2024屆高考英語二輪專題復習突破完形填空6
高考英語二輪專題復習突破：完形填空
1.閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。When I was eight, I wrote my first poem. My mother read and cried. “Buddy, you didn’t really write this beautiful poem!”
Shyly, but
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, I said yes. She poured out her
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. “It was nothing short of talent!”
“What time will Father be home?” I asked. I could hardly wait to
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my work to him.
I spent quite some time
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for his arrival. I wrote the poem out in my finest flourish (花體字), drew a fancy border around it, and
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I placed it right on my father’s plate on the dining table. My father had begun his motion-picture career as a writer. I was sure he would be able
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my poem.
At almost 7 o’clock my father burst in. He seemed
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. He circled the dining-room table, complaining about his employees.
Suddenly he paused and glared at his plate. “What is this?” He was reaching for my poem.
“Ben, Buddy has written his first poem!” my mother began. “And it’s beautiful, absolutely amaz …”
“If you don’t mind, I’d like to decide for myself.” Father said.
I
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my head as he read that poem. It was only ten lines. But it seemed to take hours. Then I heard him dropping the poem back on the table. Now came the moment of
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.
“I think it’s terrible,” he said.
I couldn’t look up. My eyes were getting
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.
“Ben, these are the first lines of poetry he’s ever written,” my mother was saying. “He needs
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.”
“I don’t know why.” My father held his ground. “Isn’t there enough
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poetry in the world already?”
I couldn’t
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it another second. I ran from the dining room crying. Up in my room I
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myself on the bed and cried the worst of the
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out of me.
That may have been the end of the story, but not of its
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for me. I realized how fortunate I had been. I had a mother who said, “I think it’s wonderful!” and a father who drove me to hear with “I think it’s awful.”
Every one of us needs that mother force, from which all
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flows; and yet the mother force alone is incomplete. It needs the balance of the force that
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, “Watch. Listen. Review. Improve.”
Those
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voices of my childhood ring in my ears through the years, like two opposing winds blowing me. Between the two poles of
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and doubt, both in the name of love, I try to follow my true course.
36. A. proudly
B. slowly
C. anxiously
D. honestly
37. A. praise
B. surprise
C. admiration
D. belief
38. A. recite
B. show
C. describe
D. introduce
39. A. waiting
B. planning
C. praying
D. preparing
40. A. quickly
B. confidently
C. nervously
D. casually
41. A. read
B. revise
C. appreciate
D. polish
42. A. upset
B. calm
C. tired
D. relaxed
43. A. shook
B. raised
C. lowered
D. turned
44. A. truth
B. struggle
C. decision
D. discussion
45. A. wet
B. wide
C. dark
D. swollen
46. A. practice
B. judgment
C. instruction
D. encouragement
47. A. awful
B. elegant
C. fluent
D. controversial
48. A. hold
B. see
C. stand
D. control
49. A. seated
B. threw
C. left
D. kept
50. A. confusion
B. pressure
C. dissatisfaction
D. disappointment
51. A. significance
B. development
C. reflection
D. challenge
52. A. love
B. honor
C. creation
D. improvement
53. A. orders
B. persuades
C. cautions
D. declares
54. A. conflicting
B. warning
C. disturbing
D. inspiring
55. A. confidence
B. confirmation
C. distrust
D. disapproval
2.閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。
Twist was the name of an old champion racing horse. He was past thirty years old, but the heart of the true
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still beat with the great spirit. However, I knew little about the
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that the old horse’s spirit would have on my daughter.
My daughter Stacy had ever had a
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experience with a runaway horse. She was just eight at the time, and a terrifying
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accompanied the disaster. Although she broke no bones, her
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, love for horses and the desire to learn to ride were
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. No matter how my wife and I tried, we had no
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in curing the damage caused that day. But when she was thirteen, a turning point came. One day as I saw Stacy look into the eye of the
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fellow in the stall(牲口棚), I knew this was going to be the beginning of a
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relationship.
Fortunately, Stacy’s accident had not weakened her love for
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in general, and this small opening was all that Twist needed to create an unusual
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. In the following weeks, Stacy began to express daily
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in coming to the stall with me. She actively spent time with him, feeding, brushing and combing him, all the
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talking to him about her life.
Then one day
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I was readying one horse for a ride, I noticed the old guy’s eager expression and desire to be
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, too. So I asked Stacy if she wanted to take Twist out for a ride. In
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, Stacy looked once again into the old man’s eye. That moment, their two spirits
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and completed the bond that had been forming over a couple of months. Continuing to look deep into his eyes, Stacy didn’t
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. She only nodded yes. Moments later, I saw them riding
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together, Stacy winning renewed(重建的) confidence and desire, and Twist winning his medal of a child’s
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.
36. A. jumper
B. member
C. owner
D. winner
37. A. wish
B. ability
C. effect
D. idea
38. A. strange
B. rich
C. bad
D. new
39. A. attack
B. fall
C. shake
D. task
40. A. pride
B. skill
C. luck
D. confidence
41. A. destroyed
B. ignored
C. violated
D. reformed
42. A. success
B. need
C. aim
D. surprise
43. A. strong
B. old
C. brave
D. poor
44. A. serious
B. similar
C. special
D. formal
45. A. animals
B. parents
C. friends
D. fields
46. A. impression
B. event
C. style
D. bond
47. A. thanks
B. interest
C. sympathy
D. opinions
48. A. best
B. way
C. same
D. while
49. A. although
B. so
C. as
D. because
50. A. carried
B. included
C. praised
D. trained
51. A. response
B. brief
C. addition
D. return
52. A. rose
B. fought
C. met
D. recovered
53. A. smile
B. act
C. think
D. speak
54. A. off
B. on
C. down
D. back
55. A. spirit
B. heart
C. agreement
D. dependence
3.
The park bench was deserted as I sat down to read beneath an old willow tree. Not
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with life, I was down. A young boy out of breath
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me, all tired from play. He stood right before me with his head tilted(傾斜的) down,
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with great excitement,“Look what I found!”
In his hand was a flower, and what a
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sight, with is petals(花瓣) all worn—not enough rain, or too little light.
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him to take his dead flower and go off to play,I
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a small smile and then shifted away. But instead of
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he sat next to my side and placed the flower to his nose and declared with
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,“It surely smells pretty and it’s beautiful, too. That’s why I
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it; here, it’s for you.”
The flower before me was dying or dead. But I knew I must
45___it, or he might never leave. So I reached for the flower, and
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, “Just what I need.”But instead of placing the flower in my hand, he
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it mid-air without reason. It was then that I
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for the very first time the boy was
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.
I heard my voice shake, tears shone like the sun
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I thanked him for picking the very best one. He smiled, and then ran off to play,
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of the effect he’d had on my day.
I sat there and
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how he managed to see a self-pitying woman beneath an old willow tree. How did he know of my self-indulged(放縱的)
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? Perhaps from his heart, he’d been blessed with true
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.
Through the eyes of a blind child, at last I could see, the problem was not connected with the world; the problem was me. And for all of those times I myself had been blind, I vowed to see__55___, and appreciate every second that’s mine.
36.A.excited B.inspired C.satisfied D.disappointed
37.A.approached B.overlooked C.understood D.talked
38.A.telling B.saying C.informing D.talking
39.A.unique B.rough C.bothering D.pitiful
40.A.Wanting B.Demanding C.Persuading D.Inviting
41.A.played B.adjusted C.forced D.delivered
42.A.declining B.accepting C.panicking D.quitting
43.A.surprise B.embarrassment C.sympathy D.sorrow
44.A.took B.pulled C.sold D.picked
45.A.bring B.fetch C.take D.smell
46.A.announced B.replied C.declared D.whispered
47.A.grasped B.held C.caught D.seized
48.A.convinced B.confirmed C.noticed D.refused
49.A.strange B.blind C.deaf D.unimaginable
50.A.once B.after C.as D.since
51.A.unaware B.unbelievable C.regretful D.regardless
52.A.doubted B.felt C.found D.wondered
53.A.embarrassment B.depression C.pleasure D.effort
54.A.sense B.hearing C.sight D.ability
55.A.beauty B.disability C.fantasy D.wonder
4.閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。
I have always been an independent person, but I have come to know that being independent does not mean refusing help. I may still be
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with asking for help, but I try to accept. Furthermore, I will even
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help and when my offers are refused, I am
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willing to walk away. And all these changes came from a disaster on an island.
Sometimes a person’s independence is a
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of pride, daring, stubbornness and luck. I used to be too
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since I was little. I was once a traveler who never asked for
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, choosing instead to struggle with maps and signs until I found my way.
Then one day on the island of Koh Phangan, in Thailand, everything
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. I was swimming in the ocean with Sean, my fiancé, when he was
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by a box jellyfish(箱型水母). He
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within three minutes, 25 years old. Yet when onlookers and travelers asked if I wanted
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, stubborn pride and force of habit
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me accepting. But two young Israeli women stayed.
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my protest(反對), they were with me even when the police tried to cover up the
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of Sean’s death. It was listed as drunk drowning to avoid hurting the
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industry. The Israeli women
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have walked away.
