高三完型阅读限时训练1

完型阅读限时训练
My husband and I only have one car. So after work I always walk to his office and wait for him to drive me home.
One day, while I was waiting for him, a beautiful Cadillac 31 near me. I was busily admiring the car when I 32 the driver. Honestly, she was probably the 33 woman I had ever seen outside of a movie screen. Her eyes were as blue as the sea, and she had 34 like an even row of pearls. Minutes later, a man came out of the building and walked over to her. They kissed and drove off.
Sitting there, 35 in jeans and a T-shirt, I wanted to cry. It is so 36 that some people have it all.
The next week I saw her again, and after that it became almost 37 to see her. I would 38 if she and her husband ate out a lot and where they went. I wanted her to 39 the car so I could see her in full length. Did she 40 classy, high-heeled shoes?
A few weeks later this question was 41 for me.
I was waiting in my usual spot and the lady’s husband came over to their car. He open ed the door. 42 the pretty woman walked around to the passenger side--- 43 on a walking cane. She 44 one leg with her hands and then the other one; she had a prosthetic(假肢) on her left leg and a brace(支架)on her right one.
As they drove away I began to cry. When my husband arrived I told him about what had
45 . He said he knew her husband and that, when the lady was 12 years old, she had been 46 in
a car that got stuck on the railroad tracks. Both her parents were killed. The rail company made a large 47 with her because the crossing had no 48 ; that is why she owned such a nice car.
For weeks I had 49 this woman and her way of life. Now I realize how lucky I am. When you meet a person who seems to be much better off than you, don’t be 50 by appearances.
31. A. rang up B. sped up C. went up D. pulled up
32. A. noticed B. recognized C. watched D. greeted
33. A. proudest B. prettiest C. wealthiest D. luckiest
34. A. ears B. hairs C. teeth D. fingers
35. A. covered B. wrapped C. dressed D. put
36. A. unfair B. lonely C. surprising D. touching
37. A. strange B. boring C. stressful D. routine
38. A. ask B. doubt C. wonder D. expect
39. A. stay away from B. get out of C. stay in D. pick up
40. A. purchase B. like C. wear D. take
41. A. raised B. presented C. handled D. answered
42. A. Immediately B. Slowly C. Angrily D. Curiously
43. A. putting B. burning` C. leaning D. carrying
44. A. skipped B. patted C. pressed D. lifted
45. A. disappeared B. happened C. mistaken D. changed
46. A. limited B. left C. knocked D. trapped
47. A. arrangement B. fortune C. settlement D. contract
48. A. signals B. stations C. passengers D. announcement
49. A. ignored B. envied C. respected D. understood
50. A. prevented B. limited C. blocked D. fooled
A
At first, Rhonda Tormaschy thought her 16-year-old daughter, Cassidy, was joking about opening up an ice cream truck. “We were sitting around one night with her and one of her friends and this is what she approached us with and we kind of thought she wasn’t serious at first,” Rhonda said.
But last fall her husband, Chad, started looking for some type of truck, and they found an old school bus in Lincoln, Oregon.
The family spent the winter fixing the bus, painting it and transforming it into Ice Cream Express. In order to turn the small, old school bus into an ice cream truck, the family put in a freezer, fridge and sink.
“Getting it together was kind of an experience for all of us,” Rhonda said. “We had to go through the health inspector, we had to get signatures from the police department and the fire department.”
“The community needed something to lighten up their day and make their day better,” Cassidy said. “I thought that this would be a good way to help everybody through their day.”
She visits local businesses at a set time every Thursday and plans to hit up neighborhoods and parks in the evening, as well as serving ice cream at other summer events.
Ice Cream Express serves Schwan’s products. “It’s quite a variety,” Cassidy said. “We have everything from the sundae cones to the sandwiches and Italian ice --- just about anything.”
Now that the truck is up and running, Cassidy hopes her younger sisters will take it over when she leaves for college.
“We have a daughter that’s going to be 13 here and that would be a perfect time for her to take it over in the next couple of years-if she wants to,” Rhonda said. “If she doesn’t want to, I think I would probably continue it if it’s still a want and a need in Dickinson.”
So far, the reception to Ice Cream Express has been amazing, Rhonda said.
“We haven’t had an ice cream bus in this town for years,” Rhonda said. “I think it’s gone over way better than we anticipated it to, which is great.”
1. What did Cassidy’s family have to do to get the ice cream truck prepared?
a. Change the engine.
b. Paint advertisements on it.
c. Put in necessary appliances.
d. Get approved by the authorities.
A. c d
B. b d
C. b c
D. a b
2. Why did Cassidy decide to serve ice cream?
A. To do something special with her friends.
B. To obtain some business experience.
C. To bring happiness to her neighborhood.
D. To earn more money for her college fees.
3. What is Rhonda’s attitude toward her daughter’s ice cream business?
A. Unconcerned.
B. Cautious.
C. Expectant.
D. Enthusiastic.
4. The article is probably .
A. an essay
B. a news report
C. a biography
D. an advertisement
B
In the hills outside Missoula, Montana, wildlife biologists are looking at how climate change affects something very small: the snowshoe hare.
Life for snowshoe hares is pretty stressful-almost everything in the forest wants to eat them.
Alex Kumar, a graduate student at the University of Montana, lists the animals that are hungry for hares. “Lynx(山猫), foxes, coyotes(土狼), even red squirrels(松鼠).”
Kumar and field technician Tucker Seitz spend months searching these woods for hares, often listening for signals from hares they’ve already put radio collars(项圈) on.
They catch other hares with wire traps(陷阱) about the size of a breadbox, with some apples as bait(诱饵). Most of the hares they track live less than a year—a hazard(风险) of being what Kumar calls “the cheeseburger of the ecosystem.”
But snowshoe hares have a special skill: camouflage. They’re brown during the summer, but turn white for the snowy winter months.
“There’re times when you’re tracking them and you know they’re really, really close, and you just can’t find them,” he says.
Hares switch color in the spring and fall in response to light, when the days get longer or shorter. But if the snow comes late, you get a white hare on brown ground.
“And they really think that they’re camouflaged,”Kumar says. “They act like we can’t see them.”
Kumar calls this “mismatching”, and it’s becoming more of a concern with climate change.
“If the hares are consistently molting(脱毛)at the same time, year after year, and the snowfall comes later and melts earlier, there’s going to be more and more times when hares are mismatched,” he says.
Scott Mills of North Carolina State University leads t he research. He says they’re finding that mismatched hares die at higher rates. That’s a concern for the threatened Canada lynx, which mainly eats these hares.
“It’s a very clear connection to a single climate change stressor,” Mills says.
Hares might be a ble to adapt over time. Some snowshoe hares in Washington State don’t turn white at all. Mills is trying to figure out whether hares and other wildlife can adapt as fast as the climate is changing.
“But how fast is too fast?” he asks.
5. Alex Kumar and his classmates catch snowshoe hares in order to find out .
A. the hares’ natural enemies
B. the influence of climate change on the hares’ lives
C. why the hares change fur colors regularly
D. how the ecosystem in the woods works
6. The word “camouflage” (Paragraph 6) is closest in meaning to .
A. hiding
B. escaping
C. fighting
D. scaring
7. According to the passage, snowshoe hares can now be easily discovered by their enemies
because they .
A. change their fur color to white too late
B. haven’t adapted to climate change
C. can no longer adapt to the change of light in spring and fall
D. find it more and more difficult to molt at the same time each year
8. Which best describes Mills’ tone in the passage?
A. Approving.
B. Concerned.
C. Enthusiastic.
D. Doubtful.
C
Only after the straight-talking repairman handed me the bill and waved goodbye did I finally acknowledge the painful truth: Our 20-year-old clothes dryer was not going to last.
I turned to my husband. “He says we’re throwing good money after bad,” I sighed. “I think he’s right.”
“When do you want to go shopping for a new one?” my husband asked.
I glanced out the window, appreciating the sunlight dancing on the big-leaf maples in our backyard. Perfect drying weather. Suddenly, I recalled my mother hanging laundry on a clothesline during my childhood. My sister and I had played hide-and-seek among the sweet-smelling sheets waving in the wind.
I suddenly had a plan. After the wash cycle, we covered the maples with damp blue jeans, shirts, socks and towels. The only things that didn’t go outside were my underpants. And I persuaded my shameless husband to let his big boxer shorts stay indoors, too.
There is a secret pleasure to hanging laundry outdoors. It is the perfect excuse to get up from the computer. While checking on the laundry in the backyard, I could commune(亲近) not only with cotton T-shirts, but also my cats. I could watch cautious deer run through the yard with their young, listen to nervous squirrels in trees and observe a family of wild turkeys by the road. I returned to my desk refreshed.
And, except for the sandpaper feel of sun-dried bath towels, the drying method was a complete success. When autumn came, I’d scan the horizon each day to evaluate the chances of sun-drying. One morning I saw rain clouds. I had a load of wet clothes in my arms and no place to put them.
I found my husband. Together we hung laundry throughout the house.
Then my husband gave me a hug and a smile. “I think it’s time to buy a dryer…” he said,“… like, today.”
“Good idea,” I said, just as the infamous Oregon rain started.
Our sun-dried laundry habit was finished for the season.
9. Why did the author want to try sun-drying?
a. Her husband insisted.
b. She wanted to cut expenses.
c. Their dryer wasn’t working.
d. She had good childhood memories of using a clotheslin
e.
A. b c
B. c d
C. a c d
D. b c d
10. What could the straight-talking repairman have said to the author?
A. “Continue to use it even if it is old.”
B. “You should have taken better care of your dryer.”
C. “You shouldn’t have wasted money on repairing your dryer.”
D. “Just buy a new dryer even if it’s very expensive.”
11. What was the biggest benefit that sun-drying brought to the author besides dry clothes?
A. She loves sun-dried bath towels.
B. She felt healthier and closer to nature.
C. She could bathe in the sunshine, too.
D. It gave her a break from her hard work.
12. Which of the following is TRUE according to the article?
A. The author has stopped sun-drying since autumn started.
B. The author later became fed up with the trouble of hanging up her clothes.
C. The author listened to weather reports every day when autumn came.
D. The author realized sun-drying was seasonal and thus had its disadvantages.。