题目内容
第三节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
When I was 6 years old, my parents got me a used __21____ for Christmas.
A year or so later, I badly wanted a Sting-Ray, a tricked-out bike that was __22__in the 1960s. So my father took my old bike, slapped a new coat of paint on it, and _23____ it with a banana seat, monkey handlebars and a sissy bar(保护杠). ___24___didn't matter to me that some friends had new Sting-Rays straight from the Schwinn factory. Or even that my dad put the sissy bar on backward, _25____ exposed me to some teasing(嘲笑) before we _26____ it. I loved that bike.
So it was for my __27___. We weren't poor. But we always had modest Christmases. And I _28____ to do the same when I got married 27 years ago.
My wife, Clarissa, had different _29____. She, too, had some __30___Christmases growing up. She vividly remembers when she was 14 or 15 years old and her father lost his __31__in the construction industry. She overheard her __32___ talking about how _33___ they were.
So when her parents asked her what she wanted that year, she said, 'Nothing.' When her mother insisted she had to get ___34__, Clarissa asked for socks. 'I felt very good about myself afterward,' she recalls.
But as her family's finances _35_____, Christmas went back to being a __36__ bigger production. By the time I arrived on the scene, the __37__ family -- more than 20 people -- would gather at her grandmother's house in Mexicali, Mexico, on Christmas Eve. Around 10 p.m., Santa (my future brother-in-law in a costume) showed up with an enormous bag of _38____ and stepped into a roomful of children crying with __39____
'It was all about the children,' says Clarissa, who thought the experience was _40___ .And she has spent hundreds of dollars on presents every year to duplicate(重温 )it.
21.A.car B.bike C.book D.coat
22.A.popular B.common C.ordinary D.regular
23.A.add B.equipped C.placed D.supplied
24.A.That B.This C.It D.What
25.A.so B.thus C.Which D.it
26.A.bought B.placed C.fixed D.changed
27.A.childhood B.life C.children D.youth
28.A.imagined B.expected C.suggested D.supposed
29.A.ideas B.life C.childhood D.Christmas
30.A.unforgettable B.modest C.happy D.wonderful
31.A.life B.job C.interest D.present
32.A.friends B.mother C.father D.parents
33.A.broke B.rich C.wealthy D.well-off
34.A.nothing B.something C.everything D.anything
35.A.improved B.caught C.reduced D.decreased
36.A.very B.more C.less D.much
37.A.all B.big C.small D.entire
38.A.bikes B.food C.presents D.books
39.A.surprise B.joy C.fear D.satisfaction
40.A.wasteful B.valueless C.priceless D.useful
21---40 BBBCC CABAB BDABA DDCBC
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,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(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。
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.---Eleanor Roosevelt
My home is a place of great beauty and agricultural richness, as well as of war and natural
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No one seemed to 31 giving me a handful of rice ,even 32 they had little themselves .On Sunday ,I would go to the 33 and give my handfuls of rice to the monks to 34 to the children.
One day ,I came to a house that had 35 to give.I told my story and asked if I could be their bird.The woman called her daughters, and 36 gave me fifty cents, as well as the handful of rice! I began to ask for 37 and rice from the other “ bird feeders”, and they gave them to me.Everyone was happy to be helping those who were suffering, even 38 only this small way.The temple was soon able to help everyone who came to them for food and clothing.
“Consider me your bird.” My 39 idea had not stopped the war, but anyway, it was 40 some peace.
21.A.sorrow B.hope C.comfort D.happiness
22.A.suffered B.survived C.covered D.made
23.A.peasants B.citizens C.villagers D.children
24.A.wanted B.failed C.refused D.stopped
25.A.something B.everything C.anything D.nothing
26.A.said B.replied C.answered D.spoke
27.A.glad B.kind C.rich D.friendly
28.A.water B.money C.nest D.rice
29.A.temple B.room C.door D.garden
30.A.brave B.hungry C.promising D.nervous
31.A.mind B.escape C.practice D.enjoy
32.A.where B.that C.so D.when
33.A.village B.hometown C.temple D.house
34.A.give in B.give up C.give away D.give out
35.A.much B.little C.many D.few
36.A.every B.each C.neither D.none
37.A.help B.clothing C.food D.change
38.A.by B.with C.on D.in
39.A.foolish B.childish C.clever D.useful
40.A.creating B.mending C.developing D.managing