高考英语语法第21讲：备战2016新题型：语法填空题的训练

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Since my retirement frm teaching music in 2001, I have spent a gd deal f time 25. ______ (paint) as an artist. I actually began drawing in the summer f 1995 when my father died, s perhaps I was trying t recver 26. _____ the lss f my father, r maybe it was just paintings 27. _____ brught back memries f him. In any case, I drew pen and ink animals and landscapes much influenced by Krenkel and St. Jhn fr five years.
Fr sme strange reasn, I had been waiting until my retirement t start ding waterclrs again, but 28. _____ _____ ______ I walked ut f the schl dr fr the last time, I picked up my brushes and rediscvered Andrew Wyeth, wh quickly became my favrite artist. I had lked thrugh all the art bks I had n my shelves and fund his waterclrs t be 29. _____ (clse) t hw I thught gd waterclrs shuld lk. S I painted landscapes arund Minnesta fr three years and tried ut many ther types f painting. Hwever, waterclrs remained my first chice, and I think I did my best wrk there, 30. _____ (display) my paintings at a number f art shws.
It is wnderful t have sme time ding 31. _____ I want t d. As Cnfucius nce said, “At seventy I can fllw my heart’s desire.”
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In the last decade, research 32. _____ (shw) that resistance exercise can help numerus disease states, including depressin. Yu can imprve yur verall health just by watching yur weight and taking walks in the neighbrhd. But 33. _____ yu want t imprve yur fitness — lk better, maximize health, have mre energy, prevent injuries — yu need t d mre.
In recent years, emphasis has shifted t a type f resistance training 34. _____ builds muscles used in day-t-day tasks, helping avid injury r re-injury. 35. _____ (call) functinal strength training, it helps with tasks such as lifting infants in and ut f car seats r lifting garage drs. Anther gal is 36. _____ (reduce) the risk factrs in patients with lng-term diseases such as heart disease and diabetes.
“Part f my jb is trying t cnvince that 85-year-ld wman that she really 37. _____ start weight lifting. 38. _____ wh need persuading are wmen recently treated fr breast cancer.” says Dr. Dennis Kerrigan, at Henry Frd Health System’s Center fr Athletic Medicine.
“Friends and family tell them, ‘Take it easy,’ but chemtherapy (化疗) can reduce muscle mass, leaving bdy fat that is linked t cancer returning,” he says. “My suggestin? Strength training. It’s taken a lng time fr wmen t realize 39. _____ imprtant strength training is, but nce they try it, they 40. _____ (hk).”
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Madnna：Singer/actress, brn Michigan, USA, 1959
Originally a dancer, she had her first ppular recrd ‘Hliday’ in 1983. In 1985 she began her film career and als married actr Sean Penn, but (25)____ marriage lasted less than fur years. Her ‘Blnd Ambitin Tur’ in 1990 with special clthes(26)____(design) by Jean Paul Gaultier caused much cnflict. Her career tk a mre respectable directin, hwever, with the birth f her first child, Lurdes, in 1997, and her perfrmance in the title rle f Evita.
Pelé：ftballer, brn Edsn Arantes d Nasciment, Tres Craces, Brazil, 1940
(27)____(cnsider) by many t be the greatest ftballer f all time, he became a wrld star at the age f nly seventeen, when Brazil first wn the Wrld Cup in Sweden. Perhaps his (28)____(great) success in his life was t win the third Wrld Cup in Mexic in 1970. He played in fur Wrld Cup cmpetitins, and scred ver 1,200 gals in his career befre finally (29)____(retire) in 1977. He (30)____(appint) Brazilian Special Minister fr Sprt in 1994.
Steffi Graf：tennis player, brn Neckerau, Germany, 1969
(31)____ Graf turned prfessinal at the age f thirteen, she wn her first majr turnament in 1986 and became the wrld’s number ne a year later. In 1988 she became the first wman since 1970 t win ‘The Grand Slam’ (Wimbledn, the US, Australian and French Open turnaments). She (32)____(win) ver 100 titles in her career and earned up t $20 millin.
(B)
One in three American children nw live with nly ne parent. (33)____ ____ the traditinal family f Japan is strng, divrce still went up quickly between 1980 and 1995. (34)____ is mre imprtant is that the nature f the family is changing. In Sweden and Denmark, arund half f all babies are nw brn t unmarried parents, and in the United Kingdm and France mre than a third.
Families are getting smaller. The average Turkish family had seven members in 1970; tday it has nly five. And in Spain and Italy, (35)____ families were always traditinally large, the birthrate was the lwest in the develped wrld in 1995. This fall in the birthrate is due t the fact that, as mre wmen have careers, they are waiting lnger and lnger (36)____(start) a family. The age (37)____ ____ the average wman has her first baby is nw 28 in Western Eurpe, and it is getting later.
S the nuclear family is clearly changing, but is it in danger f (38)____(disappear) cmpletely?
The truth is (39)____ it is still t early t tell. In sme cuntries these patterns are actually reversing. In the United States, Scandinavia and the United Kingdm, the birthrate is rising nce mre; and in Denmark, fr example, marriage is becming mre ppular again. In the United States, the divrce rate in fact fell (40)____ 10 per cent between 1980 and 1990, and it is cntinuing t fall.
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