专题05：体育运动-备考2021高考英语主题阅读专练(解析版)

备战2021年高考英语主题阅读专练

专题05 体育运动

话题：

一、完形填空

阅读短文, 掌握其大意, 从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择最佳答案填空。

I had been swimming competitively for about five years and was ready to quit because I felt I was horrible at it.

I kept 1 “Honorable Mentions”(安慰奖). Any 2 knows that you don’t want to have a bookshelf full of “Honorable Mentions”, which you get just because you 3 .

One summer day, the day 4 a big swim meet, I decided to tell my grandma that I was quitting the swim team, but she said, “Baby, 5 these words: ‘A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.’ You go to that swim meet tomorrow.”

The next day we arrived at the swim meet late, 6 my group of swimmers in the 15/ 16 age group. My 7 insisted that I be allowed to swim with the 8 group. I knew that she was 9 me in the race so that our long drive would not be 10 . As I got on the board, I quickly noticed that these girls were here to do one thing—to 11 me! All of a sudden my grandma’s words 12 in my head, “Ouitters never win and winners never quit, quitters never win and winners never quit.”

SPLASH!

I was swimming 13 than I’d swum before. As I drew my right arm back, I noticed I was tied with one person. I assumed we were battling for the eighth place and I refused to finish dead last, so I added more kick on the 14 200 yards. I hit the wall and 15 to the left and to the right for the swimmers who had beaten me, but no one was there. They must have gotten out of the 16 already. I raised my head to see my coach 17 hysterically(歇斯底里). My eyes 18 her pointing finger and I couldn’t believe what I saw. The other swimmers had just reached the halfway point of the 19 ! That day, at age 15, I broke the national

17/18-year-old 400-freestyle record. I had hung up my honorable mentions. That day, I 20 them with a huge gold medal.

1.A．receiving B．quitting C．refusing D．wishing

2.A．reader B．swimmer C．athlete D．learner

3.A．come around B．get out C．show up D．give off

4.A．after B．before C．during D．in

5.A．write B．have C．learn D．remember

6.A．missing B．winning C．losing D．having

7.A．grandma B．fan C．coach D．friend

8.A．older B．younger C．quicker D．stronger

9.A．calling B．including C．teaching D．forgetting

10.A．wasted B．considered C．dropped D．seen

11.A．hate B．love C．beat D．praise

12.A．heard B．sang C．shouted D．rang

13.A．harder B．faster C．longer D．later

14.A．first B．last C．most D．over

15.A．swam B．came C．jumped D．looked

16.A．breath B．water C．time.D．race

17.A．encouraging B．smiling C．running D．screaming