2015届广东省韶关市高考英语一轮课外自练（8）及答案_高考复习指南

2015届广东省韶关市高考英语一轮课外自练（8）及答案

　　短文语法填空【1】

　　广东省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中词语的正确形式填空。LONDON — Millvina Dean, who as a baby was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat in the frigid North Atlantic, died Sunday，__1__(be) the last survivor of 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.

　　She was 97 years old, and she died __2__ she had lived — in Southampton, England, the city her family had tried to leave behind when it took the ill-fated maiden voyage，bound __3__ America.

　　She died in her sleep early Sunday，__4__ friend Gunter Babler told the Associated Press. It was the 97th anniversary of the launch of the ship that was promoted as “practically unsinkable”．

　　Babler said Dean’ s longtime companion, Bruno Nordmanis, called him in Switzerland __5__(say) staff at Woodlands Ridge Nursing Home in Southampton discovered Dean in her room Sunday morning. He said she had been hospitalized with pneumonia but she __6__(recover) and returned to the home.

　　__7__ staff nurse at the nursing home said late Sunday that no one would comment __8__ administrators came on duty Monday morning.

　　Dean was just over 2 months old when the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg __9__ the night of April 14, 1912. The ship sank in less than three hours. Dean was one of the 706 people —__10__(most) women and children — who survived. Her father was among the 1 517 who died.