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2024 上海高考名校名卷分类汇编秋季第一套 1 9份语法填空 学生版
1.育才23-24秋-1
II. Grammar and Vocabulary 20分
Section A Grammar
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. 10分
Do you know someone who is exceptionally picky when it comes to the food to eat, the clothes to wear, or the people to date? Choosy people tend to be somewhat overly analytical - they carefully weigh the pros and cons of most decisions. As a result, they tend to take a lot of time (21)________(make) up their minds.
Remember Jerry from Seinfeld? He was extremely picky regarding the people he dated. Any physical flaw, (22)________small, was Jerry's reason for rejecting a possible dating partner. I had a friend who was like that. He didn't like the shape of this girl's chin, or another (23)_______ ears were “too large for her face.” As a result, he rarely dated anyone.
A waitress told me a story of a particular picky woman. The restaurant had a special salad (24)________tons of ingredients. This woman would go down the list of ingredients and say, “I don't like cucumbers, take that out...take out the cilantro, no tomatoes, etc.” The waitress said that by the time she was done, it was (25)________salad of just iceberg lettuce! People who are not picky - the opposite end of the scale - tend to be (26)________(impulsive), flexible, and open to experience.
Our research found that some people are only picky in particular areas of their lives - eating, dating, or when (27)________(evaluate) goods for purchase, although most were picky in most things. Picky people tend to analyze, and often overanalyze, the choices that they are about to make. Some of them can drive salespersons crazy as they hesitate, evaluate. and hesitate again.
A contractor(承包商), who (28)________(remodel) a couple of houses, told me