宁夏六盘山高级中学高二下期末英语卷（带解析）_5

语法填空
 
阅读下面的材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的适当形式。
 
Act one of Pygmalion tells us how the main characters of this play, Eliza Doolittle, Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering had their 【小题1】_____(fate) meetings while 【小题2】_________(shelter) from a heavy rain outside a theater in London, England in 1914.
 
Eliza Doolittle was 【小题3】_______ poor flower girl. When she tried to sell her flowers to a gentleman, her terrible English 【小题4】______(catch) Professor Higgins’ attention. Professor Higgins, an expert in phonetics, could place a person by his / her【小题5】_____ (remark). He convinced that the quality of a person’s English decides his / her social position.
 
In his opinion, once educated to speak 【小题6】______(proper), Eliza Doolittle could pass 【小题7】_____(her) off in three months 【小题8】___ a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party and perhaps she could even work as a lady’s maid or a shop assistant.
 
Colonel Pickering, an officer in the army, 【小题9】____ had studied many Indian dialects himself, came to England 【小题10】_____( make) the acquaintance of Professor Higgins.