61.crowds

【解析】考查名词，此处表示复数概念，crowd前没有冠词，且它是可数名词，故填crowds。 62.from

【解析】考查介词，to and from来回，故填from。 63.laying

【解析】考查动词，这里是由and连接的三个动词-ing形式，故填laying。 64.the

【解析】考查名词，top是名词，前要用冠词，故填the. 65.were used

【解析】考查被动语态，此处表示过去的被动，故填were used。 66.fairly

【解析】考查副词，这里fair是形容词，pleasant也是形容词，所以需要将fair变为副词来修饰形容词，故填fairly。 67.it

【解析】考查代词，这里用it指代前句的railway,故填it。 68.managed

【解析】考查动词，此处表示过去的情况，所以这里也应用一般过去时，故填managed。 69.introduction

【解析】考查词性转换，空格前是the,后面应该是名词，故填名词introduction。 70.successful

【解析】考查形容词，空格前是most,其后要跟形容词构成最高级，故填successful。 3.【2017·全国卷III】

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

She looks like any other schoolgirl, fresh-faced and full of life. Sarah Thomas is looking forward to the challenge of her new A-level course. But unlike her school friends, 16-year-old Sarah is not spending half-term 61 (rest). Instead, she is earning ￡6500 a day as 62 model in New York.

Sarah 63 (tell) that she could be Britain’s new supermodel earning a million dollars in the next year. Her father Peter, 44, wants her to give up school to model full-time. But Sarah, 64 has taken part in shows along with top models, wants 65 (prove) that she has brains as well as beauty. She is determined to carry on with her 66 (educate).

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She has turned down several 67 (invitation) to star at shows in order to concentrate on her studies. After school she plans to take a year off to model full-time before going to university to get a degree 68 engineering or architecture.

Sarah says, ＂My dad thinks I should take the offer now. But at the moment, school 69 (come) first. I don’t want to get too absorbed in modeling. It is 70 (certain) fun but the lifestyle is a little unreal. I don’t want to have nothing else to fall back on when I can’t model any more.＂

【文章大意】本文主要介绍了Sarah Thomas在学业和诱人的职业面前所做出的选择，她认为在青少年时期要把学业放在首位。 61. resting

【解析】考查非谓语动词。固定短语：spend time doing sth花费时间做某事。 62. a

【解析】考查冠词。model是可数名词，前面没有限定词，而此处泛指 ＂一个＂，故填a。 63. was told / has been told

【解析】考查动词的时态和语态。根据语境可判断出谓语动词应该用一般过去时或现在完成时的被动形式，又因主语Sarah是第三人称单数，故填was told / has been told。 64. who

【解析】考查定语从句。非限制性定语从句中缺少主语，且先行词为Sarah，指人，要用who。 65. to prove

【解析】考查非谓语动词。want to do sth.想要做某事。 66. education

【解析】考查词形转换。形容词性物主代词后面应该接名词形式。 67. invitations

【解析】考查名词单复数。several修饰可数名词复数形式，故填invitations。 68. in

【解析】考查介词。in表示＂在某方面＂，获得某项学位 ＂get a degree in…＂。 69. comes

【解析】考查动词。根据语境可知Sarah认为当下应该是学业第一，说明现在的情况应该用一般现在时。 70. certainly

【解析】考查副词。修饰动词应该用副词形式，故填certainly。 4.【2017·浙江卷】

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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。

Last October, while tending her garden in Mora, Sweden, Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small 56 (carrot) and was about to throw them away. But something made her look closer, and she noticed a 57 (shine) object. Yes, there beneath the leafy top of one tiny carrot was her long-lost wedding ring.

Pahlsson screamed 58 loudly that her daughter came running from the house. ＂She thought I had hurt 59 (I),＂says Pahlsson.

Sixteen years 60 (early), Pahlsson had removed the diamond ring 61 (cook) a meal. When she wanted to put the ring back on later, it was gone. She suspected that one of her three daughters — then ten, eight, and six—had picked it up, but the girls said they hadn’t. Pahlsson and her husband 62 (search) the kitchen, checking every corner, but turned up nothing. ＂I gave up hope of finding my ring again,＂ she says. She never replaced it.

Pahlsson and her husband now think the ring probably got 63 (sweep) into a pile of kitchen rubbish and was spread over the garden, 64 it remained until the carrot’s leafy top accidentally sprouted (生长) through it. For Pahlsson, its return was 65 wonder.

【文章大意】本文是一篇记叙文，主要讲述了16年前的戒指失而复得的故事。 56.carrots

【解析】考查名词单复数。根据上文的\可知，此处表示一把小胡萝卜，所以应用carrot的复数形式。 57.shiny/shining

【解析】考查形容词。根据上文的\及下文的名词\可知，此处需要用形容词作定语修饰名词，故填shiny或shining。 58.so

【解析】考查固定结构。Pahlsson的尖叫声是如此响亮以至于她的女儿从房子中跑了出来。此处是so...that...结构，表示\如此……以至于……\。本题容易误填such，但要注意such后面接名词，而so后面则接形容词或副词。 59.myself

【解析】考查代词。根据语境可知，hurt这一动作的发出者和承受者为同一人，故应用I的反身代词形式，意为\她认为我伤了我自己\，故填myself。 60.earlier

【解析】考查副词的比较级。此处表示\年前\，故填earlier\之前，先前\。

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61.to cook

【解析】考查不定式。此处不定式表示\目的\，意为\去掉戒指以做饭\，故填to cook。 62.searched

【解析】考查动词的时态。根据本段的基本时态为一般过去时及语境可知，此处应用一般过去时表示发生在过去的动作，故填searched。 63.swept

【解析】考查过去分词。根据上文的\及语境可知，此处应填sweep的过去分词形式swept，意为\被扫进\。 64.where

【解析】考查定语从句。分析句子结构可知，空处在句中引导非限制性定语从句，修饰先行词the garden，在从句中充当地点状语，故填where。 65.a

【解析】考查冠词。此处表示\一个奇迹\，所以需要用不定冠词a表泛指。

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