2021年北京中考英语重点题型组合训练(06) 完形填空 +阅读D +回答问题

(六)完形填空+阅读D +回答问题

Ⅰ.[2020·西城二模]完形填空(8分)

When a Man Made Fun of His Seatmate

Soon after Savannah Phillips, a 33-year-old mother, sat down in her window seat on a United Airlines flight this past May, she glanced(瞥见) over at her seatmate. He was busy 1. His phone was not far from her face and the letters were unusually 2, making it easy for Phillips to read the message on it:“Hey Babe. I’m sitting next to a smelly fatty.”

Tears streamed down the poor woman’s face as she tried to hide herself to the corner, trying to make herself as 3as possible.

“It awoke all the unpleasant things I think about myself. I always preferred to sit alone on flights because of my 4, fearing others next to me would feel uncomfortable,” Phillips wrote in a Facebook post after the flight.

Sitting a row behind them was Chase Irwin, a 35-year-old bar manager. He could see Phillips crying—and then he oversaw the man’s texts.“I could not have this guy, who’s making fun of her, sit next to her this whole flight,” he said in an interview later.

5, Irwin unlocked his seat belt and went over to the texter.“Hey, I need to talk to you,” Irwin said.“We’re switching(交换) seats—now.” When the texter asked why, he said, “You’re texting about her, and I’m not putting up with that.”

The texter quickly 6. Irwin took his place next to Phillips and was soon cheering up his new seatmate.

“He 7me not to let that guy get to me and that everything was going to be fine,”Phillips wrote. They spent the rest of the flight chatting like friends.

With her trust in humanity restored, Phillips wrote this on Facebook:“I was so grateful(感激的)he was there. What he did set such a good 8for others to follow, that is, sticking up for people when they need help.”

1.A.texting B.talking C.playing D.working

2.A.beautiful rge C.discouraging D.surprising

3.A.warm B.brave C.small D.light

4.A.build B.face C.manner D.character

5.A.Probably B.Fortunately C.Successfully D.Immediately

6.A.promised B.remained C.agreed D.insisted

7.A.encouraged B.ordered C.warned D.trained

8.A.goal B.example C.task D.time

Ⅱ.阅读理解(8分)

What Is Success?

The Oxford English Dictionary defines(定义) the word success as “the fact that you have achieved something that you want and have been trying to do or get; the fact of becoming rich or famous or of getting a high social position”. Some rankings(排行榜) put Albert Einstein, Michael Jackson, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs among the most successful people in the world. What Michael Jackson did for music is the same as what Albert Einstein did for physics. All of them do have greatly influenced the industries or media to which they belonged.

J.K. Rowling, the author of the famous Harry Potter novels. She created a magical world that sold more than 500 million books and became hit movies. With an estimated(估算的) net worth of $650 million in 2017, she certainly goes for the dictionary definition of success, but for her it didn’t come easy. Having no job, raising her child alone, she was refused by publishers about a dozen times before one took a chance on her. This is what people love: the rags-to-riches success story.

In comparison with Rowling, the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh practically suffered a lot in life to make ends meet. When he was alive, he only sold one painting even though he created more than 2,000 works of art. Van Gogh died when he was 37 years old and with very little money to his name. However, in 1990, his painting Portrait of Dr. Gachet sold for $82.5 million, which has a value today of around $137 million. So, the question is: Is Van Gogh considered successful even though he died poor?

Besides the dictionary definitions, different people have competing ideas of what success really means. Oftentimes the most agree on the same characteristics that make a person a success. A financial magazine named Inc. points to the following qualities that make a person successful: Drive, Confidence, Patience, Honesty, Passion…