宁夏银川二中高考英语 百日冲刺完形填空精选系列(十六)

宁夏银川二中2012届高考英语百日冲刺完形填空精选系列（十六）
(1)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 1～20 各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，
选出最佳选项。

It was a cold, wet day on June 6, when 14-year-old Wasana arrived at school. Waiting outside his classroom for his classmates to arrive, Wasana 1 aimlessly at the pouring rain. Then his 2 fell upon the hill that rose at the back of the classroom. He noticed huge amounts of rainwater 3 down the hill, and water was also bubbling at the base of a large rock on the hill. For a few 4 , Wasana looked at the water, wondering 5 it looked so familiar.
Then it 6 him – the scene was surprisingly 7 to the pictures he was shown during Disaster Management classes. 8 a disaster was about to happen, Wasana waved 9 at students, shouting “Run, run, don’t stay here! The rocks on the hill are going to 10 on us!”
All the students and teachers ran to the open area that had been 11 as an emergency gathering point. 12 , they heard screams as the huge rock rolled down the hill, bringing sand, rock and mud. There was 13 they could do as they watched the earth bury an entire school block.
Thanks to Wasana’s quick action and sharp 14 , no one was hurt in the incident. The landslide 15 two classrooms and caused heavy damage to six 16 . “The financial damage is nothing compared to 17 would have happened had there been children in the classrooms,” says the schoolmaster.
Wasana later received a Gold Star from the Foundation for Civilian Bravery, Sri Lanka.
18 at the incident, he says, “I feel disaster management 19 are important for everyone. We’ll never know when the 20 will come in handy.”
1. A. stared B. nodded C. shouted D. pointed
2. A. thoughts B. eyes C. words D. voices
3. A. pulling B. jumping C. sliding D. flowing
4. A. times B. minutes C. hours D. periods
5. A. how B. where C. why D. when
6. A. hit B. drove C. pushed D. stopped
7. A. strange B. rare C. terrible D. similar
8. A. Rejecting B. Fearing C. Scaring D. Avoiding
9. A. angrily B. sadly C. excitedly D. wildly
10. A. beat B. move C. fall D. dive
11. A. put away B. set aside C. brought forth D. taken apart
12. A. Just then B. In short C. In good time D. As a result
13. A. something B. much C. anything D. little
14. A. discovery B. movement C. observation D. idea
15. A. destroyed B. tore C. injured D. overcame
16. A. another B. other C. others D. ones
17. A. those B. which C. that D. what
18. A. Looking back B. Looking around C. Looking through D.
Looking forward
19. A. exhibitions B. lessons C. units D. examinations
20. A. concept B. image C. knowledge D. situation (2)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 21～40 各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Dad taught me a lot about life, especially its hard times. I remembered one of his ___21___ one night when I was ready to ___22___ a political campaign I was losing, and wrote about it in my diary.
Tired, feeling the months of ___23___ in vain, I went up to my study to make some notes. I was looking for a pencil in the back of my desk drawer ___24___ I turned up one of Dad’s old business cards that he was proud of: Andrea Cuomo Italian-American Groceries --- Fine Imported Products. Then I thought about how he ___25___ with difficult situations. A lot of pictures ___26___ into my mind, but one scene came sharply into ___27___.
We had just moved to Holliswood, New York. We had our own house for the first time; it had some land around it, even trees. One, ___28___, was a great blue spruce (云杉) that must have been 40 feet tall.
Less than a week after we moved in, there was a terrible storm. We came home from the store that night to find the spruce pulled almost ___29___ from the ground and thrown onto the street. When my brother Frankie and I saw the spruce, our hearts ___30___. But not Dad’s.
The rain was falling. Then he ___31___ , “Ok, we’re going to push him up!” “ What are you talking about, Dad? The ___32___ are out of the ground!” “ Shut up, we’re going to push him up, he’s going to grow again.” We couldn’t say ___33___ to him. So we ___34___ him into the house and got what rope ___35___ was and tied it around the top of the tree that lay on the street, and then he stood up by the house, ___36___ me pulling on the rope, and Frankie in the street in the rain, ___37___ to push up the great blue spruce. In no ___38___ at all, we had him standing up straight again! Dad ___39___ the stakes (桩) in the ground, tied the rope from the trunk to the stakes, and said, “ Don’t worry. He’s going to grow again…”
I looked at the card and wanted to cry. I ___40 ___ wait to get back into the campaign.
21. A. ideas B. lessons C. talks D. conversations
22. A. bury B. attempt C. trap D. quit
23. A. struggle B. operation C. performance D. application
24. A. as B. before C. while D. when
25. A. did B. occupied C. settled D. dealt
26. A. appeared B. bumped C. leapt D. burst
27. A. spot B. view C. scene D. site
28. A. in relief B. in need C. in particular D. in all
29. A. absolutely B. accidentally C. totally D. automatically
30. A. suffered B. carved C. sank D. infected
31. A. announced B. challenged C. barked D. distributed
32. A. trunks B. roots C. branches D. leaves
33. A. anything B. no C. nothing D. something
34. A. accompanied B. hiked C. joined D. followed
35. A. it B. that C. there D. this
36. A. along B. via C. by D. with
37. A. to help B. helped C. helping D. help
38. A. problem B. time C. way D. means
39. A. drove B. removed C. delivered D. dragged
40. A. needn’t B. wouldn’t C. shouldn’t D. couldn’t
1. A
2. B
3. D
4. B
5. C
6. A
7. D
8. B
9. D 10.C 11. B 12. A 13. D 14. C 15. A 16. C 17. D 18. A 19. B 20. C 21—25 BDADD 26—30 ABCCC 31—35 ABBDC 36—40 DCBAD。