rang as the team rounded the corner. There were so many dog teams in Nome that mushers 1.______________(require) to carry bells to warn pedestrians. Togo led the team down Front Street while friends wished them good luck.
In Tolovana, Edgar Kalland, the twenty-year-old Athabaskan Indian mail driver, ate breakfast and waited 2.__________(anxious) for Bill Shannon. The Tolovana Roadhouse was a favorite rest stop for Edgar. Outside the roadhouse, Edgar’s dogs pricked up their ears, and some began to howl. Bill’s team drew closer.
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The team looked exhausted when their 3.________(frost) faces came into view. Two of the dogs would later die from frozen lungs. 4._________(follow)
the doctor’s instructions, Bill carefully removed the serum. He hurried into the roadhouse to warm the container and prevent the serum 5.______ freezing. As the two men talked about the weather, Edgar put on three pairs of socks and his 6.________(boot).
frosted
Following
from
boots
Once the serum warmed, Edgar took off for Manley Hot Springs with his team of seven dogs. The thirty-one-mile trip to the next relay point was brutally cold. Temperatures fell to fty-six degrees below zero. At one point the dogs had to wade through slushy over ow, a place 7.________ the river seeped through a crack in the ice. When the team reached Manley Hot Springs, the dogs could barely lift their ice-crusted legs. Edgar’s mitts
were frozen stiff to the sled handle. A roadhouse worker poured a kettle of hot water over the mitts to melt the ice and free Edgar’s hands.
where
The relay continued from musher to musher, roadhouse to roadhouse, with teams pushing west through the biting cold. At each relay point, the mushers warmed the serum over wood- red stoves. Following the winding rivers, the teams covered 8.______ average of thirty miles each, at a speed of six or seven miles per hour. The mushers traveled around the clock, usually by moonlight
or twilight. In the middle of Alaska’s winter, only a few hours of sunshine 9._____(fall) on the teams each day.
an
fell
When the 10.________(twelf) dog team headed for the village of Nulato, waves of northern lights owed across the sky. Musher Charlie Evans faced the coldest temperatures at sixty-four degrees below zero. He
wrapped the serum in a rabbit skin robe for extra protection. Charlie’s nine-dog team moved slowly. Near open stretches of water on the Yukon River, a layer of eerie ice fog blanketed the valley. The ice fog, a mist of ice particles, was so dense that Charlie could barely see his wheel dogs, the ones closest to the sled. The experienced dogs followed the trail by scent rather than sight.
twelfth
Nearing Nulato, two of the dogs moved stiffly and dragged their paws. The skin was beginning to freeze. Charlie 1.________(stop) the team and gently loaded the poor dogs into the sled. In their struggle 2._______(save) the lives of Nome’s residents, these two dogs would fall victim to the deadly weather.
stopped
to save
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When the team reached the halfway point, conditions in Nome had grown 3._______(bad). Five people had died 4.______ the disease, and more than twenty cases had been diagnosed. Another thirty people 5.______________(suspect) of having diphtheria. Newspapers across the country reported Nome’s plight(困境) and the progress of theserum run.
worse
from
were suspected
The relay teams pressed onward. Togo and team worked their way east to intercept the serum. When Leonhard passed villages, he told residents about the epidemic and advised them to stay away from Nome.
As the team approached the village of Shaktoolik, Togo
picked up the scent of another dog team and sprinted forward. Leonhard could see a musher in the distance 6._______(try) to untangle his string of dogs.
trying
“On by!” Leonhard shouted to Togo.
Togo followed the familiar directions and steered the team away from the confusion.
“Serum—turn back!” shouted Henry Ivanoff, one of the relay mushers.
In the howling wind Leonhard barely heard the words. 7.________(lucky), he looked over his shoulder to see the musher waving frantically at him. Leonhard was surprised to see the relay team. After he set out for Nulato, twenty more mushers were chosen to travel short relays to speed up the serum run. Out in the wilderness, Leonhard had no idea 8.______ his rendezvous(会面地点) point was now 130 miles closer.
Luckily
that
“Gee!” Leonhard yelled to Togo.
Togo gradually turned right and the swing dogs helped pull the sled toward 9._____ waiting team. The two men greeted each other brie y, shouting in the gale. Within minutes Leonhard had secured the serum package to his sled and instructed Togo to head home.
the
Togo and 10._______(he) teammate had traveled more than forty miles that day with the wind at their backs. Now the erce gale blew in their faces with thirty below zero temperatures. Blowing snow plastered the team as they approached Norton Bay. Leonhard considered the risks. If they crossed the frozen bay, the sea ice might break up in the powerful gale. They could be stranded from shore on drifting ice. If they skirted the bay on land, the trip would take much longer. Leonhard thought of the children in Nome who were suffering from the disease. He decided to take the shorter route and cross the treacherous sea ice.
his
Leonhard believed that Togo could lead the team across twenty miles of frozen sea. As they pressed into the wind the dogs hit slick stretches of glare ice. They slipped, fell, 1.______ struggled to move forward. But mile after mile, Togo kept his course through the wall of wind. At day’s end, Togo picked up the scent of food that drifted from the Inupiat sod house at Isaac’s Point. After traveling eighty-four miles, they rested for the night. The dogs devoured their rations of salmon and seal blubber.
and
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The following morning, Leonhard discovered that the previous day’s trail had vanished. The ice had broken up and drifted out to sea. 2._______(worry) about the unstable conditions, Leonhard decided to hug the shoreline for safety.
Worried
Togo 3._______(lead) the way toward Dexter’s Roadhouse in Golovin, about fty miles away. Along the coast, the wind’s force became unbearable. Blowing snow blasted the dogs’ faces like buckshot. Some of the dogs began to stiffen up. Leonhard stopped the sled and gently massaged the freezing muscles of Togo, Scotty, and the others. When they nally reached Golovin, the dogs collapsed and buried their ice-coated faces beneath their tails. Togo and team had traveled 4.________(far) than any other relay team.
led
farther
fell
Now it was another dog’s turn to lead a fresh team of seventeen malamutes to Bluff, the nal relay point. With a shout from musher Charlie Olson, lead dog Jack charged off into the blowing snow. After struggling through four hours of whiteout conditions, the 5.___________(experience) leader faintly heard a dog 6.________(bark) through the gale. It was Balto.
experienced
barking
At Bluff, Balto and Fox waited for Gunnar Kaasen to adjust the leather harnesses and secure the serum package. Then the pair of leaders heard their musher’s shout through the raging wind. Balto and Fox led the strong team of thirteen huskies into the swirling snow. Mile after mile, they trotted 7.________(steady) toward
Nome. During the nal leg of the run, the wind assaulted them. A violent gust ipped the sled over, and the dogs went ying.
steadily
Gunnar struggled 8._____ his feet against 9.______ might of the wind. After he fought to untangle the dogs, he checked the sled to make sure the serum was securely fastened. Gunnar felt the bottom of the sled in disbelief. The serum package was gone!
In the dark, he crawled around the sled. Since he couldn’t see his surroundings, he took off his 10._______(mitt) and felt through the snow with his bare hands. After more than 600 hard-won miles and twenty teams risking their lives, could it be that the serum was lost forever
to
the
mitts
Panicked, Gunnar ran his numb hands across the windswept bumps of snow. All he could do was hope. Suddenly, he felt something hard. It was the serum! His frostbitten ngers struggled 1._______(tie) the package onto the sled. Then the wind-battered team ran off.
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to tie
They struggled on through the night. With less than twenty miles 2.__________(remain), two of the dogs ran stiffly and appeared to be freezing. Gunnar anchored the sled and put rabbit-skin covers on the dogs to protect their undersides 3.______ frostbite.
remaining
from
Through the 4.________(dark), Balto and Fox smelled familiar scents. At last the 5._________(exhaust) team reached Nome. They drove into town as most people slept through the blizzard. When Gunnar
knocked on the door, Dr. Welch greeted him with 6.____ stunned face. How could a musher and team have fought their way through such a storm
darkness
exhausted
a
With stiff hands, Gunnar gave the shocked but thankful doctor the life-saving serum.
Twenty brave mushers and more than 160 strong dogs traveled hundreds of miles in the worst conditions. The incredible relay 7.________(take) less than six days. Four dogs perished and several 8.________(other) grew lame because of the lethal weather. Yet their struggle saved many lives in Nome.
took
others
One month 9.______ the epidemic rst began, the quarantine was lifted. The schools reopened and children hugged their old friends. The whole town celebrated by holding a dance 10.______ watching a movie at the theater. Togo, Scotty, Balto, Fox, Jack, and all the other dogs were true heroes.
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