2014高考天津卷英语试题及答案

2014年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（天津卷）

完形填空（共20小题：每小题1.5分，满分30分）

One night, when I was eight, my mother gently asked me a question I would never forget. “Sweetie, my company want s to 16 me but needs me to work in Brazil. This is like your teacher telling you tha t you’ve done 17 and allowing you to skip a grade(跳级), but you’ll have to 18 your friends. Would you say yes to your teacher?” She gave me a hug and asked me to think about it. I was puzzled. The question kept me 19 for the rest of the night! I had sa id “yes” but for the first time I realized the 20 decisions adults had to make.

For almost four years, my mother would call us from Brazil every day. Every evening I’d 21 wait for the phone to ring and tell her every detail of my day. A phone call, however, could never replace her 22 and it was difficult not to feel lonely at times.

During my fourth-grade Christmas break, we flew to Rio to visit her. Looking at her large 23 apartment, I became 24 how lonely my mother must have been in Brazil herself. It was then 25 I started to appreciate the tough choice she had to make on 26 family and work. 27 difficult decisions, she used to tell me, you wouldn’t know whether you made the right choice, but you could always make the best out of the situation, with passion and a 28 attitude.

Back home, I 29 myself that what my mother could do, I could, too. If she 30 to live in Rio all by herself, I, too could learn to be 31 . I learnt how to take care of myself and set high but achievable 32 .

My mother is now back with us. But I will never forget what the 33 has really taught me. Sacrifices 34 in the end. The separation between us has proved to be a 35 for me.

16. A. attract B. promote C. surprise D. praise

17. A. little B. much C. well D. wrong

18. A. leave B. refuse C. contact D. forgive

19. A. explaining B. sleeping C. wondering D. regretting

20. A. poor B. timely C. final D. tough

21. A. eagerly B. politely C. nervously D. curiously

22. A. patience B. presence C. intelligence D. influence

23. A. comfortable B. expensive C. empty D. modern

24. A. interested in B. aware of C. doubtful about D. satisfied with

25. A. when B. where C. which D. that

26. A. abandoning B. balancing C. comparing D. mixing

27. A. Depending on B. Supplied with C. Faced with D. Insisting on

28. A. different B. friendly C. positive D. general

29. A. criticized B. informed C. warned D. reminded

30. A. managed B. offered C. attempted D. expected

31. A. grateful B. energetic C. independent D. practical

32. A. examples B. limits C. rules D. goals

33. A. question B. experience C. history D. occasion

34. A. pay off B. come back C. run out D. turn up

35. A. blessing B. gathering C. failure D. pleasure