第三节完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
When I was a boy, every holiday that I had seemed wonderful. My 21 took me by train or by car to a hotel by the 22 . All day, I seem to remember, I 23 on the sands with strange 24 children. We made houses and gardens, and 25 the tide destroy them. When the tide went out, we 26 over the rocks and looked down at the fish in the rock-pools.
In those days the 27 seemed to shine always brightly 28 the water was always warm. Sometimes we left beach and walked in the country,_ 29 ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees. There were 30 in one’s pockets or good places where one could 31 ice creams. Each day seemed a lifetime.
Although I am now thirty-five years old, my idea of a good 32 is much the same as it was. I 33 like the sun and warm sand and the sound of 34 beating the rocks. I no longer wish to 35 any sand house or sand garden, and I dislike sweets. 36 I love the sea and often feel sand running through my fingers.
Sometimes I 37 what my ideal (理想的) holiday will be like when I am 38 . All I want to do then, perhaps, will be to lie in bed, reading books about 39 who make houses and gardens with sands, who watch the incoming tide, who make themselves 40 on too many ices…
21. A. teacher B. parents C. nurse D. younger sister
22. A. sea B. lake C. mountain D. river
23. A. played B. slept C. sat D. stood
24. A. moving B. exciting C. anxious D. nervous
25. A. made B. brought C. watched D. heard
26. A. rolled B. jumped C. turned D. climbed
27. A. light B. sun C. moon D. lamp
28. A. and B. yet C. but D. or
29. A. exploring B. examining C. repairing D. measuring
30. A. sweets B. sand C. ice-creams D. money
31. A. make B. sell C. buy D. offer
32. A. house B. holiday C. garden D. tide
33. A. hardly B. almost C. still D. perhaps
34. A. waves B. tides C. hands D. feet
35. A. destroy B. fix C. use D. build
36. A. But B. However C. Otherwise D. Besides
37. A. wonder B. feel C. understand D. believe
38. A. strong B. weak C. young D. old
39. A. children B. boys C. girls D. grown-ups
40. A. happy B. tired C. sad D. Sick
During Christmas break from college, a young man wanted to borrow his father's car to drive to a New Year's Eve ____ to be held in Vermont. The father was ____ about the son hitting one of the roadblocks that people set up all over the place on New Year's Eve. The ____ that was reached was that the son would be allowed to use the car, but he would not drink at all.
So he drove to Vermont, got completely ____ and attempted to drive home. On the way home he hit a roadblock. He was told to ____ the car and stand in a line of people that were being given the infamous sobriety (not drunk) ____. However, the policeman ____ him out. He was ____ standing off to the side while the others were ____ the police officer how well they could walk a ____ line, etc.
At 7:00 a.m., his father got up to answer the ____. There were ____ policemen there. They asked him if he was the ____ of that red FIAT. He replied, "Yes, I am," One of the policemen asked him if he was driving the car the evening before and he said that his son had been the driver.
When the young man ____ himself in front of the policemen, he knew he was in some sort of ____. Upon questioning, he ____ that he was driving the car, but when asked if he had been ____, he said, "No!" When the policemen asked if he could see his car, he was unable to remember the ____. He said that it was in the garage.
And when the four of them walked out to look at the car,instead of looking at the car he had driven the ____ before, they saw a ____ car parked there.
A.party B.meeting C.concert D.sports meeting
A.sure B.worried C.curious D.anxious
A.suggestion B.condition C.conclusion D.agreement
A.excited B.tired C.drunk D.pleased
A.stop B.get out of C.drive D.get into
A.punishment B.test C.education D.talk
A.gave B.made C.missed D.found
A.considered B.required C.suggested D.left
A.showing B.explaining C.asking D.telling
A.long B.straight C.calm D.direct
A.telephone B.call C.doorbell D.question
A.two B.many C.four D.one
A.manager B.father C.student D.owner
A.stood B.found C.put D.took
A.trouble B.test C.danger D.accident
A.believed B.told C.admitted D.said
A.driving B.hurting C.missing D.drinking
A.drive B.test C.time D.line
A.day B.morning C.afternoon D.night
A.similar B.familiar C.police D.damaged
Cancy was reunited with her parents. But she was stolen as a baby on Aug. 4, 1987.
“It’s a(n) feeling. Now I can sleep,” mother Joy White said after her grown-up daughter over the weekend, “ I’ve been for all these years. I never took her picture off my dresser. I never looking for her.”
Cancy was not yet a month old she was stolen. She had a and her worried parents took her to hospital.
A woman dressed as a got close to Joy White in the emergency room(急救室) and told her everything would be . Joy went home to rest. When she to the hospital ,Cancy was gone.
, a girl known as Nejdra grew up in Bridgeport. As a teenager, she began to doubt that she wasn’t concerned with the family that her. And she was puzzled that she was able to get a copy of her birth certificate(证明).
Finally, she began to do some on the Internet. On a website, she found a photo of a baby named Cancy.
The site got in touch with Joy White on Jan.4 and her a baby photo taken by the family who raised Nejdra.
“I was shouting. I was so ,”Joy said, “ I saw the picture I said, ‘That’s my daughter.’ I saw myself in her.”
DNA tests Nejdra is Cancy --- the daughter of Joy White and Carl Tyson.
“I already knew in my heart that this was my daughter,” Tyson said. “All I could is to shed tears.”
A.surprising B.natural C.wonderful D.uncomfortable
A.helping B.noticing C.dreaming D.meeting
A.surprised B.worried C.amused D.embarrassed
A.kept on B.insisted on C.gave up D.set about
A.when B.if C.until D.so
A.mistake B.habit C.chance D.fever
A.nurse B.student C.friend D.child
A.special B.attractive C.fine D.exact
A.turned B.moved C.got D.returned
A.Besides B.At the same time C.Still D.yet
A.actually B.always C.simply D.luckily
A.served B.saved C.stole D.raised
A.never B.also C.only D.already
A.homework B.tests C.research D.experiments
A.missing B.smiling C.crying D.singing
A.lent B.showed C.bought D.handed
A.excited B.brave C.careful D.friendly
A.Although B.Because C.In case D.As soon as
A.allowed B.suggested C.proved D.wished
A.answer B.do C.guess D.learn
While watching the Olympics the other night, I came across an incredible(难以置信的) sight. The was swimming and started with only three men. For one reason or another, two of them had a start, so they were disqualified. That would have been difficult enough, not having anyone to against.
I watched the man off the blocks and knew immediately that something was wrong. Now I’m not an expert but I do know a good dive a poor one, and this was not exactly medal . I listened to the crowd begin to this poor man that was clearly having a time. Finally he made his turn to start back. It was he made a few desperate(拼命的) stroke(划水) and you could tell he was exhausted.
But in those few strokes, the crowd had changed. No longer were they laughing, but beginning to . Some even began to things like, “Come on, you can do it!” and he finished his race. The crowd went . Even though he recorded one of the times in Olympic history, this man gave more heart than any of the other .
In a competition where athletes remove their silver medals, feeling they have been cheated out of gold, or when they act so in front of their competitors, it is nice to watch an underdog(败者), a man that gave his all --- knowing that he had no chance, but competed because of his and the spirit of the games.
A.view B.event C.game D.match
A.false B.nervous C.strange D.violent
A.fight B.struggle C.defend D.race
A.set B.bounce C.dive D.fall
A.swimmer B.coach C.judge D.adviser
A.from B.in C.beyond D.between
A.feature B.quality C.example D.sign
A.break off B.stand by C.laugh at D.focus on
A.happy B.wonderful C.satisfying D.tough
A.hopeful B.pitiful C.boring D.skillful
A.intellectual B.smart C.awkward D.excellent
A.support B.quit C.cheer D.hesitate
A.speak B.present C.conclude D.yell
A.eventually B.hardly C.successful D.nearly
A.wild B.angry C.sad D.grey
A.fastest B.luckiest C.worst D.slowest
A.companion B.competitors C.volunteers D.partners
A.somehow B.already C.even D.anyway
A.poorly B.carelessly C.sharply D.proudly
A.advantage B.independence C.determination D.principle
I recently heard a story about a famous scientist who had made several very important medical breakthroughs(突破). He was being interviewed by a reporter who asked him he thought he was able to be so much more than the average person.
He responded that it all came from a(n) with his mother that occurred when he was about 2. He had been trying to milk from the fridge when he the slippery(光滑的) bottle, its contents running all over the kitchen floor.
When his mother came in, shouting at him or giving him a lecture, she said, “Robert, what a great and wonderful you have made! I have seen such a huge pool of milk. Well, the damage has already been . Would you like to get down and in the milk for a few minutes before we clean it up?”
Indeed, he did. After a few minutes, his mother said, “Robert, whenever you make a mess like this, eventually you have to restore everything to its proper order. So, how would you like to do that? We could use a sponge(海绵), a towel or a mop. Which do you prefer?” He chose the sponge.
His mother then said, “ You know, what we have here is a experiment in how to effectively carry a big milk bottle with two hands. Let’s go out in the back yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can .” The little boy learned that if he the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could carry it without dropping it. What a wonderful !
This scientist then said that it was at that moment that he knew he didn’t need to be to make mistakes. Instead, he learned that mistakes were just for learning something new, which is, , what scientific experiments are all about. Even if the experiment “doesn't ,” we usually learn something from it.
A.why B.what C.when D.how
A.capable B.able C.creative D.original
A.coincidence B.experience C.incident D.conflict
A.carry B.bring C.remove D.fetch
A.fell B.lost C.escaped D.dropped
A.rather than B.instead of C.other than D.in place of
A.picture B.mass C.map D.mess
A.rarely B.happily C.frequently D.angrily
A.got B.suffered C.done D.received
A.jump B.play C.enjoy D.lay
A.failed B.successful C.fantastic D.painful
A.strong B.tiny C.thin D.weak
A.get it B.put it C.try it D.make it
A.controlled B.possessed C.occupied D.grasped
A.example B.teaching C.lesson D.instruction
A.anxious B.nervous C.fearful D.afraid
A.situations B.opportunities C.occasions D.turns
A.after all B.above all C.first of all D.in all
A.do B.finish C.go D.work
A.worthy B.costly C.valuable D.interesting
It’s no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents than with the parents that nature dealt them. That’s especially____of children who remain in homes where they’re badly treated____the law blindly favors biological parents. It’s also true of children who____for years in foster (寄养) homes because of parents who can’t or won’t care for them but____to give up custody (监护) rights.
Fourteenyearold Kimberly Mays doesn’t fit ____ of the descriptions, but her recent court victory could____help children who do. Kimberly has been the____of an angry custody battle between the man who raised her and her biological parents, with whom she has never lived. A Florida judge____that the teenager can remain with the only father she's ever known and that her biological parents have “no legal____”on her.
Shortly after____in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were mistakenly switched and sent home with the____parents. Kimberly’s biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg, received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical tests____that the child wasn’t the Twiggs’ own daughter, but Kimberly was, thus leading to a custody____with Robert Mays. In 1989, the two families____that Mr. Mays would maintain custody with the Twiggs getting____rights. Those rights were ended when Mr. Mays decided that Kimberly was being____.
The decision to____Kimberly with Mr. Mays caused heated discussion. But the judge made it clear that Kimberly did have the right to sue (起诉)__ __her own behalf. Thus he made it clear that she was____just a personal possession of her parents. Biological parentage does not mean an absolute ownership that cancels(取消) all the____of children.
A.terrible B.sad C.true D.natural
A.but B.if C.when D.because
A.settle B.live C.suffer D.gather
A.have B.refuse C.stick D.fail
A.neither B.both C.either D.all
A.merely B.eventually C.successfully D.suddenly
A.victim B.object C.sacrifice D.teenager
A.ruled B.believed C.ordered D.indicated
A.expectation B.action C.effect D.claim
A.birth B.judgment C.operation D.school
A.biological B.own C.kind D.wrong
A.examined B.explained C.decided D.showed
A.battle B.right C.agreement D.decision
A.thought B.quarreled C.agreed D.prepared
A.equal B.same C.visiting D.speaking
A.harmed B.forbidden C.wounded D.hidden
A.make B.leave C.give D.keep
A.by B.through C.on D.in
A.more than B.no more than C.not more than D.less than
A.freedom B.happiness C.rights D.ideas