完形填空It was 1952 and my father was away at war...

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It was 1952 and my father was away at war, leaving my mother and me behind to face hardship alone. I was ten. My mother was a 　 and worked at the local clinic a few blocks from where we lived.

The bell rang and 　 of Christmas were the only thing on my mind. I raced home. The apartment was empty and a note was 　 to the refrigerator. My mother was working a double shift and　 me instructions for the day. We had planned on making Christmas biscuits 　 , but my mother　 it.

I carefully　 through mother’s closet, finding most of the 　 for Christmas wrapped in linen cloth, all but one toy, a model airplane. I was still 　 at my mother and I threw the airplane onto the floor, breaking one of its wings. I stood　 . How was I going to explain this? Then I heard my mother coming through the door. I 　 to my room.

After telling my mother the horrible　 , I did not hear my mother 　 me. She just told me to follow her. Climbing the steps without catching our , we entered the clinic. There in a bed was a boy who looked very sick.

“He is going to die, Danny,” my mother told me, “ 　　 today, maybe tomorrow. He loves planes. I knew his mother could not　 to buy him one. So I did. I count my blessings every night and think of this boy and how 　 I am that you are not in that bed.”

The 　 cut hard and sharp in my heart. The tears down my face and I was so guilty. I ran home as fast as I could and into my room where I 　 myself to sleep.

1.A. saleswoman　     B. surgeon    C. teacher    D. clerk

2.A. thoughts    B. memories    C. desires    D. hopes

3.A. written    B. found    C. attached    D. sent

4.A. reminded    B. provided    C. saved　     D. left

5.A. alone    B. soon    C. together    D. immediately

6.A. ruined    B. refused    C. forgot　     D. challenged

7.A. walked    B. hunted    C. broke    D. got

8.A. toys    B. gifts    C. clothes    D. supplies

9.A. anxious    B. pleased    C. mad    D. eager

10.A. awake    B. happy    C. wild    D. frozen

11.A. raced    B. removed    C. struggled    D. wandered

12.A. note    B. idea    C. truth　     D. message

13.A. quarrel with    B. shout at    C. worry about    D. cheer up

14.A. calmness　     B. sweat    C. rest    D. breath

15.A. Possibly    B. Certainly    C. Properly    D. Regularly

16.A. encourage    B. persuade    C. afford    D. force

17.A. wonderful    B. grateful    C. hopeful　     D. helpful

18.A. scolds    B. comments    C. phrases    D. words

19.A. floated　     B. dropped    C. slowed　     D. rolled

20.A. cried    B. made    C. turned　     D. moved

高三英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

完形填空

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。

It was 1952 and my father was away at war, leaving my mother and me behind to face hardship alone. I was ten. My mother was a ________ and worked at the local clinic a few blocks from where we lived.

The bell rang and ________of Christmas were the only thing on my mind. I raced home. The apartment was empty and a note was ________ to the refrigerator. My mother was working a double shift and 　 ________ me instructions for the day. We had planned on making Christmas biscuits ________　 , but my mother________ it.

I carefully ________through mother’s closet, finding most of the 　 ________　 for Christmas wrapped in linen cloth, all but one toy, a model airplane. I was still ________ at my mother and I threw the airplane onto the floor, breaking one of its wings. I stood 　 ________ . How was I going to explain this? Then I heard my mother coming through the door. I ________ to my room.

After telling my mother the horrible________, I did not hear my mother ________　 me. She just told me to follow her. Climbing the steps without catching our 　 ________ , we entered the clinic. There in a bed was a boy who looked very sick.

“He is going to die, Danny,” my mother told me, “________ today, maybe tomorrow. He loves planes. I knew his mother could not ________　 to buy him one. So I did. I count my blessings every night and think of this boy and how ________ I am that you are not in that bed.”

The 　 ________ cut hard and sharp in my heart. The tears ________ down my face and I was so guilty. I ran home as fast as I could and into my room where I ________　 myself to sleep.

1.A. saleswoman　 B. surgeon　　　　 　 C. teacher　　　 D. clerk

2.A. thoughts　　　 B. memories　　　　 C. desires　　　　 D. hopes

3.A. written　　 　　 B. found　　　　 　　 C. attached　　　　 D. sent

4.A. reminded　　 B. provided　　　 　 C. saved　　　　 D. left

5.A. alone　　 　　　 B. soon　　　 　　　 C. together　　　　 D. immediately

6.A. ruined　　　 　　 B. refused　　　 　 C. forgot　　　 　 D. challenged

7.A. walked　 　　　　 B. hunted　　 　　　 C. broke　 　　　 　 D. got

8.A. toys　　　 　　 B. gifts　　　 　　 C. clothes　　　　 D. supplies

9.A. anxious　　 　　 B. pleased　　　 　 C. mad　　　　 　　　 D. eager

10.A. awake　　 　　 B. happy　　　　 　　 C. wild　　　　 　　 D. frozen

11.A. raced　　 　 　 B. removed　　　 　　 C. struggled　　　 D. wandered

12.A. note　　 　　　　 B. idea　　 　　　　 C. truth　　 　　　 D. message

13.A. quarrel with B. shout at　　　　 C. worry about　 D. cheer up

14.A. calmness　　 　 B. sweat　　　　 　　 C. rest　　　　 　　 D. breath

15.A. Possibly　　　 B. Certainly　　　　 C. Properly　　 D. Regularly

16.A. encourage　　 B. persuade　　　 C. afford　　　　 D. force

17.A. wonderful　　 B. grateful　　 　 C. hopeful　　　　 D. helpful

18.A. scolds　　 　 B. comments　　　　 C. phrases　　　 D. words

19.A. floated　　 　 B. dropped　　　　 　 C. slowed　　　　 　 D. rolled

20.A. cried　　 　　 B. made　　　　 　　 C. turned　　　　 D. moved

高三英语完形填空简单题查看答案及解析

I’ll never forget driving away from my village in war-torn Vietnam. I was five and my mum, Can, told me and my brother Tam we were going on holiday, but as she hugged us goodbye, she began to sob so much her whole body was shaking. I gripped my little brother’s hand as I watched the tiny village grow smaller in the rear view window. Like many Vietnamese children, we were adopted by an Australian family.

It was a scary, lonely and confusing time, and I missed my birth family horribly. “When am I going home?” I’d ask again and again in Vietnamese, but no one would answer me because they didn’t understand. I’d ask about my birth mother so often that my new parents told me she had died. I cried myself to sleep every night until I was eight or nine. My adoptive family were dysfunctional and home life was tough.

At 15, my adoptive mother died. After that, I was going through my adoptive father’s filing cabinet (橱柜) and I found an old letter, with a Vietnamese postmark. I felt delighted as I realized it was from my birth mum. Straight away, I wrote a long letter to the address she had given, explaining who I was and asking if Can was alive.

Soon after, I got a simple fax back, saying, “Mother still alive, very happy to hear from you.” My heart soared as I read her words. For the next few years, I exchanged letters with her and was thrilled to finally have contact with her. I was so grateful for that.

1.Why did the author’s mum begin to sob in Paragraph 1?

A.Because she felt excited when hugging her children.

B.Because her children were going on holiday.

C.Because her children were leaving her.

D.Because her whole body was shaking.

2.How was the author’s adoptive life?

A.Hard. B.Happy.

C.Easy. D.Free.

3.What was the possible reason for Can’s failing to contact the author?

A.Can didn’t like the author. B.Can didn’t know where the author was.

C.Can was dead. D.Can was not allowed to contact the author.

4.How did the author feel when she read her mum’s words?

A.Upset. B.Excited.

C.Lonely. D.Moved.

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During the war, my husband was stationed at an army camp in a desert in California. I went to live there in order to be _________ him. I hated the place. I had never _________ been so unhappy. My husband was ordered out on a long-term duty, and I was left in a tiny shack(棚屋) alone. The heat was _________ —almost 125 °F even in the shade of a cactus(仙人掌). 　 _________ a soul to talk to. The wind blew non-stop, and all the food I ate, and the very air I breathed, were 　 _________ with sand, sand, sand!

I was so sorry for myself that I wrote to my parents. I told them I was 　 _________　 and coming back home. I said I couldn’t stand it one minute longer. I 　 _________ be in prison! My father answered my_________　 with just two lines—two lines that will always sing in my _________　 — two lines that completely changed my life:

Two men looked out from prison bars,

One saw the mud, the other saw the stars.

I read those two lines _________　 . I was ashamed of myself. I made up my mind I would find out what was good in my present _________ I would look for the stars.

I made friends with the natives, and their _________ amazed me. They gave me presents of their favorite artworks which they had　 _________ to sell to tourists. I studied the delightful forms of the cactus. I watched for the desert sunsets, and _________ for seashells that had been left there millions of years ago when the desert had been an ocean _________　 .

What brought about this 　 _________ change in me? The desert hadn’t changed, _________　 I had. I had changed my _________　 . And by doing so, I changed an unhappy experience into the most amazing 　 _________ of my life. I was excited by this new world that I had discovered. I had looked out of my self-created prison and 　 _________　 the stars.

1.A. off            B. behind            C. near            D. beyond

2.A. before        B. already            C. then            D. still

3.A. inflexible                        B. incomprehensible

C. uncontrollable                            D. unbearable

4.A. Only        B. Not                C. Many            D. Such

5.A. covered        B. filled            C. buried        D. charged

6.A. catching up                        B. keeping up

C. giving up                                D. getting up

7.A. ought to    B. might well        C. would rather    D. had better

8.A. request        B. call                C. question        D. letter

9.A. comparison    B. imagination        C. consideration    D. memory

10.A. over and over                    B. by and by

C. up and down                                D. now and then

11.A. company    B. occupation        C. situation    D. relationship

12.A. movement    B. reaction            C. guidance        D. purpose

13.A. refused    B. failed            C. managed        D. happened

14.A. asked        B. hunted            C. waited        D. headed

15.A. floor        B. surface            C. rock            D. level

16.A. shocking    B. challenging        C. puzzling        D. astonishing

17.A. as            B. but                C. for            D. or

18.A. attitude    B. principle        C. identity        D. standard

19.A. vacation    B. operation        C. affair        D. adventure

20.A. sought        B. counted            C. found        D. reached

高三英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

In April 1952, I was 11 years old and in the sixth grade at an elementary school. My teacher was Miss Pemberton. It was spelling bee time in our city - students were issued with brochures of words to study in　　 _____ for the class spelldowns (比赛). They would lead to a schoolwide contest and ________ qualification for the citywide spelling bee, where school ________ competed for the ________ of being the spelling champion of Houston.

The day ________ the class spelling bee, my youngest brother was playing with matches and ________ set a fire in our apartment. My mother made sleeping arrangements for all of us and ________ the school in the morning to inform Miss Pemberton of the accident, ________ that the class spelling bee was that day.

When I arrived at school, Miss Pemberton ________ me aside. She asked if I wanted her to ________ the spelling bee to another day because of my ________ about the fire. I told her no. That day, I won the spelling bee for my class.

The next week was the school spelling bee, with class champions ________. I won again! The ________ spelling bee was one month away.

Every Sunday afternoon, Miss Pemberton would pick me up, and we would go to her house, where she would help me ________ by calling out spelling words. After a couple of ________, Miss Pemberton would ________ me to Rettig's ice­cream parlor, where I could ________ a hot chocolate sundae (圣代冰激凌) which I'd never had. We practiced every ________ until the citywide spelling bee.

I did not win the citywide spelling bee, but I still felt ________ to have participated. I also felt grateful that I had such a ________ teacher in elementary school.

1.A.need B.exchange C.preparation D.return

2.A.actual B.final C.hopeful D.lucky

3.A.students B.participants C.winners D.teams

4.A.prize B.benefit C.fame D.honor

5.A.before B.after C.during D.for

6.A.stupidly B.successfully C.shortly D.accidentally

7.A.visited B.called C.emailed D.wrote

8.A.believing B.hoping C.knowing D.telling

9.A.pulled B.drove C.left D.helped

10.A.call off B.take off C.put off D.send off

11.A.upset B.curiosity C.doubt D.anger

12.A.waiting B.competing C.winning D.applying

13.A.schoolwide B.citywide C.nationwide D.worldwide

14.A.review B.remember C.learn D.practice

15.A.minutes B.hours C.days D.weeks

16.A.rush B.drag C.take D.send

17.A.order B.use C.make D.enjoy

18.A.weekend B.afternoon C.moment D.night

19.A.proud B.welcome C.disappointed D.surprised

20.A.successful B.patient C.professional D.caring

高三英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

My father’s reaction to the bank building at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York city was immediate and definite: “You won’t catch me putting my money in there!” he declared, “Not in that glass box!”

Of course, my father is a gentleman of the old school, a member of the generation to whom a good deal of modern architecture is upsetting, but I am convinced that his negative response was not so much to the architecture as to a violation of his concept of the nature of money. In his generation money was thought of as a real commodity (实物) that could be carried, or stolen.

　Consequently, to attract the custom of a sensible man, a bank had to have heavy walls, barred windows, and bronze doors, to affirm the fact, however untrue, that money would be safe inside. If a building’s design made it appear impenetrable（难以渗透的), the institution was necessarily reliable, and the meaning of the heavy wall as an architecture symbol reflected people’s prevailing attitude toward money.

　But the attitude toward money has, of course, changed. Excepting pocket money, cash of any kind is now rarely used; money as a tangible commodity has largely been replaced by credit. A deficit (赤字) economy, accompanied by huge expansion, has led us to think of money as product of the creative imagination. The banker no longer offers us a safe: he offers us a service in which the most valuable element is the creativity for the invention of large numbers. It is in no way surprising, in view of this change in attitude, that we are witnessing the disappearance of the heavy-walled bank.

　Just as the older bank emphasized its strength, this bank by its architecture boasts of imaginative powers. From this point of view it is hard to say where architecture ends and human assertion (人们的说法) begins.

36. 1.The main idea of this passage is that________.

37. 2.How do the older generation and the younger one think about money respectively?

38. 3.The words “tangible commodity” (Line 2, Para. 4) refer to something ______.

39. 4.According to this passage, a modern banker should be _______.

40. 5.It can be inferred from the passage that the author’s attitude towards the new trend in banking is _______.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

My husband and son took a New York-to-Milwaukee flight that was supposed to leave Friday at 11:29 am. The flight boarded after 4 pm and didn’t leave the gate until 4:40, and half an hour later the pilot announced it would be another hour until takeoff. At that point a Jewish family, worried about violating the Sabbath （安息日）, asked to get off. Going back to the gate cost the plane its place in line for takeoff, and the flight was eventually cancelled. Was the airline right to grant that request?

M. W, Norwalk, CONN.

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Situations like that can bring out the worst in people. But despite the increasing resentment（怨恨） of a plane full of people, the pilot tried to do the right thing. He went out of his way to satisfy one family’s urgent need. He should not have done so.

Passengers bought tickets in the belief that the airline’s primary goal was to get them to their destination as close to the schedule as possible. Once they got on the plane and the doors are locked, it’s not correct to announce that the rules have changed and that a personal (as opposed to medical) emergency —no matter how urgent — might take precedence（优先）.

That would be just as true if turning back to the gate had merely cost a few minutes rather than doomed the flight entirely, since on a plane, even a slight delay can spread outward, from the people in the cabin to those meeting them to the passengers waiting to board the plane for the next leg of its journey and so on. It would also be true if the personal emergency were not religious — if someone suddenly realized she’d made a professional mistake that might cost her millions, and she had to race back to the office to fix it.

If a religious practice does nothing to harm others, then airlines should make a reasonable effort to accommodate it. Though that family has every right to observe the Sabbath, it has no right to enlist an airplane full of captive bystanders to help them do so. By boarding a flight on a Friday afternoon, the family knowingly risked running into trouble. The risk was theirs alone to bear.

1.M. W. wrote the letter to ask whether ______.

A．Any religious passenger has the right to ask the pilot to take off

B．The airline has the right to cancel the flight without any reason

C．A flight should meet any passenger’s need despite others’ benefit

D．A plane which has left the gate should give up taking off

2.What do we know from the reply letter?

A．The pilot did the right thing in spite of the fierce resentment.

B．The plane should turn back if anyone aboard is seriously ill.

C．Anybody who has boarded has no chance to get off the plane.

D．Any flight shouldn’t change its schedule no matter what has happened.

3.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Turning back to the gate usually takes a plane quite a long time.

B．Nobody should take precedence to require the plane to turn back to the gate.

C．Even if it had taken a few minutes it was not right to turn back to the gate.

D．It was OK if turning back to the gate hadn’t caused the flight to be cancelled.

4.The author of the reply letter thinks that _________.

A．It’s right for the plane to turn back to the gate to save a passenger’s treasure

B．The Jewish family should give up observing the Sabbath after boarding

C．The biggest problem of turning back is to bring trouble to the pilot

D．The Jewish family had better avoid boarding on Friday afternoon

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

It was at her company’s annual picnic that my mother met my father, and he walked her home. The next week, from his home in Chicago, he sent her a post card: Remember me please. Do be calling you one of these days.—David.

She still has that post card. I am not sure what made her save. Though he already had his heart set on her, she hadn't chosen him yet, at least not consciously.

My father, a salesman for a big electronics company, often told us while we were growing up, it was blind luck that he was at the picnic that day. He was in town to meet with clients and happened to stop by the branch office that Saturday morning to make a call. It was the manager of a local radio station where my mother worked as a writer. “Dave! Glad you’re in town!” he said, and invited him to come right over to their annual picnic. Later my mother dated him when he was in town. Eventually, one night a few months later, she woke her mother and told her she was going to marry Dave. A few months after the wedding, my father was transferred east. They settled in New York, in the house where I grew up.

Sometimes I think how time gets us together and puts us in a certain place where we’re faced with one option or another. We leave behind while others live by the choice we made. We could have lived full of different passions and joys, different problems and disappointments. Sometimes, particularly when I came home late to a sleeping house, my husband and daughter curled around each other. I think about the lives we would not have had if choices had brought us to a different place. And I tremble at the thought that I might have missed this life, this man, this child, this love.

1.According to the text, where did the author’s parents come across?

A. At the author’s home.　　 B. At a local radio station.

C. At her father’s company’s picnic.　　 D. At her mother’s company’s picnic.

2.It can be inferred from the text that ________.

A. the author’s father didn’t like her mother

B. the author’s mother always made right decisions

C. the author didn’t believe her mother

D. the author’s mother hadn’t decided to marry her father at first

3.Before meeting the author's father, her mother was ________.

A. a writer　　 B. a manager　　 C. a teacher　　 D. a saleswoman

4.What do we know about the author?

A. She values her life now.

B. Time makes her life now perfect.

C. She is tired of her life now.

D. Her life now faces problems and disappointments.

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

-I was six when I joined my father and two elder brothers at sunrise in the fields of Eufaula, Okla.____the time I was eight I was helping Dad fix up old furniture. He gave me a cent for every nail I____out of old boards.

I got my first____job, at JM’s Restaurant in town, when I was 12. My main responsibilities(职责) were____tables and washing dishes,____sometimes I helped cook.

Every day after school I would____to JM’s and work until ten. Even on Saturdays I____from two until eleven. At that age it was difficult going to work and____my friends run off to swim or play. I didn’t necessarily like work, but I loved what working____me to have. Because of my____I was always the one buying when my friends and I went to the local Tastee Freez. This made me____

Word that I was trustworthy and hard-working____around town. A local clothing store offered me credit (赊帐)____I was only in seventh grade. I immediately____a $68 sports coat and a $22 pair of shoes. I was____only 65 cents an hour, and I already owed the storekeeper $90! So I learned____the danger of easy credit. I paid it____as soon as I could.

My first job taught me self-control, responsibility and brought me a____of personal satisfaction few of my friends had experienced. As my father,____worked three jobs, once told me, "If you____sacrifice(奉献) and responsibility, there are not many things in life you can’t have." How right he was.

1.A. Before　　 B. Within　　 C. From　　 D. By

2.A. pulled　　 B. put　　 C. picked　　 D. pressed

3.A. usual　　 B. real　　 C. main　　 D. particular

4.A. sweeping　　 B. packing　　 C. clearing　　 D. emptying

5.A. or　　 B. so　　 C. but　　 D. even

6.A. head　　 B. turn　　 C. change　　 D. move

7.A. studied　　 B. worked　　 C. played　　 D. slept

8.A. helping　　 B. having　　 C. watching　　 D. letting

9.A. asked　　 B. told　　 C. promised　　 D. allowed

10.A. study　　 B. power　　 C. age　　 D. job

11.

A. proud　　 B. friendly　　 C. lucky　　 D. hopeful

12.

A. ran　　 B. got　　 C. flew　　 D. carried

13.A. although　　 B. while　　 C. if　　 D. since

14.

A. sold　　 B. borrowed　　 C. charged　　 D. wore

15.A. keeping　　 B. making　　 C. paying　　 D. taking

16.A. gradually　　 B. greatly　　 C. hardly　　 D. early

17.A. out　　 B. over　　 C. away　　 D. off

18.A. point　　 B. level　　 C. part　　 D. sign

19.

A. he　　 B. that　　 C. who　　 D. whoever

20.A. understand　　 B. demand　　 C. offer　　 D. fear

高三英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

My father was Chief Engineer of a merchant ship, which was sunk in World War Ⅱ. The book Night of the U­boats told the story.

Memories

In September ，1940，my mother ,sister and I went to Swansea ,where my father ‘s ship was getting ready to sail ,we brought him a family photography to be kept with him at all times and keep him safe .

Then I remember my mother lying face down ,sobbing .she had heard from a friend that the ship had been sunk by a torpedo (鱼雷).

I can remember the arrived of the telegram（电报），which in those days always brought bad news .my grandmother opened it ,it read ,safe .love ted.”

My most vivid memory is being woken and brought down to sit on my father’s knee, his arm in a bandage .

He was judged unfit to return to sea and took a shore job in Glasgow for the rest of the war, for as long as I can remember ,he had a weak heart ,mother said it was caused by the torpedoes .he said it was because of the cigarette ,whichever ,he died suddenly in his early 50s.

Ten years later I read night of the U-boat and able to complete the story .

A toast

In my room is the book and the photograph .often , glass in hand, I have wondered how I would have dealt with an explosion ,a sinking ship ,a jump into a vast ocean and a wait for rescue ?lest (以免 )we forget ,I have some more whisky and toast the heroes of the war.

1.We can infer that the mother and children went to Swansea ________.

A. to meet a friend               B. to see the father off

C. to take a family photo          D. to enjoy the sailing of the ship

2.What did the author learn about the father from the telegram?

A. he was still alive.              B. His knee was broken.

C. His ship had been sunk.         D. He had arrived in Glasgow.

3.The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 6 refers to the father’s ________.

A. weak heart                   B. taking a shore job

C. failure to return to sea          D. injury caused by a torpedo

4.What is the passage mainly about?

A. A group of forgotten heroes

B. A book describing a terrifying battle.

C. A ship engineer’s wartime experience.

D. A merchant’s memories of a sea rescue.

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