2024届上海市高考英语语法填空专题练习一

上海英语高考·语法填空专题练习一 注：此套练习系自制，难度中等，建议中等学生练习。 Passage A Friends United In 2011, retired bricklayer Joao, 71, found a South American penguin lying on the rocks and close to death on his local beach, just outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Joao cleaned the oil off the penguin's feathers, fed him (1)_____ daily diet of fish to get his strength up and named him Dindim. A week later, Joao tried to release the penguin back into the sea, but he just wouldn't leave. Joao took him out in his boat, (2)_____(go) to a nearby island and released him. Later that day,the penguin was back in Joao's backyard.In the end, Dindim stayed with Joao for 11 months and then,"just (3)_____ he changed his coat for new feathers, he disappeared," Joao explains. In fact, Dindim returns to Joao's little beach in the summer every year— it's believed that the penguin prefers (4)_____(visit) the elderly man rather than migrate to the feeding areas of his species. Joao recalls how the penguin continued to follow him home. "Everyone said he wouldn't return, but he (5)____________(come) back to visit me for the past four years,” he says. "He arrives in June and leaves to go home in February and every year he becomes more affectionate (6)_____ he appears even happier to see me." Now new pictures have emerged of Dindim (7)_____(visit) Joao in his village earlier this month. When Dindim is staying with Joao, the two friends sometimes like to take a walk together down the beach—or sometimes Joao walks and Dindim swims alongside him. "I love the penguin (8)_____ _______ it was my own child and I believe the penguin loves me," Joao says. "(9)_____ else is allowed to touch him. He pecks them if they do. He lies on my lap, lets me give him showers and allows me to feed him sardines and to pick him up." Who said there wasn't still some good news (10)_____(leave) in the world? keys: 1. a 2. went 3. after 4. to visit 5. has been coming 6. as 7. visiting 8. as if/as though 9. Nobody 10. left Passage B ZOOS: C