Ibreakoffapieceofcandyandtakep

更新 2022-09-03
科目英语
题型完型填空
难度中等
浏览 1529

I break off a piece of candy and take pleasure in its sweet outside and the bitter, dark chocolate inside, thinking of my own life. Being raised by a single parent was a bitter-sweet 36 , which gave me motivation and ambition.
There were several years that have left a(n) 37 bitter taste in my mouth —those when my mother married a man and moved my sister, Emily, and me several states away from our hometown. The first few months were 38 : baseball games, family trips to the mall, dinners and movies together. Then things changed. Baseball became too expensive, and trips to the mall were 39 by days Emily and I spent isolated (孤立的) in our rooms under our stepfather’s 40 . Moreover, screaming matches between him and our mother always 41 dinner. We spent five years living in a family that had 42 a war zone. Emily and I almost grew used to this situation . Then one evening, after another argument had erupted , we left home. I was 14, my sister 11, and we were 43 .A friend of my mother let us stay with her.
Instead of focusing on our economic instability, my mother selflessly pushed me to struggle for success. She wanted me to lead a more 44 life than hers. She worked long hours every night to pay her bills. 45 , she would find time to read and play with Emily and me. Mom taught me the 46 of perseverance (坚持不懈) and education. We finally settled in Texas. And now, writing this essay with my favorite candy close at hand, I realize my family and I are at the best points of our lives. I haven’t let the trying times stop me from making 47 , both academically and personally. I know that a bitter environment can provide good learning experiences, and that success, even more than candy, is the sweetest treat of all.

A．behavior B．habit C．activity D．experience

A．hardly B．extremely C．potentially D．Gently

A．sweet B．bitter C．boring D．terrible

A．concerned B．associated C．accompanied D．replaced

A．sympathy B．reminder C．orders D．requests

A．separated B．interrupted C．harmed D．Adjusted

A．turned into B．turned up C．turned down D．turned on

A．homeless B．lucky C．educated D．wealthy

A．interesting B．comfortable C．simple D．typical

A．Instead B．Otherwise C．Meanwhile D．Therefore

A．value B．cost C．price D．theme

A．emotions B．expectations C．fortunes D．achievements

登录免费查看答案和解析

相关试题

第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
A father was sitting at his desk poring (仔细研究) over his monthly bills   36   his young son rushed in and announced, “Dad, because this is your   37   and you’re 55 years old, I’m going to give you 55 kisses, one for each year!” When the boy started making good on his word, the father exclaimed, “Oh, Andrew, don’t do it now; I’m too   38 !”
The youngster immediately fell   39   as tears welled up in his big blue eyes. Apologically the father said, “You can finish   40 .”
The boy said nothing but   41   walked out of the room,   42   written over his face. That evening the father said, “Come and finish the   43   now, Andrew!” But the boy didn’t   44 . The father didn’t think it serious and soon it went out of his mind.
45 , a few days later after this incident, the boy had an   46   and was drowned. His heartbroken father wrote...
“If only I could tell him how much I   47   my thoughtless words, and could be assured that he knows how much my   48   is aching and how I miss him.”
49  is a two-way street. Any loving act must be warmly accepted   50   it will be taken as rejection and can leave a scar. If we are too busy to   51   and receive love, we are too busy!   52   is more important than responding with love   53   the cry for love from those who are near and   54   to us, because there may be no chance at all as in the   55   of the little boy. Cherish every chance!
36. A. after                          B. when                       C. since                        D. before
37. A. festival                      B. party                        C. birthday                   D. gift
38. A. worried                            B. busy                        C. disappointed             D. excited
39. A. silent                         B. curious                     C. thankful                   D. ashamed
40. A. now                          B. immediately             C. quickly                    D. later
41. A. quietly                       B. angrily                            C. anxiously                 D. eagerly
42. A. puzzle                       B. disappointment         C. anger                       D. pain
43. A. tasks                          B. words                      C. kisses                       D. wishes
44. A. notice                        B. smile                       C. finish                       D. respond
45. A. Unfortunately             B. Luckily                    C. Strangely                 D. Properly
46. A. problem                        B. matter                      C. accident                   D. affair
47. A. regret                        B. expect                      C. scold                        D. forget
48. A. mind                         B. heart                        C. brain                        D. head
49. A. Word                         B. Aching                     C. Birthday                   D. Love
50. A. and                           B. so                            C. but                          D. or
51. A. give                          B. achieve                    C. reach                       D. cherish
52. A. Everything                 B. Nothing                   C. Something                D. Anything
53. A. with                          B. in                                   C. to                                   D. by
54. A. kind                          B. important                 C. useful                      D. far
55. A. demand                            B. point                        C. condition                  D. case

题型：未知
难度：未知

收藏答案/解析

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。
Do you remember last summer, when angry travelers were urging the government to do something about airline customer service? Airlines   3 6   to improve，and they adopted (采用) new standards just before Christmas． 37   as another summer nears，plenty of   38    travelers don’t see much improvement in customer    39   overall．
This month，the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) office will publish its first critical 40 on whether airlines are   41    their promises．One survey suggests problems：the number of   42   to the DOT about the top 10 airlines in the first 43   rose 89％ from a year ago．
Hit last summer by passenger complaints and the threat of consumer-protection laws by the 44   ，14 airlines   45    to adopt a set of basic customer-service standards called Customers First．The“12 promises”to passengers were introduced    46   a major effort to improve service．Since then，airlines have been redesigning websites，retraining employees and upgrading technology．
Recently，DOT inspector general Kenneth Mead，at McCain’S request，sent 20 examiners to airports to   47    whether each airline is doing what it promised．Mead warns travelers shouldn’t   48   too much．Most of the promises are    49    better communication with customers，not problems with flights．
“Passengers should show more understanding to airlines about their   50   to better air service．”Spokeswoman Shelly Sasson says．“And when    51   are made．it takes a long time for them to be noticed．”she says．
Now，the efforts may be working．During the first quarter，Delta had the second-lowest rate of complaints among the   52    10 carriers． 53   ，its rate，along with other carriers’，is up from last year．McCain and other lawmakers say there may be a    54    to pass new consumer-protection    55     ．
36．A．promised           B．managed          C．hoped             D．refused
37．A．So           B．But               C．Merely            D．Even
38．A．skilled        B．experienced       C．tired                D．puzzled
39．A．flight         B．opinion          C．service               D．travel
40．A．news         B．information       C．doubt             D．article
41．A．honoring      B．making           C．giving            D．improving
42．A．problems      B．travelers          C．passengers        D．complaints
43. A．quarter      B．year             C．month            D．summer
44. A. customer       B．company         C．government        D．public
45．A．wished        B．agreed           C．remembered       D．failed
46．A．to            B．for              C．as                D．by
47．A．explain        B．discuss          C．discover           D．check
48．A．travel         B．expect           C．complain           D．suggest
49．A．aimed at       B．considered as     C．joined to           D．made from
50．A．difficulty      B．situation         C．reality          D．efforts
51．A．suggestions    B．rules             C．decisions           D．improvements
52．A．1arge         B．first              C．top                      D．bad
53．A．Still          B．Therefore         C．Instead             D．Meanwhile
54．A．possibility     B．need             C．chance             D．use
55．A．examinations   B．service           C．1aws              D．reports

题型：未知
难度：未知

收藏答案/解析

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从41－60各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
At a young age, her doctor told Patti Wilson she was an epileptic（羊癫疯患者）. Her father was a morning jogger. One day she   31   and said, “Daddy, what I’d really love to do is run with you every day, but I’m afraid I can’t do it.” Her father   32    her to start running.
That’s just what they did every   33 . It was a   34   experience for them. After a few weeks, Patti said, still smiling, “Daddy, what I’d really love to do is break the world’s long-distance running record for 35   .”
Her father   36    The Guinness Book of World Records and found that the farthest distance any woman had run was 80 miles. As a freshman（新生） in high school, Patti    37   , “I’m going to run from Orange County up to San Francisco(about 400 miles).” “As a sophomore（二年级学生）,” she went   38   , “I’m going to run to Portland, Oregon(about 1,500 miles). As a junior I’ll run to St. Louis(about 2,000 miles). As a senior I’ll run to the White House (about 3,000 miles).”
In   39   of her disease, Patti was as ambitious（有野心的） as she was enthusiastic. She looked at being an epileptic as simply “an   40 ”. She focused not on what she had   41   , but on what she had left.
That year, together with her father, she completed her   42   to San Francisco wearing a T-shirt that   43 , “I love Epileptics.”
In her sophomore year, Patti’s classmates got behind her. They made a huge poster that read, “Run, Patti, Run!” This has since   44   her motto and the title of a book she has written. During this marathon, she broke a bone in her foot. A doctor told her that she had to   45     her run. But Patti said she wasn’t running for herself; she was   46   to break the chains on the brains that limited so many others. She asked the doctor   47    or not there was a way she could keep running. He said he could wrap it in adhesive（粘合剂） 48   putting it in a cast（石膏）, but he   49   her that it would be extremely painful. She told the doctor to wrap it up.
Later, after four months of running from the West Coast to the East Coast, Patti arrived in Washington and shook the hand of the President of the United States. She told him, “I wanted people to know that epileptics are normal human beings with   50   lives.”
31. A. smiled B. cried   C. laughed      D. wept
32. A. agreed B. suggested   C. encouraged D. promised
33. A. afternoon     B. morning     C. night   D. evening
34. A. terrible B. fortunate    C. dangerous       D. wonderful
35. A. women B. men    C. students      D. patients
36. A. questioned   B. checked      C. inspected    D. interviewed
37.A. broadcasted   B. told    C. informed        D. announced
38. A. up B. forward      C. on      D. upon
39. A. honor B. view       C. favor D. charge
40. A. accident       B. coincidence       C. influence    D. inconvenience
41. A. lost      B. dropped     C. improved   D. received
42. A. distance       B. task    C. run     D. study
43. A. showed B. said    C. wrote D. read
44. A. come    B. become      C. gone       D. went
45. A. continue      B. stop    C. keep      D. struggle
46. A. working       B. jogging      C. walking   D. running
47. A. whether       B. when C. if D. where
48. A. in addition to      B. in spite of   C. instead of   D. regardless of
49. A. asked    B. warned       C. advised      D. comforted
50. A. common      B. unique       C. special       D. normal

题型：未知
难度：未知

收藏答案/解析

第二节：完形填空
When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the _41_ side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to __42__ in good health, or __43__ about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to __44__ damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text __45__ the title. Therefore, the scissors would __46__ before they start, __47__ halfway done when I find out the __48__result.
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your __49__. You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be __50__ up. But you know the future is unpredictable --- the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left __51__. Thus you are __52__ in a difficult position and feel sad. How __53_nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life __54__ greatly on our preference of one choice to the other.
In fact that is what __55__ is like: we are often __56_ with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only __57__we get into another. The __58__ may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I __59__ remember a philosopher’s remarks: “When one door shuts, another opens in life.” So a casual or passive __60__ may not be a bad one.
Whatever we do in our lifetime, wherever life’s storm tosses us, there must be
something we can achieve, some shore we can land, that opens up new vistas to us.
41. A. front                  B. same                        C. either                       D. opposite
42. A. get                        B. keep                        C. lead                         D. bring
43. A. advice            B. news                        C. a theory                   D. a report
44. A. suffer                 B. reduce                  C. prevent                    D. cause
45. A. on                  B. for                           C. without                    D. off
46. A. use                     B. handle                  C. prepare                    D. stay
47. A. or                  B. but                          C. so                            D. for
48. A. satisfying            B. regretful                   C. surprising                 D. impossible
49. A. courage                 B. strength                    C. attention                   D. patience
50. A. given                  B. held                         C. made                       D. picked
51. A. near                   B. alone                       C. about                       D. behind
52. A. filled                  B. attracted                   C. caught                  D. struck
53. A. dare                   B. come                       C. deal                         D. do
54. A. improves            B. changes                    C. progresses            D. goes
55. A. study                  B. society                        C. nature                  D. life
56. A. faced                  B. supplied                   C. connected                 D. fixed
57. A. before                B. after                        C. until                        D. as
58. A. following            B. next                     C. above                   D. former
59. A. still                    B. also                         C. once                        D. almost
60. A. treatment            B. action                  C. choice                  D. remark

题型：未知
难度：未知

收藏答案/解析

第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项.
Most people who work in London get a break of about an hour for lunch. 36 they mostly live too far from home to go back there 37 lunch, they have to 38 other arrangements for their midday meal.
Many large companies have a canteen (自助食堂) for their employees. In 39 canteens the food served is simple but 40 , and there is some 41 of choice. But the number of dishes 42 usually small. The employees themselves fetch their dishes 43 a counter at which they are 44. There they can find a tray on 45 to carry their knives, forks, spoons, plates, cups, saucers, 46, of course, their food. A meal in a canteen is inexpensive and may 47 of soup, fish and chips or meat and two vegetables, 48 fruit or pudding of some 49 as dessert. Some companies that do not run a canteen 50 their staff with luncheon-vouchers (午餐券), which many restaurants will accept in 51 of money.
As there are so many people 52 work in London, there are numerous cafes and restaurants in every area that is not purely residential. A meal 53 cost anything from a modest sum to quite a few pounds, 54 on the restaurant and the food chosen. 55 , one can generally get a meal, or at least a snack, in a pub. In recent years there has also been a big increase in the number of ‘take-away’ food shops of all kinds.
36. A. Unless         B. As                     C. If                     D. Although
37. A. for             B. at                               C. of                    D. in
38. A. take           B. bring                 C. make            D. use
39. A. such           B. few                  C. so                  D. little
40. A. full            B. limited                C. extra             D. enough
41. A. exchange            B. variety                               C. change                    D. difference
42. A. are            B. is                                C. being                   D. be
43. A. to                       B. with                            C. at                               D. from
44. A. sold                    B. served                         C. made                       D. kept
45. A. which                 B. it                                C. except                  D. instead
46. A. or             B. but                  C. and              D. except
47. A. consist             B. compose                      C. compare                   D. insist
48. A. along                  B. with                            C. about                   D. at
49. A. sort                    B. pattern                         C. category                   D. content
50. A. prepare               B. repair                          C. afford                  D. provide
51. A. space                 B. case                            C. face                         D. place
52. A. at                       B. above                  C. over                         D. by
53. A. must                   B. may                            C. should                     D. could
54. A. taking                 B. turning                        C. depending           D. bringing
55. A. Besides              B. However                     C. Never                  D. More

题型：未知
难度：未知

收藏答案/解析