江苏省连云港市赣榆县海头高级中学高二英语上学期完形阅读专练一(无答案)

高二完形阅读专练一
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One afternoon, I went to pick up my mother from work. I got there a little early, so I 41 my car by a small park, and 42 for her.
As I looked outside the car window, I saw a little boy, around two years old, running 43 on the grass as his mother 44 from a short distance. The boy had a big smile on his face as if he had just been 45 free from some sort of prison. The boy would then fall to the grass, 46 up, without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could, again, still with a smile on his face, 47 nothing had happened .
At that moment, I thought to myself, “Why aren’t most adults this way?” Most adults, when they fall down, make a big deal out of it and don’t even make a second 48 . They would be so 49 that they would not try again 50 someone saw them fall. Or because they fall , they would find a good 51 for themselves that they’re not fit for it . They would end up too afraid to attempt again 52 failure.
However, with kids, when they fall down, th ey don’t consider their falling down as a failure. Instead, they treat it as a 53 experience. They try again and again until they 54 . The 55 must be that they have not connected “falling down” with the word “failure”. As a 56 , they don’t lose a ny confidence. 57 , they probably think to themselves that it’s quite okay to fall down and that it’s not 58 to do so. In other words, they allow themselves to make 59 , so they remain energetic.
I was deeply 60 by the boy’s persistence (坚持不懈) and the manner in which he did.
41.A. left B. stopped C. repaired D. drove
42.A. waited B. cared C. prepared D. looked
43.A. carefully B. anxiously C. freely D. easily
44.A. surveyed B. noticed C. watched D. supported
45.A. cut B. set C. kept D. found
46.A. get B. hold C. end D. pick
47.A. because B. when C. though D. as though
48.A. noise B. attempt C. practice D. choice
49.A. confused B. delighted C. surprised D. embarrassed
50.A. even if B. if C. as if D. though
51.A. cause B. sign C. excuse D. chance
52.A. because of B. as a result of C. for fear of D. in case
53.A. running B. learning C. teaching D. falling
54.A. progress B. improve C. achieve D. succeed
55.A. story B. answer C. reason D. key
56.A. decision B. result C. cause D. matter
57.A. However B. Therefore C. Still D. Besides
58.A. good B. right C. wrong D. true
59.A. choices B. mistakes C. plans D. wishes
60.A. moved B. concerned C. discouraged D. impressed
阅读理解
A
Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck, talent, and circumstances（环境）don’t come into play because they do. Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that’s just the reality of how life is.
However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical（可行的）. And, in addition to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time, time that most people won’t put in.
This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do, it is going to feel like unbearable（难以忍受的）pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.
When you see people exhibiting some gr eat skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.
Whatever you do, if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, almost to the point of addiction（入迷）, and over a long period of time. If you’re not willing to put in the time and work, don’t expect to receive any rewards. Consistent, hard work won’t guarantee（保证） you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.
1. Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ________.
A. the meaning of success
B. the reasons for success
C. the standards of success
D. the importance of success
2. In Paragraph 2, the underlined word “that” refers to ______.
A. being good at something
B. succeeding in life
C. setting a practical goal
D. putting in more time
3. Successful people suggest doing what one loves because ______.
A. work makes one feel pain
B. it takes a lot of time to succeed
C. one tends to enjoy his work
D. one gives up his work easily
4. What is the main theme of the passage?
A. Having a goal is vital to success.
B. Being good is different from being great.
C. Luck, talent and family help to achieve success.
D. One cannot succeed without time and practice.
B
When we can see well, we don’t think about our eyes very often. It is only when we can not see perfectly that we come to see how important our eyes are.
People who are nearsighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Many people who do a lot of close work, such as writing, reading and sewing, become nearsighted. Then they have to wear glasses in order to see distant things clearly.
People who are farsighted suffer from just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty reading a book unless they hold it at arm’s length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses, too.
Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people’s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts（白内障）. Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.
When night falls, colors become fainter( 模糊的)to the eyes and finally disappear. After your eyes have grown used to the dark, you can see better if you use the sides of your eyes rather than the centers. Sometimes, after dark, you can see a small thing to one side of you, which seems to disappear if you turn your head in its direction. This is because when you turn your head, you are looking at the thing too directly. Men on guard duty sometimes think they see something moving to one side of them. When they turn to look straight at it, they can’t see it any more, and they believe they were mistaken. However, this mistake happens because the center of the eye, which is very sensitive( 敏感的) in daylight, is not as sensitive as the sides of the eye after dark.
5. We don’t know that our eyes are of great importance until .
A. we think about our eyes
B. we cannot see clearly
C. we wear glasses
D. we have to do much reading
6. According to the passage, a _________ is more likely to be nearsighted than the
average person.
A. tailor
B. doctor
C. guard
D. driver
7. Those who suffer from cataracts _________.
A. will become blind
B. can’t be cured
C. may be cured
D. must move to other places
8. People who are farsighted _________.
A. cannot do a lot of close work without glasses
B. can only see things that are very close to their eyes
C. have difficulty reading a book if they hold it at arm’s length
D. have the same problem as the nearsighted people
9. To see a small thing at night, it is better to look _________.
A. with wide open eyes
B. with half-shut or narrow eyes
C. straight at it
D. in a slightly different direction
C
Recently I spoke to some of my students about what they wanted to do after they graduated, and what kind of job prospects they thought they had．
Given that I teach students who are trained to be doctors, I was surprised to find that most thought that they would not be able to get the jobs they wanted without “outside help”．“What kind of help is that?” I asked, expec ting them to tell me that they would need a relative or family friend to help them out．“Surgery（外科手术）”, one replied．I was pretty alarmed by that response．It seems that the graduates of today are increasingly willing to go under the knife to get ahead of others when it comes to getting a job．One girl told me that she was considering surgery to increase her height．“They break your legs, put in special extending screws, and slowly expand the gap between the two ends of the bone as it regrows．You can get at le ast 5 cm taller!”
At that point, I was shocked．I am short．I can’t deny that, but I don’t think I would put myself through months of pain just to be a few centimeters taller．I don’t even bother to wear shoes with thick soles, as I’m not trying to hide the fact that I am just not tall!
It seems to me that there is a trend toward wanting “perfection”, and that is an ideal that just does not exist in reality．
No one is born perfect, yet magazines, TV shows and movies present images of thin, tall, beautiful people as being the norm（标准）．Advertisements for slimming aids, beauty treatments and cosmetic surgery clinics fill the pages of newspapers, further creating an idea that “perfection” is a requirement, and that it must be purchased, no matter what the cost．In my opinion, skills, rather than appearance, should determine how successful a person is in his chosen career．
10．We can know from the passage that the author works as ________．A．a professor B．a model C．a teacher D．a reporter 11．Many graduates today turn to cosmetic surgery to ________．
A．marry a better man/woman
B．become a model
C．get an advantage over others in job-hunting
D．attract more admirers
12．What was the author’s reaction towards the girl’s decision?
A．Excited．B．Surprised．C．Happy．D．Angry．13．According to the passage, the author believes that ________．
A．everyone should pursue perfection, whatever the cost
B．it’s right for graduates to ask for others to help them out in hunting for jobs
C．media are to blame for misleading young people in their seeking for surgery D．it is one’s appearance instead of skills that really matters in one’s career 14．What does the author think of his height?
A．He hates to be called a short man．
B．He tries to increase his height through surgery．
C．He always wears shoes with thick soles to hide the fact．
D．He just accepts it as it is．。