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，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31～40的相应位置上。
At the age of 17, Swedish Alfred Nobel spoke five languages fluently. Nobel became an 31 (invent）and businessman, and at the time of his death on December 10, 1896, he had 355 patents worldwide —— 32 of them was the patent on dynamite(炸药). Furthermore, he had started 87 companies all over the world.
