Once upon a time, there was a little boy who was raised in an orphanage. The little boy had always wished he could _________ like a bird. And there was another little boy who was _________. He had always wished he could walk and run like other little boys and girls.
One day the little orphan boy _________ from the orphanage. He _________ upon the other boy, who was playing in the sandbox in the park. He ran over, and asked him _________ he had ever wished to fly like a bird. “No,” said the other little boy. “But I have _________ what it would be like to walk and run like others.”
The two little boys played together for hours. Then the disabled boy’s father came with a(n) _________ to pick up his son. The orphan boy went to the boy’s father and _________ something into his ear, and the man nodded. Then he came back to his new friend and said, “You are my only friend! I wish I could help you run, but I can’t. But there is _________ that I can do for you.”
The orphan boy __________ and told his friend to climb up onto his __________. He then began to run across the grass. Faster and faster he ran, __________ the disabled boy on his back. Soon the wind just __________ across the two boy’s faces.
The disabled boy’s father __________ in tears as his son flapped (拍打) his __________ up and down in the wind, shouting, “I’m flying, Daddy. I’m flying!”
1.A.speak B.sing C.fly D.live
2.A.rich B.alone C.well - fed D.lame
3.A.ran away B.broke up C.looked over D.turned out
4.A.drew B.took C.came D.faced
5.A.when B.if C.how D.that
6.A.wondered B.hoped C.realized D.managed
7.A.ambulance B.stick C.bike D.wheelchair
8.A.shouted B.suggested C.whispered D.told
9.A.nothing B.everything C.anything D.something
10.A.stood up B.bent down C.knelt up D.lay down
11.A.back B.head C.shoulders D.neck
12.A.leaving B.seating C.carrying D.balancing
13.A.knocked B.flew C.warmed D.whistled
14.A.cried B.watched C.admired D.enjoyed
15.A.arms B.legs C.friends D.wings
高二英语完形填空简单题查看答案及解析
Ieoh Ming Pei, one of the best known architects of the 20th century, has died, aged 102. Born in China, Ieoh Ming Pei moved to the United States in 1935 to study_________at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.
Pei’s_________around the world include museums, government buildings, hotels, schools and other structures built with stone, steel and glass. One of his best-known and most_________works was built 30 years ago. Pei created a new Louvre’s(卢浮宫)main_________,which handled the enormous number of visitors entering the main Louvre building.
Pei first spent four months_________the museum and French history. He then drew_________for a big 21-meter-tal steel and glass pyramid, with three_________pyramids nearby. It was a very futuristic style of work for the 12th building.
A French newspaper_________Pei’s pyramids as“an annex(附属物)to Disneyland”. An environmental group said they should be_________in a desert. Others__________Pei of ruining one of landmarks. Pei said the Louvre was the most ________job of his career. He__________that he had wanted to create a modern space that would not__________from the traditional part of the museum. He said the glass pyramids were__________on the works of French landscape architect Le Notre. They__________French history. The pyramids__________in the spring of 1989.
Over the years that followed, the structure came to.be__________by most, if not all, of its critics. Pei’s other famous__________include the John F. Kennedy Library in Dorchester, Massachusetts, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder Colorado, the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Dallas City Hall in Texas.
__________Pei officially retired in 1990, he continued to__________projects including museums in Luxembourg, Qatar and his ancestral home of Suzhou.
1.A.law B.architecture C.medicine D.art
2.A.stories B.footprints C.designs D.paintings
3.A.controversial B.valuable C.complex D.fantastic
4.A.base B.cover C.entrance D.decoration
5.A.studying B.enjoying C.visiting D.assessing
6.A.views B.plans C.reports D.ideas
7.A.stronger B.heavier C.taller D.smaller
8.A.attributed B.announced C.blamed D.praised
9.A.spotted B.planted C.recognized D.landed
10.A.reminded B.accused C.robbed D.informed
11.A.horrible B.boring C.ordinary D.difficult
12.A.argued B.suggested C.supposed D.demanded
13.A.take down B.take off C.take away D.take over
14.A.fixed B.based C.depended D.modeled
15.A.honored B.changed C.damaged D.hid
16.A.closed B.started C.broke D.opened
17.A.commented B.refused C.loved D.attacked
18.A.theories B.assignments C.buildings D.pictures
19.A.Therefore B.AS C.But D.Although
20.A.work out B.work over C.work off D.work on
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
It's common for homeless people to pick up recyclable(可回收利用的)things to sell and make a living. However, it's not so common to see them sit in a restaurant where the average meal costs $ 150. But that’s _______what happened when a man walked into Benvindo, a _______restaurant in Belo Horizonte.
According to the staff, a homeless man_______the waiters at the front door and wanted a meal. He also insisted on paying for it with the money he made by_______ the cans: a single $ 50 bill.
“I thought this was something_______,” said Fontes, a 21-year-old waiter. But he continued providing_______for the man as he served other guests. The man_______an executive(行政)lunch, including a main dish and dessert, which _______$ 121. 80. However, when the man asked for the bill, the restaurant’s owner told Fontes to waive (放弃)the charge. Instead of accepting the free meal, the man politely turned it _______ and insisted on paying.
When it became ________ that the man wasn’t ready to change his ________, the waiter decided to charge him $ 10. Fontes said, “I then had to lie, saying customers could get a(n) ________ on the lunch for there was an ongoing________, because the man had $ 50 and refused to get the $ 40. ”
A customer there took a picture of them and shared it online? saying? “I just ________ a great example of consideration.... ” The photo gained hundreds of ________, praising Fontes and the man. Fontes said he simply wanted to perform an act of kindness for an honest hardworking man.
1.A.precisely B.probably C.illegally D.frequently
2.A.newly-built B.high-end C.self-service D.non-profit
3.A.blamed B.praised C.approached D.urged
4.A.collecting B.breaking C.producing D.preserving
5.A.complex B.plain C.painful D.strange
6.A.service B.information C.comfort D.support
7.A.declined B.prepared C.chose D.recommended
8.A.came to B.went through C.passed down D.jumped at
9.A.up B.down C.off D.on
10.A.significant B.confusing C.disappointing D.apparent
11.A.position B.confusion C.situation D.expectation
12.A.subject B.outline C.discount D.suggestion
13.A.promotion B.custom C.trend D.donation
14.A.heard B.witnessed C.followed D.relayed
15.A.instructions B.references C.warnings D.comments
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
A couple of months ago, I was texting a friend in Australia during their widespread bushfires, begging her to come back to New York. “It’s just not _________” I said. “You can’t even breathe!”
She simply replied, “No. I need to bear witness (见证),” _________ the way her government poorly handled the problem, ignoring scientists’ _________ about global warming. Her need to “see” was _________ in her deep love for her people and country.
Now here I am, _________ my own city on “fire”. A fire that should have taken no one by surprise. This isn’t just about Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd or any black citizen. This is about a _________ that exists within this country that makes our lives seemingly less valuable to the people in power who _________ most times, to be white.
In all this good trouble, we can’t keep looking away. We can’t keep _________. If we don’t bear witness to these moments of unfairness, they have the chance to _________ themselves.
If we’re afraid and confused, that’s __________, because we are only human. But on the other side of fear is __________. On the other side of __________ is knowledge and power. Maybe we are unsure what to do or really what we can do in this moment __________ there are so many confusing suggestions. But the only thing we __________ have to do is keep being our unique selves.
I’m Black. My father, mother, brother, and everyone in between are Black. I __________ being Black. Friends and family from all over have asked me to leave. And I say no.
I, too, need to bear witness.
1.A.harmful B.important C.safe D.beautiful
2.A.referring to B.cheering up C.defending against D.carrying on
3.A.limits B.warnings C.manners D.wishes
4.A.absorbed B.filled C.rooted D.buried
5.A.setting B.putting C.making D.watching
6.A.support B.statement C.schedule D.system
7.A.happen B.promise C.manage D.intend
8.A.alive B.balanced C.silent D.bored
9.A.hurt B.repeat C.beat D.win
10.A.unbelievable B.enjoyable C.reliable D.understandable
11.A.interest B.bravery C.luck D.sadness
12.A.confusion B.fool C.loss D.news
13.A.when B.where C.what D.that
14.A.nearly B.gently C.hardly D.truly
15.A.regret B.avoid C.love D.try
高二英语完形填空困难题查看答案及解析
Like many parents, I enjoyed reading a bedtime story to my two sons each night before they went to bed. After the story was over, we would turn out the lights, and talked until they fell ______.
One night after the lights were out, my 3-year-old son, Will, ______ me to tell them a story ______ by myself, not one from a book. So I ______ told him a story about the first thing that came into my ______. But to my surprise, he ______ it so much that he asked me to do that the next night.
Thus a story-telling tradition was ______ in our family. Ever since that night, they seemed not to be able to sleep without hearing one of my ______ stories. Of all the things I do for my ______,my storytelling is what they love most. It has created a special ______ between us. And they find that their day isn’t ______ without one of my stories, and so do I.
When I see how ______ my storytelling is in their lives, I come to realize how much our television and video-oriented (以视频为导向的)society has ______ in terms of the personal connections that storytelling brings. Before the ______ of television, computers and smartphones, a family’s ______ was built around storytelling. Many of the stories we have today originated from the oral(口述的) tradition. It was ______ down from generation to generation until someone finally ______ them down.
Storytelling serves as a creative way to ______ for me. During the storytelling, I forget about the pressure of the day and enjoy the ______ time I can spend with my children. I hope that other parents can gain ______ from storytelling, too.
1.A.asleep B.short C.ill D.silent
2.A.warned B.forced C.begged D.allowed
3.A.made up B.taken up C.picked up D.brought up
4.A.frequently B.casually C.secretly D.carefully
5.A.book B.movie C.mouth D.mind
6.A.believed B.doubted C.loved D.knew
7.A.ended B.followed C.born D.destroyed
8.A.crazy B.funny C.strange D.original
9.A.parents B.children C.students D.relatives
10.A.bond B.argument C.trust D.difference
11.A.difficult B.bad C.sad D.complete
12.A.valueless B.important C.helpless D.common
13.A.earned B.progressed C.contributed D.lost
14.A.familiarity B.operation C.invention D.discussion
15.A.evening B.party C.morning D.dinner
16.A.died B.passed C.broken D.thrown
17.A.wrote B.cut C.slowed D.broke
18.A.struggle B.relax C.fight D.escape
19.A.unusual B.boring C.precious D.difficult
20.A.confidence B.courage C.knowledge D.happiness
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Looking at these professional wildlife images, it’s easy to assume the person behind the camera is an adult with decades of ______. But these photos were taken by 14-year-old Josiah Launstein.
From time to time, I hear about kids who ______ me. Young Josiah Launstein is one of them. He is only 14 and he’s been into ______ for 9 years. He grew to become a passionate wildlife photographer, and he even started getting awards for his ______ and skill.
He’s received numerous awards and his work has been shown in museums and galleries worldwide. CBC Arts(加拿大广播公司艺术频道)______ Josiah in a YouTube video, where he got to say a bit about himself and his interest in photography. Josiah started using his dad’s ______ when he was only five years old. As he ______, he took it more seriously when he was seven. Josiah says that he ______ being in the wilderness and spending time with animals, so it seems he put his two passions together. It’s _______, really!
Josiah explains that wildlife photography requires a lot of ______ and determination. He
____ rain, sleet, snow and freezing temperatures. To frame the perfect ______, there’s a lot of waiting and ______ days. He especially likes photographing bighorn sheep, and one of his photos of these wonderful animals ______ him Young Outdoor Photographer of the Year award. He has been granted this ______ three times so far. His last awarded photo, Raindrops, is currently on exhibit in Natural History Museum in London.
1.A.experience B.progress C.passion D.curiosity
2.A.amuse B.respect C.trust D.amaze
3.A.business B.fashion C.entertainment D.photography
4.A.talent B.knowledge C.success D.imagination
5.A.evaluated B.presented C.helped D.consulted
6.A.picture B.book C.camera D.method
7.A.complains B.explains C.proves D.understands
8.A.risks B.avoids C.enjoys D.practices
9.A.absurd B.complicated C.easy D.wonderful
10.A.training B.observation C.patience D.research
11.A.records B.dislikes C.expects D.bears
12.A.animal B.weather C.shot D.nature
13.A.long B.terrible C.cold D.free
14.A.left B.earned C.showed D.prepared
15.A.title B.scholarship C.photo D.permission
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Brandon and Derek's mother, Beth Lash, shared a Facebook video on Dec. 25, 2017. It captured the moment when Brandon_________his card out loud. On Brandon Lash's 24th birthday, his little brother, Derek,_________him with a rather large card filled with an even bigger_______.
“I have always_______ you," Brandon reads from the front of the card, _______ by his brother.
"I love spending time with you... I'm so _______ I have you for my brother. You have always been there for me, even though I get on your nerves sometimes. You will always have a piece of my heart," Brandon continues, opening up the _______ .
"And now you will have my_______, too. We are a _______ match," Brandon reads,__________the card to the floor and breaking down into ________
Brandon has kidney disease and is currently in chronic(慢性的) failure and has extremely low kidney function. He receives__________three times a week, and was told that he had been recommended for the transplant list. Unfortunately, his parents are not a match, but__________his brother is.
“I can’t believe Derek would__________so much all this for me,” Brandon tells the publication. “He's giving me a__________to have a healthy life again. I__________can't believe it's happening.”
“I__________seeing him sick and knew something needed to be done to make him healthy again,” Derek adds. "Not only was it the__________thing to do, but the only thing to do. He's my brother... We didn't know__________he could be on the transplant list, and I knew I just wanted my__________brother back."
1.A.read B.sang C.called D.shouted
2.A.provided B.issued C.presented D.supplied
3.A.claim B.award C.smile D.surprise
4.A.taken charge of B.looked up to C.got hold of D.lived up to
5.A.signed B.drawn C.written D.described
6.A.thankful B.satisfied C.awkward D.confused
7.A.paper B.card C.book D.cover
8.A.nerves B.eyes C.kidney D.heart
9.A.perfect B.possible C.equal D.friendly
10.A.losing B.dropping C.throwing D.blowing
11.A.screams B.worries C.laughs D.tears
12.A.treatments B.experiments C.directions D.observations
13.A.finally B.possibly C.luckily D.exactly
14.A.advise B.experience C.allow D.sacrifice
15.A.chance B.fortune C.accident D.occasion
16.A.always B.already C.forever D.still
17.A.regretted B.minded C.hated D.opposed
18.A.fair B.right C.normal D.real
19.A.when B.how long C.how much D.while
20.A.lovely B.brave C.honest D.healthy
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Classical music deals with adult emotions and ideas.______, you can still love aspects of it as a kid. If you continue to be attracted to what you have heard, your understanding will only________ as the years pass by. You don’t need to be ________ trained, or incredibly smart, to “get it.”
As a boy growing up in New York City in the 1950s, I first heard the overture(序曲) to Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman as the ________ music for a science-fiction television show called Captain Video. It was absolutely exciting. When I first ____the opera many years later, that childhood memory of the music was still somewhere in the ________ reaches of my mind. Music can be written to bring a(n) ________ sound, mood or scene into mind, yet can be heard differently in different contexts. Wagner’s overture gets our attention with a heroic-sounding ________ from the horns and then a description of a stormy sea. As a kid, I ________ knew the hero was Captain Video. When I grew up, I came to understand that the very first notes were ________ to represent the scream of a ghost seeking redemption(救赎). The notes were the same, but I certainly was not, and yet there was ________ in revisiting something from my childhood with the _______ of an adult’s knowledge.
But does it still happen today? That question was ________ last summer when my two great nephews, ten-year-old twins, finished playing with Legos. One of them ________singing the Magic Flute from Mozart. The other joined in, singing in innocent ________ They kept going, but the words were_______ “What’s that?” I asked. The answer was about a famous cartoon: “Captain Underpants(内裤超人)!”
A time will come when they hear a performance of the Magic Flute and the weak memories of their youth will still be ________ to the classical music they heard from the cartoon, even though the original ________ of the music had nothing to do with it. Still, two boys born in 2010 ________ knew that a composition from Mozart was and ________ to be classical. No one is teaching them “how to love classical music.”
1.A.Besides B.However C.Instead D.Therefore
2.A.increase B.recover C.struggle D.fade
3.A.gradually B.firmly C.originally D.classically
4.A.theme B.rock C.festival D.folk
5.A.ruined B.conducted C.balanced D.opened
6.A.closest B.farthest C.highest D.lowest
7.A.specific B.disgusting C.accurate D.romantic
8.A.word B.figure C.voice D.melody
9.A.hardly B.mostly C.only D.even
10.A.said B.due C.advised D.meant
11.A.loss B.evidence C.comfort D.strength
12.A.example B.benefit C.need D.burden
13.A.raised B.answered C.heard D.predicted
14.A.imagined B.avoided C.began D.admitted
15.A.fun B.sorrow C.anger D.regret
16.A.gone B.long C.different D.similar
17.A.used B.committed C.connected D.contrary
18.A.version B.writer C.impression D.intention
19.A.possibly B.certainly C.particularly D.formally
20.A.continues B.tends C.occurs D.prefers
高二英语完形填空困难题查看答案及解析
A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare art works. They had everything in their _________.
When the Vietnam War broke out, the son went to war. He was very _______ and died in battle while rescuing another soldier.
About a month later, there was a _______ at the door. A young man stood there with a large package in his hands. “Sir, I am the soldier for whom your _______ gave his life. He often talked about you. and your love for _______.”
The young man _______ his package and opened it. There was a portrait of his son, _________ by the young man. He stared at the way the soldier had captured the personality of his son in the painting. The father was _______ to the eyes that his own eyes shined with _______.
The father hung the portrait on his wall. __________ visitors came to his home, he took them to __________the portrait before he showed them the other great works he had collected.
A few months later the man __________.There was to be a great auction (拍卖) of his paintings.
“We will ________ the bidding (出价) with this portrait of the son. Who will bid for it?” There was a __________for a long time. Then a voice shouted, “We want to see the famous paintings. Skip this one.” But __________the auctioneer continued, “The son! Who'll take the son?”
Finally, a __________ came from the back of the room. It was a gardener of the wealthy man. “I'll give $10 for the painting.” He being a poor man, it was all he could ____________. The auctioneer pounded the gavel (拍卖槌), “Going once, twice, SOLD for S 10!” The crowd was becoming __________. They wanted the other worthy collections. “Now let's get on with the collection!”
The auctioneer ________ his gavel. “I’m sorry, the auction is over. I was told of a secret paragraph in the will. Only the painting of the son would be auctioned. Whoever __________ that painting would inherit(继承) the entire paintings. The man who took the son gets everything!”
1.A.package B.library C.hall D.collection
2.A.brave B.respectful C.sorrowful D.panic
3.A.notice B.sign C.knock D.hole
4.A.son B.father C.gardener D.visitor
5.A.research B.donation C.freedom D.art
6.A.put up B.put out C.held out D.held back
7.A.painted B.taken C.caught D.fixed
8.A.disappointed B.drawn C.amazed D.sent
9.A.puzzles B.lights C.joys D.tears
10.A.In the moment B.Every time C.Once in a while D.At one time
11.A.see B.discuss C.touch D.check
12.A.passed B.died C.laughed D.left
13.A.choose B.decide C.start D.produce
14.A.shock B.silence C.welcome D.sound
15.A.still B.only C.then D.thus
16.A.cough B.sigh C.song D.voice
17.A.share B.afford C.admit D.receive
18.A.friendly B.lovely C.hungry D.impatient
19.A.picked up B.threw away C.laid down D.cut up
20.A.sold B.borrowed C.bought D.showed
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Once in a company, a team of 40 employees from different departments were working together on a project. The team consisted of bright and _______ young members but the problems was that they wouldn't _______ information.
So one day the leader of the project _______ them to take part in an event. In this event there were several fun _______. First the leader showed them into a room full of fun decorations and hundreds of colorful _______ on the floor. In the center of the room was a box full of balloons that had not been _______ yet. Seeing this, everyone was _______ and was guessing wildly what kind of activity it could be. The leader said, “Each of you pick up a balloon and blow it up. Then write your _______ on it.”
After everyone did as told, they were asked to _______ their balloons inside the room and ________ quickly. Minutes later, the team were asked to come back into the room and were ________ that they had to find the balloon they ________ with their own name on it among hundreds of balloons scattered there. The leader told them the first three to ________ the balloon with their own name will be the ________. And they were not allowed to pop (弄破) any balloon.
________ everyone tried their best to find their balloon, but ________ after twenty minutes, not a single person ________ to find their balloon. The leader came and told them that this round was ________ and everyone should go for the next round.
For the next round, the leader told them that, if any team member found any balloon with names on it, then ________it to the person whose name was on it. Everyone did so and within a couple of minutes, ________ member of the team had their own balloon with their own name on it.
1.A.pessimistic B.passive C.selfless D.enthusiastic
2.A.analyze B.share C.collect D.seek
3.A.invited B.allowed C.forced D.expected
4.A.courses B.parties C.activities D.requirements
5.A.boxes B.balloons C.pens D.toys
6.A.picked up B.hung up C.hold up D.blown up
7.A.satisfied B.shocked C.excited D.embarrassed
8.A.answer B.wish C.prediction D.name
9.A.leave B.fly C.exchange D.burst
10.A.enter B.hide C.exit D.escape
11.A.warned B.told C.convinced D.reminded
12.A.left behind B.taken away C.picked out D.put away
13.A.follow B.decorate C.color D.find
14.A.candidates B.leaders C.winners D.survivors
15.A.Carefully B.Happily C.Curiously D.Nervously
16.A.still B.just C.only D.even
17.A.tried B.managed C.offered D.failed
18.A.replaced B.held C.finished D.changed
19.A.sold B.gave C.threw D.lent
20.A.every B.one C.another D.no
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析