2018年高考英语提分专练：第7题 语法填空

    There has been a recent trend in the food service industry toward lower fat content and less salt. This trend, which was started by the medical community（医学界）a method of fighting heart disease, has had some unintended side(effect) such as overweight and heart disease—the very thing the medical community was trying to fight.

    Fat and salt are very important parts of a diet. They are required(process) the food that we eat, to recover from injury and for several other bodily functions. When fat and salt(remove) from food, the food tastes as if is missing something. As  result, people will eat more food to try to make up for that something missing. Even  (bad),  the amount of fast food that people eat goes up. Fast food   (be) full of fat and salt; by  (eat) more fast food people will get more salt and fat than they need in their diet.

    Having enough fat and salt in your meals will reduce the urge to snack(吃点心) between meals and will improve the taste of your food. However, be  (care) not to go to extremes. Like anything, it is possible to have too much of both,  is not good for the health.

    In 1863 the first underground passenger railway in the world opened in London. It ran for just under seven kilometers and allowed people to avoid terrible  (crowd) on the roads above as they travelled to and  work. It took three years to complete and was built using an interesting method. This included digging up the road, (lay) the track and then building a strong roof over top. When all those had been done, the road surface was replaced.

    Steam engines (use) to pull the carriages and it must have been(fair) unpleasant for the passsengers, with all the smoke and noise. However, the railway quickly proved to be a great success and within six months, more than 25,000 people were usingevery day.

    Later, engineers (manage) to construct railways in a system of deep tunnels (隧道）, which became known as the Tube. This development was only possible with the (introduce) of electric-powered engines and lifts. The central London Railway was one of the most (success) of these new lines, and was opened in 1900. It had white-painted tunnels and bright red carriages, and proved extremely popular with the public.

    She looks like any other schoolgirl, fresh-faced and full of life. Sarah Thomas is looking forward to the challenge of her new A-level course . But unlike school friends ,16-year-old Sarah is not spending half-term   (rest). Instead, she is earning $6500 a day as  model in New York.

    Sarah   (tell) that she could be Britain's new supermodel， earning a million dollars in the new year. Her father Peter44,want her to give up school to model fulltime. But Sarah, has taken part in shows along with top models， wants   (prove) that she has brains as well as beauty. She is determined to carry on with her(educate).

    She has turned down several (invitation) to star at shows in order to concentrate on her studies. After school she plans to take a year off to model full time before going to university to get a degree  engineering or architecture.

    Sarah says, "My dad thinks I should take the offer now. But at the moment, school (come) first. I don't want to get too absorbed in modeling. It is(certain) fun but the lifestyle is a little unreal. I don't want to have nothing else to fall back on when I can't model my more."

    A researcher has made a report  says having a lot of money makes you a bad person. Professor Paul Piff spent ten years  (look) at the personalities of rich people and  (find) that their behaviour was very different  the behavior of poor people. Rich people are more likely to break  (rule), not follow the law, and not care about other people. Wealthy people cheat more at games and are less likely to help other people. Professor Piff told the BBC, “Wealth makes you more  (worry) about your own interests, your own desires, your own welfare.” He added that rich people think their own goals and needs are the most  (importance) thing in their life.

    Professor Piff also found that poor people are more generous than rich people. The poor give a higher percentage of their money  (help) others than the rich. The  (wealth) you are, the less generous you are. You give significantly smaller portions away to other people. However, he said that rich people could change their behavior and become nicer  more generous.

    As less people choose to make sugar paintings, the traditional Chinese folk craft might have become a (distance) memory in some ways. However, a 38-year-old craftsman, Li Jiangzhong, is committed to (keep) the art of sugar painting alive.

    Li worked as miner for more than ten years. After the mine closed down, Li turned housing decoration, until he (force) to give that up due to a finger (injure). Earlier this year, he discovered sugar painting, something he really had an interest in.

    Since there was no sugar painting craftsman in his village, he studied by (he) through large quantities of videos and information on the Internet. He soon mastered the skill and could make a variety of sugar paintings. A sugar painting is made with (melt) brown or white sugar. Craftsman (normal) paint animals and flowers on a stone board with the syrup（糖浆）. When the sugar cools down,appears is a piece of sugar craft.

    I needed to get some money so I(take) a job in the clothes department at Graham's for the January sale. I can't say that I enjoyed it, it was an experience I'll never forget.

    When I arrived half an hour before opening on the first day of the sale, there was already queue around three sides of the building. This made me very nervous. The moment the security guards (lock) the doors, they hid behind the doors for protection as the noisy crowd rushed in. I couldn't believe my eyes: this wasn't shopping; it was a battlefield!

    After a while, clothes were flying all directions as people searched for the sizes, colours and styles they wanted. Within minutes I had half a dozen people (push) clothes under my nose, each wanting  (be) the first served. The whole day continued like that. People were spending money like water thinking they needed what they were buying. As long as it was a bargain it was OK.

    That night, after a quick dinner I went to bed (exhaust), fearing the sound of the alarm would tell me to get ready for the second day of the sale.

    Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is often inaccurately  (call) “Lunar New Year”, because—as part of the lunisolar Chinese calendar (农历)-the date is partially determined based on lunar phase (月相). The festival traditionally  (begin) on the first day of the first month in the Chinese calendar and ends with Lantern Festival is on the 15th day. Chinese New Year's Eve, a day when Chinese families gather for their annual reunion dinner, is known as chú xī. It literally means “Year-pass Eve”.

    According to  (tale) and legends, the beginning of Chinese New Year started with the fight against  mythical beast (神兽) called Nien (年). Nien would come on the first day of New Year to devour livestock (牲畜), crops, and even villagers, (especial) children. To protect the villagers would put food in front of their doors at the beginning of every year. It was believed that after the Nien (eat) the food they prepared, it wouldn't attack any more people. One time, people saw that the Nien was scared away by a little child wearing red. The villagers then understood that the Nien was afraid  the colour red. Hence, every time when the New Year was about to come, the villagers would hang red lanterns and red spring scrolls on windows and doors. People also used fireworks  (frighten) away the Nien. From then on, Nien never came to the village again.

    A group of classmates got together to visit their old teacher. These classmates all had good jobs and made lots of money. They talked  (happy). The teacher asked them the difficulty they had (achieve) their dreams. Then their talk soon turned to complaining about the stress in work and life. The teacher went to  kitchen and came back with a large pot of coffee and many cups-china ones, plastic ones and glass ones. Some are plain looking, some are expensive and some are lovely. The teacher told them to help (they)to the coffee.

    When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the teacher said, “Can you notice that all of you took nice-looking expensive cups, leaving  the plain and cheap ones? You want only the best for yourselves,is the source of your problems.”

    “What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, you went for the best cups and then began looking at each other's cups.”

    “Now think about this: life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and position in society  (be) the cups. They are just  (tool) to hold, and do not change the life. Sometimes, by caring only about the cups, we fail (enjoy) the coffee. So don't let the cups drive you, and enjoy the coffee instead.”

    There is a good new for astrophiles. The last full moon of 2017 is going to appear a little bigger and brighter than most.

    Dec. 3 will bring a supermoon, (mean) a full moon that happens at perigee—the same time that the moon is closest to the earth. this particular occasion, the moon will appear 7 percent larger and 16 percent brighter than usual. Not only will this be the only full supermoon of 2017, it's also going to kick off a series of three full supermoons in a row. The full moons on Jan. 2 and Jan. 31 will be super  (one) and even they'll be blue super moons, means the second full moon in a single month.

    While some moonwatchers might be getting excited, some people think the hype（炒作）around supermoons isn't all it (regard) as being. A scientist slammed（抨击）the term last year as something made up  (complete) and a waste of everyone's time. He acknowledged that supermoons would appear bigger and brighter, but that actually an amateur  (observe) wouldn't notice the difference. Another scientist  (make) a similar (argue) back in 2012.

    If the supermoon makes you want to go out and appreciate the sky's beauty, we say “Go for it.”

    Most of us use memes(表情包) when (talk) to our friends on WeChat or QQ. And  all the file formats(文件格式). GIF is probably the most popular.

    A GIF is usually short funny video that only lasts for a few seconds.

    The GIF turned 30 this year, is even two years older than the World Wide Web itself. Ever since the GIF (create) in 1987, it has long been overlooked. It wasn't until the age of smartphones and social media it became part of our daily lives.

    The GIF does a  (good) job of showing people's feeling than short text messages do. It is also a very small file format compared with regular videos, which helped it become popular among smartphone  (use).

    Because of its (popular), Oxford Dictionaries name “GIF” the word of the year in 2012. There are even search services specifically(专门地) for GIFs, such as Tenor and Giphy. And if we can't find anything we like there is easy to create our own GIFs on apps like DSCO and Giphy Cam.