Roberta appeared on the stage. She took a deep breath and began to 36 . Now s
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Roberta appeared on the stage. She took a deep breath and began to 36 . Now she was Portia, a strong–willed 37 in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. The theater was filled with people. She was speaking with a power she had never before experienced, the words flowing 38 form her.
39 , Roberta had never acted in her life before the audition (选拔试演). She 40 being in front of other people. She was very 41 at school. She had never thought she was good enough at anything to 42 much attention. She stayed mostly to herself, making 43 friends. She had excellent grades, 44 she always thought that something was missing.
Two weeks before the audition, Roberta’s mother had heard about it and 45 her to join in.
“I can’t think of anyone else better suited to 46 the part. Remember all the plays you used to act out for us?”
Her mother wouldn’t let the 47 drop. “You’re just a little scared (害怕) .Everyone gets scared. You know you 48 do it. The trick is to look past the 49 to find the love of what you’re doing.’’
So Roberta had made an appointment (预约) with the head of the Drama Club. She had read the play and found herself excited by the 50 of speaking such rich words. In secret she practiced Portia’s part, 51 the lines by repeating them over and over. It wasn’t hard; she 52 every minute of it. Every time she spoke the words, she had a new 53 of the lines, as if Shakespeare had written Portia on many levels.
On the day of the audition, she 54 two of Portia’s famous speeches for the auditors. When she had finished, the head of the Drama Club announced the 55 was hers.
| 小题1: | | A．sing | B．dance | C．speak | D．report |
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| 小题2: | | A．member | B．actress | C．player | D．character |
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| 小题3: | | A．weakly | B．rapidly | C．smoothly | D．slowly |
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| 小题4: | | A．At first | B．In fact | C．After all | D．In all |
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| 小题5: | | A．hated | B．enjoyed | C．appreciated | D．regretted |
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| 小题6: | | A．honest | B．shy | C．polite | D．patient |
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| 小题7: | | A．avoid | B．focus | C．pay | D．attract |
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| 小题8: | | A．few | B．a few | C．several | D．many |
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| 小题10: | | A．forced | B．requested | C．encouraged | D．reminded |
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| 小题11: | | A．accept | B．play | C．offer | D．learn |
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| 小题12: | | A．role | B．matter | C．interest | D．grade |
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| 小题14: | | A．anger | B．pain | C．sadness | D．fear |
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| 小题15: | | A．purpose | B．way | C．idea | D．importance |
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| 小题16: | | A．memorizing | B．organizing | C．checking | D．improving |
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| 小题17: | | A．disliked | B．loved | C．expected | D．bore |
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| 小题18: | | A．consideration | B．description | C．selection | D．understanding |
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| 小题19: | | A．practiced | B．planned | C．performed | D．delivered |
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| 小题20: | | A．part | B．play | C．speech | D．position |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:B
小题5:A
小题6:B
小题7:D
小题8:A
小题9:D
小题10:C
小题11:B
小题12:B
小题13:A
小题14:D
小题15:C
小题16:A
小题17:B
小题18:D
小题19:C
小题20:A |
解析
试题分析：文章讲述了Roberta在母亲的鼓励下，克服胆小害羞的弱点，成功地获得了扮演莎士比亚作品《威尼斯商人》中Portia这个角色。
小题1:从下文“she was speaking with a power”判断出应选speak.
小题2:从文章中看出，Roberta正在扮演莎士比亚“威尼斯商人”中的角色“Portia”。下文中也提到“In secret she practiced Portia’s part”。故选character(part角色)。
小题3:从下文31空后Roberta “repeat the lines over and over”判断出“台词流利地从她口中说出”。故选C。
小题4:紧接着上文“words flowing smoothly from her”,后面作者口气一转“事实上，在选拔试演之前她以前从来没有表演过”。at first起初; in fact事实上；after all毕竟，到底；in all共计，总共。
小题5:根据下文以及她母亲说的话“You are just a bit scared. Everyone gets scared”得出“由于胆小/害怕，所以不愿意在众人面前表现”。
小题6:见20题。shy害羞的；honest诚实的；polite礼貌的；patient耐心的
小题7:本句意思为“她从来没有想到她有什么擅长的地方来吸引很多注意力。”attract attention吸引注意力；avoid attention避开注意；focus/pay attention 集中注意力于。
小题8:由于“大部分时间自己呆着，结果朋友很少”，故选few,表示“很少，不多”。
小题9:本句意思为“尽管她成绩很优秀，可是她总认为缺些什么.”,故选but表转折。
小题10:从下文她母亲说的话“你只是有点害怕。你会成功的。”看出，母亲是在“鼓励”她。
小题11:本句意思为“我想不出别的任何人更适合扮演这个角色。”play the part扮演角色
小题12:本句意思为“她母亲不想就此搁下这事。”，因此选“matter”。
小题13:can能够，会; must必需，一定; may可能; should应该。见25题。
小题14:根据上文中的“scared”,可以断定选fear。
小题15:于是“她读了这部戏，一想到要说那么多丰富的语言她就很激动。”idea想法；purpose目的；way方式；importance重要性
小题16:通过“repeating the lines over and over”来“memorizing(记住)”台词。
小题17:因为“喜欢”，才不难，故选loved.
小题18:本句意思为“每次读，她都对这些台词有新的见解，好像莎士比亚从不同的层面写的Portia.”。故选D.。understanding理解，见解；description描述；selection选择；consideration考虑
小题19:practise练习；plan计划；perform演出，表演；deliver移交，发表（演讲，讲话）。根据句意，“在试演的当天，Roberta为观众表演了两段Portia的著名演讲。”，而不是“发表了Portia的著名的演讲”。
小题20:根据句意“演完后，俱乐部的主席宣布Portia这个角色是她的了。”，选part。
点评：本类完型填空要注意故事方式的脉络，以时间为顺序等，关注上下文和词义辨析。 |
举一反三
Bill White’s father is a lawyer. In his 56 time, he likes to get out in the country and take some 57 of animals.
For a long time, Bill had wanted to go with his father on one of his 58 . But his father didn’t take Bill along with him 59 he was fifteen.
He and Bill drove to the farm which 60 to his uncle in the afternoon. They 61 the night there, so that they could 62 out early the next morning. Uncle Steve and his son Larry, who was sixteen, were going to go out with them.
It was still dark when Bill heard the alarm 63 the next morning. He wondered why it was running so early. He couldn’t remember 64 he was. He turned over __65__and looked at the clock. It was 5 o’clock. Then he 66 that he was at the 67 and that he was going out to take pictures with his father. He jumped out of bed and got 68 quickly.
He ran downstairs. The others were already in the 69 ,where Uncle Steve was cooking bacon and eggs. There was a pot of coffee on the stove. It 70 good.
They ate breakfast quickly. They didn’t talk 71 , because they didn’t want to __72__ up the other people in the house. They filled a thermos bottle(热水瓶) 73 hot coffee and took some sandwiches 74 Aunt Grace, Uncle Steve’s wife, had made for them. They gathered their camera 75 and started out.
| 小题1: | | A．busy | B．spare | C．enough | D．limited |
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| 小题2: | | A．foods | B．drawings | C．paintings | D．pictures |
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| 小题3: | | A．trips | B．buses | C．animals | D．mountains |
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| 小题4: | | A．after | B．when | C．until | D．unless |
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| 小题5: | | A．led | B．stuck | C．got | D．belonged |
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| 小题6: | | A．cost | B．spent | C．slept | D．took |
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| 小题7: | | A．start | B．begin | C．walk | D．step |
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| 小题8: | | A．telephone | B．machine | C．computer | D．clock |
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| 小题10: | | A．quickly | B．sleepily | C．quietly | D．suddenly |
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| 小题11: | | A．imagined | B．pronounced | C．forgot | D．remembered |
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| 小题12: | | A．mountain | B．town | C．farm | D．station |
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| 小题13: | | A．dressed | B．ordered | C．eaten | D．prepared |
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| 小题14: | | A．bathroom | B．kitchen | C．study | D．bedroom |
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| 小题15: | | A．seemed | B．felt | C．tasted | D．smelled |
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| 小题16: | | A．many | B．soundly | C．much | D．highly |
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| 小题19: | | A．that | B．what | C．after | D．before |
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| 小题20: | | A．cover | B．supply | C．operator | D．equipment（设备） |
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A young woman carrying a three-year-old child got on a bus. The conductor(售票员) hurried to give her a warm welcome and then kindly asked the other passengers to make more room for the woman and her child. On seeing this, people began to talk. "You know this conductor used to be very rude. Now suddenly he has changed his bad behavior , "said a middle-aged man.
"Yes, he should be praised and we must write a letter to the company," said a second passenger. "That"s right," another lady said, "I wish a newspaper reporter were here so that more people could learn from this conductor. "
Just then a gentleman who looked like a teacher turned to the conductor and said , "Excuse me, but can I know your name, please? Your excellent service must be praised..."
Before he could open his mouth, the three-year-old child sitting on the young woman"s lap interrupted (打断谈话), "I know his name. I call him Dad."
小题1:The passengers were ________ to see the conductor"s kindness to the woman and the child.| A．excited | B．pleased | C．interested | D．surprised |
小题2:One passenger suggested writing a letter to the company to ______ .| A．make a demand for more buses | | B．thank the conductor for his good service | | C．criticize（批评） the conductor for his rude behavior | | D．invite a newspaper reporter to write about the conductor |
小题3:What was the gentleman?| A．A teacher. | | B．A newspaper reporter. | | C．Not known from the story. | | D．The conductor"s friend from his company. |
小题4:The word "he" in the last paragraph refers to _______.| A．the gentleman | | B．the conductor | | C．the middle-aged man | | D．the three-year-old child |
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Henry was a carpenter of our village. Once I asked him to make a table for my family. A week later, Henry sent us the table and the bill as well.
My wife said to me, "It"s a beautiful table, dear, isn"t it?"
"I won"t decide about that until I see the bill." I said.
Henry was drinking a glass of water. He laughed and gave me a piece of paper. It said,
Bill
One dining table June 10, 2011
Cost of wood 17.00
Paint 1.50
Work, 8 hours (1 an hour) 8.00
Total(总计) 36.50
When I was looking at the bill, Henry said," It"s a fine day, isn"t it? Quite sunny."
"Yes," I said. "I"m glad it is only the 10th of June."
"Me too, " said Henry." You wait. It will be a bit hotter by the end of the month."
"Yes, hotter and more expensive. The table will be 20 more expensive on June 30th, won"t they, Henry? " I said, "If it isn"t too much trouble, please add it up again. You can forget the date."
"OK, man. You are such a guy." Henry said with a smile in his two blue eyes, and he left with the money he should get.
小题1:The table was made of __________.| A．Wood | B．glass | C．Paper | D．chair |
小题2:The bill showed 36.50 in all because Henry __________.| A．didn’t do well in math | B．was an honest carpenter | | C．added the date to the bill | D．was not a carpenter |
小题3:In Henry’s opinion the write was a __________ guy.| A．smart and careful | B．silly and lazy | C．rich and hardworking | D．stupid and rich |
小题4: From the story we know that __________.| A．Henry got 26.5 for his work in the end | | B．The table will cost 20 more on June 30 | | C．The writer paid 36.5 for the table | | D．The writer got 36.5 |
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Thomas Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest genius（天才） of his age. There are only a few men in all of the history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius.“ There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work.
But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.
Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.
Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “Work,” he answered. “Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.
小题1:Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?| A．Edison invented the electric light. | | B．Many other people have changed Edison’s life. | | C．Edison has changed the life of many other people. | | D．Few men in history can change other people’s life. |
小题2:Edison thought ____________.| A．he could be happy if he was a genius | | B．genius plays the most important part in one’s success | | C．hard work could do better than genius | | D．genius could do better than hard work |
小题3:In Edison’s opinion, ____________.| A．thinking can supply people with enjoyment and pleasure as well as help | | B．people’s successs lies mostly in genius | | C．hard work is the second important thing in making people successful | | D．there are few secrets for him to discover later |
小题4:The last sentence in the passage most probably implies(暗示） ____________.| A．life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings | | B．Edison made 100 inventions in his life | | C．Edison was able to live and work for 100 years | | D．People of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 years’ work |
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In 1957, Jane Goodall first met the famous anthropologist (人类学者) Dr Louis Leakey, who later played an important role in her life. With the 32 of gaining insight into humans’ evolutionary (进化的) past, Dr Leakey 33 a pioneering long-term field study on 34 chimps. Even though Jane had no formal 35 , her patience and determination to understand animals 36 him to choose her for the study. 37 it was unusual for a woman to work in the forest of Africa, going there 38 the fulfillment (实现) of her childhood dream. In the summer of 1960 she 39 in Tanzania(坦桑尼亚) on Lake Tanganyika’s eastern shore. This marked the 40 of the longest continuous field study of animals in their 41 habitat(栖息地). Five years 42 , she earned a doctor’s degree at Cambridge University and then 43 to Tanzania to found the Gombe Stream Research Center. And in 1977, to provide on-going 44 for chimp research, Dr Goodall 45 The Jane Goodall Institute.
Today, she 46 most of her time traveling around the world, giving lectures on her 47 at Gombe and speaking to school groups about Roots &Shoots, her environmental education and humanitarian program for the 48 .
“Chimps have given me so 49 . The long hours spent with them in the 50 have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my 51 of human behavior, of our place in nature.”
| 小题1: | | A．way | B．idea | C．knowledge | D．method |
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| 小题2: | | A．suggested | B．achieved | C．argued | D．changed |
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| 小题3: | | A．modest | B．special | C．rude | D．wild |
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| 小题4: | | A．exercise | B．training | C．living | D．practice |
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| 小题5: | | A．devoted | B．let | C．made | D．led |
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| 小题6: | | A．If | B．Because | C．Although | D．Once |
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| 小题7: | | A．meant | B．stopped | C．intended | D．inspired |
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| 小题8: | | A．arrived | B．left | C．reached | D．went |
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| 小题9: | | A．end | B．beginning | C．happening | D．achievement |
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| 小题10: | | A．new | B．old | C．man-made | D．natural |
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| 小题11: | | A．later | B．before | C．ago | D．behind |
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| 小题12: | | A．connected | B．referred | C．returned | D．turned |
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| 小题13: | | A．environment | B．evidence | C．time | D．support |
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| 小题14: | | A．created | B．built | C．founded | D．set |
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| 小题15: | | A．costs | B．spends | C．pays | D．devotes |
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| 小题16: | | A．bravery | B．presence | C．experiences | D．appearance |
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| 小题17: | | A．animals | B．youth | C．human | D．adults |
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| 小题18: | | A．little | B．many | C．much | D．few |
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| 小题19: | | A．field | B．university | C．institute | D．forest |
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| 小题20: | | A．imagination | B．desire | C．understanding | D．protection |
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