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第二节完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was 36 and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be 37 but a failure.”
After five years of 38 jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best 39 that could have happened to me. I 40 I wanted to do something positive (积极地) with my life because I wanted to prove to 41 that what people said about me was 42 . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s 43 it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my 44 and went to college. My first novel (小说) 45 while I was at college.
After college I taught during the 46 in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a 47 in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of 48 that job to write full time 49 I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself — 50 was a working--class boy who’d 51 school early, now teaching at the university.
My writing career (职业) took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and 52 , have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. 53 what does it mean? I 54 wish all the people that have put me down had 55 : “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”
36. A. bright B. useless C. simple D. hopeful
37. A. anything B. something C. everything D. nothing
38. A. low B. poor C. good D. useful
39 A. support B. happiness C. surprise D. thing
40. A. admitted B. decided C. planned D. told
41. A. me B. them C. her D. it
42. A. wrong B. right C. stupid D. faulty
43. A. see B. know C. understand D. face
44. A. experiment B. practice C. writing D. composition
45. A. came on B. came in C. came out D. came back
46. A. day B. night C. month D. year
47. A. graduation B. pass C. degree D. success
48. A. giving in B. giving back C. giving out D. giving up
49. A. while B. if C. when D. or
50. A. there B. here C. it D. that
51. A. left B. attended C. changed D. graduated
52. A. tired B. calm C. nervous . D. famous
53. A. And B. But C. However D. Well
54. A. just B. exactly C. so D. very
55. A. praised B. said C. answered D. advised
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。
One night I decided to spend some time building a happier and closer relationship with my daughter. For several weeks she had been me to play chess with her, so I suggested a game and she eagerly . It was a school night, however, and at nine o’clock my daughter asked if I could________ my moves, because she to go to bed; she had to get up at six in the morning. I ________ she had strict sleeping habits, ________ I thought she ought to be able to ________ some of this strictness. I said to her,“ ________ , you can stay up late for once. We’re having ________ .” We played on for another fifteen minutes, during which time she looked ________ . Finally she said, “Please, Daddy, do it quickly.” “No.” I replied. “If you’re going to play it________ , you’re going to play it slowly. ”And so we ________ for another ten minutes, until ________ my daughter burst out crying, and ________ that she was beaten.
Clearly I had made ________ . I had started the evening wanting to have a ________ time with my daughter but had ________ my desire to win to become more ________ than my relationship with my daughter. When I was a child, my desire to win ________ me well. As a parent, I ________ that it got in my way. So I had to change.
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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小涂黑。
Once a gentleman was traveling on a train. He felt ________ and got off at a station in search of water. When he reached the water tap (水龙头), the________started. He ran back but________it.
It was getting________and he decided to spend the night at the station. The next morning he asked the ticket office about the next train and was told it would be on the next________. So he decided to find a place for a day’s________. He went to the nearby hotel to ask for a room but found ________.
At last h________a small house. He asked the________ whether he could stay in his house for a day. The owner immediately________, then served him food and gave him a room to stay.________ he did not ask anything in return.
At seven, the gentleman heard a ________at the door. The owner opened the door. The gentleman saw a man dressed in ________ clothes enter the house and________the owner to pay his debts (债务).
The gentleman came to know that the owner was in need of________. The next morning he left a pack in the drawer of the room and ________. When the owner found the pack, he saw that there was a ________written to him, which read: “You ________ me but did not expect anything from me. Yesterday evening I heard the________ between you and the stranger and________that you were in need of money. This is what you need.”
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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，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
For there’s one having loving act, there’s another not responding in time. During lifetime, however, it turns out to be a and we always think of making it up when it’s gone.
A father sat at his desk staring at his monthly bills his young son rushed in and , “Dad, because this is your birthday and you’re 55 years old, I’m going to give you 55 , one for each year!” When the boy started making good on his , the father exclaimed, “Oh, Andrew, don’t do it now; I’m too !” The youngster immediately fell silent as tears________up in his big blue eyes. the father said, “You can finish ________ .”
The boy said nothing but quietly ________ , disappointment written ________ his face. That evening the father said, “Come and finish the ________ kisses now, Andrew!” But the boy didn’t respond.
Unfortunately, a few days later after this ________ , the boy had an accident and was drowned. His heartbroken father wrote, “If only I could tell him how much I regret my ________ words, and could be assured that he knows how much my heart is ________ .”
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Love is a two-way street. Any loving act must be warmly accepted ________ it will be taken as ________ and can leave a scar. If we are too busy to give and ________ love, we are too busy! Nothing is more important than ________ with love to the cry for love from those who are near and precious to us. Because...there may be no ________ at all as in the case of the little boy.
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完形填空
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后个题所给的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。
The professor’s house，big and untidy，stood alone at one end of a huge garden.The place was totally uncared for, quite and overgrown with all sorts of useless things. I my way through bushes and tall weeds to the front door and rang the bell.
I was glad that I had found him. In twenty minutes he me right on all the that had puzzled me. I was on the of leaving when I looked out of his study window and said, “You’re very fond of gardening, I see.”
“No, I’m not,” he said. “ , I love this garden, though. It’s I always wanted it to be. I never touch it at all.”
“It could be made lovely. It a pity to let all this ground go to waste. But perhaps you don’t that way?” said I.
“I don’t. I lived here when I was a child, and I had of gardening then. It was my father’s hobby，you see. Unfortunately, he wasn’t enough to do it himself. My brother and I did all of it between us year after year. There was one right way and many wrong ways. Each blade (叶片) of grass was an enemy to be by hand, not just cut off. I’ve spent a good part of life at work here.”
“I see. You took a dislike to it, and now you’re getting even!”
“I dislike it. Then, of course, I didn’t understand the it had. It used to me. It appeared in my dreams—a mistake here, something not quite straight here, the enemy showing its head in a place I was to have cleaned. The work was too much. It seemed endless. The size of the place was itself a fight to a boy.”
“And now it’s yours，you’re just letting it go to...”
“ ?” he said. “No，I don’t agree with that. This garden and I are now the best friends. I like it grow its own way. I make no demands on it. I never disturb it, and it never disturbs me. It has at last, and so have I.”
“But the path is over grown. It’s inconvenient for you，isn’t it?”
“That’s part of my ,” he laughed. “You can go out the back way. The weeds are shorter there because they don’t get the sun.”
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完形填空，阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A couple of weeks ago, I made a trip to Toronto with my granddaughter who just turned three years old. The two of us were on our way to her parents, and my wife—her who had been gone for over a week. We were all anxious to again and as I pulled out of Mamere and Papere’s driveway in Chelmsford, Hailee and I were both about the trip and couldn’t wait to arrive at our .
When we completed the “SEVEN”-hour trip to Toronto later that day, the reunion was absolutely ________ and I can sincerely say I enjoyed every single minute of that journey.
Hailee is at that “I want to ________ it myself” stage of her life. And if you can just get over the “hurry-up syndrome” we acquire as ________, it is wonderful to witness. Who knew that putting a straw into the ________ in a juice box for the very first time could be such an earth-shattering (惊天动地的) event? Or being ________ enough to actually open the fridge door for the first time? Or putting on your own ________ on the right feet would be so ________ ?
I’ll never forget the look on her face the day she was able to ________ into my truck by herself. She finally ________ on my seat, holding onto the steering wheel (方向盘) and declared ________ , “I did it!” And when she could actually put her own seat belt on—what a(n) ________!
Have you ever watched a three-year-old ________ to sip a McDonald’s milkshake through a straw? It is hard enough for an adult, too. And ________ every time the icy solution (溶液) touched her lips, you could see the ________ in her eyes. I learned that you can’t hurry a child through a milkshake.
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