【增分专练】2016高考英语-语法填空集训（十）
【全国优秀高中英语名师】
甘肃庆阳 刘克炜
【增分专练】第二节 语法填空（共10个小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Passage 1
Aesop(伊索) was a slave living around 550 BC. We call the stories he wrote fables, as every story has a moral. Almost all the fables he wrote are ___61___ (humor) and entertaining, appealing to people ___62____ all ages. To date, Aesop’s fables ____63____ (translate) into many languages and are known all over the world. Not only ___64___ the fables themselves lived for nearly 1500 years, but ___65___ (express) from them have entered various languages.
One fable, for instance, is about a farmer who was driving his cart along a country road. The cart got ___66___ (stick) in the mud, but the farmer made ___67___ effort to get it out. Instead, he began to pray to the gods for help. The god Hercules finally appeared and told ___68___ man to get busy and push ___69___. “Push your shoulder to the wheel.” Hercules advised.
The moral of the story is clear. We mustn’t rely on others for help. Another saying which has come from the fable is “God helps those ___70___ help themselves.”
