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，掌握大意，然后从41－60各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
At a young age, her doctor told Patti Wilson she was an epileptic（羊癫疯患者）. Her father was a morning jogger. One day she   31   and said, “Daddy, what I’d really love to do is run with you every day, but I’m afraid I can’t do it.” Her father   32    her to start running.
That’s just what they did every   33  . It was a   34   experience for them. After a few weeks, Patti said, still smiling, “Daddy, what I’d really love to do is break the world’s long-distance running record for  35   .”
Her father   36    The Guinness Book of World Records and found that the farthest distance any woman had run was 80 miles. As a freshman（新生） in high school, Patti    37   , “I’m going to run from Orange County up to San Francisco(about 400 miles).” “As a sophomore（二年级学生）,” she went   38   , “I’m going to run to Portland, Oregon(about 1,500 miles). As a junior I’ll run to St. Louis(about 2,000 miles). As a senior I’ll run to the White House (about 3,000 miles).”
In   39   of her disease, Patti was as ambitious（有野心的） as she was enthusiastic. She looked at being an epileptic as simply “an   40  ”. She focused not on what she had   41   , but on what she had left.
That year, together with her father, she completed her   42   to San Francisco wearing a T-shirt that   43  , “I love Epileptics.”
In her sophomore year, Patti’s classmates got behind her. They made a huge poster that read, “Run, Patti, Run!” This has since   44   her motto and the title of a book she has written. During this marathon, she broke a bone in her foot. A doctor told her that she had to   45     her run. But Patti said she wasn’t running for herself; she was   46   to break the chains on the brains that limited so many others. She asked the doctor   47    or not there was a way she could keep running. He said he could wrap it in adhesive（粘合剂）  48   putting it in a cast（石膏）, but he   49   her that it would be extremely painful. She told the doctor to wrap it up.
Later, after four months of running from the West Coast to the East Coast, Patti arrived in Washington and shook the hand of the President of the United States. She told him, “I wanted people to know that epileptics are normal human beings with   50   lives.”
31. A. smiled         B. cried           C. laughed         D. wept
32. A. agreed         B. suggested       C. encouraged       D. promised
33. A. afternoon        B. morning         C. night           D. evening
34. A. terrible         B. fortunate        C. dangerous      D. wonderful
35. A. women         B. men            C. students         D. patients
36. A. questioned      B. checked          C. inspected       D. interviewed
37.A. broadcasted      B. told           C. informed        D. announced
38. A. up             B. forward          C. on              D. upon
39. A. honor         B. view           C. favor           D. charge
40. A. accident              B. coincidence           C. influence       D. inconvenience
41. A. lost             B. dropped         C. improved       D. received
42. A. distance              B. task            C. run            D. study
43. A. showed         B. said            C. wrote                D. read
44. A. come           B. become          C. gone          D. went
45. A. continue         B. stop            C. keep            D. struggle
46. A. working          B. jogging          C. walking             D. running
47. A. whether              B. when          C. if               D. where
48. A. in addition to      B. in spite of       C. instead of       D. regardless of
49. A. asked           B. warned           C. advised          D. comforted
50. A. common         B. unique         C. special           D. normal

阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
Born in 1949, Diana Nyad took an early interest in swimming as a sport and was a Florida State High School swimming champion. Like many young athletes, she had Olympic dreams, but a serious illness kept her from competing in the Games. The disappointment didn’t stop her from going forward. Instead, she became interested in marathon swimming. A brilliant athlete, she was well-conditioned for spending long periods of time in the water. As a long-distance swimmer, she would compete against herself and the obstacles presented by distance, danger, cold, and exhaustion.
For ten years Nyad devoted herself to becoming one of the world’s best long-distance swimmers. In 1970, she swam a ten-mile marathon in Lake Ontario, setting the women’s record for the course. In 1972 she set another record by swimming 102.5 miles from an island in the Bahamas to the coast of Florida. Then she broke a third record when swimming around Manhattan Island in 1975.
Nyad attempted to swim the distance between Florida and Cuba in 1978. Though the span of water is less than 100 miles wide, it is rough and dangerous. After battling the water for two days, she had to give for the sake of her own health and safety. Even so, she impressed the world with her courage and strong desire to succeed. For Nyad her strength of purpose was just as important as reading Cuba. That is how she defined success. It did not matter that her swim came up short; she believed she had touched the other shore.
When Nyad ended her career as a swimmer, she continued to try new things---travelling the world as a reporter, writing books and giving public speeches about her life. Diana Nyad works to inspire others, just as she did when she swam the waters of the world.
【小题1】What prevented Nyad from taking part in the Olympic Games? (No more than 5 words)
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【小题2】What does the underlined word “obstacles” mean? (1 word)
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【小题3】What achievement did Nyad make in 1970? (No more than 10 words.)
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【小题4】Why did Nyad believe that she had touched the other shore? (No more than 10 words)
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【小题5】Please explain how you are inspired by Nyad. (No more than 20 words)
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选词完成句子。每题1分,共10分  从所给的词或词组中挑选出10个，并用其适当形式填入句中。

He is a/an ___________ man. You can turn to him whenever you are in trouble.

There is no doubt that the man who murdered his wife and children _________________________.

Everybody outside is carrying an umbrella _______________ it is raining.

Animals __________rabbits and deer continue to be active all winter，finding food wherever they can .

___________then, he never stopped searching for new and better ways to do things.

He has been working in that factory after his _______________ from the technical school.

He pretended to be asleep but________, he was awake.

To attract his attention, she broke a glass ____________.

Not all men are _________ in ability. That is to say, some men are able while others may not be so able.

My mother is devoted to our family and she ______________our family no matter where she is.

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从41－60各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
At a young age, her doctor told Patti Wilson she was an epileptic（羊癫疯患者）. Her father was a morning jogger. One day she   31   and said, “Daddy, what I’d really love to do is run with you every day, but I’m afraid I can’t do it.” Her father   32    her to start running.
That’s just what they did every   33  . It was a   34   experience for them. After a few weeks, Patti said, still smiling, “Daddy, what I’d really love to do is break the world’s long-distance running record for  35   .”
Her father   36    The Guinness Book of World Records and found that the farthest distance any woman had run was 80 miles. As a freshman（新生） in high school, Patti    37   , “I’m going to run from Orange County up to San Francisco(about 400 miles).” “As a sophomore（二年级学生）,” she went   38   , “I’m going to run to Portland, Oregon(about 1,500 miles). As a junior I’ll run to St. Louis(about 2,000 miles). As a senior I’ll run to the White House (about 3,000 miles).”
In   39   of her disease, Patti was as ambitious（有野心的） as she was enthusiastic. She looked at being an epileptic as simply “an   40  ”. She focused not on what she had   41   , but on what she had left.
That year, together with her father, she completed her   42   to San Francisco wearing a T-shirt that   43  , “I love Epileptics.”
In her sophomore year, Patti’s classmates got behind her. They made a huge poster that read, “Run, Patti, Run!” This has since   44   her motto and the title of a book she has written. During this marathon, she broke a bone in her foot. A doctor told her that she had to   45     her run. But Patti said she wasn’t running for herself; she was   46   to break the chains on the brains that limited so many others. She asked the doctor   47    or not there was a way she could keep running. He said he could wrap it in adhesive（粘合剂）  48   putting it in a cast（石膏）, but he   49   her that it would be extremely painful. She told the doctor to wrap it up.
Later, after four months of running from the West Coast to the East Coast, Patti arrived in Washington and shook the hand of the President of the United States. She told him, “I wanted people to know that epileptics are normal human beings with   50   lives.”
31. A. smiled  B. cried   C. laughed      D. wept
32. A. agreed  B. suggested   C. encouraged D. promised
33. A. afternoon     B. morning     C. night   D. evening
34. A. terrible B. fortunate    C. dangerous       D. wonderful
35. A. women B. men    C. students      D. patients
36. A. questioned   B. checked      C. inspected    D. interviewed
37.A. broadcasted   B. told    C. informed        D. announced
38. A. up B. forward      C. on      D. upon
39. A. honor B. view       C. favor  D. charge
40. A. accident       B. coincidence       C. influence    D. inconvenience
41. A. lost      B. dropped     C. improved   D. received
42. A. distance       B. task    C. run     D. study
43. A. showed B. said    C. wrote  D. read
44. A. come    B. become      C. gone       D. went
45. A. continue      B. stop    C. keep      D. struggle
46. A. working       B. jogging      C. walking   D. running
47. A. whether       B. when  C. if D. where
48. A. in addition to      B. in spite of   C. instead of   D. regardless of
49. A. asked    B. warned       C. advised      D. comforted
50. A. common      B. unique       C. special       D. normal

Born in 1949, Diana Nyad took an early interest in swimming as a sport and was a Florida State High School swimming champion. Like many young athletes, she had Olympic dreams, but a serious illness kept her from competing in the Games. The disappointment didn’t stop her from going forward. Instead, she became interested in marathon swimming. A brilliant athlete, she was well-conditioned for spending long periods of time in the water. As a long-distance swimmer, she would compete against herself and the obstacles presented by distance, danger, cold, and exhaustion.

For ten years Nyad devoted herself to becoming one of the world’s best long-distance swimmers. In 1970, she swam a ten-mile marathon in Lake Ontario, setting the women’s record for the course. In 1972 she set another record by swimming 102.5 miles from an island in the Bahamas to the coast of Florida. Then she broke a third record when swimming around Manhattan Island in 1975.

Nyad attempted to swim the distance between Florida and Cuba in 1978. Though the span of water is less than 100 miles wide, it is rough and dangerous. After battling the water for two days, she had to give up for the sake of her own health and safety. Even so, she impressed the world with her courage and strong desire to succeed. For Nyad her strength of purpose was just as important as reaching Cuba. That is how she defined success. It did not matter that her swim came up short; she believed she had touched the other shore.

When Nyad ended her career as a swimmer, she continued to try new things---travelling the world as a reporter, writing books and giving public speeches about her life. Diana Nyad works to inspire others, just as she did when she swam the waters of the world.

1. What prevented Nyad from taking part in the Olympic Games? (No more than 5 words)

__________________________________________________________________________

2.What does the underlined word “obstacles” mean? (1 word)

___________________________________________________________________________

3.What achievement did Nyad make in 1970? (No more than 10 words.)

________________________________________________________________________________

4.Why did Nyad believe that she had touched the other shore? (No more than 10 words)

___________________________________________________________________________