2012年广东省高考语法填空原创题10篇（全详解）
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2012年广东省高考语法填空原创题10篇（全详解）
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（一）
In ancient times, a king had a huge rock placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see___16___anyone would remove it. Some of the king’s wealthiest merchants and courtiers(奉承者) came by ___17___simply walked around it.
Many loudly blamed the king ___18___ not keeping the roads clear, but none did anything about getting the big stone out of ___19___way. Then a peasant came along ___20___﹙carry﹚a load of vegetables. On approaching the stone, the peasant ___21___﹙lay﹚down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. ___22___ much pushing, he finally succeeded. As the peasant picked up ___23___ load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the stone had been. The purse ___24___﹙contain﹚many gold coins and a note from the king indicating that the gold was for the person ___25___ removed the stone from the roadway. Every obstacle (an object that is in your way) presents an opportunity to improve one’s condition
本文通过国王观察路人是否愿搬走档路的大石头的故事，说明每一个障碍都蕴含着一个使我们得到改观的契机。
16.if/whether 引导宾语从句，国王想看看有没有人会搬掉挡道的大石头。
17.and 表示并列关系。
18.for 根据前面的blamed可知；blame sb. for。
19.the out of the way“离开道”。
20.carrying 引起分词短语作伴随状语。
21.laid lay down“放下…”。
22.after 经过努力之后，他成功地把巨石推离了路面。
23.his 当他正准备挑起蔬菜离开的时候,他注意到有一个钱包在路上。
24.contained 钱包里有﹙contain﹚很多金币 。
25.who 引起的定语从句修饰”the person”。
（二）
One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There’s a horseshoe. Pick ___16___ up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn’t worth ___17___ trouble.” His father said nothing ___18___he picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, the farmer___19___﹙sell﹚the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries.
They continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn’t a house or even a tree___20___ they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty ___21___﹙walk﹚on. At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. ___22___ a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son picked it up and put it in his mouth.
When Thomas___23___﹙eat﹚up all the cherries, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you had bent down early to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary ___24___you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson___25___ he who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things.”
故事中的Thomas不愿弯腰捡马蹄铁，后来却不得不多次弯腰去捡樱桃。该故事说明不愿做小事者做不了大事。
16.it指代前面的“horseshoe”。
17.the 特指弯腰拾马蹄铁这一麻烦事。
18.but 此处表示转折。
19.sold 父亲卖掉了那块铁，并买了些樱桃。
20.where 引起定语从句。
21.to walk 不定式表示程度。
22.After after a while“过了一会儿”。
23.had eaten 过去完成时。
24.for 评价人用“of”,评价事用“for”。
25.that 引起的同位语从句修饰”the lesson”。
（三）
Nobody wants to appear fat. Many girls who care too much about their self-image choose to eat less food to keep themselves ___16___ gaining weight. Some even take medicine ___17___﹙achieve﹚their goals. Those unhealthy ways may lead to ___18___﹙addict﹚to a certain drug and the addiction is usually very painful. There is little difference to committing suicide. I used to eat chicken a lot, ___19___ is said to be high in protein but low in calories. But ___20___ moment bird flu broke out, I stopped ___21___﹙eat﹚this kind of meat. To me, health always comes first, because no matter how ___22__﹙wealth﹚you are, your disease will deprive you of the right to enjoy your life, so why should we put ourselves ___23___ danger and suffer? However, you’d better keep it in mind that ___24___ you go on a calorie-restricted diet or not, exercising and healthy eating are excellent ways to keep ___25___ body in good shape. The healthy way to lose weight is gradually to make changes to your lifestyle.
本文讲的是生活饮食对健康的影响并就如何健康减肥给出自己的建议。
16. from keep sb. from doing“阻止某人做某事”。
17.to achieve 不定式表目的。
18.being addicted lead to的to是介词。
19.which 引导非限定性从句。
20.the 与moment连用，充当连词，相当于as soon as。
21.eating stop doing停止做某事。
22.wealthy how wealthy作表语。
23.in in danger有危险。
24.whether 引导让步状语从句。
25.your 根据本句的主语you可知。
（四）
This year is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of writer Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe, ___16___ life was short and seemingly unhappy, wrote stories and poems of mystery and terror, and death. Edgar went to live with the family of a wealthy Richmond businessman named John Allan ___17___both his parents died. John Allan never officially adopted him ___18___ a son, but the boy became known as Edgar Allan Poe.
Edgar Allan Poe did something unusual for writers of ___19__ time: he used a narrator in a story ___20___﹙describe﹚what was happening. Edgar Allan Poe is also remembered as the father of modern detective fiction, stories of an investigator who has to solve murders and ___21___ crimes. Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, wrote about how Poe’s ___22___﹙influence﹚other crime writers: “Their main art must trace back to those admirable stories of Monsieur Dupin”. Dupin is a character that appears in a series of Allan Poe’s detective stories.
Allan Poe was born in 1809 and died in 1849. Every year on January nineteenth, Poe’s birthday, a man ___23___﹙dress﹚in black appears. His face is covered. He places a bottle of wine ___24___three roses on Poe’s grave. No one really wants to know the visitor’s identity. They prefer that it remain___25___mystery, much like Edgar Allan Poe himself.
本文讲述的是作家Edgar Allan Poe的生平和他的影响。
16.whose 引导非限定性从句。
17.after 在他父母去世后，他去跟一个叫John Allan的有钱的商人生活。
18.as “当作”。
19.his his time“他所处的时代”。
20.to describe 不定式表目的。
21.other 前面提到murder, 后面自然是指其他犯罪。
22.influenced“影响”。
23.dressed be dressed in “穿着…”。
24.and 此处是并列关系。
25.a a mystery“一件神秘的事情”。
（五）
Meet Tiffany. She is a 23-year-old woman from New York. Tiffany has just moved to London and is looking to make friends as she is new to the city.
She has made a profile on Facebook in ___16___ hope of meeting some like-minded（志趣相投的）people. She has even included a photo of ___17___, and some information about her favorite music, films and books. There's just one problem — Tiffany doesn't even exist. Instead she is the ___18___﹙create﹚of Kaya Burgess, 23, a journalist from London, to see___19___even someone who is fictional can make virtual friends ___20___ this age of Internet communication. Within a week she had over 100 “friends”. Tiffany decided ___21___﹙host﹚her own birthday party in a bar, hoping to meet her new buddies. Everyone ___22___﹙invite﹚, and her creator sat in the corner to wait and see if anyone turned up. ___23___ waiting for more than an hour, nobody had come. Tiffany would surely have been very upset —___24___she was a real person. This experiment shows that on the Internet, people are ___25__﹙will﹚to call just anyone a “friend”.
网名为“Tiffany”女孩想看看在网络上能否交到朋友，邀请了所有的“网上”的朋友来参加她的生日聚会，结果没有一个“网络朋友”赏脸。
16.the in the hope of“怀着…的希望”。
17.herself 她还放上一张自己的照片。
18.creation “创造”。
19.whether 引导宾语从句。
20.in age作“时代”讲，前面要用“in”。
21.to host decide后常接不定式作宾语。
22.was invited 被动语态的基本用法。
23.After 表先后顺序。
24.if 引导条件从句。
25.willing be willing to do“愿意做”。
（六）
Once a king was walking around a pool with his ministers. Suddenly, he came up ___16___ an idea. He asked, “How many baskets of water are there in the pool?” The ministers couldn’t give answers. The king was angry, “___17___ must answer my question in three days!”
Three days passed, but ___18___ of the ministers had the answer. Just then, a child said ___19___ he knew it. The king told the ministers to lead the child to the pool. To his surprise, the child refused and said with ___20___ smile, “It is easy. No need to go to the pool.” This made the king___21___﹙please﹚. “All right. Let us know what it is.” The child said, “If you know the size of the basket, the answer is known. ___22___ it is as big as the pool, there is one basket of water; half ___23___ big, two baskets…” “Stop! That’s it. You ___24___﹙get﹚the answer. They ___25__﹙think﹚of things in a wrong way.”
Sometimes to get out of the difficulty, one must change one’s way of thinking.
通过国王要大臣回答池塘中有几篮水的故事，说明有时遇到难题只需改变思维方式即可解决。
16.with come up with“想出”。
17.You 指前面的“the ministers”。
18.none 根据前面的but可知是没人想出答案。
19.that 引导宾语从句。
20.a with a smile“面带微笑”。
21.pleased 过去分词作补语。
22.If 引导条件从句。
23.as as big后面省略了as the pool。
24.have got 此处应用现在完成时态。
25. were thinking 指大臣们过去一直在错误地思考这个问题。
（七）
Lang Lang went to a piano school in Beijing when he was just eight. “You need fortune,” his father said. “But ___16___ you don’t work hard, no fortune will come.”
What made him sad was that his piano teacher in Beijing didn’t like him. As a nine-year-old boy Lang Lang was ___17___﹙bad﹚hurt. He decided that he didn’t want to be a pianist any more. For ___18___ next two weeks he didn’t touch the piano. Wisely, his father didn’t push, ___19___ waited.
Luckily, the day came when his teacher asked him to play some holiday songs. He didn’t want to, but as he placed his fingers___20___ the piano keyboard, he realized that he could show others that ___21___had talent after all. In the 1994 International Young Pianists Competition, when it ___22___﹙announce﹚that Lang Lang had won, he was too excited ___23___﹙hold﹚back his tears. Soon it was clear that he couldn’t stay in China forever—he had to play on the world’s big stages. In 1997 Lang Lang moved again, this time___24__ Philadelphia, U.S. There he spent two years ___25___﹙practice﹚. After his successful performance at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival（拉维尼亚音乐节）, Lang Lang finally worked to reach the place where fortune spots him, and lets him shine.
本文主要讲述了中国著名钢琴家朗朗的成功之路。
16. if 引导条件从句。
17.badly 程度副词修饰被动语态。
18. the 特指后来的两个星期。
19. but 与前面的not搭配，表示“不是……而是”。
20. on 从后面的keyboard可知。
21. he 指Lang Lang。
22. was announced 根据前面的it可知。
23. to hold与前面的too构成句型。
24. to 此处作方位介词。
25. practicing 根据前面的spent可知。
（八）
A well-known speaker started off his lecture by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, “Who ___16___﹙like﹚this $20 bill?” Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this $20 to ___17___ of you but first, let me do this.” He started to crumple (弄皱) the bill up. He then asked, “Who still wants it?” Still the hands were up___18___ the air. “Well,” he replied, “What if I do this?” And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind (践踏) it into the floor ___19___ his shoe. He picked it up, now all crumpled and ___20___﹙dirt﹚. “Now who still wants it?” Still the hands went into the air.
“My friends, you have all learned ___21__ very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it ___22___ it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.”
Many times in our lives, we ___23__﹙drop﹚, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances ___24___ come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, ___25___ will never lose your value. You are special — Don’t ever forget it !
本文通过一张20美元的钞票被如何糟蹋其价值永远不变来说明，无论已经发生什么或将要发生什么，我们自身的价值没有改变。
16. would like “想要”。
17. one 指其中一个人。
18. in in the air“在空中”。
19. with 后接工具等，意为“用”。
20. dirty “肮脏的”。
21. a 修饰后面的“lesson”。
22. because 明显的因果关系。
23. are dropped 根据后面的并列成分可知是被动。
24. that 引导定语从句，作主语。
25. you 从后面的“your”很容易推出主语为“you”。
（九）
That’s the greatest gift I’ve ever received. ___16___ my 15th birthday, I was extremely surprised when my father and mother insisted that I go on ___17___ “mystery drive” with them. I figured it must be something good, as it was my birthday. I didn’t realize exactly___18___ happy I would be, though, until we pulled up in the parking lot of a huge sewing supply store. This was the day that ___19___ family was going to open the door to a new opportunity for me. It was after opening their wallet, of course. As you might have guessed, they bought me a ___20___﹙sew﹚ machine.
This may sound ___21___（nice）, or some may even think it a dumb present. I don’t think of it only as a machine. To me, ___22___means many things. For one, it’s my parents’ acceptance of my dreams and inspirations. They know that I have big plans for designing ___23__think that I can achieve my goals. Not only that, but it is the ___24___﹙realize﹚that my parents no longer think of me as a child with strange and unrealistic goals. They, for the first time in my life, treated me like a real adult. Besides, the knowledge that they were willing___25___﹙pay﹚for the machine showed that they believed in me.
本文介绍了作者在15岁生日时收到了父母送的特别礼物——她梦寐以求的缝纫机时的心情和感受。
16. On 具体的某天（或某时段）前用“on”。
17. a 修饰后面的名词“drive”。
18. how 多么，修饰“happy”。
19. my 自然是“我的”family。
20. sewing sewing machine“缝纫机”。
21. nice 在系动词后作表语。
22. it 指这台缝纫机。
23. and 并列关系很显然。
24. realization 后面引起同位语从句。
25. to pay be willing to do“愿意做”。
（十）
Can you imagine shopping without carrying bankcards or cash? Well, welcome to the wireless age ___16___ get your handset ready instead. A Near Field Communication (NFC) chip will be installed in handsets ___17___﹙enable﹚communication between mobile phones and payment terminals. One handset can handle the information ___18___ more than ten bank cards, and users can change ___19___information via special software.
Mobile phone producers such as Motorola, Samsung and Nokia have already provided special cell phones ___20___ this payment fun_ction. Shopping malls in Pudong ___21___﹙start﹚ to renovate their existing POS (Point Of Sells) machines to accept___22___ new payment form, which will be operated on a trial basis in Pudong by the end of ___23___ year and will be ___24___﹙wide﹚ used nationwide next year.
For security reasons, handset users are required to set up several pin-numbers so others cannot view their information ___25___ their handsets are lost or stolen, said an industry analyst.
本文主要讲述手机发展到可以用来结帐消费。
16. and 并列关系。
17. to enable 作目的状语。
18. of 所属关系，故填“of”。
19. their 指“用户们的”。
20. with 根据前面的“provided”可知。
21. have started 现在完成时。
22. the 特指这中新的付款形式。
23. this从本句前面的时态和后面的“next year”可推知。
24. widely 副词修饰动词“use的”。
25. if 引导条件从句。
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（一）
In ancient times, a king had a huge rock placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see___16___anyone would remove it. Some of the king’s wealthiest merchants and courtiers(奉承者) came by ___17___simply walked around it.
Many loudly blamed the king ___18___ not keeping the roads clear, but none did anything about getting the big stone out of ___19___way. Then a peasant came along ___20___﹙carry﹚a load of vegetables. On approaching the stone, the peasant ___21___﹙lay﹚down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. ___22___ much pushing, he finally succeeded. As the peasant picked up ___23___ load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the stone had been. The purse ___24___﹙contain﹚many gold coins and a note from the king indicating that the gold was for the person ___25___ removed the stone from the roadway. Every obstacle (an object that is in your way) presents an opportunity to improve one’s condition
本文通过国王观察路人是否愿搬走档路的大石头的故事，说明每一个障碍都蕴含着一个使我们得到改观的契机。
16.if/whether 引导宾语从句，国王想看看有没有人会搬掉挡道的大石头。
17.and 表示并列关系。
18.for 根据前面的blamed可知；blame sb. for。
19.the out of the way“离开道”。
20.carrying 引起分词短语作伴随状语。
21.laid lay down“放下…”。
22.after 经过努力之后，他成功地把巨石推离了路面。
23.his 当他正准备挑起蔬菜离开的时候,他注意到有一个钱包在路上。
24.contained 钱包里有﹙contain﹚很多金币 。
25.who 引起的定语从句修饰”the person”。
（二）
One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There’s a horseshoe. Pick ___16___ up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn’t worth ___17___ trouble.” His father said nothing ___18___he picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, the farmer___19___﹙sell﹚the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries.
They continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn’t a house or even a tree___20___ they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty ___21___﹙walk﹚on. At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. ___22___ a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son picked it up and put it in his mouth.
When Thomas___23___﹙eat﹚up all the cherries, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you had bent down early to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary ___24___you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson___25___ he who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things.”
故事中的Thomas不愿弯腰捡马蹄铁，后来却不得不多次弯腰去捡樱桃。该故事说明不愿做小事者做不了大事。
16.it指代前面的“horseshoe”。
17.the 特指弯腰拾马蹄铁这一麻烦事。
18.but 此处表示转折。
19.sold 父亲卖掉了那块铁，并买了些樱桃。
20.where 引起定语从句。
21.to walk 不定式表示程度。
22.After after a while“过了一会儿”。
23.had eaten 过去完成时。
24.for 评价人用“of”,评价事用“for”。
25.that 引起的同位语从句修饰”the lesson”。
（三）
Nobody wants to appear fat. Many girls who care too much about their self-image choose to eat less food to keep themselves ___16___ gaining weight. Some even take medicine ___17___﹙achieve﹚their goals. Those unhealthy ways may lead to ___18___﹙addict﹚to a certain drug and the addiction is usually very painful. There is little difference to committing suicide. I used to eat chicken a lot, ___19___ is said to be high in protein but low in calories. But ___20___ moment bird flu broke out, I stopped ___21___﹙eat﹚this kind of meat. To me, health always comes first, because no matter how ___22__﹙wealth﹚you are, your disease will deprive you of the right to enjoy your life, so why should we put ourselves ___23___ danger and suffer? However, you’d better keep it in mind that ___24___ you go on a calorie-restricted diet or not, exercising and healthy eating are excellent ways to keep ___25___ body in good shape. The healthy way to lose weight is gradually to make changes to your lifestyle.
本文讲的是生活饮食对健康的影响并就如何健康减肥给出自己的建议。
16. from keep sb. from doing“阻止某人做某事”。
17.to achieve 不定式表目的。
18.being addicted lead to的to是介词。
19.which 引导非限定性从句。
20.the 与moment连用，充当连词，相当于as soon as。
21.eating stop doing停止做某事。
22.wealthy how wealthy作表语。
23.in in danger有危险。
24.whether 引导让步状语从句。
25.your 根据本句的主语you可知。
（四）
This year is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of writer Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe, ___16___ life was short and seemingly unhappy, wrote stories and poems of mystery and terror, and death. Edgar went to live with the family of a wealthy Richmond businessman named John Allan ___17___both his parents died. John Allan never officially adopted him ___18___ a son, but the boy became known as Edgar Allan Poe.
Edgar Allan Poe did something unusual for writers of ___19__ time: he used a narrator in a story ___20___﹙describe﹚what was happening. Edgar Allan Poe is also remembered as the father of modern detective fiction, stories of an investigator who has to solve murders and ___21___ crimes. Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, wrote about how Poe’s ___22___﹙influence﹚other crime writers: “Their main art must trace back to those admirable stories of Monsieur Dupin”. Dupin is a character that appears in a series of Allan Poe’s detective stories.
Allan Poe was born in 1809 and died in 1849. Every year on January nineteenth, Poe’s birthday, a man ___23___﹙dress﹚in black appears. His face is covered. He places a bottle of wine ___24___three roses on Poe’s grave. No one really wants to know the visitor’s identity. They prefer that it remain___25___mystery, much like Edgar Allan Poe himself.
本文讲述的是作家Edgar Allan Poe的生平和他的影响。
16.whose 引导非限定性从句。
17.after 在他父母去世后，他去跟一个叫John Allan的有钱的商人生活。
18.as “当作”。
19.his his time“他所处的时代”。
20.to describe 不定式表目的。
21.other 前面提到murder, 后面自然是指其他犯罪。
22.influenced“影响”。
23.dressed be dressed in “穿着…”。
24.and 此处是并列关系。
25.a a mystery“一件神秘的事情”。
（五）
Meet Tiffany. She is a 23-year-old woman from New York. Tiffany has just moved to London and is looking to make friends as she is new to the city.
She has made a profile on Facebook in ___16___ hope of meeting some like-minded（志趣相投的）people. She has even included a photo of ___17___, and some information about her favorite music, films and books. There's just one problem — Tiffany doesn't even exist. Instead she is the ___18___﹙create﹚of Kaya Burgess, 23, a journalist from London, to see___19___even someone who is fictional can make virtual friends ___20___ this age of Internet communication. Within a week she had over 100 “friends”. Tiffany decided ___21___﹙host﹚her own birthday party in a bar, hoping to meet her new buddies. Everyone ___22___﹙invite﹚, and her creator sat in the corner to wait and see if anyone turned up. ___23___ waiting for more than an hour, nobody had come. Tiffany would surely have been very upset —___24___she was a real person. This experiment shows that on the Internet, people are ___25__﹙will﹚to call just anyone a “friend”.
网名为“Tiffany”女孩想看看在网络上能否交到朋友，邀请了所有的“网上”的朋友来参加她的生日聚会，结果没有一个“网络朋友”赏脸。
16.the in the hope of“怀着…的希望”。
17.herself 她还放上一张自己的照片。
18.creation “创造”。
19.whether 引导宾语从句。
20.in age作“时代”讲，前面要用“in”。
21.to host decide后常接不定式作宾语。
22.was invited 被动语态的基本用法。
23.After 表先后顺序。
24.if 引导条件从句。
25.willing be willing to do“愿意做”。
（六）
Once a king was walking around a pool with his ministers. Suddenly, he came up ___16___ an idea. He asked, “How many baskets of water are there in the pool?” The ministers couldn’t give answers. The king was angry, “___17___ must answer my question in three days!”
Three days passed, but ___18___ of the ministers had the answer. Just then, a child said ___19___ he knew it. The king told the ministers to lead the child to the pool. To his surprise, the child refused and said with ___20___ smile, “It is easy. No need to go to the pool.” This made the king___21___﹙please﹚. “All right. Let us know what it is.” The child said, “If you know the size of the basket, the answer is known. ___22___ it is as big as the pool, there is one basket of water; half ___23___ big, two baskets…” “Stop! That’s it. You ___24___﹙get﹚the answer. They ___25__﹙think﹚of things in a wrong way.”
Sometimes to get out of the difficulty, one must change one’s way of thinking.
通过国王要大臣回答池塘中有几篮水的故事，说明有时遇到难题只需改变思维方式即可解决。
16.with come up with“想出”。
17.You 指前面的“the ministers”。
18.none 根据前面的but可知是没人想出答案。
19.that 引导宾语从句。
20.a with a smile“面带微笑”。
21.pleased 过去分词作补语。
22.If 引导条件从句。
23.as as big后面省略了as the pool。
24.have got 此处应用现在完成时态。
25. were thinking 指大臣们过去一直在错误地思考这个问题。
（七）
Lang Lang went to a piano school in Beijing when he was just eight. “You need fortune,” his father said. “But ___16___ you don’t work hard, no fortune will come.”
What made him sad was that his piano teacher in Beijing didn’t like him. As a nine-year-old boy Lang Lang was ___17___﹙bad﹚hurt. He decided that he didn’t want to be a pianist any more. For ___18___ next two weeks he didn’t touch the piano. Wisely, his father didn’t push, ___19___ waited.
Luckily, the day came when his teacher asked him to play some holiday songs. He didn’t want to, but as he placed his fingers___20___ the piano keyboard, he realized that he could show others that ___21___had talent after all. In the 1994 International Young Pianists Competition, when it ___22___﹙announce﹚that Lang Lang had won, he was too excited ___23___﹙hold﹚back his tears. Soon it was clear that he couldn’t stay in China forever—he had to play on the world’s big stages. In 1997 Lang Lang moved again, this time___24__ Philadelphia, U.S. There he spent two years ___25___﹙practice﹚. After his successful performance at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival（拉维尼亚音乐节）, Lang Lang finally worked to reach the place where fortune spots him, and lets him shine.
本文主要讲述了中国著名钢琴家朗朗的成功之路。
16. if 引导条件从句。
17.badly 程度副词修饰被动语态。
18. the 特指后来的两个星期。
19. but 与前面的not搭配，表示“不是……而是”。
20. on 从后面的keyboard可知。
21. he 指Lang Lang。
22. was announced 根据前面的it可知。
23. to hold与前面的too构成句型。
24. to 此处作方位介词。
25. practicing 根据前面的spent可知。
（八）
A well-known speaker started off his lecture by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, “Who ___16___﹙like﹚this $20 bill?” Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this $20 to ___17___ of you but first, let me do this.” He started to crumple (弄皱) the bill up. He then asked, “Who still wants it?” Still the hands were up___18___ the air. “Well,” he replied, “What if I do this?” And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind (践踏) it into the floor ___19___ his shoe. He picked it up, now all crumpled and ___20___﹙dirt﹚. “Now who still wants it?” Still the hands went into the air.
“My friends, you have all learned ___21__ very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it ___22___ it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.”
Many times in our lives, we ___23__﹙drop﹚, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances ___24___ come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, ___25___ will never lose your value. You are special — Don’t ever forget it !
本文通过一张20美元的钞票被如何糟蹋其价值永远不变来说明，无论已经发生什么或将要发生什么，我们自身的价值没有改变。
16. would like “想要”。
17. one 指其中一个人。
18. in in the air“在空中”。
19. with 后接工具等，意为“用”。
20. dirty “肮脏的”。
21. a 修饰后面的“lesson”。
22. because 明显的因果关系。
23. are dropped 根据后面的并列成分可知是被动。
24. that 引导定语从句，作主语。
25. you 从后面的“your”很容易推出主语为“you”。
（九）
That’s the greatest gift I’ve ever received. ___16___ my 15th birthday, I was extremely surprised when my father and mother insisted that I go on ___17___ “mystery drive” with them. I figured it must be something good, as it was my birthday. I didn’t realize exactly___18___ happy I would be, though, until we pulled up in the parking lot of a huge sewing supply store. This was the day that ___19___ family was going to open the door to a new opportunity for me. It was after opening their wallet, of course. As you might have guessed, they bought me a ___20___﹙sew﹚ machine.
This may sound ___21___（nice）, or some may even think it a dumb present. I don’t think of it only as a machine. To me, ___22___means many things. For one, it’s my parents’ acceptance of my dreams and inspirations. They know that I have big plans for designing ___23__think that I can achieve my goals. Not only that, but it is the ___24___﹙realize﹚that my parents no longer think of me as a child with strange and unrealistic goals. They, for the first time in my life, treated me like a real adult. Besides, the knowledge that they were willing___25___﹙pay﹚for the machine showed that they believed in me.
本文介绍了作者在15岁生日时收到了父母送的特别礼物——她梦寐以求的缝纫机时的心情和感受。
16. On 具体的某天（或某时段）前用“on”。
17. a 修饰后面的名词“drive”。
18. how 多么，修饰“happy”。
19. my 自然是“我的”family。
20. sewing sewing machine“缝纫机”。
21. nice 在系动词后作表语。
22. it 指这台缝纫机。
23. and 并列关系很显然。
24. realization 后面引起同位语从句。
25. to pay be willing to do“愿意做”。
（十）
Can you imagine shopping without carrying bankcards or cash? Well, welcome to the wireless age ___16___ get your handset ready instead. A Near Field Communication (NFC) chip will be installed in handsets ___17___﹙enable﹚communication between mobile phones and payment terminals. One handset can handle the information ___18___ more than ten bank cards, and users can change ___19___information via special software.
Mobile phone producers such as Motorola, Samsung and Nokia have already provided special cell phones ___20___ this payment fun_ction. Shopping malls in Pudong ___21___﹙start﹚ to renovate their existing POS (Point Of Sells) machines to accept___22___ new payment form, which will be operated on a trial basis in Pudong by the end of ___23___ year and will be ___24___﹙wide﹚ used nationwide next year.
For security reasons, handset users are required to set up several pin-numbers so others cannot view their information ___25___ their handsets are lost or stolen, said an industry analyst.
本文主要讲述手机发展到可以用来结帐消费。
16. and 并列关系。
17. to enable 作目的状语。
18. of 所属关系，故填“of”。
19. their 指“用户们的”。
20. with 根据前面的“provided”可知。
21. have started 现在完成时。
22. the 特指这中新的付款形式。
23. this从本句前面的时态和后面的“next year”可推知。
24. widely 副词修饰动词“use的”。
25. if 引导条件从句。