题目内容
第二节完形填空(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、D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My wife and I moved into our home nine years ago. We16 a lot of time and 17 in the yard to get it looking the way it does today. We live on a corner, and the entire side of the yard is surrounded by a professionally built rock wall.
We did the best to cultivate(耕种) it and called this area our rock garden. 18 We had found flowers and plants, Denise or I will plant them, just to bring some 19 to the area.
Last summer I found a tiny little plant that I could not immediately
20. I was sure that we didn’t plant it. We decided to let it 21 to grow until we could 22 what it was.
Weeks passed, and as I made my way back to the 23 plant, it appeared to be a sunflower. I 24 to nurture(培育) it and weed around it. As I picked up rocks from the area to get to the 25, I noticed something 26 . The sunflower had not started to grow from where I first saw the stalks(茎)appear. 27 it had begun under a big rock and grown under and around it to 28 the sun.
That's when I realized that if a tiny little sunflower wouldn't let a big rock stand in its way when growing up, then we have the29 to do the same. 30 we believe in ourselves, like that little sunflower, we can
31 the type of nourishment(营养)and growth. We need to believe in
32, knowing that we have the ability to 33 our desires. If you stand all like the sunflower and are 34 of who and what you are, then the environment will begin to 35 you. You will find a way to go under or around your obstacles( 障碍)in order to reach your goals.
16. A. took B. spent C. cost D. pay
17. A. strength B. energy C. power D. force
18. A. However B. When C. Whenever D. Whatever
19. A. weed B. color C. water D. soil
20. A. classify B. accept C. clarify D. identify
21. A. remain B. prevent C. continue D. leave
22. A. figure out B. hold out C. stand out D. try out
23. A. endangered B. convenient C. mysterious D. enormous
24. A. refused B. decided C. adapted D. proposed
25. A. seeds B. stalks C. rocks D. weeds
26. A. unusual B. common C. fantastic D. unnatural
27. A. Casually B. Basically C. Actually D. Strangely
28. A. enlarge B. expand C. reach D. spread
29. A. chance B. choice C. power D. ability
30. A. What if B. As far as C. Only if D. As long as
31. A. inspire B. attain C. lose D. refuse
32. A. ourselves B. yourselves C. themselves D. myself
33. A. preserve B. comfort C. achieve D. suggest
34. A. ashamed B. pride C. proud D. ambitious
35. A. ensure B. support C. satisfy D. protect
16---35 BBCBD CACBD ACCDD BACCB
解析
第二节完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
The simplest way to say it is this: I believe in my mother. My 【小题1】 began when I was just a kid. I 【小题2】 becoming a doctor. My mother was a worker. Through her work, she observed that 【小题3】 people spent a lot more time reading than they 【小题4】 watching television. She announced that my brother and I
【小题5】watch two to three TV programs during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books each from the Detroit Public Library and then 【小题6】 her written book reports. She would mark them up with check marks and highlights. Years later we realized her marks were a 【小题7】 . My mother was illiterate (文盲的).
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I 【小题8】 the fashionable clothes. I wanted to 【小题9】 the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student. One night my mother came home after 【小题10】 at one of her several jobs and I complained about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, “Okay, I’ll give you all the money I make this week scrubbing (擦洗) floors and cleaning bathrooms, and you can buy 【小题11】 food and pay the bills. With the money that is 【小题12】 , you can have all the Italian knit shirts you want.” I was very 【小题13】 with that plan, but once I had finished paying for all of the important things, there was 【小题14】 left. I realized that my mother was always dealing with money well to be able to 【小题15】 a roof over our heads and to put food on the table. I also realized that immediate satisfaction wasn’t going to get me anywhere. _【小题16】__ required intellectual (智力的) preparation. I went back to my 【小题17】 and became an A-student again. Finally, I 【小题18】 my dream and I became a doctor. My story is really my mother’s story — a woman with 【小题19】 formal education who used her position as a parent to change the lives of many people around the globe. Now I believe that there is no job more 【小题20】 than parenting.
【小题21】
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A.belief | B.work | C.education | D.promise |
A.kept up with | B.got used to | C.dreamed of | D.got tired of |
A.lazy | B.easy-going | C.successful | D.reliable |
A.cost | B.paid | C.took | D.did |
A.could only | B.could not | C.must not | D.should often |
A.read | B.give | C.hold | D.explain |
A.mystery | B.risk | C.fool | D.trick |
A.wanted | B.attracted | C.recognised | D.accepted |
A.get rid of | B.hang out with | C.test on | D.keep in touch with |
A.serving | B.looking | C.working | D.getting |
A.your brother | B.yourself | C.me | D.the family |
A.left over | B.paid off | C.used up | D.carried out |
A.angry | B.pleased | C.disappointed | D.bored |
A.anything | B.everything | C.something | D.nothing |
A.buy | B.operate | C.keep | D.send |
A.Success | B.Failure | C.Faith | D.Comfort |
A.guys | B.mother | C.studies | D.clothes |
A.made | B.realised | C.changed | D.tried |
A.little | B.much | C.some | D.high |
A.interesting | B.gentle | C.important | D.bitter |