2007-2010年广东高考英语语法填空

2008年广东高考英语语法填空真题

   Chinese proverbs are rich and they are still widely used in Chinese people‘s daily life. ___31___ these proverbs there are often interesting stories. For example， the proverb， “plucking up a crop ___32___ （help） it grow”， is based on the following story. It is said that a short-tempered man in the Song Dynasty （960—1279） was very anxious to help ___33___rice crop grow up quickly. He was thinking about ___34___ day and night. But the crop was growing much slower than he expected. One day， he came up with an idea ___35___ he would pluck up all of his crop a few inches. He did so the next day. He was very tired ___36___ doing this for a whole day， ___37___ he felt very happy since the crop did “grow” ___38___ （high）。

    His son heard about this and went to see the crop. Unfortunately the leaves of the crop began to wither. This proverb is saying we have to let things go in their ___39___ （nature） course. Being too anxious to help an event develop often ___40___ （result） in the contrary to our intention.

31. Behind/In  32. to help 33. his  34. it/this/that 35. that