2014年上海高考英语完形填空系列训练(二)

高考完形填空专项训练二（1004）

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Directions： For each blank in the following passage, there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D．Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context．

For most of us, success in school has very little to do with actual learning．The most important thing you have to master is how to play the grade games． 50 you think out your own strategies for getting high marks, everything opens up to you．You may be 51 to a well-known college or win scholarship, not to mention gaining the admiration of your teachers and parents．

But not everyone does well in tests．At times, it can almost turn into a funny game of hit and

52 ．Some students haven't mastered the 53 of test taking, some fear under pressure or need more time or another way to 54 what they know．Being a school 55 means learning things out of the school system．Then you have to work things to your 56 ．Lots of students are already doing it without 57 it．Getting high grades also 58 on knowing each teacher's character．For example, I once had to take

59 , so one day in 60 classes I talked to the teacher I had wanted to．I told him how I'd heard what a really good teacher he was, and how disappointed I was that I'd have to graduate

61 having been in his class． I lied．It 62 ．（I had counted on the chemistry teacher being human, and he accepted）．I wasn't proud of myself for what I did．But I considered it 63 of the grade game we're pushed into 64 to aim at going to the best schools．

50．A．Before B．Unless C．Once D．While 51．A．permitted B．allowed C．agreed D．admitted 52．A．miss B．lost C．strike D．blow

53．A．game B．art C．interest D．result 54．A．speak B．tell C．talk D．express 55．A．master B．house C．failure D．success 56．A．points B．ideas C．advantage D．freedom 57．A．remembering B．realizing C．teaching D．understanding 58．A．bases B．depends C．calls D．takes

59．A．place B．arms C．classes D．chemistry 60．A．between B．among C．after D．before

61．A．after B．before C．without D．from

62．A．worked B．effected C．mattered D．did

63．A．one B．none C．part D．member 64．A．taking B．playing C．making D．enjoying

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Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

In New York, we are very busy going from one place to another. On the way, ___50___ you meet a tiny, cardboard-skinned robot who is ___51___ its way down the streets, asking for help. Would you do it a(n) ___52___?

Tweenbots are ___53___ robots. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a(n) ___54___displayed on a flag, and rely on passers-by they ___55___ to read this flag and to aim them at the right direction to ___56___ their goal.

Considering the fact that they are easily harmed and the possibility that ___57___ would be interested in helping a lost little robot, at the beginning I ___58___ that the Tweenbots were more likely to struggle and die in the city than to get to their destination. I set out on the first test with a video camera hidden in my purse and walked far enough away so that I would not be observed.

The results were ___59___.

Over the following months, assisted only by ___60___, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their starting points to their faraway destinations. Every time a robot got ___61___by obstacles on the road, some passer-by would always rescue it and send it towards its goal. The Tweenbots were ___62___ lost or damaged.

In this test the Tweenbots were ___63___ primarily by human‟s sympathy for an anthropomorphized (人格化的) object. The journey they took becomes a story of people‟s ___64___ to engage with a creature that mirrors the human‟s characteristics of being easily harmed, of being lost, and of having goals but not being able to achieve them directly. It‟s a story about a vast space made smaller by an even smaller robot.

50. A. suppose B. wonder C. wish D. believe

51. A. asking B. falling C. making D. showing

52. A. favour B. business C. honour D. justice

53. A. self-dependent B. robot-dependent

C. human-dependent

D. scientist-dependent

54. A. name B. direction C. instruction D. destination

55. A. act as B. come across C. look for D. get in

56. A. understand B. deliver C. reach D. change

57. A. anybody B. everybody C. somebody D. nobody

58. A. explained B. proved C. confused D. disbelieved

59. A. expected B. admitted C. unexpected D. unadmitted

60. A. pioneers B. strangers C. friends D. colleagues

61. A. attracted B. supported C. trapped D. replaced

62. A. frequently B. occasionally C. constantly D. never

63. A. performed B. driven C. created D. cultivated

64. A. braveness B. willingness C. determination D. intention