1.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，从各小题的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，使短文连贯完整。
There was once a young man who liked puppets (木偶) so much. He became ____1____ student of a puppet-making master. Sadly, the young man was not so clever. His teacher and other classmates told him that he ____2____ no ability to make puppets and that he would never succeed.
Even so, he enjoyed it so much that he worked day after day to improve ____3____ . But his teacher and other classmates ____4____ find something wrong with the puppets he made, so they kicked him out of the workshop.
The young man wasn’t going to give up ____5____. Instead, he decided to spend all his time making just one kind of puppet. His puppet became a little bit better ____6____ his hard work. It was much better than anything that his old classmates made. However, he kept making improvements.
He finished working on his excellent puppet ____7____ so many years of work. By the time he was an old man, his puppet had been ____8____ wonderful. He always reminded himself “I can’t find anything wrong with it. This time it is perfect. ”And for the first time in all those years, instead of throwing his puppet away, he put it on the shelf. ____9____!
What made him succeed was not his talent but his ____10____ hard work. If you want to make a difference in your life, you should keep it in your mind that success lies in never giving up.
1. A. the B. a C. an D. /
2. A. have B. was having C. has D. had
3. A. him B. himself C. his D. he
4. A. would never B. never would C. would always D. always would
5. A. what he had done B. what had he done C. why he had done D. why had he done
6. A. in B. with C. at D. of
7. A. after B. if C. when D. before
8. A. serious B. seriously C. true D. truly
9.
A. What satisfied the man was B. What satisfied man he was
C. How satisfied the man was D. How satisfied man he was
10. A. 20 years B. 20 year C. 20-years D. 20-year
【答案】1. B 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. A 6. B 7. A 8. D 9. C 10. D
【解析】
【导语】本文主要讲述了年轻的木偶师傅成功的故事，启发我们：只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针。即使缺少天分，但若坚持不懈，每天努力一点点，每次完善一点点，我们相信，我们终会获得成功。
【1题详解】
句意：他成了一位木偶制作大师的学生。
the定冠词；a用于辅音音素前；an用于元音音素前；/零冠词。根据“student”可知，需要不定冠词表示泛指，student是辅音音素开头，故选B。
【2题详解】
句意：他的老师和其他同学告诉他，他没有能力制作木偶，他永远不会成功。
have动词原形，有；was having过去进行时，作为“有”讲时，没有进行时；has动词三单，有；had过去式，有。根据“that he would never succeed”可知，句子时态是与过去有关的时态，此处指没有能力，had符合句意，故选D。
【3题详解】
句意：尽管如此，他还是非常喜欢，所以他日复一日地努力提高自己。
him他，宾格；himself他自己，反身代词；his他的，形容词性物主代词；he他，主格。根据“he worked day after day”可知，提高自己，需要反身代词，故选B。
【4题详解】
句意：但是他的老师和其他同学总是发现他做的木偶有问题，所以他们把他赶出了工作室。
would never将永远不；never would错误格式；would always总是；always would错误格式。根据“so they kicked him out of the workshop.”可知，总是能找到错误，频率副词需要位于情态动词之后，故选C。
【5题详解】
句意：这个年轻人不打算放弃他所做的事情。
what he had done他做的事，陈述语序；what had he done他做的事，疑问语序；why he had done错误格式，done后却宾语；why had he done错误格式，done后缺宾语。根据“The young man wasn’t going to give up”可知，此处是宾语从句，用陈述语序，没有放弃他做的事，故选A。
【6题详解】
句意：经过他的努力，他的木偶变得更好了。
in在……里；with和；at在；of……的。根据“became a little bit better”可知，在努力工作下，他开始变得更好，故选B。
【7题详解】
句意：经过这么多年的努力，他终于完成了他那只出色的木偶。
after之后；if如果；when当……时；before之前。根据“so many years of work”可知，经过多年努力之后，他能出色完成木偶制作，故选A。
【8题详解】
句意：当他老的时候，他的木偶真的很棒。
serious严肃的，形容词；seriously严重地，副词；true正确的，形容词；truly真正地，副词。根据“wonderful”可知，真的很好，副词修饰形容词，故选D。
【9题详解】
句意：这个人是多么满意啊！
What satisfied the man was错误格式；What satisfied man he was错误格式，缺少冠词；How satisfied the man was这个男人多么满意；How satisfied man he was错误格式。根据选项可知，是一个感叹句，结合how+adj+主谓，故选C。
【10题详解】
句意：使他成功的不是他的天赋，而是他20年的努力。
20 years 20年；20 year错误格式；20-years错误格式；20-year形容词，20年的。根据“hard work”可知，需要形容词修饰名词，故选D。
