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各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将
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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。
Until 1954 it was thought that no man could run one mile in less than four minutes.As years
36 ，the record came closer and closer to four minutes and Roger Bannister,a young English
37 , began to believe he might 38 this almost magic barrier.
It was a cold afternoon on May 6th,1954,when Bannister knew he had a 39 chance. Bannister had been 40 hard and was very fit,but the weather conditions were a real 41
to him.Describing the 42 later,Bannister said,“On the way to the track the wind blew strongly.As I 43 for the start I glanced at the flag.It moved 44 now.This was the moment when I made my decision.
“The gun fired.My legs 45 to meet no resistance,as if I was 46 forward by some unknown force.The noise from the faithful 47 gave me greater strength.I felt the 48 of a lifetime had come.”
“I was driven on by a 49 of fear and pride.My body had long since used up all its energy 50 it went on running just the same.This was the critical moment when my legs were strong enough to carry me over the last few yards as they 51 could have done in previous years.When I leapt at(冲向) the 52 tape,I fell,almost__53_____.”
“I knew I had done it,even before I 54 the time.The announcement came.‘Result of the one mile...Time,three minutes...’ the rest was 55 in the noise of excitement.”
36.A.passed along B.passed down C.went by D.went over
37.A.coach B.athlete C.captain D.judge
38.A.defeat B.move C.beat D.break
39.A.real B.lucky C.serious D.false
40.A.competing B.training C.fighting D.attending
41.A.eagerness B.pleasure C.relief D.worry
42.A.accident B.event C.issue D.topic
43.A.did up B.made up C.put up D.lined up
44.A.safely B.heavily C.thinly D.gently
45.A.seemed B.used C.happened D.had
46.A.dragged B.drawn C.pulled D.pushed
47.A.mass B.residents C.crowd D.team
48.A.moment B.period C.while D.date
49.A.concentration B.collection C.combination D.classification
50.A.so B.but C.or D.as
51.A.never B.ever C.even D.still
52.A.starting B.lasting C.finishing D.running
53.A.unconcerned B.unconscious C.unknown D.unnoticed
54.A.offered B.told C.announced D.heard
55.A.stuck B.involved C.lost D.spread |
答案
| 36-55 CBDAB DBDDA DCACB ACBDC |
解析
36.答案：C
解析：go by 意为“(时间)经过”，as years passed by表示“随着许多年过去”。pass along意为“沿……走,路过”；pass down意为“往里面走，代代相传”；go over意为“转变,仔细检查,润色,复习”。
37.答案：B
解析：athlete意为“运动员”。根据下文的内容可判断出Roger Bannister是一位英国年轻的体育运动员。coach意为“教练”；captain意为“队长”；judge意为“裁判员”。
38.答案：D
解析：break意为“打破”，根据其宾语barrier可判断出他开始相信可以会越过这个几乎是不可思议的障碍，故选D项。defeat意为“打败(敌人)，使受挫折”；move意为“感动,鼓动,激动；引起(人)……的兴致,打动,发动，刺激,鼓励”；beat意为“打败(敌人等)，胜过，超过”。
39.答案：A
解析：real意为“真正的”，根据下文中他参加测试的情况可判断出他知道这是一次真正的机会。lucky意为“运气好的，侥幸的”；serious意为“严肃的，一本正经的”；false意为“虚伪的，虚假的，捏造的，撒谎的，不诚实的，错误的”。
40.答案：B
解析：train意为“训练”，作为体育运动员在测试前都要参加训练。compete意为“比赛”；fight意为“战斗，奋斗，斗争”；attend意为“出席，到场，参加，上，到”。
41.答案：D
解析：worry意为“苦恼”。根据下文中的“On the way to the track the wind blew strongly.”可判断出由于天气很糟糕，而引起Bannister的苦恼。eagerness意为“渴望，殷切，热忱，热情”；pleasure意为“愉快，快乐，满意，愉快的事情”；relief意为“慰藉，安慰，安心”。
42.答案：B
解析：event意为“运动项目”。根据下文的内容可判断出他参加了测试，所以是在后来描述那次测试的情况。 accident意为“故障，事故，偶发事件，偶然”；issue意为“结果，结局，成绩，论点，争论问题，商讨”；topic意为“论题，题目，话题，标题”。
43.答案：D
解析：line up意为“排队”。根据下文中“The gun fired.”可判断出在即将开始测试时，运动员列队在起跑线上。do up意为“束起,重新整修,收拾齐整,疲乏,包好”；make up意为“弥补,虚构,缝制,整理,包装,和解”；put up 意为“举起,抬起,进行,提供,表现出,建造,提名,推举”。
44.答案：D
解析：gently意为“轻轻地”。根据句意选D项。safely意为“安全地,确实地”；heavily意为“很重地,沉重地”；thinly意为“稀疏地”。
45.答案：A
解析：seem意为“似乎”。根据下文中的as if可判断出他的两腿几乎没有任何阻力。use意为“用，使用，利用，应用”；happen意为“发生”。
46.答案：D
解析：push意为“推”，因为是在进行赛跑，所以他感觉到一种未知的力量在把他向前推进。drag意为“拖，曳，拖动，拖着，硬拖”；draw意为“拉，牵，曳”；pull意为“拉，拖，牵，曳”。
47.答案：C
解析：crowd意为“人群”，这里指赛场上的观众，表示观众的欢呼声给了他更大的力量。mass意为“群众，集团”；resident意为“住户，居民”；team意为“(运动比赛的)队，团”。
48.答案：A
解析：moment意为“片刻，瞬息”，指一生中最重要的时刻来到了。period意为“期间，阶段”；while意为“一段时间，一会儿”；date意为“日期”。
49.答案：C
解析：combination意为“结合”。根据下文中的fear and pride可判断出Bannister感到既害怕又骄傲。concentration意为“集中”；collection意为“收集，采集，集团，收集品，珍藏”；classification 意为“选别，分等，分级，分选”。
50.答案：B
解析：but意为“但是”，比较“My body had long since used up all its energy”和“it went on running just the same”可判断出它们是转折关系，表示虽然身体用完了能量，但这种能量仍然像过去一样释放着。so意为“因此”；or意为“或，或者，还是，亦或是”；as意为“当……的时候，因为”。
51.答案：A
解析：never意为“从来没有”。根据上文中的“This was the critical moment when my legs were strong enough to carry me over the last few yards”可判断出Bannister的腿从来没有像现在那么有力。ever意为“曾经”；even意为“甚至”；still意为“还，仍是”。
52.答案：C
解析：finishing line意为“终点线”。根据上文中的the last few yards可判断出Bannister冲向了终点线。starting line意为“起跑线”。
53.答案：B
解析：unconscious意为“失去知觉的”。根据上文的内容可判断出Bannister以飞快的速度冲向终点线，摔到了，失去了知觉。unconcerned意为“漫不经心的，不关心的，冷淡的，满不在乎的”；unknown意为“未知的，未详的，未被发觉的”；unnoticed 意为“不受人注意的；没有受到注意的，不触目的，没人理睬的”。
54.答案：D
解析：hear意为“听见”。根据下文中的Result of the one mile...Time,three minutes...可判断出Bannister听见了自己赛跑所用的时间。offer意为“提供，提出，提议，伸出”；tell意为“告诉，吩咐”；announce意为“宣布，宣告，发表”。
55.答案：C
解析：lose意为“输掉”；stick意为“坚持，坚守，忠实，不变心，不离开，留住不动”；involve意为“包括，涉及，引起，包含，含有……的意义”；spread意为“散布，流传，传播，普及”。根据句意选C项。 |
举一反三
On August 26, 1999, New York City was struck by a terrible rainstorm. The rain caused the streets __36___ and the subway system almost came to a stop.
Unfortunately, this happened during the morning rush hour. Many people who were going to work were __37__ to go home. Some battled to __38__a taxi or to get on a bus. Still others faced the ___39___ bravely, walking miles to get to work.
I ___40__ to be one of people on the way to work that morning. I went from subway line to subway line only to find that most _41__ had stopped. After making my way __42__ crowds of people. I finally found a subway line that was __43___. Unfortunately, there were so many people waiting to __44__ the subway that I could not even get down the stairs to the ___45__. So I took the train going in the opposite direction, and then switched back to the downtown train. Finally, after what seemed like forever, the train __46__ my stop. Then I had to walk several blocks in the increasingly heavy rain. When I got to my office, I was _47___ through, exhausted and __48__.
My co-workers and I spend most of the day drying off. When it was 5:00 pm, I was ready to go home. I was about to turn off my computer __49__I received an email from Garth, my Director:
I would like to thank all of you who made the effort and __50__ reported to work. It is always reassuring (令人欣慰), at times like these, when employees so clearly show their _51__ _to their jobs. Thank you.
Garth’s email was short, but I learned more from that ___52__ message than I ever did from a textbook. The email taught me that a few words of __53__ can make a big difference. The rainstorm and the traffic __54___ had made me tired and upset. But Garth’s words immediately __55____ me and put a smile back on my face.
36. A. break B. flood C. sink D, crash
37. A. forced B. refused C. adjusted D. gathered
38. A. order B. pay C. call D. search
39. A. climate B. scenery C. storm D. burden
40. A. used B. promised C. deserved D. happened
41. practice B. routine C. process D. service
42. A. to B. through C. over D. for
43. A. operating B. cycling C. turning D. rushing
44. A. check B. carry C. find D. board
45. A. street B. ground C. floor D. platform
46. A. paused B. crossed C. reached D. parked
47. A. wet B. weak C. sick D. hurt
48. A. ashamed B. discouraged C. surprised D. puzzled
49. A, while B. when C. where D. after
50. A. hardly B. casually C. absolutely D. eventually
51. A. devotion B. donation C. connection D. reaction
52. A, accurate B. urgent C. brief D. humorous
53. A. promise B. appreciate C. advice D. guidance
54. A. troubles B. signals C. rules D. signs
55. A. corrected B. supported C. amazed D. refreshed |
JINTAN,JTANGSU:The 20 students 18 boys and 2 girls — had a thousand reasons to be proud of themselves. They had just climbed their way to the top rung(阶梯) out of 4 million students taking part in the Fifth National Hua Luogeng Gold Cup Mathematics Contest (竞赛)Tuesday evening.
The 20 gold medal winners are all primary and middle school students under the age of 14.
‘Many of the problems are of college level and these pupils can figure them out. It is just unbelievable! ‘said a teacher from Guangdong province.
Named after China’ s most famous mathematician, Hua Luogeng, the contest started in 1986, one year after his death. In less than 10 years, it has been recognized by the State Education Commission (国家)as the country’s biggest and best contest of its kind.
1. This news story is mainly about .
A. when the contest started
B. how the contest got its name
C. the 20 pupils who have won gold medals in the contest
D. the 5th National Hua Luogeng Gold Cup Mathematics Contest
2. This news story most probably appeared in a news paper in .
A.1995 B. 1987 C. 1986 D. 1997
3 Ii can be inferred from the text that the teacher from Guangdong province .
A. felt proud of the gold medal winners
B. wondered if the students were honest
C. thought that the problems were too difficult for the students
D. believed that the twenty winners could go to study at university
4 The underlined phrase ‘figure out’ in the text means .
A .guess B. add up C. work out D. study |
Do you remember last summer , when angry travelers were urging the government to do something about airline customer service ? Airlines 36 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（调查）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 (威慑)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 mjor 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．large 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．laws D．reports |
LONDON — Britain awoke on Easter Monday to a period of mourning for the Queen Mother, who died over the weekend after a life spanning a century of noisy and evident change. The 101-year-old royal matriarch died in her sleep last Saturday with Queen Elizabeth, her elder and only surviving daughter, at her bedside. For a woman who was one of the best-known figures in Britain for more than 80 years — from the era of tinted portraits on tin biscuit boxes and cigarette cards to the age of the Internet, the Queen Mother remained an enigmatic(不可思议的) and elusive(躲避的) figure.
She achieved such a respect through aeons(永世, 亿万年) of, first, fawning and, later, intrusive media fascination, by remaining almost entirely silent. Her private thoughts were never paraded(炫耀) in public. What the public saw was a charming and benign elderly lady, adept at winning the admiration of press photographers, whom she always favoured with a particular smile.
CHINA’s third unmanned spacecraft, Shenzhou Ⅲ, landed safely in central Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Monday afternoon, after orbiting the earth 108 times in slightly less than a week. The craft, which lifted off from Jiuquan in Gansu Province last Monday night, landed after successfully conducting a chain of flight and scientific experiments over a period of 162 hours.
A powerful earthquake jolted Taiwan, killing five construction workers, authorities(官方) said. Over 200 injuries ware reported across the island, mostly minor, as a result of Sunday’s 7.5-magnitude quake. The quake was centred off Hualien, 180 kilometres east of Taipei. It struck at 2:53 pm and lasted for nearly a minute.
1. Which of the following statements is true according to the news?
A. The Queen Mother died on Easter Monday alone.
B. The Queen Mother was an attractive person in her political life.
C. The British people felt sorry for the death of the Queen Mother.
D. The Queen Mother was suffering a lot when she was dying.
2. It can be inferred that _______.
A. the craft landed in central Inner Mongolia unexpectedly
B. it took the craft at least 2 hours to orbit the earth once
C. the Chinese scientists did a lot of experiments in space
D. China was successful in sending an unmanned spacecraft into space
3. The third news mainly talks about the _______ in Taiwan.
A. political matters B. social problems
C. unexpected damage D. construction workers |
New York: when the first jet struck, World Trade Center at 8:48 am on Tuesday, the People in 2 World Trade Center with a view of the instant damage across the divide had the clearest sense of what they, too, must do: get out fast.
Katherine Hachinski, who had been knocked off her chair by the blast of heat exploding from the neighboring tower, was one of those. Despite her 70 years of age, Ms Hachinski, an architect working on the 91st floor of 2 World Trade Centre, the south tower, went for the stairs. Twelve floors above her, Judy Wein, an executive (经理), screamed and set off too.
But others up and down the 110 floors, many without clear views of the damage across the way and thus unclear about what was happening, were not so sure. And the 18 minutes before the next plane would hit were ticking off.
Amid the uncertainty about what was the best thing to do, formal announcements inside the sound tower instructed people to stay put, assuring them that the building was sound and the threat was limited to the other tower.
Some left, others stayed. Some began to climb down and, when met with more announcements and other cautions(警告) to stop or return, went hack up. The decisions made in those instants proved to be of great importance, because many who chose to stay were doomed(注定死亡) when the second jet crashed into the south tower, killing many and stranding(使某物留在) many more in the floors above where the jet hit.
One of those caught in indecision was the executive at Fuji Bank UAS.
Richard Jacobs of Fuji Bank left the 79th floor with the other office workers, but on the 48th floor they heard the announcement that the situation was under control. Several got in the lifts and went back up, two minutes or so before the plane crashed-into their floor.
“I just don’t know what happened to them,” Mr. Jacobs said.
1. From the passage, we know that the south tower was hit by the plane_______.
A. at 8: 30
B. 18 minutes earlier than the north tower
C. at around 9:06
D. at 8:48
2. The underlined words “stay put” means_______.
A. stay in the building B. leave at once
C. put everything back and then leave D. keep silent
3. Which floor was hit by the second jet?
A. the 91st floor B. the 103rd floor
C. the 60th floor D. the 79th floor
4. Fewer people would have died if_______.
A. more announcement had been made
B. people hadn’t used the lifts
C. the incident had happened on a weekend
D. the people had obeyed the office rules |
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