高考英语二轮复习热点限时训练-完形填空系列27.doc

完形填空系列27

I recently heard a story about a famous research scientist who had made several very important medical breakthroughs．What set him so far apart from others?
He 1 that, in his opinion, it all came from an 2 from his mother that happened when he was about 2 years old．He had been trying to 3___a bottle of milk from the refrigerator when he lost his 4 on the slippery bottle and it 5 , making its contents pouring all over the kitchen floor．
When his mother came into the kitchen, instead of 6 at him, giving him a lecture, or punishing him, she said: “Robert, what a 7 and wonderful mess you have made! I have 8 seen such a huge pool of milk．Well, the damage has already been done．Would you like to 9 down and play in the milk for a few minutes 10 we clean it up?”
Indeed, he did．After a few minutes, his mother said: “You know, Robert, 11 you make a mess like this, you have to clean it up at last and 12 everything to its proper order．So, how would you like to do that? We could use a sponge （海绵）, a towel, or a mop．Which do you 13 ?” He chose the sponge and together they 14 the milk．
His mother then said: “You know, what happened just now is a 15 experiment in how effectively to carry a big milk bottle with two 16 hands．Let’s go out in the backyard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can 17____ a way to carry it without dropping it．” The little boy 18 that if he held the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could carry it without dropping it．
This scientist then 19 that it was at that moment that he knew he didn’t need to be afraid to make 20 ．
Wouldn’t it be great if all parents would respond the way Robert’s mother responded to him?
1．A．added B．advised C．responded D．commented
2．A．experience B．accident C．experiment D．inspiration
3．A．send B．cool C．bring D．remove
4．A．hold B．control C．balance D．way
5．A．fell B．rolled C．turned D．burst
6．A．crying B．staring C．shouting D．laughing
7．A．powerful B．great C．touching D．sarcastic
8．A．shortly B．always C．already D．rarely
9．A．put B．get C．take D．lie
10．A．when B．until C．before D．after
11．A．however B．whatever C．wherever D．whenever
12．A．recover B．restore C．recollect D．replace
13．A．like B．prefer C．take D．decide
14．A．cleaned up B．swept off C．sucked out D．took apart
15．A．finished B．shared C．failed D．valued
16．A．tiny B．clever C．smooth D．wet
17．A．invent B．discover C．imagine D．make
18．A．knew B．thought C．convinced D．learned
19．A．argued B．sensed C．remarked D．criticized
20．A．mistakes B．assumptions C．decisions D．differences

【答案】
1．C
2．A
3．D
4．A
5．A
6．C
7．B
8．D
9．B
10．C
11．D
12．B
13．B
14．A
15．C
16．A
17．B
18．D
19．C
20．A
【解析】究竟是什么妙法使这位科学家能够超越凡人呢？他说，在他看来，这一切都应与他两岁时母亲对发生在他身上的事的处理方法有关。由此母亲激发了他的创造力并教会他不必再害怕犯任何错误，因为错误往往是学习新知识的良机。
1．考查动词。此处是对What set him so far apart from others的回答。
2．考查名词。下文是这位科学家讲的自己的一段经历。
3．考查动词。remove…from…从…中移开[拿走， 除掉]。
4．考查名词。结合下文牛奶瓶掉在地上知她没有抓住。lose hold of 失去对……的掌握；没抓住……。
5．考查动词。牛奶瓶掉在地上。
6．考查动词。母亲没有因他把牛奶散了而生气的朝他叫喊。
7．考查形容词。结合后面的and wonderful可知此处应是褒义词。
8．考查副词。rarely很少地。
9．考查动词。　get down开始做某事，get down and play＝get down to playing。
10．考查连词。从文章的下一段可知。
11．考查连词。无论何时你搞得像现在一团糟，最后你都要收拾干净，把一切都恢复到合适的状态。
12．考查动词。结合上题解析。restore恢复。
13．考查动词。prefer更喜欢，表选择。a sponge, a towel, or a mop，你更喜欢哪一个？
14．考查动词短语。把撒了的牛奶收拾干净。clean up收拾干净。
15．考查形容词。结合上下文，mother这里是说“让他去拿牛奶是一次尝试”，显然，对他来说，这次尝试是失败的。
16．考查形容词。结合上文he was about 2 years old可知他的手很“小”。
17．考查动词。discover a way找到一个办法。
18．考查动词。结合上下文可知“他在mother的指导下学会”如何用他的小手拿紧奶瓶。
19．考查动词。remark 说。
20．考查名词。母亲教会了儿子不必再害怕犯任何错误。

John and Bobby joined a wholesale(批发)company together just after graduation from college the same year. ___1____ worked very hard. After several years, however, the boss promoted Bobby to the ____2___ of manager but John remained a(n) ____3___ employee. John could not take it any more, so he ___4____ his resignation(辞职信）and complained the boss did not know how to____5___ hard-working staff.
The boss knew John worked very hard for the years. He thought for a moment and said, “ I have a ____6___ .1 hope you can do one more thing for our company before you leave. Perhaps you will change your ____7___ ."John didn't ___8___ . The boss asked him to go and find out anyone ___9___ watermelons in the market. John went and returned soon. The boss asked _____10__ it cost per kilogram. John shook his head and went back to the market to ask and returned to __11_____ to the boss that the melon was $1.2 per kg.
The boss told John to wait a second, and he asked Bobby to do the same thing. Bobby went, returned and said, "Boss, only one person sells watermelons, $1.2 per kg, $10 for 10kg. He has 340 melons ____12___. Every melon weighs about 2 kg, bought from the South two days ago. They are fresh and red, of good quality." John was very __13_____ and realized the___14____ between himself and Bobby. He decided not to resign _____15__ to learn from Bobby.
My dear friends, a more successful person is more observant, thinks___16____ and explores in depth. ___17____ exist in the daily details. For the same matter, a more successful person sees more and farther so that he can find out a chance and catch it to___18___ his aim. If a person sees one year ahead, __19____ another sees only tomorrow, the difference between a year and a day is 365 times, then how ___20____ you win?
21．A. All B. Either C. Neither D. Any
22．A. post B. condition C. situation D. department
23．A. normal B. usual C. ordinary D. common
24．A. turned in B. turned out C. turned over D. turned off
25．A. train B. value C. practise D. respect
26．A. demand B. request C. command D. question
27．A. attitude B. thought C. mind D. consideration
28．A. leave B. laugh C. agree D. refuse
29．A. selling B. buying C. checking D. cutting
30．A. how B. which C. when D. what
31．A. report B. inform C. answer D. predict
32．A. after all B. at all C. in all D. above all
33．A. regretted B. impressed C. moved D. disappointed
34．A. similarity B. problem C. difference D. interest
35．A. and B. so C. or D. but
36．A. many B. little C. less D. more
37．A. Results B. Effects C. Businesses D. Opportunities
38．A. finish B. get C. achieve D. abandon
39．A. when B. while C. as D. though
40．A. might B. could C. would D. should

【答案】
21．B
22．A
23．C
24．A
25．B
26．B
27．C
28．D
29．A
30．D
31．A
32．C
33．B
34．C
35．D
36．D
37．D
38．C
39．B
40．B
【解析】
21．考查代词。他们二人工作都很努力。
22．考查名词。老板提拔博比为部门经理(的工作岗位)，而约翰还是一名普通员工。
23．考查形容词。见2题解析。
24．考查动词短语。约翰再也无法忍受，呈交了一封辞职信，抱怨老板不会用人，不重用那些敬业的员工。turn in 交出，上缴。
25．考查动词。见39解析。vt.估价,评价；尊重;重视。
26．考查名词。结合下文I hope you can do one more thing for our company before you leave. 可知此处老板提了个要求。
27．考查名词。“或许到时你会改变注意，收回辞呈”。 change one's mind 改变主意。
28．考查动词。下文约翰俺老板的要求做了可知“他答应了”，“没有拒绝”。
29．考查动词。结合下文可知“老板让他去市场找一个卖西瓜的人。”
30．考查疑问词。结合下文$1.2 per kg可知此处老板问他“每公斤多少钱”。该用how much或what。
31．考查动词。句意：约翰摇摇头，回到市场去问，然后又回来向老板汇报每公斤1.2美元。
32．考查介词短语。“这个人一共有340个西瓜”。 in all .总共，合计。
33．考查动词。 “John受到很大的触动，他意识到自己与Bobby之间的差距。他决定收回辞呈并向Bobby学习。”impress vt. 给……极深的印象;使感动。
34．考查名词。difference差别,差异。
35．考查连词。“他决定收回辞呈并向Bobby学习。”not to resign和learn from是转折关系。
36．考查副词。“成功的人更善于观察，勤于思考和孜孜探求。”think more多想。
37．考查名词。“机遇就存在于生活的细节中。”
38．考查动词。achieve one’s aim实现目标。
39．考查连词。两种人之间的对比。while而,然而。
40．考查情态动词。同样的一件事，一个成功的人会看得更多更远。有人看到一年后的情景，而你只看到明天。一年与一天的差距是365倍，你怎么能赢呢？

A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor.
The conversation soon turned into complaints about 1 in work and life. Offering his 2 coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and 3 with a large pot of coffee and a 4 of cups — porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, some beautiful — telling them to 5 themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “If you have 6 , all the nice-looking expensive cups have been 7 , leaving behind the plain and 8 ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the 9 of your problems and stress.”
“Be assured that the cup 10 adds no quality to the coffee. 11 it is just more expensive and in some cases 12 hides what we drink.”
“ 13 all of you really want is coffee, not the cup, 14 you consciously went for the best cups… And then you began 15 each other’s cups.”
“Now consider this: 16 is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. 17 are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the 18 of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we 19 to enjoy the coffee. Value the coffee, not the cups! Don't let the cups 20 you… enjoy the coffee instead.”
41．A. stress B. dream C. sorrow D. truth
42．A. friends B. customers C. fellows D. guests
43．A. carried B. returned C. arrived D. reached
44．A. kind B. variety C. sort D. number
45．A. devote B. expose C. help D. addicted
46．A. searched B. witnessed C. noticed D. discovered
47．A. taken up B. brought in C. sold out D. cut down
48．A. expensive B. cheap C. beautiful D. usual
49．A. point B. answer C. source D. result
50．A. by itself B. on its own C. for itself D. itself
51．A. At no time B. At times C. In no case D. In most cases
52．A. ever B. even C. never D. hardly
53．A. What B. That C. Which D. Whether
54．A. but B. so C. and D. for
55．A. suspecting B. liking C. envying D. eyeing
56．A. Love B. Life C. Future D. Failure
57．A. They B. We C. You D. What
58．A. quantity B. style C. quality D. standard
59．A. have B. hesitate C. forget D. fail
60．A. control B. drive C. puzzle D. amaze

【答案】
41．A
42．D
43．B
44．B
45．C
46．C
47．A
48．B
49．C
50．D
51．D
52．B
53．A
54．A
55．D
56．B
57．A
58．C
59．D
60．B
【解析】教授通过杯子以及咖啡形象的比喻了生活与金钱，地位，告诉人们我们不要为金钱地位驱使而忘记生活的本质。
41．名词辨析。根据根据下文that is the 44 of your problems and stress.
42．名词辨析。由上文可知，学生回校看望老师，对老师来说，他们是客人。
43．动词辨析。根据前文教授去了厨房，可知教授是返回客厅。
44．考查固定词组。A variety of各种各样的；a kind/sort of一种；a number of 许多；根据后文内容可知教授是拿出各种杯子让学生挑。
45．固定词组。Help oneself自行取用。
46．动词辨析。A搜寻；B目击；C注意；D发现；句意：如果那么注意到…
47．动词短语辨析。A占据，从事于；B引进，赚钱；C卖完；D削减；砍倒；句意：所有的好看的昂贵的杯子都被拿走了。
48．形容词辨析。对应上文的nice-looking expensive cups可知这里是cheap;
49．名词辨析。由上下文可知这是他们压力的根源。
50．考查反身代词。根据句意：杯子本身不能增加咖啡的品质。
51．介词辨析。A绝不；B时而不时；C绝不；D大部分情况下；句意：在大部分情况下， 昂贵的杯子只会让咖啡更贵。
52．副词辨析。A曾经，在任何时候;从来;至今；B甚至；Ｃ从不；Ｄ几乎不；句意：在有些情况下，昂贵的杯子甚至隐藏了我们喝的东西。
53．考查主语从句。What引导起主语从句并在句中做宾语。
54．考查连词。根据上下文可知是转折关系，句意：你们真正想要的是咖啡而不是杯子，但是你们都拿了好的杯子。
55．动词辨析。A怀疑；B喜欢；C羡慕；D看；句意：你们现在看相互的杯子。
56．上下文串联。由上下文可知是把生活比喻成咖啡…;
57．代词辨析。They指代前面提及的the jobs, money and position。
58．名词辨析。A数量；B风格；C品质；D标准；杯子不会改变咖啡的品质。
59．动词辨析。根据上下文可知我们把注意力集中到杯子上，就不能享受生活。
60．动词辨析。A控制；B驱使；C困扰；D使惊讶，使吃惊；句意：不要让杯子驱使你，而要享受生活。

I met Jane Black in university, and soon we became friends．The first time I went to her home I found her family quite different from my own．
In my family, it was always important to place 1 when anything bad happened．
"Who did this? "my mother would scream about a dirty kitchen．
" This is all your 2 , Katharine, " my father would insist when the cat got out or the dishwasher 3 .
From the time we were little, my sister, brothers and I told on each other．We set a place for blame at the dinner table．
4 ,the Whites didn't worry about who had done what．They picked up the pieces and 5 with their lives．The beauty of this was driven home to me the summer Jane died．
In July, the White sisters and I decided to take a car 6 from their home in Florida to New York．The two older sisters, Sarah and Jane, were college students, and the youngest, Amy, had recently 7 sixteen．Proud of having a new driver' s license, Amy was excited about practicing her driving on the trip．She 8 her license to everyone she met．
The big sisters 9 the driving of Sarah' s new car during the first part of the trip, but when they reached _10_ crowded areas, they let Amy 11 ．Somewhere in South Carolina, we pulled off the highway to eat．After lunch, Amy got behind the wheel．She came to a crossroads with a stop sign．Whether she was nervous or just didn't see the sign no one would 12 know, but Amy continued into the crossroads without stopping．The driver of a large truck, unable to stop in time, ran into our car．
Jane was killed immediately．I was only 13 injured．The most difficult thing that I’ve ever done was to call the Whites to tell them about the accident and that Jane had died．Painful __14_ it was for me to lose a good friend, I knew that it was far worse for them to lose a child．
When Mr．and Mrs．White arrived at the hospital, they found their two daughters sharing a room．Sarah had a few cuts on the head and Amy' s leg was broken．They hugged us all and cried tears of 15 and of joy at seeing their daughters．They 16 away the girls' tears and made a few jokes at Amy as she learned to use her crutches （拐仗）.
To both of their daughters, and especially to Amy, over and over they simply said, "We' re so glad that you' re alive．"
I was 17 ．No blame．No accusations．
Later, I asked the Whites why they never talked about the fact that Amy was driving and had run a stop sign．
Mrs. White said, "Jane' s gone, and we miss her 18 ．Nothing we say or do will ever bring her back．But Amy has her whole life ahead of her．How can she _19____ a full and happy life if she feels we blame her for her sister' s death?"
They were right．Amy graduated from the University of California and got married several years ago．She works 20 a teacher of learning-disabled students．She' s also a mother of two little girls of her own, the oldest named Jane．
61．A．anger B．blame C．scream D．pride
62．A．fault B．mistake C．benefit D．action
63．A．broke B．caught C．stopped D．worked
64．A．Then B．However C．Therefore D．Still
65．A．had on B．put on C．got on D．moved on
66．A．drive B．voyage C．trip D．tour
67．A．became B．reached C．got D．turned
68．A．showed off B．turned up C．brought out D．took off
69．A．took B．tasted C．shared D．experienced
70．A．more B．less C．far D．quite
71．A．turn up B．get down C．take over D．take up
72．A．hardly B．never C．even D．ever
73．A．seriously B．slightly C．lightly D．quickly
74．A．as B．so C．when D．while
75．A．pity B．sadness C．shame D．sympathy
76．A．swept B．gave C．wiped D．cleaned
77．A．delighted B．excited C．amused D．astonished
78．A．terribly B．hard C．gradually D．rarely
79．A．direct B．guide C．lead D．conduct
80．A．for