语法填空专项练3篇
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，在空格处填人一个适当的
词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为3l-40的相应位置上。
A jobless man applied for the position of “office boy” at a big firm.
The HR manager ___31__ (interview) him, then a test: clean the floor. “You are hired,” he said, “give me your email address, ___32__ I’ll send you the application to fill.” The man replied “I don’t have a computer, ___33__ an email”.
“I’m sorry,” said the HR manager, “that means you do not exist. And ___34__ doesn’t exist cannot have the job.” The man left ___35__ no hope at all. He didn’t know what to do, with only $10 in his pocket.
He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10 KG tomato crate. He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round. In less than two hours, he ___36__ (success) in doubling his capital. He repeated the operation 3 times, and returned home with $60.
5 years later, the man is one of the ___37__ (big) food retailers(零售商) in the US. He started to plan his family’s future, and decided to have a life insurance.
He called ___38__ insurance broker, and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his email. The man replied: “I don’t have an email”. The broker replied ___39__ (curious), “You don’t have an email, and yet have established an empire! Do you imagine ___40__ you could have been if you had an email?
The man thought for a while, and replied: “An office boy!”
31. interviewed
32. and
33. neither /nor /or
34. whoever 在这里作主语引导主语从句，整句意思是“凡是不存在的人都不能拥有这份工作。”
35. with
36. succeeded
37. biggest 这里应该用形容词的最高级形式，在one of the + 形容词+名词的结构里，形容词应是最高级形式，例如：She is one of the most diligent students in our class.
38. an
39. curiously 这里应填副词作状语修饰动词replied。
40. what 引导宾语从句，在从句中作have been的表语。整个宾语从句用了虚拟语气，意思是：“要是你有email，那你又该成了什么样的人哪？”