Question

词语运用（10小题，每小题1分，共10分）

阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。请将答案写在下面题号后的横线上。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。方框中有两个词是多余的。

 

For Rachel Beckwith’s 9th birthday, she didn’t ask for toys, dolls or a new pair of shoes.____ 1._____, the girl made another interesting wish: She wanted her friends and family to donate money to the charity. She _____2.____the charity could get more water so that people in developing countries could drink clean drinking water.

“On June 12th, 2013, I’m turning 11,” she wrote on her fundraising page. “I find out that millions of people don’t live to see their ____3.______ birthday. And why? Because they didn’t have enough clean, safe water to drink. So I’m ____4._____my birthday like never before,” she wrote. “I’m asking everyone I know to donate to my campaign instead of ___5.______for my birthday.”

Rachel’s goal amount was $300, _6._______she fell a bit short, raising $220 from her friends and relatives. That didn’t bother her much, and she said she could raise ____7.______the following year.

Unfortunately, Rachel met a car accident. After spending several days in a hospital, she lost ___8.____life.

But as news of her death spread, her story of raising money __9.____the charity did too. Now, the donation has got over $84,000. All the money will ___10.__towards building wells in developing countries.

 

Answer 1

1.Instead

2.hoped

3.fifth

4.celebrating

5.gifts

6.but

7.more

8.her

9.for

10.go

【解析】

试题分析：瑞秋贝克威思在九岁生日的时候，一个有趣的愿望：她想让她的家人和朋友把钱捐给慈善机构。使发展中国家的人民能喝上干净的饮用水。瑞秋的目标金额是300美元，但是她从亲人那里募捐了220美元。她不介意，她说明年她将继续。不幸的是，瑞秋遇到了车祸去世了，但她筹集资金的事情很快传开，现在，有超过84000美元的捐款。所有的钱都会用于发展中国家的水井。

1.Rachel Beckwith在过九岁生日的时候做了一个与以前不一样的决定，用后者代替了前者，故选instead。

2.Rachel Beckwith为慈善结构捐款的主要目的，希望他们筹备干净的饮用水，故选hoped。

3.我发现数以百万计的人不要活到五岁。考查系动词的基本书写，故选fifth。

4.我不能再像以前那样过生日了，考查动词celebrate的基本形式，因前面有系动词am，故用ing形式celebrating。

5.我要让我所有认识的人为我的公司捐款而不是为我的生日买礼物，故选gifts。

6.Rachel Beckwith的捐款目标是300美元，但是实际的捐款是220美元，考查连词表示转折，故选but。

7.捐款数目没有达到预期的目标，但是没有影响Rachel Beckwith的情绪，她决定明年还要捐款，并且会更多，故选more。

8.Rachel Beckwith在一次意外的车祸中丧生，考查人称代词的基本用法，故选her。

9.Rachel Beckwith的死和为慈善捐款的事情很快就传开了，考查介词for的基本含义，表示为…故选for。

10.所有的捐款将用于发展中国家的饮水井，考查动词go的含义，故选go。

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