2014届高三英语二轮精品卷：语法填空和完形填空（6）
ii. grammar and vocabulary
section a
directions: after reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. for the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
(a)
i hated dinner parties. but i decided (25)__________ (give) them another try because i’m in london. and my friend mallery invited me. and because (26)__________ dinner parties in london are very different from those in new york. in new york, “i’m having a dinner party” means “i’m booking a table for 12 at a restaurant you (27)__________ hardly afford and we’ll be sharing the check evenly, (28)__________ you eat.” worse, in manhattan, there is always someone who (29)__________ (leave) before the bill arrives. they’ll throw down cash, half of what they owe, and then people like me, who don’t drink, end up (30)__________ (pay) even more. but if i try to use the same trick, the hostess will shout: “where are you going?” and it’s not like that i can’t say i have somewhere to go: everyone knows i have nowhere to go.
