shows that they are in good health. Blue is a cool color. The traditional blues music in the United States is __10__ opposite of red hot music. Blues is slow, sad and soulful(深情的). Someone who is blue is very sad.
1．______ 2.______ 3.______ 4.______ 5.______ 6．______ 7.______ 8.______ 9.______ 10.______ 文章大意：本文介绍了美国习语中颜色的含义。 1．命题立意：考查介词。
答案：on be based on 以??为基础。 2．命题立意：考查代词。 答案：it it代替前文提到的red。 3．命题立意：考查词形转换。
答案：angry 用形容词作表语；very副词修饰形容词。 4．命题立意：考查时态语态。 答案：are called 被称为“炽热”。 5．命题立意：考查词形转换。
答案：especially especially作状语，修饰全句，本句实际是省略句。 6．命题立意：考查比较级。
答案：lighter 粉红色是比较浅一点的红色；所以用light的比较级形式。 7．命题立意：考查引导词。
答案：when when引导的时间状语从句；当他们健康的时候，人们就说they are in the pink。
8．命题立意：考查数词。
答案：twentieth 20世纪是第20世纪，应用序数词。 9．命题立意：考查定语从句。
答案：that/which 本句是定语从句，引导词在从句中作主语，并且先行词是color，表示“物”。
10．命题立意：考查冠词。
答案：the the opposite of 在??的对立面。
Passage 21
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。
(2015·东北师大附中三模)
I enjoy doing physical training in my free time. Yesterday, when I was working out at a gym on my lunch hour, I saw __1__ elderly lady there riding on a bike. She couldn't walk very well, so she had a cane (手杖) near her, __2__ she was still there __3__(work) hard. After I finished my exercising, I told her that I was going to wait for her __4__ she got done and that I would walk her out to her car. It was a little far to her car and it was a __5__(fog) day yesterday in Missouri. I walked her to the car and opened the car door for her, __6__ won me her big smile and gratitude. I know __7__ is a small thing, but I felt so good inside for helping her. __8__ my help, she could have fallen so easily out in the wet parking lot, and no one would have known she had fallen. I knew she __9__(need) my help, and her smile was enough __10__(make) my day. 1．______ 2.______ 3.______ 4.______ 5.______ 6．______ 7.______ 8.______ 9.______ 10.______
文章大意：本文是一英语小故事。作者叙述了发生在自己身边的小故事，仅仅是因为自己的举手之劳让一位老太太幸福一天，老太太的微笑让作者幸福一天。送人玫瑰，手有余香。
1．命题立意：考查冠词用法。
答案：an 根据上下文，elderly lady在文中第一次出现，应用不定冠词，故填an。 2．命题立意：考查连词。
答案：but 根据空前后的分句之间的转折关系判断填but。 3．命题立意：考查非谓语动词的用法。
答案：working 根据前文的was，可知此处应用非谓语动词，she是work的动作执行者，故填working。
4．命题立意：考查连词用法。
答案：until 根据前后句的关系判断填until。 5．命题立意：考查形容词用法。
答案：foggy 空后是day，名词，应用形容词修饰，故填foggy。 6．命题立意：考查定语从句。
答案：which 空后是定语从句，which代替主句一句话的内容，在从句中作主语。故填which。
7．命题立意：考查代词用法。
答案：it 根据前文作者帮助老太太的那件事，故填it。 8．命题立意：考查介词用法。
答案：Without 根据下文的could have fallen推断是“没有我的帮助”，可知填without。
9．命题立意：考查时态用法。
答案：needed 根据前文的knew判断填needed。 10．命题立意：考查非谓语动词。
答案：to make be enough to do足以??。
Passage 22
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。
(2015·吉林省吉林市第三次调测)
People can often see a talking parrot on a TV show, in a movie, or even in someone's home. The parrot has learned __1__(copy) sounds that people make. Dolphins, bats, and some apes also copy sounds. Now we can add elephants __2__ this list of copycats (盲目的模仿者)．
Dr. Joyce Poole is a zoologist, __3__ studies the sounds of elephants. While she was in Kenya, she would hear strange noises __4__(make) by Mlaika after sunset. Mlaika was __5__ 8-year-old African elephant __6__ it lived near a highway.
Dr. Poole says that she couldn't tell the difference between Mlaika's call and the __7__(distance) truck noise. Why did __8__ copy the sounds of the trucks driving by? Animals that are able to copy sounds may enjoy __9__(practice) new sounds. When they are kept outside of their natural environment, they may copy unusual sounds.
So far Dr. Poole __10__(spend) 18 years with two female Asian elephants. Asian elephants make sounds like birds to talk with one another.
Parrots, dolphins, humans, and elephants show that being a copycat is one way that animals and people make new friends and keep old ones.
1．______ 2.______ 3.______ 4.______ 5.______ 6．______ 7.______ 8.______ 9.______ 10.______
文章大意：文章主要介绍了动物比如鹦鹉、海豚、大象等都具有和人一样的模仿功能。 1．命题立意：考查非谓语动词。
答案： to copy 根据learn后跟不定式作宾语，故填to copy。 2．命题立意：考查固定词组。
答案：to 根据add sth. to sth.把??加到??。故填to。 3．命题立意：考查定语从句。
答案：who 根据先行词是zoologist，定语从句中缺少主语，且是非限制性定语从句，故填who不填that。
4．命题立意：考查非谓语动词。
答案：made 根据strange noises是make的动作承受者，应用过去分词作定语。故填made。
5．命题立意：考查冠词用法。
答案：an 8-year-old African elephant的首字母的发音是/ei/，元音音素应用an，故填an。 6．命题立意：考查连词用法。
答案： and 根据空前后分句之间的并列关系判断。故填and。 7．命题立意：考查形容词用法。
答案： distant 根据空后是truck noise是名词，应用形容词修饰，故填distant。 8．命题立意：考查代词用法。
答案： it 根据前文判断，可知填it指代这头大象。
9．命题立意：考查非谓语动词用法。
答案：practising/practicing 根据前文的enjoy后跟动词-ing形式作宾语判断填practising/practicing。
10．命题立意：考查时态。
答案：has spent 根据空前的so far判断应用现在完成时，填has spent。
Passage 23
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。
(2015·九江市二模)
Learning to speak English well may be the best thing you can do to improve your life. Almost all international conferences and competitions __1__(conduct) in English. Diplomats(外交官) and politicians from different __2__(country)also use English to communicate with each other freely. If you can communicate in English, you can：
Contact people from all over the world. Talk about your ideas on the Internet with your interesting people，send e-mails to__3__， and learn about their life and culture.
Travel more easily. Communicate with people __4__ you go. English is spoken in more than 100 countries.Introduce yourself, have a conversation, or... ask for help.
Push your career forward. If you want __5__ good job in business, technology, or science, get out of that armchair and set out __6__(learn) English now!
Knowing English will let you:
Gain technical knowledge. English is the language of technology, __7__(especial) high technology like computer science, genetics(遗传学), and medicine. If you're going to read about technology, you'll probably have to do it __8__ English.
Be a world-class business people. All business today is international. So if you want to play, you have to know English a lot, contact other business people, __9__ read international business newspapers and magazines, etc.
Use your computer more effectively. Most computer applications are in English, so you will understand them __10__(good)．
1．______ 2.______ 3.______ 4.______ 5.______ 6．______ 7.______ 8.______ 9.______ 10.______
文章大意：这篇文章列出了非常详尽的学习英语的理由和动力。 1．命题立意：考查被动语态的用法。
答案：are conducted 根据语意句子用被动语态。be conducted被实施。因此答案是are conducted。
2．命题立意：考查名词用法。
答案：countries different 修饰名词复数，因此答案是countries。 3．命题立意：考查代词的用法。
答案：them 根据语意和语境，them代指interesting people。因此答案是them。 4．命题立意：考查疑问副词的用法。
答案：wherever 根据语意可知无论哪里，故答案是wherever。 5．命题立意：考查冠词的用法。
答案：a 根据语意可知job是可数名词，a good job一项好的工作，答案是a。 6．命题立意：考查动词不定式的用法。
答案：to learn set out to do sth.开始干某事，根据语意答案是to learn。 7．命题立意：考查副词用法。
答案：especially 根据语意尤其是高科技，故答案是“尤其” especially。 8．命题立意：考查介词用法。
答案：in 根据语意“用英语”，in English，故答案为in。 9．命题立意：考查连词用法。
答案：and 根据语意连接并列的动作可以用and，因此答案是and。 10．命题立意：考查形容词用法。
答案：better 根据语意可知此处应该用形容词的比较级，因此答案是good的比较级better。
Passage 24
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。
(2015·南昌市十所省重点中学二模)
This morning, my neighbor called me and asked me __1__(anxious), “Are your dogs missing？”
I __2__(fill) with nervousness and immediately made a phone call to my wife, and then I replied with relief, “No. They __3__(stay) at home.” My neighbor is a sweet, kind and generous girl with __4__ old-fashioned heart and spirit. She bakes cookies and shares them with neighbors. Today she found two small dogs walking down the street, __5__ she brought them home.
I then suggested places where she could report the missing dogs. “Most people wouldn't do anything about them，” I said, “Many cars and people passed __6__ them this morning, ignoring them. You did the right thing.”
I went outside to look for someone __7__ might be walking down the street, and I expected to hear the distant cry of someone __8__(call) the dogs' names. But no one did this.
If I were lost, I would hope someone would come looking for me. If I were crying alone, I __9__ hope that someone would stop and wipe away my tears. Why not give a little love to dogs and other __10__(creature)? 1．______ 2.______ 3.______ 4.______ 5.______ 6．______ 7.______ 8.______ 9.______ 10.______