高考英语二轮完形填空训练及答案_12

山西太原市2016高考英语二轮完形填空训练（6）及答案

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Charles Dickens was born in 1812. He was__1__of a clerk in a government office. When Charles was still a little boy, his father was sent to prison for__2__. In those days, men

who__3__quite small amounts had to stay in__4__until the debt was paid.

When Charles was 12, he had to work in a factory. The only formal education he__5__was a two-year schooling at a school for__6__children. His career as a__7__of novels began in 1833 with short stories and essays(散文)in periodicals, and in 1837, when he was 25, his short stories

were__8__into the novel “The Pickwick Papers”，which made him the most__9__author of his time in England.

Charles Dickens had__10__of the unhappy life of many poor people. In years of hard work in various__11__jobs, Charles met many people, young and old, rich and poor, happy and__12__. He had unusual energy and unusual powers of observation.

Dicken's__13__were much better or much worse than they would be in real life. The novels of Dickens are__14__of life, observation, and energy, and his own energy seemed__15__. Many of his novels like “Oliver Twist, David Copper field, Great Expectations”，__16__attention to the unsatisfactory social conditions that existed in England over a hundred years ago. Dickens was loved by the broad mass of the people.

“A Tale of Tw o Cities” is one of his famous novels. It was__17__in 1859. In this novel Dickens gives a vivid description of the French Bourgeois Revolution that__18__in 1789.

His sudden death in 1870__19__thousands of people who were waiting for his next book. Instead, they bought and wept over(为……哭泣)a picture called“The Empty Chair”，__20__the desk and chair that he would no longer use.

1．A.the friend B．the son

C．the writer D．the daughter

答案：B Charles Dickens出生于1812年，他是一个政府小职员的儿子。

2．A.murder B．debt

C．crime D．stealing

答案：B从下文特别是“...until the debt was paid”．可知，“……他爸爸因欠债而被关进了监狱”。

3．A.earned B．made

C．owed D．stole

答案：C由下文可知，此处是“当时，哪怕是欠很少数目的债也要蹲监狱直到还清债务”。

4．A.prison B．school

C．street D．church

答案：A stay in prison意为“蹲监狱”。

5．A.accepted B．received

C．returned D．gained

答案：B这里谈论的是Charles接受的教育。“他所接受的在校的正式教育只有两年”。receive education意为“接受教育”；是习惯搭配。

6．A.normal B．unusual

C．disabled D．poor

答案：D由文章内容可知，Charles小的时候，家里很穷。

7．A.reader B．writer

C．inventor D．critic

答案：B由下文可知，此处说的是他作为小说作家的职业始于1833年。

8．A.collected B．translated

C．published D．changed

答案：A在1837年，他25岁时，他的短篇小说被收集整理成小说The Pickwick Papers。

9．A.interesting B．instructive

C．popular D．unknown

答案：C小说The Pickwick Papers使他成为他那个时代英国最受欢迎(popular)的作家。

10．A.experiences B．stories

C．times D．materials

答案：A由上下文可推知，“Charles Dickens有着与众多穷人一样的不幸的生活经历(experience)”。

11．A.unimportant B．unfair

C．unpleasant D．unlucky

答案：C由unhappy life, hard work等来看，此处说的是Dickens在各种各样(various) 艰难的工作中，他结识了很多人……这些为他后来的创作提供了素材。

12．A.poor B．suffering

C．old D．miserable

答案：D通过上文的young and old, rich and poor可推知此处说的是“幸福的和不幸福的”。在这4个词中只有miserable与happy相对。

13．A.novels B．characters

C．works D．actors

答案：B前面说Dickens在多年的劳动中结识了各种各样的人，此处说的是Dickens笔下的人物要么比真实中的更好，要么比真实中的更差。

14．A.full B．tired