河北省唐山市开平区高考英语完形填空专题练习(4)
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河北省唐山市开平区2016高考英语完形填空专题练习（4）
完形填空。阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。
When she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog, Her body was 1 . She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours.
Already she was the first woman to 2 the English Channel in both directions. Now, at age 34, her 3 was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast.
On the July Fourth morning in 1952, the sea was icy and the fog was so heavy that she could 4 see her support boats. Sharks swam toward her lone figure, only to he 5 away by gun shots. Against the cold sea water, she struggled on -- hour after hour -- while millions watched on national 6 .
Alongside Florence in one of the boats, her mother and her trainer offered encouragement. They told her it wasn't much farther. But what she could see was 7 .They urged her not to 8 . She never had … until then. With only a half mile to go, she asked to be pulled out.
Several hours lat er, she told a reporter, “Look, I'm not 9 myself, but if I could have seen 10 , I might have made it.” It was not tiredness or even the cold water that defeated her. It was the fog. She was 11 to see her goal.
Two months 12 , she tried again. This time, despite the same 13 fog, she swam with her faith and her goal 14 pictured in. her mind. She knew that somewhere behind that fog was land and this time she 15 it! Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel!
1. A
. cold B
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numb C
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thin D
.
weak
2. A
. pass B
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dive C
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swim D
.
fly
3. A
. mother B
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record C
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success D
.
goal
4. A
. hardly B
.
nearly C
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clearly D
.
probably
5. A
. pulled B
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swept C
.
driven D
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cleared
6. A
. scene B
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television C
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radio D
.
race
7. A
. fog B
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shark C
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boat D
.
wall
8. A
. swim B
.
go C
.
try D
.
quit
9. A
. blaming B
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excusing C
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crying D
.
enjoying
10 . A
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coach B
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fog C
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land D
.
California
11 . A
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unhappy B
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unwilling C
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unlucky D
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unable
12 . A
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ago B
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later C
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before D
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long
13 . A
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heavy B
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wet C
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solid D
.
cold
14 . A
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heavily B
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easily C
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clearly D
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suddenly
15 . A
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did B
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forgot C
.
chose D
.
made
1.【答案】B
【解析】考查动词及语境的理解。cold冷的； numb麻木的； thin瘦的； weak弱的。她的身体是麻木的，因为她已经游泳16个小时，故选B。
2.【答案】C
【解析】考查动词及语境的理解。pass 通过，及格；dive潜水； swim游泳； fly飞行。根据上文She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours.这里指的是游泳。她是第一个