练习题1-2023-2024学年高一英语【新课程寒假作业】

积 累 · 整 合 应 用 · 拓 展 创 新 · 实 践 高一英语 第 周 年 月 日 语篇填空 阅读下面短文 ， 在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内所给单词的正确形式 。 Passage 1 Once there lived a rich man 1. wanted to do something for the people of his town. 2. he wanted to find out whether they deserved his help. In the center of the main road into the town, he placed 3. very large stone. Then he 4. （ hide ） behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow. “ Who put this stone in the center of the road? ” said the old man, but he did not try to remove the stone. Instead, with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued on his way. 5. man came along and did the same thing; then another came, and another. All of them complained about the stone but not tried to remove 6. . Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone, 7. （ say ） to himself: “ The night 8. （ be ） very dark. Some neighbors will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone. ” Then he began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled with all his 9. （ strong ） to move it. How great was his surprise at last! 10. the stone, he found a bag of money. Passage 2 In the 1950s, a family that owned a farm near Beulah, Michigan kept a bull chained to an elm （ 榆树 ） . The bull paced 1. the tree, dragging the heavy iron chain, which led to a groove （ 槽 ） in the bark （ 树皮 ） . The groove 2. （ deep ） over the years. Though for whatever reason, it did not kill the tree. 3. some years, the family took their bull away. They cut the chain, leaving the loop around the tree and one link 4. （ hang down ） . Then one year, agricultural catastrophe struck Michigan in 5. form of Dutch elm disease. All of the elms lining the road leading to the farm became infected 6. died. Everyone thought that the old elm would be the next. The farm owners considered 7. （ do ） the safe thing: pulling it out and chopping it up into firewood before it died. 8. （ amazing ） , the tree did not die. Nobody could understand 9. it was the only elm still standing in the co