专题09 综合测试（九）（测）（含解析）
I．语法填空（15分）
【2015届广东省阳东一中、广雅中学高三第一次联考】第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
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，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在标号为16～25的相应位置上。
Six days of spring rain had created a wild river __16___(run) by Nancy Brown’s farm．As she tried to drive her cows to higher ground, she __17____( slip) and hit her head on a fallen tree trunk．Nancy was badly hurt and could only walk with great _18___(difficult）．The water __19___(rise)．Nancy’s pace got slower and slower．Finall y, all she could do was to throw her arm around Lizzie’s neck and try to hang on．About 20 minutes later, Lizzie managed to __20___ (succeed) pull herself and Nancy out of the water and onto a bit of high land．
It took rescuers another two hours to discover Nancy．__21___ helicopter lowered a doctor, __22____attached Nancy to a life-support lift．They raised her into the helicopter and took her to the sch ool gym, __23____the Red Cross had set up an emergency shelter．
When the flood subsided two days later, Nancy immediately went back to the highland．Lizzie was gone. __24____was one of the 19 cows that Nancy lost．“I owe my life _25____her,” said Nancy sobbingly．
