Ⅴ. 语法填空
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词，或使用括号内词语的正确形式填空。(最多限填三个单词)
Susan was tired of having her three children talk back to her. One day, she climbed into her kids' tree house. It was 1. good place, she thought, for a mother to go on strike(罢工). She was tired of 2. (drive)them everywhere without thanks and doing more than her share of the work around the house. Until 3. (thing)changed, Susan decided to stay up in the tree.
Susan's strike got her kids' attention, 4. course. But that was not all that happened. Word of the fed-up mother spread. Before long, a camera crew from television's *Today Show* came into their yard. Now people all across America were going to find 5. who drove the kids' mother up a tree.
As the cameras worked, the three kids stood with their father near the tree house. Kate, the *Today Show* host, had a question for 6. (they). “What do you think about your mom on strike in that tree house?” she asked.
“I am kind of embarrassed,” said Misty.
“I'm really shocked,” said Joseph. “I did not think it would go this far. My mom is much 7. (crazy)than we thought.”
Rachel added, “I think Mom is so strange 8. I can hardly believe it.”
But Susan had made her point. If the kids 9. (want)her back, they should know what to do. When the TV crew left, the kids went into their house 10. (quick)and got busy. Not long after that Susan climbed down from the tree and went back to being a mom.

1. a 2. driving 3. things 4. of 5. out 6. them 7. crazier 8. that 9. want 10. quickly

1. 考查冠词。place为可数名词单数，good以辅音音素开头，用不定冠词a。
2. 考查非谓语动词。of为介词，后接动词-ing形式，drive变为driving。
3. 考查名词复数。thing为可数名词，此处表“事情”，用复数things。
4. 考查固定搭配。of course“当然”，固定短语。
5. 考查固定短语。find out“查明”，符合语境。
6. 考查代词宾格。for为介词，后接宾格them。
7. 考查比较级。由than可知用crazy的比较级crazier。
8. 考查固定句型。so...that...“如此……以至于……”，固定结构。
9. 考查时态。if条件句中，主句含情态动词should，从句用一般现在时，主语kids为复数，用want。
10. 考查副词。修饰动词went用quick的副词形式quickly。