Question

【来源】安徽省江南十校2017届高三3月联考

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

As I write, a gentle, much needed rain is falling this morning. It has been a dry___ ___have in Vermont,___ ___dry that the Spring Peepers(雨蛙)were late in coming that many thought these frogs would fail to bless us with their song. But they came, and I cant’ blame them for being___ ___. They are a___ ___of spring, and of rebirth.

It is late June and the mountain snow has___ ___the higher slopes(斜坡)of the mountains. My family___ ___our garden during the last weekend of May, and frost came twice since then,___ ___not a killing frost. But others were not so lucky: they lost most of young plants this year. Twice this spring has been____ ____enough in the day that my family went swimming, but there was ___ ___on the ground the next morning.

Planting a garden in Vermont amounts to an act of___ ___. Will our sweat___ ___, or will these efforts be in vain? My family was recently faced with a___ ___decision: shall we leave this place and its people, or shall we stay and make a____ ____? Well, we have decided this is___ ___we will make our stand___ ___the garden, this year we have planted ourselves. Will my family be___ ___with what is needed to grow and flourish(兴旺)? We have no way of knowing this but we do have faith.

What is planted must be revisited often and the garden must be taken care of with love, which ___ ___to our lives as well. Hopes and dreams must be revisited often or fear that we lose sight of the things___ ___. Commitments must be ___ ___as carefully as any garden plot. But as with gardening, there are no___ ___. But there is faith, and today is a beautiful day.

1. A. summer B. spring C. fall D. winter

2. A. too B. rather C. so D. much

3. A. late B. lazy C. swift D. noisy

4. A. scene B. reward C. message D. sign

5. A. covered B. decorated C. left D. awoken

6. A. weeded B. watered C. cleared D. planted

7. A. luckily B. properly C. obviously D. closely

8. A. fresh B. warm C. bitter D. cool

9. A. snow B. rain C. mist D. frost

10. A. love B. prayer C. faith D. choice

11. A. pay off B. flood out C. fall off D. run out

12. A. primary B. tough C. random D. casual

13. A. mistake B. profit C. commitment D. compromise

14. A. why B. what C. how D. where

15. A. Due to B. Rather than C. Along with D. Regardless of

16. A. blessed B. surrounded C. filled D. satisfied

17. A. occurs B. applies C. submits D. keeps

18. A. hurt B. change C. stay D. matter

19. A. made B. tended C. settled D. reviewed

20. A. harvests B. possibilities C. guarantees D. advantages

Answer 1