Question

As a boy，Tim was much influenced by books about the sea, but in fact by the age of fifteen he had decided to become a doctor   小题1:     a sailor. His father was a dentist and as a result Tim had the opportunity of meeting many doctors either at home or elsewhere. When he was fourteen he was already hanging around the clinic of a local doctor  小题2:  he was supposed to be helping to wrap up medicine bottles, but was actually trying    小题3:  (listen) to the conversations    小题4:  (take place) between the doctor and his patients in the next room.
During the war Tim served in the Navy as a surgeon（外科医生）.“That was the happiest time of my life. I was dealing with very real suffering and    小题5:  the whole making a success of it .”In California he taught the country people simple facts about medicine. He saw himself as a life-saver. He   小题6:  (prove) his skills to himself and his ability to take decisions. Thus, while he was able to tell them what to do, he could feel he was serving them. After the war, he got married and chose to be a doctor in the countryside, working under an old doctor who was popular in the area,    小题7: who hated the sight of blood and believed that the secret of medicine was faith. This gave the younger man many opportunities to go on    小题8:  (work) working as a life –saver.

Answer 1

小题1:Rather than
小题2:where
小题3:to listen
小题4:taking place
小题5:on
小题6:had proved
小题7:but
小题8:working

试题分析：文章介绍了Sanders从学医到战争中为国家服务，战争后还继续为国家服务的故事。
小题1:到15岁的时候，他决定当医生而不是水手。而不是：Rather than
小题2:考查定语从句：先行词是the clinic of a local doctor ，定语从句中缺少地点状语，用where
小题3:他实际上是想听这些对话。Try to do sth，填to listen
小题4:taking place是现在分词做定语，修饰conversations
小题5:on the whole总的来说
小题6:他证明了自己的能力。Prove这个动作发生在He saw himself as a life-saver.之前，所以用过去完成时： had proved
小题7:这个医生在当地很受欢迎，但是害怕看见血，表示转折关系：but
小题8:这给了这个年轻人机会继续救人。Go on doing继续做, 填working