Question

Section C (8 marks)

There once was a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair(集市) 1.___ it won a blue ribbon.

One year, a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned 2.______ interesting about how he grew it. 3.______ reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn(糧種) with his neighbors.

“How can you afford to do that when they are entering their corn in competition4.______

yours each year?” the reporter asked.

“Why sir,” said the farmer, “don’t you know? The wind picks up pollen(花粉) from the ripening corn and spreads 5._____ from field to field. If my neighbors grow bad corn, cross-pollination will gradually reduce the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.”

He is fully aware 6._____ the connectedness of life. His corn can’t improve 7.______ his neighbors’ corn also improves. 8.______ it is with our lives.

 

Answer 1

1.where

2.something

3.The

4.with

5.it

6.of

7.unless

8.So

【解析】

試題分析: 本文講述了一個(gè)很有哲理的小故事：一位農(nóng)民每年種的玉米都會(huì)在集市上獲得殊榮。當(dāng)一位記者采訪他的時(shí)候卻驚訝地發(fā)現(xiàn)他把自己的玉米種子送給鄰居們。當(dāng)被問到原因的時(shí)候，他說鄰居的玉米和自己家玉米的長(zhǎng)勢(shì)是息息相關(guān)的，只有別人的玉米好了，他家的玉米才會(huì)好。

1.Fair后是定語(yǔ)從句 ，從句是主謂賓結(jié)構(gòu)，句中缺少狀語(yǔ)，因?yàn)橄刃性~fair表示地點(diǎn)，故填where。

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考點(diǎn)：考查學(xué)生對(duì)語(yǔ)法知識(shí)及語(yǔ)境的理解。