2009高考英语 最新完形填空精讲精练(2)

2009高考英语最新完形填空精讲精练（2）
（一）
Recently, one of my best friends, whom I've shared just about everything with since the first day of kindergarten, spent the weekend with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago, we've both always ___1___ the few times a year when we can see each other.
Over the ___2___, we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she was ___3__ around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he experimented with ___4___ and was into other ___5___ behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been ___6___ to her parents about where she was going and even sneaking out to see this guy because they didn't want her ___7___ him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she ___8__ better, she didn't believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disappeared.
I tried to ___9___ her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble.
I felt like I was getting ___10___. I just couldn't believe that she really thought it was ___11__ to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boyfriend.
By the time she left, I was really worried about her and ___12___ by the experience. It had been so frustrating, I had come ___13___ to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to ___14___ our friendship - but I didn't. I put the power of ___15___ to the ultimate test. We'd been friends for far too long. The chance was that she ___16___ me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could ___17___ anything.
A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our ___18___, and then she told me that she had ___19___ with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the truly ___20___ moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend.
1. A. worried about B. looked forward to C. paid attention to D.
think of
2. A. weekend B. months C. years D. days
3. A. working B. falling in love C. hanging D. keeping in touch
4. A. books B. girls C. friends D. drugs
5. A. self-destructive B. self-respecting C. self-confident D. self-defensive
6. A. explaining B. reasoning C. declaring D. lying
7. A. on B. beside C. around D. to
8. A. did B. deserved C. had D. got
9. A. told B. convince C. force D. warn
10. A. somewhere B. everywhere C. nowhere D. anywhere
11. A. acceptable B. believable C. reliable D. admirable
12. A. exhausted B. surprised C. satisfied D. terrified
13. A. almost B. nearly C. close D. over
14. A. stop B. continue C. start D. make
15. A. love B. friendship C. truth D. justice
16. A. thought B. remembered C. valued D. hated
17. A. mean B. conquer C. tell D. prove
18. A. friendship B. relationship C. quarrel D. conversation
19. A. broke away B. broke down C. broke up D. broke out
20. A. demanding B. challenging C. frustrating D. rewarding
答案与解析：
1. B因为他们是最好的朋友，所以自从分开后一直盼望着在周末见到对方。

2.A他们只有在周末才能见到对方。

3. C hang around with sb.同某人长时间呆在一起；如选B,则应把around去掉。

4. D 根据后文作者劝她的朋友同其男朋友分手是因为她的男朋友吸毒。

5. A吸毒的结果只能是自我毁灭。

6. D因为她的家人不想让她同她男朋友在一起，所以为了见到男朋友，她经常对家人撒谎。

7. C around sb.同某人在一起
8. B（如果她同男朋友分手）就能够得到更好的结果。

9. B convince sb.使某人相信，使其信服。

10. C get nowhere 没有取得任何成就；毫无进展。

11. A 作者的朋友认为同她的男朋友在一起是可以接受的，所以才同他呆在一起。

12. A根据后文可知作者曾一度想同好朋友分手，所以对此事感到精疲力竭，不想再去管她的事情了。

13. C close to此处意为“几乎”；come close to doing…差一点做某事。

14. B too…to表示一个否定的意思，所以后文应填continue。

15. B此处意为“我希望友谊的力量能经得起最后的考验，能改变最终的结果”。

16.Ｃ value重视，珍惜。

很可能她非常珍惜我们之间的友谊，知道我是在救她。

17. B 我相信友谊能战胜、征服一切。

18. D 回去之后，对我们之间的谈话想了好久。

19. C break up with sb.同某人断绝关系。

20. D 这是一个得到回报的时刻。

（二）
The purpose of a letter of application(求职信) is to help you to “sell” yourself. It should state ___1___ the job you want, and should tell what your abilities are and what you have ___2___. It should be simple, human, personal and brief without ___3___ out any necessary facts.
In writing a letter of application, keep in ___4___ that the things a possible employer is most ___5___ to want to know about are your qualifications(条件), your achievements and your aims. The opening paragraph is perhaps the most important part. ___6___ the first few sentences fail to ___7___ the reader’s attention, the rest of the letter may not be ___8___ at all. Try to key your opening remarks to the needs or interests of the employer not ___9___ your own need or desires. For example, instead of beginning with “I saw your ___10___ in today’s newspaper,” you might say “I have made a careful ___11___ of your advertising during the past six months” or “I have made a survey in my neighborhood to find out how many housewives ___12___ your product and why they like it. ”
Try to ___13___ generalities. Be clear about the kind of job for which you are now ___14___. College graduates looking for their first pos itions often ask “What can I ___15___ in a letter? Employers want experience—which, naturally, no ___16___ has.” The answer is that everything you have ever done is ___17___.
It is important to write a good strong closing for your letter. ___18___ a specific request for an interview or give the possible employer something definite to do or expect. An excellent ___19___ is to enclose(内附) a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your letter. That makes it ___20___ for a possible employer to get in touch with you.
1. A. clearly B. carefully C. obviously D. easily
2. A. found B. done C. known D. heard
3. A. sending B. taking C. leaving D. picking
4. A. brain B. sight C. order D. mind
5. A. probable B. possible C. likely D. able
6. A. While B. Although C. As D. If
7. A. pay B. win C. show D. fix
8. A. kept B. continued C. written D. read
9. A. to B. for C. into D. from
10. A. advertisement B. report C. article D. introduction
11. A. watch B. search C. study D. discussion
12. A. change B. make C. sell D. use
13. A. avoid B. remember C. protect D. gain
14. A. losing B. applying C. preparing D. fitting
15. A. offer B. supply C. mean D. provide
16. A. worker B. beginner C. owner D. manager
17. A. success B. development C. practice D. experience
18. A. Make B. Ask C. State D. Get
19. A. result B. decision C. promise D. idea
20. A. happier B. easier C. cheaper D. safer
答案与解析：
本文是叙述怎样写求职信。

1. A。

表示“清楚地”说明你想要找的工作。

2. B。

根据前面“你的能力是什么”，可知后面是“你已经‘做’了些什么工作”。

3. C。

根据后面的 any necessary facts 判断，不要“遗漏”任何必要的事实。

4. D。

keep in mind 是固定短语，意思是“记住”。

5. C。

表示可能，后面跟不定式只能用 likely，其余选项都不正确。

6. D。

根据下文的主句判断，前面是条件句，因此选 if。

7. B。

从后面主句中the rest of the letter may not be… 可得出答案，如果前面的一些句子不能“赢得”读者的注意的话。

8. D。

根据上文，如果起初几句话不能引起读者注意的话，其余部分就可能不会再“读”了。

9. A。

根据前面两个 to 得出答案。

10. A。

因为是应聘者，所以在报纸上看到的是“广告”。

11. C。

根据上文，应聘者是从报纸上看到的招聘广告，经过“研究”之后才来应聘的。

12. D。

根据后面的 product(产品)判断应是“使用”。

13. A。

根据下文判断要弄清楚具体应聘的工作，以“避免”笼统性。

14. B。

根据上下文所叙述的是“应聘”之事可得出答案。

15. D。

根据句意“在信中提供的是什么”得出答案，而supply是“供给、供应”不符句意。

16. B。

根据前面的“first”一词判断答案是“beginner”。

17. D。

根据句意“你做的任何工作可称做“经验”(experience)得出答案。

18. A。

根据下文得出答案“为了应聘‘做’一些特殊的要求或需要”。

19. D。

根据后面“随信内附一个贴有邮票，写有你的地址的信封”是一个好的“建议”。

20. B。

根据上一句所说，这样“更容易”使雇者与你联系。