题目内容
阅读下面的短文,从短文后所给的四个选项中,选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项
The art of giving gifts is to give something that others cannot buy for themselves.
------A.A. Milne
I have spent most of my career as a traveling salesman. There’s 36 lonelier than having meals myself in a coffee shop. One year, my five-year-old daughter Jeanine gave me a 37 . It was a soft toy penguin with a hand –painted 38 saying “I love My Dad!” Tears came into my eyes and immediately, I gave it a 39 place on my desk.
Soon I had to leave on another business 40 . This time when I was 41 , I put the penguin in my suitcase. After that day, Jeanine always helped me pack with the penguin. Many years 42 by and that little penguin has traveled with me hundreds of thousands of miles all across America and over to Europe. We have also made many friends 43 the way.
44 one afternoon after leaving my hotel, I discovered that the penguin was 45 . Frantically, I phoned the hotel. The clerk 46 , saying it hadn’t been reported. But half an hour later, he called back to say that my penguin had been found. It was late, 47 I drove several hours to get my little 48 , arriving near midnight.
When I rushed to the hotel, I found that it was waiting at the front desk. In the lobby(大厅), some 49 business travelers looked at us, I think, with some 50 and envy(羡慕). Someone came out to shake my hand. One man told me that he had even volunteered to 51 it to me the very next day.
Jeannie is in college now and I don’t travel 52 much anymore. The penguin spends most of its time 53 on my dresser--- a reminder that 54 is the best traveling companion. All those years on the road, it was the one thing I never left home 55 .
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【小题1】A
【小题2】B
【小题3】C
【小题4】A
【小题5】B
【小题6】C
【小题7】B
【小题8】D
【小题9】A
【小题10】C
【小题11】D
【小题12】B
【小题13】A
【小题14】C
【小题15】C
【小题16】B
【小题17】A
【小题18】C
【小题19】D
【小题20】B
解析
完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从下列各小题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳 选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In the doorway of my home, I looked closely at my 23-year-old son, Daniel. In a few hours he would be flying to France to 1.______a different life. It was a transitional (过渡的)time in Daniel's life. I wanted to 2.______him some words of significance. But nothing came from my lips, and this was not the 3.______time I had let such moment pass.
When Daniel was five, I took him to the bus stop on his first day of kindergarten. He asked, "What is it going to be like, Dad? Can I do it?" Then he walked 4.______ the steps of the bus and disappeared ii\side. The bus drove away and I said nothing. A decade later, a similar .5.______ played itself out. I drove him to college. As I started to leave, I tried to think of something to say to give him 6. ______and confidence as he started this new stage of life. Again, words 7. me.
Now, as I stood before him, I thought of those 8. ______opportunities. How many times have I let such moments 9.______ ? I don't ^nd a quiet moment to tell him what they have 10. ______to me, or, in the years ahead what he might 11. ______to face. Maybe, I thought it was not necessary to say anything.
What does it matter in the course of a lifetime if a father never tells a son what he really thinks of him?
12.______ as I stood before-Daniel, I knew that it did matter. My father and I loved each other. Yet, I always 13.______ never in all my life hearing him put his feelings into 14.______ . Now I could feel my palms sweat and my throat tightien. Why was it so 50 to tell a son something from the heart?
My mouth turned dry, and 1 knew I would he able to get______15. only a few words clearly. "Daniel,‘' I said, "if I could have picked, I would have picked von." That's all I could say. He hugged me. For a moment, the
world 16.______ , and there were just Daniel and me. He was saying something, hut tears misted my eyes, and I couldn't understand what he was saying. All 1 was______17.of was the stubble (短须)on his chin as his 18. ______pressed against mine. What I had said to Daniel was 19.______ . It was nothing. And yet, it. was everything.
20. |
A. experience |
B. exj>ress |
C.spend |
D. shape |
21. |
A.show |
B. say |
C. leave |
D. talk |
22. |
A. last |
B. first |
C. second |
D. next |
23. |
A. away |
B. into |
C. down |
D. up |
24. |
A, sign |
B.scene |
C. scenery |
D. sight |
25. |
A. interest |
B. instruction |
C. courage |
D. direction |
26. |
A. failed |
B. discouraged |
C. struck |
D. troubled |
27. |
A. missed |
B. embarrassed |
C. gone |
D. lost |
28. |
A. last |
B. pass |
C. stay |
D. remain |
29. |
A. counted |
B. meant |
C. valued |
D. earned |
30. |
A. think |
B. want |
C. expect |
D. wish |
31. |
A.But |
B. And |
C. Instead |
D. So |
32. |
A. wondered |
B. regretted |
C. minded |
D. tried |
33. |
A. arguments |
B. attitudes |
C. words |
D. works |
34. |
A. important |
B. essential |
C. hard |
D. complex |
35. |
A. in |
B. down |
C. back |
D. out |
36. |
A. disappeared |
B. changed |
C. progressed |
D. advanced |
37. |
A. sensitive |
B. convinced |
C. aware |
D. tired |
38. |
A. eye |
B. face |
C. nose |
D. forehead |
39. |
A. clumsy |
B. gentle |
C. ridiculous |
D. fluent |