Later she wrote us a letter, expressing her thanks to us for lending her_____ hand when she was in_______ trouble.
A. /, the B. a, / C. a, the d. /, /
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Later she wrote us a letter, expressing her thanks to us for lending her_____ hand when she was in_______ trouble.
A. /, the B. a, / C. a, the d. /, /
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Mary wrote a letter to her parents, ______ she missed them and was studying hard.
A. to be said B. said C. saying D. having said
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When she was in trouble, I did what I could to help her．__________ my help, she wrote me a letter of thanks．
A．In honor of B．In case of C．In terms of D．In return for
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When she was in trouble, I did what I could to help her.________my help, she wrote me a letter of thanks.
A．In honor of B．In case of C．In terms of D．In return for
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When she was in trouble, I did what I could to help her.________my help, she wrote me a letter of thanks.
A. In honor of B. In case of C. In terms of D. In return for
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When Jane Austen (1775--1817) wrote her novels in England, she was writing about a 21that most of us would not recognize.
But today Austen’s books are in great 22than ever. In the last ten years, five or six novels have been 23into Hollywood films, while her books continue to be bestsellers. So why is Austen still 24?
Richard Jenkyns, a professor of English at Oxford University argued that her novels still25 people because they26the same issues today as they were when she wrote them.
Her novels are about women 27to find a perfect husband, but also28issues surrounding marriages, friendships and the family. “The plots are fairly timeless about human interaction 29are familiar to us,” Jenkyns says.
The most famous book Austen wrote is Pride and Prejudice, a 30story between Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy. At first the two 31do not get on. They32 fall in love, but still have to 33opposition to their relationship from their families.
All of Austen’s books are 34to read, making them popular with children and adults,
35they work on different levels so people can take36they need from them, author Kate Henry says.
“You can choose to see the politics and feminism(男女平等思想) in them,37you don’t want to take on those issues you can turn a blind eye to it,” she says.
38is often hailed(赞扬) as the greatest romance writer in the English language, so it is surprising she remained39. “Maybe she was too much of a romantic, waiting for a 40
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When Mrs. Green told her pupils to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful, she thought how little these children in a(an) ____ neighborhood, had to be ____ for. Most of the ____ would draw pictures of turkeys (火鸡) or of Thanksgiving tables full of everything ____ to eat. That was what they believed was ____ them.
What made Mrs. Green ____ was David’s picture. David was so disappointed and likely to be ____ close in his shadow as they went outside for breaks. David’s drawing was ____ this:
A hand, whose hand? The class was strongly attracted by his image. “I think it must be the ____ of God ____us food,” said one student,
“A ____,” said another, “because they ____ the turkeys.”
“It looks more like a policeman, and they ____ us.” “1 think,” Lucy said ____, “that it is ____ to be all the hands that help us, but David could only draw one of them.”
Mrs. Green had almost forgotten David in her ____ at finding the class so responsive(共鸣的). Having the others working on another project, she bent over his ____ and asked whose hand it was.
David whispered, “It’s yours, Teacher.”
Then Mrs. Green ____ she had taken David by the hand from time to time; she often did that with the children. But that it should have ____ so much to David . . .
Perhaps, she thought this was her Thanksgiving, and everybody’s Thanksgiving—not the things given to us, but the small ____ that we give something to others.
1.A. bettering B. developing C. interesting D. worsening
2.A. eager B. thankful C. ready D. greedy
3.A. class B. school C. group D. boys
4.A. rare B. delicious C. expensive D. fit
5.A. convinced of B. informed of C. warned of D. expected of
6.A. satisfied B. touched C. amazed D. encouraged
7.A. found B. shut C. hidden D. stuck
8.A. only B. simply C. clearly D. exactly
9.A. head B. arm C. hand D. foot
10.A. fetching B. earning C. sending D. bringing
11.A. worker B. carpenter C. farmer D. banker
12.A. raise B. milk C. have D. grow
13.A. bring B. protect C. watch D. guard
14.A. seriously B. rudely C. naughtily D. noisily
15.A. proved B. known C. said D. supposed
16.A. surprise B. pride C. pleasure D. wonder
17.A. picture B. book C. schoolbag D. desk
18.A. realized B. wished C. remembered D. believed
19.A. sensed B. meant C. accounted D. affected
20.A. ways B. chances C. abilities D. hopes
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I owe a young lady a letter. She wrote to me last week asking how I was, saying she was fine and that she was _______ the dress we sent for her birthday. She even drew a picture of herself wearing the dress. Then she wrote, “Please _______.”
I can’t _______ the last time someone asked me to write back. We don’t write letters anymore. The _______ is gone; there’s never anything good in the mail. We know what’s in the mail – advertisements and circulars (印刷信函).
When I was the same age as the young lady writing to me, my father took a new job. We only moved 200 miles, but it felt like we had been _______ from friends, extended family and all things familiar by two continents and an ocean. Long distance phone calls were _______ and expensive then, most often _______ for emergencies or bad news.
But people wrote. Both of my grandmothers, and two of my great-aunts wrote to me. It was special that someone took an interest in a _______ kid. That someone would take the time to put pen to _______ and share their lives and ________ about mine meant a lot. It would mean a lot to anybody, ________.
I spent many a Sunday evening straining (竭力) to ________ thoughtful and well-written letters. “Dear Aunt Mary, How are you? I am fine. I hope you are the same.”
My mother was a great letter writer. I looked forward to her letters when I left home, went to college and then traveled across the country working newspaper jobs. When I married, had children and moved again, still far from home, she wrote ________. Letters were a way of ________ the distance.
She was a natural storyteller. She could make a story about a ________ gathering where everyone sat on metal folding chairs and had nothing but water to drink sound like a wonderful party. Back then, letter writers were storytellers because they were ________ of the world around them.
As phone calls became affordable, then cheap, the flow of letters ________ and eventually stopped.But it is different for me today. What a ________ to get a letter! There were ________ circulars and advertisements in the mailbox. There was something truly special, which takes me to my most delightful task ________, “Dear Audrey .”
By Lori Borgman
1.A. comparing B. taking C. enjoying D. considering
2.A. respond B. react C. relax D. recommend
3.A. forget B. remember C. regret D. resist
4.A. surprise B. thrill C. terror D. disappointment
5.A. prevented B. divided C. deserted D. separated
6.A. convenient B. sensible C. rare D. common
7.A. reserved B. prepared C. provided D. sacrificed
8.A. boring B. homesick C. troublesome D. homeless
9.A. desk B. envelope C. paper D. mail
10.A. doubt B. talk C. think D. enquire
11.A. though B. really C. anyway D. regardless
12.A. compose B. compile C. compromise D. compensate
13.A. carefully B. thankfully C. faithfully D. anxiously
14.A. keeping B. putting C. closing D. finding
15.A. sad B. dull C. exciting D. happy
16.A. creators B. discoverers C. admirers D. observers
17.A. broke down B. slowed down C. settled down D. fell down
18.A. coincidence B. genius C. pity D. treat
19.A. more than B. no more than C. other than D. rather than
20.A. by hand B. at hand C. on hand D. in hand
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To this day, I remember my mum’s letters. It all ______ in December 1941. Every night she wrote to my brother Johnny, who had been ______ that summer. We had not heard from him since the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Mum claimed that there was a direct ______ from the brain to the written word that was just as strong as the light God has granted us. She trusted that this light would ______ Johnny. I don’t know if she said that to ______ her mind or all of ours. But I do know that it helped us ______ together, and one day a letter from Jonny really did arrive. Johnny was alive on an island.
I had always been amused by the fact that mum ______ her letters, “Cecilia Capuzzi”, and I ______ her about why she didn’t just write “Mum”. I hadn’t been aware that she ______ thought of herself as Cecilia Capuzzi. Not as Mum. I began seeing her in a new light, this small _____ yet strong woman. We often sat recalling the days when our family was filled with laughter of four boys. They had all moved away from home to work, enrolled in the ______, or got married. All except me. Around next spring mum had got two more sons to ______. Little by little, the rumour about mum’s letters ______. One day a small woman knocked at our door. She opened her bag and ______ a pile of airmail letters, begging mum to read them from her son who was a soldier in Europe. Mum read the letters one by one. The woman’s eyes ______ with tears. A few days later the woman returned with a friend, then another one and yet another one—they all needed letters. Mum had become the _______ in our town.
“All people in this world are here with one particular ______,” Mum said. “______, mine is to write letters.” She tried to explain why it ______ her so much. “A letter_______ people like nothing else. It can make them cry, it can make them laugh and it makes the world seem very small. My dear, a letter is life itself!”
1.A. gathered B. disappeared C. started D. happened
2.A. called B. drafted C. arrested D. trained
3.A. link B. signal C. route D. result
4.A. warm B. guide C. tell D. find
5.A. focus B. calm C. broaden D. strengthen
6.A. swing B. struggle C. stick D. settle
7.A. began B. answered C. signed D. sealed
8.A. teased B. persuaded C. reminded D. informed
9.A. never B. seldom C. ever D. always
10.A. liberal B. delicate C. reliable D. uneducated
11.A. university B. service C. course D. army
12.A. cater to B. relate to C. write to D. subscribe to
13.A. circulated B. arose C. faded D. ceased
14.A. set out B. pulled out C. put out D. turned out
15.A. sprang up B. welled up C. looked up D. turned up
16.A. writer B. editor C. assistant D. correspondent
17.A. order B. ambition C. letter D. purpose
18.A. Apparently B. Gradually C. Initially D. Eventually
19.A. pushed B. challenged C. absorbed D. relaxed
20.A. unites B. draws C. cheers D. associates
高三英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Although she has lived next to us for months, we still ________ her real name.
A．hadn’t known B．didn’t know C．don’t know D．haven’t known
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