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高考英语完形填空
2008年
Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion in Scotland. In an interview, she recalled how she became a percussion soloist (打击乐器独奏演员) in spite of her disability.
“Early on I decided not to allow the 36 of others to stop me from becoming a musician. I grew up on a farm in northeast Scotland and began 37 piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got, the more my passion (酷爱) for music grew. But I also began to gradually lose my 38. Doctors concluded that the nerve damage was the 39 and by age twelve, I was completely deaf. But my love for music never 40 me.
“My 41 was to become a percussion soloist, even though there were none at that time. To perform, I 42 to hear music differently from others. I play in my stocking feet and can 43 the pitch of a note (音调高低) by the vibrations (振动). I feel through my body and through my 44. My entire sound world exists by making use of almost every 45 that I have.
“I was 46 to be assessed as a musician, not as a deaf musician, and I applied to the famous Royal Academy of Music in London. No other deaf student had 47 this before and some teachers 48 my admission. Based on my performance, I was 49 admitted and went to 50 with the academy’s highest honors.
“After that, I established myself as the first full-time solo percussionist. I 51 and arranged a lot of musical compositions since 52 had been written specially for solo percussionists.
“I have been a soloist for over ten years. 53 the doctor thought was a totally deaf, it didn’t 54 that my passion couldn’t be realized. I would encourage people not to allow themselves to be 55 by others. Follow your passion; follow your heart, they will lead you to the place you want to go.” (341 words)
36. A. conditions B. opinions C. actions D. recommendations
37. A. enjoying B. choosing C. taking D. giving
38. A. sight B. hearing C. touch D. taste
39. A. evidence B. result C. excuse D. cause
40. A. left B. excited C. accompanied D. disappointed
41. A. purpose B. decision C. promise D. goal
42. A. turned B. learned C. used D. ought
43. A. tell B. see C. hear D. smell
44. A. carefulness B. movement C. imagination D. experience
45. A. sense B. effort C. feeling D. idea
46. A. dissatisfied B. astonished C. determined D. discouraged
47. A. done B. accepted C. advised D. admitted
48. A. supported B. followed C. required D. opposed
49. A. usually B. finally C. possibly D. hopefully
50. A. study B. research C. graduate D. progress
51. A. wrote B. translated C. copied D. read
52. A. enough B. some C. many D. few
53. A. However B. Although C. When D. Since
54. A. mean B. seem C. conclude D. say
55. A. directed B. guided C. taught D. Limited
2009年
The requirements for high school graduation have just changed in my community. As a result, all students must 36 sixty hours of service learning, 37 they will not receive a diploma. Service learning is academic learning that also helps the community. 38 of service learning include cleaning up a polluted river, working in a soup kitchen, or tutoring a student. 39 a service experience, students must keep a journal(日志)and then write a 40 about what they have learned.
Supporters claim that there are many 41 of service learning. Perhaps most importantly, students are forced to think 42 their own interests and become 43 of the needs of others. Students are also able to learn real-life skills that 44 responsibility, problem-solving, and working as part of a team. 45 , students can explore possible careers 46 service learning.
For example, if a student wonders what teaching is like, he or she can choose to work in an elementary school classroom a few afternoons each month. 47 there are many benefits, opponents (反对者) 48 problems with the new requirement. First, they 49 that the main reason students go to school is to learn core subjects and skills. Because service learning is time-consuming, students spend 50 time studying the core subjects. Second, they believe that forcing students to work without 51 goes against the law. By requiring service, the school takes away an individual's freedom to choose.
In my view, service learning is a great way to 52 to the community, learn new skills, and explore different careers. 53 , I don’t believe you should force people to help others – the 54 to help must come from the heart. I think the best 55 is one that gives students choices: a student should be able to choose sixty hours of independent study or sixty hours of service. Choice encourages both freedom and responsibility, and as young adults, we must learn to handle both wisely. (330 words)
36. A. spend B. gain C .complete D. save
37. A. and B. or C. but D. for
38. A. Subjects B. Ideas C. Procedures D. Examples
39. A. With B. Before C. During D. After
40. A. diary B, report C. note D. notice
41. A. courses B. benefits C. challenges D. features
42. A. beyond B. about C. over D. in
43. A. careful B. proud C. tired D. aware
44. A. possess B. apply C. include D. develop
45. A. Gradually B. Finally C. Luckily D. Hopefully
46. A. through B. across C. of D. on
47. A. So B. Thus C. Since D. While
48. A. deal with B. look into C. point out D. take down
49. A. argue B. doubt C. overlook D. admit
50. A. much B. full C. less D. more
51. A. cost B. pay C. care D. praise
52. A. contribute B. appeal C. attend D. belong
53. A. Therefore B. Otherwise C. Besides D. However
54. A. courage B. desire C. emotion D. spirit
55. A. decision B. purpose C. solution D. result
2010年
Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my stepmother.
I was nine years old when she entered our home in rural Virginia. My father__36__me to her with these words: “I would like you to meet the fellow who is___37 for being the worst boy in this county and will probably start throwing rocks at you no ___38 than tomorrow morning.”
My stepmother walked over to me, ___39 my head slightly upward, and looked me right in the eye. Then she looked at my father and replied, “You are ___40 .This is not the worst boy at all, ___41 the smartest one who hasn’t yet found an outlet(释放的途径)for his enthusiasm.”
That statement began a (n) ___42 between us. No one had ever called me smart, My family and neighbors had built me up in my ___43 as a bad boy. My stepmother changed all that.
She changed many things. She ___44 my father to go to a dental school, from which he graduated with honors. She moved our family into the county srat, where my father’s career could be more ___45 and my brother and I could be better___46 .
When I turned fourteen, she bought me a secondhand___47 and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I knew her ernthusiasm; I___48it had already improved our lives. I accepted her ___49 and began to write for local newspapers. I was doing the same kind of___50 that great day I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and received the task which became my life’s work later. I wasn’t the __51 beneficiary (受益者).My father became the __52 man in town. My brother and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college president.
What power __53 has! When that power is released to support the certainty of one’s purpose and is ___54 strengthened by faith, it becomes an irresistible(不可抗拒的)force which poverty and temporary defeat can never ___55 .
You can communicate that power to anyone who needs it. This is probably the greatest work you can do with your enthusiasm. (372 words)
36. A. rushed B. sent C. carried D. introduced
37. A. distinguished B. favored C. mistaken D. rewarded
38. A. sooner B. later C. longer D. earlier
39. A. dragged B. shook C. raised D. bent
40. A. perfect B. right C. wrong D. impolite
41. A. but B. so C. and D. or
42. A. agreement B. friendship C. gap D. relationship
43. A. opinion B. image C. expectation D. mind
44. A. begged B. persuaded C. ordered D. invited
45. A. successful B. meaningful C. helpful D. useful
46. A. reared B. entertained C. educated D. respected
47. A. camera B. radio C. bicycle D. typewriter
48. A. considered B. suspected C. ignored D. appreciated
49. A. belief B. request C. criticism D. description
50. A. teaching B. writing C. studying D. reading
51. A. next B. same C. only D. real
52. A. cleverest B. wealthiest C. strongest D. healthiest
53. A. enthusiasm B. sympathy C. fortune D. confidence
54. A. deliberately B. happily C. traditionally D. constantly
55. A. wins B. match C. reach D. doubt
2011
A boy was walking home from school when he saw a large, tempting (诱人的)apple on one of the branches of an apple tree hanging out over a tall fence. The boy wasn’t much of a fruit-eater, 36 a bar of chocolate if given the choice, 37 , as they say, the forbidden fruit can be tempting. Seeing the apple, the boy wanted it. The more he looked at it, the 38 he felt and the more he wanted that apple.
39 as high as he could, but even as his tallest 40 he was unable to touch It. He began to 41 up and down , as high as he could, at the 42 of each jump stretching his arms to get the apple . Still it remained out of 43 .
Not giving up , he though , if only he had something to 44 on . His school bag wouldn’t give enough height and he didn’t want to 45 the things inside , like his lunch box , pencil case , and Gameboy. Looking 46 , he hoped he might find an old box , a rock , or , 47 luck , even a ladder , but it was a tidy neighborhood and there was nothing he could use .
He had tired everything he could think to do . 48 seeing any other choices, he gave up and started to walk 49 . At first he felt angry and disappointed thinking about how hungry he had become from his 50 , and how he really wanted that apple . The more he 51 like this , the more unhappy he became.
52 , the boy of our story was a pretty smart guy, even if he couldn’t always get what get he wanted . He started to say to himself .,This isn’t 53 , I don’t have the apple and I’m feeling miserable as well. There’s 54 more I can do to get the apple --that is unchangeable-- but we are supposed to be able to 55 our feelings. If that’s the case, what can I do to feel better? (360 words)
36. A. preferring B. offering C. receiving D. allowing
37. A. so B. then C. but D. or
38. A.sadder B. angrier C. hungrier D. tastier
39. A. expanding B. stretching C. swinging D. pulling
40. A. strength B. length C. range D. height
41. A. jump B. look C. walk D. glance
42. A. tip B. stage C. top D. level
43. A. hope B. hand C. sight D. reach
44. A. put B. stand C. get D. hold
45. A. break B. shake C. take D. strike
46. A. up B. forword C. down D. around
47. A. for B. with C. on D. of
48. A. After B. Through C .Without D. Upon
49. A. back B. away C. up D. down
50. A. wishes B. beliefs C. efforts D. goals
51. A. thought B. imagined C. tried D. claimed
52. A. Therefore B. However C. Moreover D. Otherwise
53. A. skilful B. cheerful C. harmful D. helpful
54. A. something B. anything C. everything D. nothing
55. A. change B. express C. forget D. describe
2012
The concept of solitude (独处) in the digital world is almost non-existent. In the world of digital technology,
e-mail, social networking and online video games, information is meant to be__36__. Solitude can be hard to discover __37__it has been given up. In this respect, new
technologies have __38__our culture.
The desire to be connected has brought solitude to a(n) __39__as we’ve known it. People have become so __40__in the world of networks and connections that one can often be contacted __41__they’d rather not be. Today we can talk, text, e-mail, chat and blog (写博客), not only from our __42__, but from our mobile phones as well.
Most developed nations have become ___43___on digital technology simply because they’ve grown accustomed to it, and at this point not ___44___it would make them an outsider. ___45__, many jobs and careers require people to be __46__. From this point of view, technology has changed the culture of work. Being reachable might feel like a ___47___to those who may not want to be able to be contacted at all times.
I suppose the positive side is that solitude is still possible for anyone who __48__wants it. Computers can be shut __49__and mobile phones can be turned off. The ability to be “connected “and “ on” has many __50__, as well as disadvantages. Travelers have ended up __51__on mountains, and mobile phones have saved countless lives. They can also make people feel __52__and forced to answer unwanted calls or__53___to unwanted texts.
Attitudes towards our connectedness as a society __54__ across generations. Some find today’s technology a gift. Others consider it a curse. Regardless of anyone’s view on the subject, it’s hard to imagine what life would be like ___55____daily advancements in technology. (293 words)
36. A. updated B. received C. shared D. collected
37. A. though B. until C. once D. before
38. A. respected B. shaped C. ignored D. preserved
39. A. edge B. stage C. end D. balance
40. A. sensitive B. intelligent C. considerate D. reachable
41. A. even if B. only if C. as if D. if only
42. A. media B. computers C. databases D. monitors
43. A. bent B. hard C. keen D. dependent
44. A. finding B. using C. protecting D. changing
45. A. Also B. Instead C. Otherwise D. Somehow
46. A. connected B. trained C. recommended D. interested
47. A. pleasure B. benefit C. burden D. disappointment
48. A. slightly B. hardly C. merely D. really
49. A. out B. down C. up D. in
50. A. aspects B. weaknesses C. advantages D. exceptions
51. A. hidden B. lost C. relaxed D. deserted
52. A. trapped B. excited C. confused D. amused
53. A. turn B. submit C. object D. reply
54. A. vary B. arise C. spread D. exist
55. A. beyond B. within C. despite D. without
2013
I used to believe in the American Dream, which meant a job, a mortgage (按揭), credit cards, success. I
wanted it and worked toward it like everyone else, all of us 36 chasing the same thing.
One year, through a series of unhappy events, it all fell 37 . I found myself homeless and alone. I had my truck and $56. I 38 the countryside for some place I could rent for the 39 possible amount. I came upon a shabby house four miles up a winding mountain road 40 the Potomac River in West Virginia. It was 41 , full of broken glass and rubbish. I found the owner, rented it, and 42 a corner to camp in.
The locals knew nothing about me, 43 slowly, they started teaching me the 44 of being a neighbor. They dropped off blankets, candles, and tools, and began 45 around to chat. They started to teach me a belief in a 46 American Dream—not the one of individual achievement but of 47 .
What I have believed in, all those things I thought were 48 for a civilized life, were nonexistent in this place. 49 on the mountain, my most valuable possessions were my 50 with my neighbors.
Four years later, I moved back into 51 . I saw many people were having a really hard time, 52 their jobs and homes. I managed to reant a big enough house to 53 a handful of people. There are four of us now in the house, but over time I’ve had nine people come in and move on to other places. We’d all be in 54 if we hadn’t banded together.
The American Dream I believe in now is a shared one. It’s not so much about what I can get for myself; it’s about 55 we can all get by together. (313 words)
36. A. separately B. equally C. violently D. naturally
37. A. off B. apart C. over D. out
38. A. crossed B. left C. toured D. searched
39. A. fullest B. largest C. fairest D. cheapest
40. A. at B. through C. over D. round
41. A. occupied B. abandoned C. emptied D. robbed
42. A. turned B. approached C. cleared D. cut
43. A. but B. although C. otherwise D. for
44. A. benefit B. lesson C. nature D. art
45. A. sticking B. looking C. swinging D. turning
46. A. wild B. real C. different D. remote
47. A. neighborliness B. happiness C. friendliness D. kindness
48. A. unique B. expensive C. rare D. necessary
49. A. Up B. Down C. Deep D. Along
50. A. cooperation B. relationship C. satisfaction D. appointments
51. A. reality B. society C. town D. life
52. A. creating B. losing C. quitting D. offering
53. A. put in B. turn in C. take in D. get in
54. A. yards B. shelters C. camps D. cottages
55. A. when B. what C. whether D. How
2014
Dale Carnegie rose from the unknown of a Missouri farm to international fame because he found a way to fill
a universal human need.
It was a need that he first 36 back in 1906 when young Dale was a junior at State Teachers College in Warrensburg. To get an 37 , he was struggling against many difficulties. His family was poor. His Dad couldn’t afford the 38 at college, so Dale had to ride horseback 12 miles to attend classes. Study had to be done 39 his farm-work routines. He withdrew from many school activities 40 he didn’t have the time or the 41 . He had only one good suit. He tried 42 the football team, but the coach turned him down for being too 43 . During this period Dale was slowly 44 an inferiority complex (自卑感), which his mother knew could 45 him from achieving his real potential. She 46 that Dale join the debating team, believing that 47 in speaking could give him the confidence and recognition that he needed.
Dale took his mother’s advice, tried desperately and after several attempts 48 made it. This proved to be a 49 point in his life. Speaking before groups did help him gain the 50 he needed. By the time Dale was a senior, he had won every top honor in 51 . Now other students were coming to him for coaching and they, 52 , were winning contests.
Out of this early struggle to 53 his feelings of inferiority, Dale came to understand that the ability to 54 an idea to an audience builds a person’s confidence. And, 55 it, Dale knew he could do anything he wanted to do—and so could others. (292 words)
36. A. admitted B. filled C. supplied D. recognized
37. A. assignment B. education C. advantage D. instruction
38. A. training B. board C. teaching D. equipment
39. A. between B. during C. over D. through
40. A. while B. when C. because D. though
41. A. permits B. interest C. talent D. clothes
42. A. on B. for C. in D. with
43. A. light B. flexible C. optimistic D. outgoing
44. A. gaining B. achieving C. developing D. obtaining
45. A. prevent B. protect C. save D. free
46. A. suggested B. demanded C. required D. insisted
47. A. presence B. practice C. patience D. potential
48. A. hopefully B. certainly C. finally D. naturally
49. A. key B. breaking C. basic D. turning
50. A. progress B. experience C. competence D. confidence
51. A. horse-riding B. football C. speech D. farming
52. A. in return B. in brief C. in turn D. in fact
53. A. convey B. overcome C. understand D. build
54. A. express B. stress C. contribute D. repeat
55. A. besides B. beyond C. like D. with
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(2013)Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. And he surely deserves additional praise: the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.
I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War. H. B. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is only the most famous example. These early stories dealt directly with slavery. With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely. He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.
Again and again, in the postwar years, Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race. Consider the most controversial, at least today, of Twain’s novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twains most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck them as rude. Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums (贫民窟).” More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim, the escaped slave, and many occurrences of the word nigger. (The term Nigger Jim, for which the novel is often severely criticized, never appears in it.)
But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point. The novel is strongly anti-slavery. Jim’s search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic. As J. Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual: Jim, the father and the man.”
There is much more. Twain’s mystery novel Pudd’nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior (低等的) to whites, especially in intelligence, Twain’s tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth to her master’s baby and, for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the master’s baby by his wife. The slave’s light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class. The master’s wife’s baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.
The point was difficult to miss: nurture (养育), not nature, was the key to social status. The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice—manner of speech, for example—were, to Twain, indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.
Twain’s racial tone was not perfect. One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography (自传) about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youth—mostly with white men performing in black-face—and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them. Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality. His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.
Was Twain a racist? Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln. If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black manthe inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.
65. How do Twain’s novels on slavery differ from Stowe’s?
A. Twain was more willing to deal with racism.
B. Twain’s attack on racism was much less open.
C. Twain’s themes seemed to agree with plots.
D. Twain was openly concerned with racism.
66. Recent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose partly from its _____.
A. target readers at the bottom
B. anti-slavery attitude
C. rather impolite language
D. frequent use of “nigger”
67. What best proves Twain’s anti-slavery stand according to the author?
A. Jim’s search for his family was described in detail.
B. The slave’s voice was first heard in American novels.
C. Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture.
D. Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent.
68. The story of two babies switched mainly indicates that _____.
A. slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters
B. slaves’ babies could pick up slave-holders’ way of speaking
C. blacks’ social position was shaped by how they were brought up
D. blacks were born with certain features of prejudice
69. What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 7 refer to?
A. The attacks.
B. Slavery and prejudice.
C. White men.
D. The shows.
70. What does the author mainly argue for?
A. Twain had done more than his contemporary writers to attack racism.
B. Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln.
C. Twain’s works had been banned on unreasonable grounds.
D. Twain’s works should be read from a historical point of view.