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科目:高中英语 来源:2011届贵州省五校第四次联考高三英语卷 题型:完型填空
完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,共30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白出的最佳选项。
?After 42-year-old guy Tom had quitted his job, he began to make up his mind to become a freelance (self-employed) writer, no one could tell for sure whether he would succeed or not.He found a cold storage room in a building, set up a(n) 21 typewriter and settled down to work.
After a year or so, however, Tom began to 22 himself.He found it was difficult to earn his living by 23 what he wrote.But Tom determined to put his dream to the test — 24 it meant living with uncertainty and fear of 25 .This is the shadowland of hope, and 26 with a dream must learn to live there.
One day Tom got a call, “We need a(n) 27 , and we’re paying $6,000 a year.” $6,000 was 28 money in 1960.It would enable Tom to get a nice apartment, a used car and more. 29 , he could write on the side. 30 the dollars were dancing in Tom’s head, something 31 his senses.He had dreamed of being a 32 — full time.“Thanks, but no,” Tom said 33 .“I’m going to stick it out and write.”
After Tom got off the phone, he 34 everything he had: two cans of vegetables and 18 cents.Tom put the cans and cents into a 35 bag, saying to himself, “There’s everything you’ve made of yourself so far.”
Finally his work was 36 in 1970.Instantly he had the kind of fame and success that 37 writers ever experience.The shadows had turned into limelight.
Then one day, Tom 38 a box filled with things he had owned years before. 39 was a paper bag with two cans and 18 cents.Suddenly he 40 himself working in that cold storage room.It reminds Tom, and anyone with a dream, of the courage and persistence it takes to stay the course in the shadowland.
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科目:高中英语 来源:广东省普宁一中2010届高三第一学期限时训练测试题三 (英语) 题型:完型填空
第一部分 完形填空(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)
完形填空(1) 阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从1~10各题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。
A bar manager was so sure that he himself was the strongest man around 1 he offered a standing $ 1,000 bet that no one could beat him.
The 2 was that the landlord would squeeze a lemon until all the 3 ran out into a beer glass, then hand the lemon to the customer. Anyone who could squeeze even one more 4 out of the lemon would win the money.
0ver the years many people had tried this, truck drivers, weightlifters, karate masters, and 5 had failed. Then one day a little fellow with heavy black rimmed glasses came into the bar and asked if he 6 try the challenge.
After the laughter had quieted down, the landlord said that it was only 7 that the man be given a chance at the bet, so he picked up a lemon and started squeezing. 8 he had done he handed the 9 to the little man who promptly squeezed out 4 more drops of juice onto the bar!
Everyone looked on in amazement as the landlord handed over the prize and asked “What do you do 10 a living that has given you such strength? Are you a lumberjack, weightlifter?” “No.” the man replied, “I work for the IRS(国税局).”
1. A. that B. there C. therefore D. since
2. A. fact B. trap C. challenge D. match
3. A. flesh B. juice C. seeds D. peel
4. A. water B. lemon C. beer glass D. drop
5. A. none B. neither C. either D. all
6. A. / B. could C. had to D. ought to
7. A. then B. likely C. fair D. chance
8. A. Once B. Right C. Immediately D. In case
9. A. container B. money C. remains D. other
10. A. with B. for C. on D. in
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科目:高中英语 来源:广东省中山一中09-10学年高二第一次段考试题(英语) 题型:完型填空
第二部分:语言知识及应用(共两节,满分35分)
第一节:完形填空(共10小题;每小题2分,满分20分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从16--25各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡相应的16--25上将该项涂黑。
In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue skies. One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet (小鹦鹉)on my finger, I wanted to show Perky 16_____ the sky looked like. Maybe he could make a little bird friend out there. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my 17______, Perky flew off. The enormous(巨大的), blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue treasure and suddenly he had gone, clipped wings and all.
Kathy managed to forgive me. With fake optimism(乐观), she even tried to reassure (安慰)me that Perky would find a new 18 ______. But I was far too clever to 19______ that such a thing was possible.
Decades later, I watched my own 20_______ growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the parents of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the best of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed(宣称) to 21______ the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog. Then Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and 22 ________ that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.
"The best thing 23______ Sweetie Pie," he said, "was the way we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just floated down and landed on my finger."
When I was finally able to 24_______ , we examined the amazing evidence(证据). The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all matched up. It seems our two families had been connected long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, "You were 25_______! Perky lived!"
16. A. what B. how C. which D. where
17. A. joy B. horror C. disappointment D. satisfaction
18. A. parent B. home C. master D. life
19. A. imagine B. suppose C. doubt D. believe
20. A. birds B. happiness C. worries D. children
21. A. catch B. find C. buy D. have
22. A. announced B. said C. told D. hoped
23. A. in B. about C. of D. on
24. A. think B. speak C. interrupt D. explain
25. A. right B. wrong C. silly D. mad
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科目:高中英语 来源:重庆市2010届高三下学期第二次月考试题(英语) 题型:完形填空
第二节 完形填空 (共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36—55各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It was Thanksgiving morning. In the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey 36 the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together inside the storm door on the top step.
“Any old 37 , lady?” asked one of them
I was 38 . I wanted to say “no” until I looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin scandals(便鞋), wet with heavy snow.
“Come in and I’ll 39 you a cup of hot cocoa.”
There was no conversation. Their wet scandals 40 marks upon the floor. I 41 them cocoa and bread with jam to fight against the cold outside. Then I went back to the 42 and started again on my household budget.
The silence in the front room struck through to me. I 43 in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked 44 a flat voice, “Lady, are you rich?”
“Am I rich? Mercy, no!”
I looked at my shabby(寒酸的) slipcovers. The girl put her 45 back in its saucer(茶碟) carefully and said.
“Your cups match your saucers.”
Her 46 was hungry with a need that no amount of food could supply. They left then, holding their bundles of papers against the wind. They hadn’t said “Thank you”. They didn’t 47 to. They had done 48 that. Plain blue pottery cups and saucers were only worth five pence. 49 they matched.
I 50 the potatoes and stirred the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over our heads, my man with a good steady job—these things 51 , too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy prints of small scandals were still 52 upon my floor. Let 53 be for a while. I want them there 54 I forget again how 55 I am.
36.A. while B. as C. when D. until
37.A. clothes B. books C. shoes D. papers
38.A. busy B. confused C. impatient D. free
39.A. cook B. make C. do D. give
40.A. left B. kept C. held D. wiped
41.A. sent B. took C. served D. showed
42.A. study B. bedroom C. living room D. kitchen
43.A. turned B. gave C. looked D. checked
44.A. at B. in C. with D. to
45A. food B. spoon C. toast D. cup
46.A. voice B. coat C. story D. memory
47.A. expect B. know C. need D. mean
48.A. less than B. more than C. rather than D. other than
49.A. And B. So C. Then D. But
50.A. tasted B. peel C. washed D. cut
51.A. separated B. matched C. were the same D. were different
52.A. strange B. new C. deep D. wet
53.A. it B. them C. that D. one
54.A. in case B. as if C. although D. in order that
55.A. happy B. lucky C. rich D. moved
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