三、综合提升
Ⅳ.语法填空
A poor farmer had a friend who was famous for the wonderful apple tree he 25. (grow).
One day, his friend gave the farmer a young apple tree and told him to plant it. The farmer was 26. (please) with the gift, but he did not know where to plant it.
He was afraid that if he planted the tree near the road, 27. (strange) would steal the fruit. If he planted the tree in one of his fields, his neighbors would come at night and 28. (steal) some of the apples. If he planted the tree near 29. (he) house, his children would take the fruit. Finally he planted the tree in his woods. But 30. sunlight and good soil(土壤), the tree soon died.
Later the friend asked the farmer why he had planted the tree in such 31. poor place. "What's the difference?" The farmer said 32. (angry) and then told what he had thought.
"Yes,"said the friend,"but at 33. (little) someone could have enjoyed the fruit. Now you not only have robbed every one of the fruit, 34. also you have destroyed(毁掉) a good apple tree!"

25. grew 26. pleased 27. strangers 28. steal 29. his
30. without 31. a 32. angrily 33. least 34. but

【分析】本题为语法填空题，需结合故事语境，运用时态、词性变化、固定搭配、冠词代词等语法知识逐一分析每个空格。先通读全文理解大意，再根据每个空的语法结构和词汇用法确定答案。
【解析】25. 定语从句中，主句为过去式，从句用一般过去时，grow的过去式是grew；26. 固定搭配be pleased with表示“对……满意”，故填pleased；27. 此处指“陌生人”，用strange的名词复数strangers；28. would后接动词原形，故填steal；29. 修饰名词house，用形容词性物主代词his；30. 根据语境，树因缺少阳光和土壤死亡，填without；31. place是可数名词单数，poor以辅音音素开头，用冠词a；32. 修饰动词said，用副词angrily；33. 固定短语at least，填least；34. 固定搭配not only...but also...，填but。
【答案】25. grew 26. pleased 27. strangers 28. steal 29. his 30. without 31. a 32. angrily 33. least 34. but
【知识点】一般过去时、词性转换、固定搭配
【点评】本题考查初中英语基础语法与词汇运用，需结合语境分析，难度适中，是常见的语法填空题型。
【难度系数】0.6