Self-reliance（自立）Everyone has heard （hear） the word "self-relian

Self-reliance（自立）

Everyone has heard （hear） the word "self-reliance". Emerson wrote a（1）_____ （fame） essay about it. He felt that people should trust in their own（2）_____ （able）. They should think and act for themselves. Like many such（3）_____ （term）, this one had no real meaning for me until it was（4）_____ （demonstrate） to me in real life.

Last year I met a blind girl（5）_____ （name） Gail. She was（6）_____ （extreme） slender and weak, but she always insisted on（7）_____ （find） her way around the school by herself. When she（8）_____ （sit） in a room with several of us, there was sometimes a（n）（9）_____ （easy） silence, because we thought she might resent our acting too cheerful and thoughtless in her（10）_____（present）. On such occasions, she would say something casual or show us how fast she could write. She never asked for anyone's pity. She truly relied on herself.


【正确答案】：1.famous

2.ability

3.terms

4.demonstrated

5.named

6.extremely

7.finding

8.sat

9.uneasy

10.presence


【题目解析】：1.a_____essay中应填入形容词，famous。

2.这里应填入名词，ability。

3.前有many填复数，terms。

4.be demonstrated表被动。

5.named叫做表被动。

6.这里应填入副词，extremely。

7.insist on doing，坚持做，填finding.

8.后面there was表明词句语境是过去时，填sat。

9.resent表示怨恨。我们认识她可能会怨恨我们表演太开心且忽视了她在现场，可知她很难保持沉默，故填uneasy。

10.从句中判断此处填名词的含义是现场，存在，故填presence。