Question

Directions:After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passagecoherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill ineach blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, useone word that best fits each blank.

Today theStatue of Liberty is a beloved landmark. It 1.(tower) above of theharbor of New York and is lovingly cared for by the National Park Service. Manythousands of visitors who visit Liberty Island each year might never suspectthat getting the statue 2.(build) was a long slow struggle. More than acentury ago, it 3.(be) the celebration of freedom and the commemorationof the friendship between America and France that inspired sculptor AugusteBartholdi and finally he went forward with designing the potential statue andpromoting the idea of building it. However, money was so big a problem 4.was haunting the two governments from the beginning to the end.

Donations forthe building of the statue first began coming in throughout France in 1875.Numerous people gave donations. A copper company donated the copper sheets thatwould be used to fashion the skin of the statue. Various donations werehelpful, 5. the cost of the statue kept riding. 6.(face) with ashortfall of money, the French-American Union held a lottery. Merchants inParis donated prizes, and tickets were sold. The lottery was a success, butmore money was still needed. The sculptor Bartholdi eventually sold miniatureversions of the statue, 7. the name of the buyer engraved on them.Finally, in July 1880 the French-American Union announced that enough money hadbeen raised to complete the building of the statue.

While theFrench had announced that the funds for the statues were in place in 1880, bylate 1882 the American donations, which would be needed to build the pedestal,were sadly lagging. The sculptor Bartholdi had travelled to America in 1871 topromote the idea of the statue. Despite Bartholdi’s efforts, the idea of thestatue was difficult 8.(sell). some newspapers, most notably the New YorkTimes, often criticized the statue as folly, and vehementlyopposed 9.(spend) any money on it. The newspaper publisher JosephPulitzer, who had purchased a New York City daily, The World, in the early1880s, took us the cause of the statue’s pedestal. He mounted an energetic funddrive, promising to print the name of each donor, 10. small the donation,Pulitzer’s audacious plan worked, and millions of people around the countrybegan donating whatever they could.

In August1885, that final $100,000 for the statue;s pedestal had been raised.Construction work on the stone structure continued, and the next year theStatue of Liberty, which had arrived from France packed in crated, was erectedon top.

Answer

1.towers

2.built

3.was

4.as

5.but

6.Faced

7.with

8.to sell

9.spending

10.however

【解析】

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1.考查时态。句意：今天，自由女神像是一个受人喜爱的地标。它耸立在纽约港的上空，被国家公园管理局亲切地照顾着。结合句意可知句子用一般现在时态，主语是it，单数第三人称形式，此处tower（高耸）是动词，故答案为towers。

2.考查过去分词。句意：每年访问自由岛的成千上万的游客可能永远不会怀疑，建造这座雕像是一场漫长而缓慢的斗争。此处get+宾语+过去分词，the statue 和build之间是被动关系，是过去分词做宾语补足语，故答案为built。

3.考查时态。根据More than acentury ago,可知句子用一般过去时态，主语是it，故答案为was。

4.考查as引导的定语从句。句意：然而，金钱是一个如此巨大的问题，就像从一开始就困扰着两国政府一样。先行词是a problem，指物，在后面的定语从句中做主语，此处as是关心代词，且前面有so，故答案为as。

5.考查并列连词。句意：各种各样的捐赠都很有帮助，但雕像的成本一直在持续。前后是一种转折关系，故答案为but。

6.考查过去分词做状语，句意：面对资金短缺，法裔美国人工会举行了抽奖。固定搭配：be faced with面临着---，此处是过去分词做时间状语，故答案为Faced。

7.考查介词。句意：雕塑家Bartholdi最终出售了雕像的迷你版，上面刻着买家的名字。with the name of以…的名义，故答案为with。

8.考查动词不定式做状语。句意：尽管Bartholdi的努力，雕像的想法很难卖出去。此处句子的主语做后面动词不定式的宾语，主动表示被动，故答案为to sell。

9.考查固定搭配。句意：一些报纸，尤其是纽约时报，经常批评这座雕像是愚蠢的，并强烈反对在它上面花任何钱。oppose doing sth.反对做某事，故答案为spending。

10.考查however引导的让步状语从句。句意：他登上了一个充满活力的基金，承诺要打印每个捐赠者的名字，无论捐款多么少，普利策的大胆计划奏效了，全国各地的数百万人开始捐赠他们能做的任何事情。此处however（无论怎样），引导让步状语从句，故答案为however。