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珍妮英语 高考英语专练：语法填空

语法填空

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，在空格处填入一个适当

的词或用括号中词语的正确形式填空。将答案写在答卷上（共10小题，每小题1.5分）

Passage 1

By 2025, water shortage 1.______(be) a big problem for about 1.8 billion

people. In a world where water resource is 2._______(increasing) short, nations

cannot afford to waste it. But that is exactly what we do. After we use water in our

homes and businesses, it 3.______(wash) away, and takes many valuable resources

with it.

Waste water is rich 4.______carbon and nutrients. If 5.______(collect) and treated

properly, it could provide new water, fertilizer, and energy. A number of nations

and major cities have already built waste water treatment plants. They can

effectively recover nutrients and bio-energy, and produce “new water” 6.______

can be reused. But more than 80% of all waste water still currently 7._______(flow)

into natural ecosystems, 8.______(pollute) the environment and taking valuable

nutrients and other recoverable materials with it.

Imagine that outside one of these small cities lies a lovely piece of land: on the

surface it is pleasingly built and provides habitats for local wildlife. Beneath the

surface is a wetland that treats waste water and produces energy. The energy

produced saves 9.______(family) from having to use firewood collected in the wild.

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珍妮英语 高考英语专练：语法填空

This is not a dream project. A “constructed wetland environment” is already in

practice 10._____ a small scale.

Passage 2

The church in 1._____ 1600s decided that it was about time to honor our

mothers. Mothering Day was created. This 2.______(actual) became a holiday of

relief and pity for all people, 3._____ (include) the poor. This was because Mothering

Day was a day of rest for servants and working people: they 4.______(allow) a day of

vacation to visit their mothers. 5.______(fortunate), Mothering Day didn’t continue

in the Puritan New World. But the desire and need to have a day to visit their

mothers continued.

The 6.______(born) of the modern Mother’s Day came about when in 1870

Julia Ward Howe published a poem, coming up 7.______ the idea of an international

Mother’s Day celebrating peace and motherhood.

Julia Ward Howe is credited with 8.______(bring) about Mother’s Day, and

helping us recognize the contributions women make. Mother’s Day became an

9.______(office) holiday during the work of Anna M. Jarvis. She made it her personal

project to bring about the 10._______(adopt) of Mother’s Day as a national

holiday.

Passage 3

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