Question

【題目】Directions; Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United States. He became a【1】 voice in the year before the Civil War.

A few weeks ago, the National Park Service (NPS) 【2】Douglass’s birth and Black History Month with reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a【3】 site in Washington. D.C. The two-story house, which contains many of Douglass’s personal possessions, had undergone a three-year 【4】. (Thanks to the NTS website, however, you don’t have to live in the nation’s capital to visit it. Take a tour online.)

He was born in Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father who never knew Douglass grew uo to become the first black 【5】 to hold a government office--- as US minister and consul general （總領事）to Haiti.

As a youth, he never went to school. Educating slaves was illegal in the South, so he 【6】 taught himself to read and write. At 21 years old, he escaped from his slave owner to Massachusetts and changed his last name to Douglass, to hide his identity.

In the 1850s, Douglass was involved with the Underground Railroad, the system 【7】 up by antislavery groups to bring runaway slaves to the North and Canada. His home in Rochester, N.Y. was near the Canadian border. It became an important station on the 【8】, housing as many as 11 runaway slaves at a time.

He died in 1895. In his lifetime, Douglass 【9】 the end of slavery in 1865 and the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution （美國憲法修正案）, which 【10】 African-Americans the right to vote.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】J

【2】A

【3】C

【4】I

【5】E

【6】D

【7】B

【8】G

【9】K

【10】F

【解析】

本文是一篇人物傳記，介紹了黑人領袖弗雷德里克道格拉斯的生平和貢獻。

【1】考查形容詞。句意：他在內戰(zhàn)前一年成為了一個主要的聲音。修飾名詞voice用形容詞，表示“主要的”，故填J

【2】考查動詞。句意：幾周前，國家公園管理局為了紀念道格拉斯的出生和黑人歷史月，重新開放了他位于華盛頓雪松山的家，這是一處華盛頓地區(qū)的歷史遺跡。此處缺少及物動詞作謂語，表示“紀念”，故填A。

【3】考查形容詞。句意同上，a historic site表示“歷史遺跡”，故填C。

【4】考查名詞。句意：這棟兩層樓高的房子里存放著道格拉斯的許多私人物品，經(jīng)歷了三年的修繕。作動詞undergone的賓語用名詞，表示“修繕、復原”，故填I。

【5】考查名詞。句意：他從不知道道格拉斯長大后成為第一位擔任政府公職的黑人公民。此處缺少名詞作表語，表示“公民”，故填E。

【6】考查副詞。句意：在南方，教育奴隸是非法的，所以他偷偷地自學讀寫。修飾動詞taught用副詞，表示“偷偷地”，故填D。

【7】考查非謂語動詞。句意：19世紀50年代，道格拉斯參與了“地下鐵路”運動，該運動由反奴隸制團體發(fā)起，目的是將逃跑的奴隸帶到北方和加拿大。set up 表示 “建立、發(fā)起”，the system 與set up之間是動賓關系，表示被動，用過去分詞做后置定語，故填B。

【8】考查名詞。句意：它成了這條路線上的一個重要站點，一次可以容納多達11名逃跑的奴隸。on the route表示“在路上、在某一路線”，故填G。

【9】考查動詞。句意：在道格拉斯的一生中，他見證了1865年奴隸制的終結以及美國憲法第15條修正案的通過，該修正案賦予非裔美國人投票權。此處用動詞作謂語，表示“見證”，故填K。

【10】考查動詞。句意同上，此處用動詞作謂語，表示“合法地（授予）”，故填F。