高中英语高考总复习25分钟限时阅读天天练--第34天

2010届高考总复习25分钟限时阅读天天练--第34天

第一部分：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）ks5u

As a saying goes, every bean has its black. It is impossible to make no mistakes all one’s life. My grandpa Nybakken, a carpenter, is no 1 . Several decades ago he made a mistake –a(n) perfect mistake, 2 .

On a cold Saturday, Mother’s father was building some wooden cases for the clothes his3 was sending to an orphanage (孤儿院) in China. On his way home, he 4 into his shirt pocket to find his glasses, but they were gone. He remembered putting them there that morning, so he drove back to

the church. His 5 proved fruitless.

When he 6 replayed his earlier actions, he realized what happened. The glasses had slipped out of his pocket unnoticed and fallen into one of the cases, which he had nailed shut. His brand new glasses, having 7 him ￡20 that very morning, were heading for China! He had to drive home 8 . Several months later, the director of the orphanage came to give a report on Sunday night at my grandfather’s church, 9 Grandpa and his family also attended.

said, “I must thank you for the 10 you sent last year. You see, the bandits(土“But most of all,” he

匪) had just 11 through the orphanage, destroying everything, including my glasses. I was desperate.”

“　12 I had the money, there was simply no way of 13 those glasses. 14 headaches every day. Then your cases arrived. When my staff 15 the covers, they found a pair of glasses lying on top. Then, still gripped (吸引注意) with the 16 of it all, he continued: “When I tried 17 the glasses, it was as though they had been made just for me! I want to thank you for being a part of that!”

The people listened, 18 for the miraculous glasses. But the director surely must have 19 their church with another, they thought. There were no glasses on their 20 of items to be sent overseas.

But sitting quietly in the back, with tears streaming down his face, an ordinary carpenter realized the Master Carpenter had used him in an extraordinary way.

1．A．expectation B．success C．comment D．exception

2．A．though B．although C．as D．so

3．A．factory B．church C．family D．country

4．A．turned B．reached C．filled D．put

5．A．research B．look C．search D．clothes

6．A．mentally B．physically C．anxiously D．directly

7．A．charged B．spent C．paid D．cost

8．A．disappointed B．pleased C．nonstop D．quick

9．A．which B．what C．where D．when

10．A．cases B．clothes C．glasses D．wishes

11．A．cut B．swept C．pulled D．broken

12．A．Unless B．As long as C．Until D．Even though

13．A．replacing B．finding C．wearing D．changing

14．A．Except for B．Along with C．Rather than D．As for

15．A．nailed B．burnt C．removed D．took

16．A．preparation B．pleasure C．satisfaction D．wonder

17．A．out B．over C．for D．on

18．A．pity B．happy C．curious D．eager

19．A．confused B．associated C．combined D．compared

20．A．cases B．order C．list D．orphanage