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   小題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  小題2:  he was supposed to be helping to wrap up medicine bottles, but was actually trying    小題3:  (listen) to the conversations    小題4:  (take place) between the doctor and his patients in the next room.
During the war Tim served in the Navy as a surgeon（外科醫(yī)生）.“That was the happiest time of my life. I was dealing with very real suffering and    小題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   小題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,    小題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    小題8:  (work) working as a life –saver.

Answer 1

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

試題分析：文章介紹了Sanders從學(xué)醫(yī)到戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)中為國家服務(wù)，戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)后還繼續(xù)為國家服務(wù)的故事。
小題1:到15歲的時(shí)候，他決定當(dāng)醫(yī)生而不是水手。而不是：Rather than
小題2:考查定語從句：先行詞是the clinic of a local doctor ，定語從句中缺少地點(diǎn)狀語，用where
小題3:他實(shí)際上是想聽這些對(duì)話。Try to do sth，填to listen
小題4:taking place是現(xiàn)在分詞做定語，修飾conversations
小題5:on the whole總的來說
小題6:他證明了自己的能力。Prove這個(gè)動(dòng)作發(fā)生在He saw himself as a life-saver.之前，所以用過去完成時(shí)： had proved
小題7:這個(gè)醫(yī)生在當(dāng)?shù)睾苁軞g迎，但是害怕看見血，表示轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系：but
小題8:這給了這個(gè)年輕人機(jī)會(huì)繼續(xù)救人。Go on doing繼續(xù)做, 填working