2019届高三英语完形填空与阅读理解训练(一)

2019届高三英语完形填空与阅读理解训练（一）完形填空Each spring brings a new blossom (开花) of wildflowers. In the ditches (沟渠) along the highway I traveled daily to work, some particular blue flowers would __36 me and 37 in the morning did they bloom, because the afternoon sunlight was 38 hot for them. Every day for about two weeks, I 39 those charming flowers.This spring, I started a wildflower garden in our yard. I could 40 the kitchen window while doing some 41 and see the flowers. I would think that those lovely blue flowers from the ditch would look great in that garden 42 other wildflowers. Every day I 43 the flowers thinking, “I’ll stop on my way home and dig them.” “Gee, I don’t want to get my good clothes 44 .” Whatever the reason, I never 45 to dig them. My husband even put a folding shovel (折叠铲) in the trunk (后备箱) of my car to be used 46 that expressed purpose.One day on my way home from work, I was 47 to see that the highway department had 48 the ditches with earth and the pretty blue flowers were gone. I thought to myself, “You fool! You waited too long. You 49 have done it when you first saw them blooming this spring.”A week ago we were 50 to learn that my oldest sister-in-law had had a terminal lung cancer. She is 20 years older than my husband and unfortunately, 51 age and distance, we haven’t been as 52 as we all would have liked. I couldn’t help 53 compare the connection between the pretty blue flowers and me with the relationship between my 54 sister and us. I do believe that God has given us some time left to plant some wonderful memories that will bloom every year for us. And yes, 55 I see the blue flowers again, I’m sure that I’ll stop to transplant them to my wildflower garden.36. A. advise B. abandon C. annoy D. attract37. A. finally B. only C. just D. exactly38. A. too much B. much too C. that D. much39. A. transplanted B. gained C. transport D. saw40. A. looked out of B. looked over C. looked around D. looked after41. A. exercises B. homework C. cooking D. shopping42. A. alongside B. altogether C. over D. through43. A. walked past B. drove past C. took over D. headed for44. A. clean B. normal C. lovely D. dirty45. A. failed B. refused C. stopped D. rejected46. A. as B. to C. for D. by47. A. sorrowful B. hopeful C. careful D. helpful48. A. picked up B. looked up C. filled up D. sprung up49. A. should B. need C. must D. dare50. A. delighted B. patient C. shocked D. satisfied51. A. regardless of B. because of C. in need of D. in defense of52. A. strange B. equal C. popular D. close53. A. but B. and C. or D. nor54. A. friend’s B. parents’ C. wife’s D. husband’s55. A. before B. unless C. because D. ifKey: 36—40 DBBDA 41—45 CABDC 46—50 CACAC 51—55 BDADD(A)Predicting when an earthquake or volcanic eruption will take place is extremely difficult, even with the advanced technological equipment available to modern scientists. There are some people, however, who believe they can sense when a major geological (地质学上的) event is coming. They claim to be “earthquake sensitive.”Sensitivity to the earth’s movements, according to those who say they have it, is revealed in different ways. Some say they are unusually clumsy and keep dropping things and having small ac cidents just before a big event. Others suddenly have a strong desire to eat popcorn, and don’t know why. Though it may sound crazy, they say it tells them that a big earthquake is less than 24 hours away.The most common sign of an approaching disaster among earthquake sensitive people is said to be a bad headache. Arguably the first person to connect her own headaches to coming geological events was an American woman called Charlotte King. She became famous for her prediction of the eruption of Washingt on’s Mt. St. Helens on May 18, 1980, when she was accurate to within 12 minutes of the actual event.King was tested by doctors and scientists and found to possess unusual hearing abilities. She could hear sounds in frequencies that most human beings cannot, and claimed to have been hearing such sounds since 1976. Three years later, she noticed that when the sounds changed in pitch or rhythm, giving her unpleasant headaches, a large earthquake would be reported within 72 hours.1. It is stated in the first paragraph that there may be _______.A. people who are better than machines at sensing earthquake activityB. people who are developing new methods of preventing earthquakesC. new machines that will soon be able to accurately predict earthquakesD. new machines to help earthquake sensitive people make predictions2. What word best describes the type of sensitivity referred to in the passage?A. Medical.B. Technological.C. Geological.D. Musical.3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a sign of an approaching earthquake?A. An urge to eat popcorn.B. A tendency to drop things.C. A painful headache.D. A very loud noise.4. Charlotte King became well known because she _______.A. timed an earthquake to within 12 minutesB. correctly predicted a big volcanic eruptionC. can make sounds other people cannot hearD. is smarter than many doctors and scientistsKey: ACDB(B)According to the latest research in the United States of America, men and women talk suchdifferent languages that it is like people from two different cultures trying to communicate. Professor Deborah Tannen of Georgetown University has noticed the difference in the style of boys’ and girls’ conversations from an early age. She says that little girls’ conversation is less definite than boys’ and expresses more doubts. Little boys use conversation to establish status with their listeners.These differences continue into adult life, she says. In public conversations, men talk most and interrupt other speakers more. In private conversations, men and women speak in equal amounts—although they say things in a different style. Professor Tannen believes that, for women, private talking is a way to establish and test intimacy（亲密，亲近）. For men, private talking is a way to explore the power structure of a relationship.Teaching is one job where the differences between men’s and women’s ways of talking show. When a man teaches a woman, says Professor Tannen, he wants to show that he has more knowledge, and hence（因此，所以）more power in conversation. When a woman teaches another woman, however, she is more likely to take a sharing approach and to encourage her student to join in.But Professor Tannen does not believe that women are naturally more helpful. She says women feel they achieve power by being able to help others. Although the research suggests men talk and interrupt people more than women, Professor Tannen says, women actually encourage this to happen because they believe it will lead to more intimacy and help to establish a relationship.Some scientists who are studying speech think that the brain is pre-programmed for language. As we are usually taught to speak by women, it seems likely that the brain must have a sexual bias（倾向性）in its programming, otherwise male speech patterns would not arise at all.5.In the opinion of the writer, women encourage men to talk more because .A. it will lead to more intimacy and help to establish a relationshipB. it well help to establish status with their listenersC. it well help to express more clearlyD. it well help to communicate better6.There are in little girls’ conversation than in boys’.A. fewer doubtsB. more demandsC. more doubtsD. fewer uncertainties7.Some scientists believe that brain is pre-programmed for language. The word“pre-programmed” means .A. programmed alreadyB. programmed before one is bornC. programmed earlyD. programmed by women8.In private conversation, women speak .A. the same things as menB. less than menC. more than menD. as much as men9.The theme of this article is .A. women are naturally more helpfulB. men and women talk different languagesC. men talk most and interrupt other speakers moreD. little girls’ conversation is less definiteKey: ACBDB(C)The Diet Zone: A Dangerous PlaceDiet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet… We are surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracte d by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically（身体上）.Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale（秤）instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” in food labels.On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don’t have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients(营养成分). Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological harm that comes from using them.10. From Paragraph 1, we learn that ________.A. diet products fail to bring out people’s potentialB. people have difficulty in choosing diet productsC. diet products are misleading peopleD. people are fed up with diet products11. One psychological effect of diet products is that people tend to _____.A. try out a variety of diet foodsB. hesitate before they enjoy diet foodsC. pay attention to their own eating habitsD. watch their weight rather than their diet12. In Paragr aph 3, “gain comes without pain” probably means ______.A. losing weight is effortlessB. it costs a lot to lose weightC. diet products bring no painD. diet products are free from calories13. Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products ______.A. are over-consumedB. lack basic nutrientsC. are short of chemicalsD. provide too much energy14. Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?Key: CDABB(D)Growing up on an isolated tobacco farm in rural Virginia in the early '50s, Ella Avery was accustomed to hard times. When she was seven, her family's farmhouse burned to the ground, and they lost everything. Her father dragged an old chicken coop up to the smokehouse and improvised a makeshift homestead that sheltered the family for over a year. Eight people slept in two beds.After a new house was finally built, officials periodically showed up to nail a sign on the old oak tree at the edge of the property. The message was ominous: "This farm will be sold at public auction to satisfy delinquent payments." Her father always managed to borrow enough to fend off disaster, but Ella's fear never went away. "I grew up," she says, "with a sense of impending loss."Ella would find her salvation in school, even as a C student, thanks to one teacher. It was Mr. Miller who encouraged her to think about life beyond that tobacco farm. And now it is Ellawho's finding ways to help and inspire others.As soon as Ella and her four brothers and two sisters were big enough to carry a bucket, they were out in the fields. "I did everything there was to do," she recalls. "Tobacco stringer, leaf handler, planter, water boy." Depending on the season, the children were up at daybreak to work before school, then back in the fields until sundown.The local school board operated a one-room schoolhouse on the family land. From grades one to five, the Averys and neighbor children in Meredithville, a tiny community 20 miles from the North Carolina border, all had one teacher. In the school's single room, little huddles of desks represented each class. "It was grand and glorious to me," says Ella.But when she moved on to middle school in a nearby town, Ella was alarmingly behind her new classmates. Not knowing her times tables, she was paralyzed with fear that the teacher who smacked students' hands with a yardstick would call on her. Ella kept her head down, trying not to be noticed, struggling to catch up and feeling like an outsider.At James Solomon Russell High School in Lawrenceville, nine miles from the tobacco farm, things got worse. Schools in the South were still segregated, and Ella claims she experienced the worst discrimination of her life from black students with lighter skin and longer hair. "They were the cheerleaders and majorettes, the ones on the honor roll," she says. "I was one of those dark-skinned country children who didn't matter." Ella plugged along, rarely achieving a grade above C plus.Then one day in biology class, when Ella was 15, a teacher named Mr. Miller changed everything. "He'd had polio as a child and walked with a limp. I think he had felt the ostracism and indifference I had felt," she says. Looking his students in the eye, Mr. Miller spoke passionately. "Just because you are not an honor roll student," he said, "does not mean you do not have a valuable contribution to make. The backbone of our society is the good, solid-C student. Some of you have to work the fields in the evening and do not have the time to study. But if you do your best, you have a gift to give."Until then, Ella had set her sights no higher than cosmetology school, though she found nothing about it exciting. But Mr. Miller's words resonated with her. "I believed him. And I kept thinking about it. He said if you were a solid C, you could do well. I was a solid C."An announcement was made one morning directing all college-bound students to report to the cafeteria to take a test for scholarships. Ella impulsively stood up. Behind her, she heard someone say, "Are you going to college, Ella Avery?" Without missing a beat, she turned around. "Yes, I am," she said, and walked out the door.When the results came back, Ella had won a scholarship to nearby St. Paul's College, one of 39 historically black institutions supported by the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), an organization dedicated to reducing financial barriers to higher education. Ella could barely believe it. "This was the turning point of my whole life," she says. "I got my foot in the door. It gave me a great sense of confidence." Her father had left school after the third grade; her mother had finished the seventh.College wasn't easy. At the end of the first semester, Ella lost her scholarship after doingpoorly on a world-history exam. But she didn't give up. She applied for student loans and worked two jobs: in the nursery school on campus during the week and in a barbecue spot all weekend. In the summers, she taught in the Head Start program and worked at an officers' club on a military base.Ella graduated with a degree in elementary education on a Sunday in May 1967. Her proud family gave her a small suitcase, which she still has, as a graduation gift. That afternoon, she packed it and hitched a ride to Washington, D.C. On Monday morning, she went downtown to the school board and got a job in the public school system.At the end of her first year, Ella entered the graduate program at George Washington University and continued to teach. "All my education until then had been segregated," she says. "I needed to prove to myself that I could compete with anyone." She received a master's in education in 1970, the same year she married Ron Smothers, an Army man stationed at the Pentagon. After he left the military, he joined Burger King Corporation as a district manager. Over the next six years, Ella gave birth to two sons and taught in public schools in Miami; Royal Oak, Michigan; and San Diego. In 1976, after saving $10,000, the family opened its first Burger King in Los Angeles. Eventually Ella stopped teaching, and the couple expanded to six restaurants.When they divorced, in 1992, Ella was left with two of the franchises, including one in the troubled Watts section of L.A. "I was determined to turn it around," she says, "and I did. Now it's one of my best-performing restaurants." She has since expanded to seven restaurants; this year, she will open the first of ten El Pollo Loco restaurants in the Norfolk area of her home state, Virginia.In gratitude for what she has been able to achieve, Ella donates to St. Paul's College and the UNCF. And -- no surprise -- she is an ardent champion of the C student. It troubles her that the civic organizations and professional societies she belongs to inevitably choose honor students to receive scholarships. "These students will go on to college," she says. "The ones I want to help are the solid-C students, like I was, who just need help and direction. These are the ones we are losing. That's why any deserving employee in any of my Burger King restaurants who registers for college and needs help paying for it will get help."Nothing pleases her more than writing a check for $1,000 to cover books and other expenses. Ella has no idea how much money she's given away. She's more interested in helping others achieve. When a young employee was left paraplegic and depressed after a car accident, Ella gave her a computer and an office job and refused to let her drop out of college. Today, Rocio Magdaleno is a first-grade teacher."I don't know what happened to Mr. Miller," Ella says today, 48 years after sitting in his classroom. "But he was right."15. Which of the following is true?A. Ella was a C student because she was not clever.B. Both of her parents were college students.C. Ella always won her scholarship in St. Paul's CollegeD. Ella is willing to help any of her employees in need who wants to go to college.16. What was the turning point of her whole life?A. That she had the chance go to St. Paul's College sponsored by the United Negro CollegeFundB. That Her father dragged an old chicken coop up to the smokehouse and improvised amakeshift homesteadC. That the family opened its first Burger King in Los Angeles in 1976.D. That she had to do several part-time jobs in St. Paul's College.17. Which of the following best describes Ella？A. ardent, helpful, hard-workingB. lazy, kind, sensitiveC. loving, naïve, helpfulD. stubborn, sensitive, hard-working18. Which is the correct order of the following statements?①She began school in a one-room schoolhouse on the family land②Ella donates to St. Paul's College and the UNCF③Her family's farmhouse burned to the ground④At James Solomon Russell High School in Lawrenceville, nine miles from the tobaccofarm, things got worse⑤Mr. Miller encouraged her to think about life beyond that tobacco farm⑥Ella set her sights no higher than cosmetology school.A.①④②③⑤⑥B. ①③②⑥④⑤C. ③①④⑥⑤②D. ⑥①②④③⑤Key: DAAC。