The Shrine in the Black Hills: Multiple Choice Grammar Test
It started as an idea to draw sightseers. In 1923, a historian Doane Robinson suggested (1)_________ some giant statues in (2)_________Black Hills (the USA). Robinson wanted his sculptures (3)_________the gateway to the west, where the Black Hills rise from the plains (4)_________a geographical prelude to the Rockies. It was the sculptor Gutzon Borglum who started realizing the idea.
Mount Rushmore, (5)_________in 1885 for (6)_________New York lawyer Charles E. Rushmore was chosen for the memorial. Its broad wall of granite faced the southwest to receive direct sunlight for (7)_________.
G. Borglum envisioned four US presidents who reflected a brief history of the country. The work was purely a national memorial and cost (8)_________1 million USD.
His monument to America was a group of four leaders who (9)_________the country from the colonial times into (10)_________century. (11)_________prominent position went to George Washington, the Commander of the Revolutionary Army and the first US president. To the far right was the 16th President Abraham Lincoln, (12)_________leadership restored the Union and ended slavery on the US soil. If Borglum had a hero of his own, it was the 26th President Theodore Roosevelt, who promoted the construction of (13)_________Panama Canal.
The masterpiece is (14)_________more than a tourist attraction; the work is purely a national memorial. (15)_________, as close to heaven as they could be, the words of the US leaders, their faces show what men they were. They will endure until the wind and the rain (16)_________them away.
A | B | C | D | |
1 | carving | carve | to carve | being carved |
2 | Southern Dakota’s | South Dakota’s | the South Dakota’s | South’s Dakota’s |
3 | stand | stands | to stand | will stand |
4 | like | as | such as | similarly |
5 | naming | was named | names | named |
6 | a | the | an | — |
7 | the most of the day | the most of day | most of the day | most of day |
8 | near | nearly | nearer | the nearly |
9 | was brought | has brought | bringing | brought |
10 | the 20th | the 20s | 20th | a 20th |
11 | Mostly | Most | The most | More |
12 | who | whom | whose | who’s |
13 | the | — | an | a |
14 | many | far | a lot of | most |
15 | Carved hight | Carving high | Carved high | Carved highly |
16 | wore | will wear | worn | wear |
1.A; 2.B; 3.C; 4.B; 5.D; 6.A; 7.C; 8.B; 9.D; 10.A; 11.C; 12.C; 13.A; 14.B; 15.C; 16.D