广州市中考英语英语 语法填空复习题(及答案)

广州市中考英语英语语法填空复习题(及答案)

一、英语语法填空

1．阅读下面材料,在空白处填入1个恰当的词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The topic of this programme is environmental protection. We human beings ________(do) a lot of things at the cost of the environment to develop economy quickly in the past few years. I do think it is time for us to understand the ________(important) of protecting the environment and do something about it. And today I would like ________(introduce) some simple but useful ways that we can follow ________(easy) in our daily life. Firstly, turn ________lights if it is unnecessary. Then, go out in environment﹣friendly ways such as by bus, by subway or by bike. We can even walk to work when possible,________it is really helpful for both of our budget and health. Thirdly, try best to ________(use)things like books, paper, magazines and so on. And we can also take a cloth bag when we go ________(shop). Please don't use plastic ones. Of course the public should raise environmental awareness and realize it is ________(everyone) duty to protect the environment. Last but not least, the government should make laws to guide people's ________(behave).

【答案】have done；importance；to introduce；easily；off；because；use；shopping；everyone's；behavior

【解析】【分析】文章大意：我们人类在过去的几年里为了快速发展经济，做了很多牺牲环境的事情。我认为是时候让我们了解保护环境并采取措施了。今天我想介绍一些简单但有用的方法。首先，如果不必要，要关闭灯。然后，绿色出行，比如坐公共汽车、坐地铁或骑自行车。如果可能的话，我们甚至可以步行去上班。第三，尽量使用如书籍、纸张、杂志等这样的东西。当我们去购物时，我们也可以带一个布袋。当然，公众应该提高环境意识，认识到保护环境是每个人的责任。最后，政府应该制定法律来指导人民的行为。（1）句意：在过去的几年里，为了快速发展经济，我们人类以牺牲环境为代价做了很多事情。根据 in the past few years，可知现在完成时态，现在完成时的结构是have done。主语是复数，故答案是have done。

（2）句意：我认为是时候让我们了解保护环境的重要性并采取措施了。the importance of.，……的重要性，固定搭配，故答案是importance。

（3）句意：今天，我想介绍一些简单但有用的方法，would like to do，想要干某事，固定搭配，故答案是to introduce。

（4）句意：我们可以在日常生活中很容易地遵循。副词修饰动词，follow是动词，故答案是easily。

（5）句意：首先，如果没有必要的，关闭灯。关掉，turn off，固定搭配，故答案是off。（6）句意：如果可能的话，我们甚至可以步行去上班，因为这对我们的预算和健康都很有帮助。这是一个原因状语从句，能够构成原因状语从句的是because，故答案是because。

（7）句意：第三，尽量使用书籍、纸张、杂志等物品。try best to do，尽力做某事，固定搭配，故答案是use。

（8）句意：我们也可以在购物时带一个布袋。go shopping，去购物，固定搭配，故答案是shopping。

（9）句意：当然，公众应该提高环境意识，认识到保护环境是每个人的责任。duty名词，前面需要所有格，每个人的，故答案是everyone's。

（10）句意：最后，政府应该制定法律来指导人们的行为。people's是名词所有格，后面加名词，故答案是behavior。

【点评】考查词汇在篇章中的运用能力，答题时首先要跳过空格通读文章掌握其大意，然后细读文章，字斟句酌逐一作答，注意考虑句型、语法、搭配、语境等因素。最后通读一遍，检查验证。

2．阅读下面短文，在空白处按要求填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。每空1个单词。

Dear Ms. Zhang,

Last week, my friend Liu Lei came round with a new computer game and asked to play it on my dad's computer. I was worried, ________(连词)I should ask my dad before I use his computer. He uses it for ________(he) work, and I can only use it for my homework. The reason is that he thinks something will go wrong if I play ________(game) on it.

Well, while my dad was out, we decided to ________(try) out Liu Lei's game. We copied it to the computer, and after we finished ________(play), we took it off the computer. However, when I________(start) the computer again to check if everything was OK, some of my dad's documents were missing. Then, when my dad used the computer last night, he was ________ (real) angry. He could no longer find the important documents anywhere.

I did not tell him about________(冠词)computer game because I did not want him to be angry ________(介词)me. Now I feel terrible. I am not sure whether a computer repair ________(shop) can get the documents back. Should I tell him about the computer game?

Should I pay to repair it?

Your student,

Feng Guoxing 【答案】 because/since/as；his；games；try；playing；started；really；the；with；shop 【解析】【分析】大意：短文主要介绍了学生Feng Guoxin在他爸爸的电脑上打游戏，结果导致了一些重要文件的丢失。爸爸很生气，因此Feng Guoxin不知道是否该向爸爸坦白游戏的事，他为此烦恼并向张老师倾诉。

（1）句意：我很担心，因为我在使用电脑之前应该问一下我爸爸。根据I was worried我很担心，可知是因为我在使用电脑之前应该问一下我爸爸，应用连词because/since/as表“因为”。故答案为 because/since/as 。

（2）句意：他用电脑来工作。根据形容词修饰名词，可知此处应用he的形容词性物主代词his来修饰名词work。故答案为his。

（3）句意：如果我在上面玩游戏。根据前面无不定冠词和单数限定词，可知此处应用名词game的复数形式games。故答案为games。

（4）句意：我们决定试试刘磊的游戏。根据固定搭配decide to do sth.决定去做某事，可

知此处应用动词try的原形。故答案为try。

（5）句意：在我们玩完游戏之后。根据固定搭配finish doing sth.完成做某事，可知此处应用动词play的ing形式playing。故答案为playing。

（6）句意：然而，当我重启电脑去检查一切是否正常的时候，我爸爸的一些重要文件不见了。根据上文谓语took，可知动作为过去发生，本句时态应为一般过去时，此处应用动词start的过去式started。故答案为started。

（7）句意：他真的很生气。根据副词修饰形容词，可知此处应用形容词real的副词形式really修饰形容词angry。故答案为really。

（8）句意：我没有告诉他关于电脑游戏的事。根据computer game电脑游戏，可知此处特指刘磊的电脑游戏，表特指应用定冠词the。故答案为the。

（9）句意：因为我不想他对我生气。根据固定搭配be angry with sb.对某人生气，可知此处应用介词with。故答案为with。

（10）句意：我不确定电脑维修店能不能找回不见的文件。根据不定冠词a，可知此处应用可数名词单数shop。故答案为shop。

【点评】考查语法填空，注意根据单词在语境中的词性进行必要的变形，同时熟记固定搭配和基本句型。

3．阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入适当的词或使用括号中单词的正确形式填空。

Exam time! Most kids don't like exams, ________ we can't live without them. They play an important role in our lives.

Exams are not all the same. There are ________ kinds. One kind tests our knowledge and skills. The other kind helps find excellent students in different fields. For example, universities ________ (use) it to choose students.

At middle school, exams are about answering ________ (question) on paper. At university, doing an experiment or even ________ (draw) a picture can also be exams.

Kids in different ________ take different exams. In the USA, many school children do a book report or a science report ________ part of their exams. In Australia, middle school students need to use ________ they have learnt in class to make speeches. Sometimes, teamwork is part of an exam.

So exams are our lifetime "friends". Be nice and ________ (patient) with them. They ________(help) to make US better than before.

【答案】 but；two；use；questions；drawing；countries；as；what；patient；will help 【解析】【分析】本文介绍了考试是我们一生的“朋友”，善待他们，耐心对待他们，他们会帮助我们变得比以前更好。

（1）句意：大多数孩子不喜欢考试，但是没有考试我们无法生活。根据don't like exams 不喜欢和we can't live without them离不开可知此处是转折关系，故用连词but，但是，故填but。

（2）句意：考试不尽相同，共有两种。根据下文的one和the other可知是两者，故是基数词two，两个，故填two。

（3）句意：例如，大学用它来选择学生。描述客观事实用一般现在时，主语是名词复数universities，故谓语动词是动词原形，use是动词，故填use。

（4）句意：在中学，考试是关于在纸上回答问题的。answer question，回答问题，故question是名词，表示泛指用复数形式，故填 questions。

（5）句意：在大学里，做实验甚至画画也可能也是考试。根据doing an experiment or可知or前后一致，故此处用动名词做主语，draw是动词，故填 drawing。

（6）句意：不同国家的孩子参加不同的考试。根据different后是名词复数，下文提到美国，加拿大等国家，故此处是名词国家，country，故填 countries。

（7）句意：在美国，许多学生在考试中会做读书报告或科学报告。此处缺少介词，根据report可知此处是作为某个报告内容，as是介词，故填as。

（8）句意：在澳大利亚，中学生需要用他们在课堂上学过的东西来演讲。此处是宾语从句，learn后缺少宾语，故用what指代物，故填what。

（9）句意：善待他们，耐心对待他们。be系动词后缺少形容词，be patient with，对……有耐心，固定搭配，故填 patient。

（10）句意：他们会帮助我们变得比以前更好。根据Be nice可知祈使句后是将来时，help是动词，故填 will help。

【点评】考查语法填空，注意谓语的时态，非谓语动词，词性，连词搭配等多种用法。

4．阅读下面短文，用括号内所给词的适当形式填空，必要时可加助动词或情态动词。

People spend almost a third of their lives doing one thing—sleeping. Every year, there is a day for people around the world to celebrate the ________ (important) of good and healthy sleep—World Sleep Day.

Sleep is like food for the brain. Healthy sleep helps the body and brain grow and develop. People of different ages need different amounts of sleep. It is said that eight hours per night ________ (consider) the average amount of sleep. For students aged 10 to 17, a healthy amount is about eight to nine hours per night. However, last year, the China Youth and Children Research Center ________ (report) that about four ________ (five) of middle school students didn't get enough sleep. For some students, they want to sleep early, but they keep ________ (worry) about their schoolwork and can't fall ________ (sleep) quickly. A lack (缺乏) of sleep can greatly affect (影响) a person's life. Students who don't get enough sleep may get poor grades. They cannot pay attention in class or do well in sports.

________ (solve) this kind of problem, scientists advise that students should have ________ (little) schoolwork and more time to sleep. There are some other ways to help people get enough sleep, such as ________ (take) a 20-minute nap (午睡) during the day, trying to go to sleep earlier and so on . Good sleeping habits are also ________ (help). For example, try to go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day, even on weekends and during the day.

【答案】importance；is considered；reported；fifths；worrying/worried；asleep；To solve；less；taking；helpful

【解析】【分析】文章大意：本文是一篇与睡眠有关的短文，讲述了睡眠与健康的关系，不同年龄的人需要不同的睡眠时间，中国青少年学生的睡眠现状以及解决措施等。

（1）句意：每年，世界各地都有一个节日来庆祝良好健康睡眠的重要性——世界睡眠日。由前面的定冠词the，可知此处应填入一个名词，important是形容词“重要的”，与其对应的名词是importance“重要”，故答案填importance。

（2）句意：据说每晚8小时的睡眠时间被认为是平均睡眠时间。由题干可知主语eight hours与动词consider之间存在被动关系，所以应用被动语态，文章时态为一般现在时，时间作主语谓语动词用单数，所以be动词用is，consider的过去分词是considered，故答案填is considered。

（3）句意：然而，去年中国青少年研究中心报道。由last year可知，动词时态用一般过去时，report的过去式为reported，故答案填reported。

（4）句意：大约五分之四的中学生睡眠不足。这里考查分数的表达方法，在英语中一般用基数词表示分数的分子，用序数词表示分数的分母；当分子大于1时，分母要用复数形式，所以五分之四的正确书写是four fifths，故答案填fifths。

（5）句意：对于一些学生来说，他们想早点睡觉，但是他们总是担心他们的学业。keep doing sth.或者keep+形容词，都表示“使…处于某种状态”，worried，是形容词，故答案填worrying/worried。

（6）句意：他们不能很快入睡。联系上文语境，结合提示词可知此处句意为“他们不能很快入睡。”“入睡”fall asleep，固定词组，前面有情态动词can't，所以这里用动词原形，故答案填asleep。

（7）句意：为了解决这类问题。这里应用动词不定式表示目的，故答案填To solve。（8）句意：科学家建议学生应该少做功课，多睡觉。根据后面的more time to sleep可知此处应表达的是“作更少的功课”，句中暗含比较级，little的比较级为less，故答案填less。（9）句意：比如白天小睡20分钟。such as意思是“比如”，as是介词后接动词ing形式，故答案填taking。

（10）句意：良好的睡眠习惯也很有帮助。前面有系动词are，后接形容词作表语，help“帮助”，动词，与其对应的形容词是helpful“有帮助的、有益的”，故答案填helpful。【点评】考查语言综合运用能力，注意谓语的时态，语态，非谓语动词，词性，连词搭配等多种用法。

5．阅读下面短文，用括号内所给词的适当形式填空，必要时可加助动词或情态动词。

Have you ever seen a hitchhiker (搭便车的旅行者) ________ (stand) by the side of a road? Now drivers in Canada might see an unusual hitchhiker: a hitchhiking robot.

One of its ________ (invent), David Harris Smith, has hitched across Canada three times. Smith and a friend, Frauke Zeller, have built Hitchbot because they wanted ________ (see) if people would stop and give the robot a lift and talk to it. The robot ________ (chat) about things it had learned, and about ________ (it) trip. You might think it's a joke, but Smith and Zeller's experiment has a serious point: can robot and people get along?

Hitchbot ________ (begin) its journey in Nova Scotia in July. It has already completed one ________ (three) its 6, 000-mile trip to Victoria. More than 57,000 people are following its journey closely on Facebook and Twitter, and travelers have posted lots of photos on the websites. Hitchbot ________ (do) some shopping, eaten motor oil and had fun with travelers. Nobody

________ (know) when it will finish its journey. It might be longer than expected, but Zeller and Smith want Hitchbot to get as ________ (many) rides as it can. It hasn't been in a self-driving car yet, but anything is possible!

【答案】standing；inventors；to see；can chat；its；began；third；has done；knows；many

【解析】【分析】文章大意：主要介绍了在加拿大，有一个新型的搭便车的旅行者——搭便车机器人，这个机器人能通过搭便车来学习新知识。

（1）句意：你见过站在路边搭便车的旅行者吗？stand，站立，动词，此处是现在分词短语作后置定语。故答案为：standing。

（2）句意：其中一个发明者，大卫搭便车去过加拿大三次。 invent ，发明，动词，one of 后跟名词复数，根据David Harris Smith指人，可知此处指，发明者inventor，故答案为：inventors。

（3）句意：史密斯和朋友泽勒制作了一个机器人因为他们想看是否人们会停下来给机器人一个礼物并且给它谈话。see，动词，看，want to do sth.想要做某事，固定短语，故答案为：to see。

（4）句意：机器人能谈论关于他学到的东西，和关于它的旅行。chat，谈论，动词，此处指机器人的能力，能做某事，故答案为：can chat。

（5）句意：机器人能谈论关于他学到的东西，和关于它的旅行。根据trip旅行，名词，前面用形容词性物主代词修饰名词，it它，主格，its形容词性物主代词，故答案为：its。（6）句意：机器人在七月在新斯科舍开始了它的旅行。begin，开始，动词，根据时间状语in July可知句子时态是一般过去时，故答案为：began。

（7）句意：它已经完成了到维多利亚6,000多里中三分之一的旅行。three，三，基数词，分数的表达方式，分子是基数词，分母是序数词，三分之一，分母三用序数词，three 基数词，序数词third，故答案为：third。

（8）句意：机器人购物，加油并且和旅游者玩得很高兴。do，做，动词，根据eaten motor oil and had fun with travelers.可知句子时态是现在完成时，主语是第三人称单数，故答案为：has done。

（9）句意：没有人知道它什么时候会结束它的旅程。know，知道，动词，根据主从句时态的一致，从句是一般将来时，可知主句是一般现在时，主语是第三人称单数，故答案为：knows。

（10）句意：它可能会被预期的长，但是泽勒和史密斯想要机器人去进行尽可能多的旅程。many，许多的，形容词，as...as中间跟原形，形容词的同级比较，故答案为：many。【点评】此题考查语法填空。我们先跳过空格阅读短文，理解短文大意。然后仔细阅读每个句子，根据英语语法知识和固定短语，用所给词的正确形式填空。

6．阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标或单词等提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的单词，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。

Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southwest China. They feed on ________. But now they have less and less ________ /l?nd/ to live on. So pandas are becoming ________ (few) in number. The heaviest animals in the ________are not elephants. They are blue whales. They are

the ________ (large) but they feed on the smallest ________ /s?:/ animals. Now they are in danger because some people ________ their ocean home dirty and others ________/k?l/ whales for their meat.

Chinese tigers live in the south of China. They are also in ________(dangerous) now. They are the oldest type of tigers in the world and they eat small animals. Some people kill tigers ________their fur and bones.

【答案】 bamboo；land；fewer；world；largest；sea；make；kill；danger；for

【解析】【分析】本文分别介绍了大熊猫，鲸鱼和老虎，他们的共同点是由于人类的破坏，他们都处于危险之中。

（1）句意：它们以竹子为食。feed on以……为食，根据常识可知大熊猫吃竹子。bamboo 泛指一般的“竹；竹子”时不可数，故答案为：bamboo。

（2）句意：但是现在他们赖以生存的土地越来越少了。根据音标可知/l?nd/ land土地，不可数名词，故答案为：land。

（3）句意：所以熊猫的数量正在减少。句意暗含大熊猫的数量正变得比以前更少了，用few的比较级，故答案为：fewer。

（4）句意：世界上最重的动物不是大象。in the world，在世界上，是拿世界上所有动物比较，故答案为：world。

（5）句意：他们是最大的但是他们以最小的海洋动物为食。根据The heaviest animals in the world are not elephants. They are blue whales.可知此处表示它们是最大的。所以用最高级，故答案为：largest。

（6）句意：他们是最大的但是他们以最小的海洋动物为食。/s?:/sea海洋，海洋，see看见动词，形容词修饰名词，故答案为：sea。

（7）句意：现在他们处于危险之中，因为一些人把他们的海洋家园弄脏了，而另一些人为了吃肉而捕杀鲸鱼。make sth/sb adj.使某人或某物……，句子时态是一般现在时，故答案为：make。

（8）句意：现在他们处于危险之中，因为一些人把他们的海洋家园弄脏了，而另一些人为了吃肉而捕杀鲸鱼。/k?l/kill，杀害，故答案为：kill。

（9）句意：他们也处于危险之中。介词in后跟名词，dangerous，危险的，形容词，in danger，处于危险中，故答案为：danger。

（10）句意：有些人为了他们的皮毛和骨头杀老虎。此处指人们杀害老虎的目的，for为了，表示目的，故答案为：for。

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7．阅读下面的短文，用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空，必要时可加助动词。

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Marcelo went to the skate park he had often visited. At first, he thought skating was out of the question for a blind man like him. But his skateboarding friends ________(tell) him he was still one of them and he had to get back on the skateboard. They helped him learn to use his other senses except sight ________( ride )the skateboard again and even try out some new tricks.

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（2）句意：他感到绝望，因为他无法想象没有视觉的生活。根据as he couldn't imagine living without sight 可知看不见东西是绝望的，毫无希望的，felt感觉系动词，后面跟形容词，hope希望，hopeless毫无希望的，故答案为：hopeless。

（3）句意：幸运的是，他父亲的一个朋友进来帮助他。根据后面helped him out可知有人帮他走出来，可知他想幸运的，luck幸运，名词，此处是副词放在句首作状语，luckily幸运地，故答案为：Luckily。

（4）句意：幸运的是，他父亲的一个朋友进来帮助他。根据空前a friend of his可知，此

空应填名词的所有格，根据句意可知，此空是他父亲的意思，father父亲，名词，father's 名词所有格，故答案为：father's。

（5）句意：多亏了她的帮助，马塞洛才接受了他的条件，并开始走出去。根据固定短语，be able to，可以，有能力，故答案为：to accept。

（6）句意：但是他的滑板朋友告诉他，他仍然是他们中的一员，他必须回到滑板上。根据空后he was still one of them可知，可知主句是时态是一般过去时，故答案为：told 。

（7）句意：他们帮助他学会了使用除视觉以外的其他感官来再次玩滑板，甚至尝试一些新的技巧。根据短语用法use sth. to do sth. 用某物做某事。故答案为：to ride 。

（8）句意：回首过去，马塞洛认为失明帮助他认识到自己是谁，他想做什么。根据句意可知，此句是宾语从句，此空在从句作主语，故用动名词，故答案为：losing。

（9）句意：看看我，我在溜冰，然后我失明了，现在我又在溜冰了。根据空前now可知，此空应填现在进行时或一般现在时，此处指状态，用一般现在时，故答案为：skate 。（10）句意：没有以前那么好，但我仍然可以做到，让人们张开嘴。根据空前leave people with their mouths可知，此空应填形容词，根据句意可知，此空是开着的，敞开的，张开的意思，故答案为：open。

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At that time, I was sure Mr. Forest didn't understand anything about being in the seventh grade. Why was he was strict with us? It seemed unfair! When I got older, though, I realized I was getting fewer and fewer of those red marks in my homework. By the time I got to high school, I was already a pretty good writer.

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________ (learn)is like building a house. If you don't have strong bricks on the bottom, the home________(stand). If Mr. Forest had not been so strict with me with his red pen, I wouldn't be who I am today.

【答案】 to read；returned；was covered；had checked；to fix；Learning；won't stand

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