完形阅读篇21

完形阅读篇（二十一）
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Best friends Joe and Paul spent the morning of June 23, 1963, playing baseball. At about noon Paul started feeling ___36___. He wanted a burger from the drugstore on Center Street with Joe.
“Ummm, I’ll ask my mom if I can go. I need her ___37___,” Joe said. The situation was difficult for Joe. There were ___38___ that he shall not sit with his friend because of the color of his skin.
Joe’s parents and many other people were t rying to ___39___ those rules. They listened to the speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr., who was trying to remove ___40___ practices completely.
“It’s hot,” Joe’s mother said. “Why not take the bus to the drugstore?”
“No, ma’am. Bikes are___41___.” Paul hated riding the bus with Joe because they would be ___42___to sit in the back.
When the boys reached Center Street, Joe started to get ___43___.
“Dad told me about some trouble here last week,” Joe said sadly. “I’ll just wait ___44___ ”“Not happening!” Paul said, as he grasped Joe’s arm and the two boys _____45_____ into the drugstore. Paul tightened his fists
_____46_____ they headed for two empty chairs.
A waiter gave them a dirty look and _____47_____ their way. “Go around back if you’re_____48_____him,” he said, pointing at Joe.
Before the boys could _____49_____, a soft voice interrupted the discussion. “These boys will be joining me.” The man and the boys _____50_____ to see a woman in a wheelchair. “Excuse me,” she said smiling, as she moved her chair toward the man, _____51_____ to go forward. Not wanting to appear _____52_____ to the woman, the man stepped aside.
Joe and Paul followed the woman to the chairs. She _____53_____ beside them and talked steadily as they ordered and ate their lunch.
After the meal, she said, “Two friends like you, that _____54_____ be a problem.” Then she
_____55_____away. Joe and Paul never got her name, but they never forgot her either.
36. A. hungry B. sick C. hot D. thirsty
37. A. action B. decision C. permission D. attention
38. A. beliefs B. chances C. sayings D. rules
39. A. keep B. change C. accept D. make
40. A. unusual B. unfit C. unpleasant D. unfair
41. A. necessary B. fine C. comfortable D. popular
42. A. guided B. forced C. advised D. persuaded
43. A. desperate B. curious C. nervous D. ashamed
44. A. downstairs B. inside C. upstairs D. outside
45. A. marched B. hurried C. slid D. broke
46. A. after B. as C. though D. if
47. A. found B. made C. showed D. blocked
48. A. for B. with C. against D. after
49. A. declare B. leave C. respond D. enter
50. A. turned B. happened C. stopped D. expected
51. A. pretending B. hesitating C. intending D. begging
52. A. rude B. kind C. polite D. harmful
53. A. parked B. stood C. waited D. slept
54. A. needn’t B. couldn’t C. wouldn’t D. shouldn’t
55. A. cycled B. drove C. wheeled D. fled
阅读理解
A
Three brown bears in the distance catches Charlie Russell’s eye. When they get a metre or so away from him, the huge animals slow down. The leading bear holds her face very close to Rusell’s. She touches his nose with her own and Russell breaks into a smile. “Hey, little bear,” he says.
Rusell, now 70, has spent more than ten springs and summers living with brown bears in the eastern-most part of Russia.“No question, bears are dangerous,” says Russell, but he also argues that fearing them prevents us from recognizing their intelligent, playful and peaceful nature. “They attack us because we abuse them.” he insists.
“What I want to do now is work on the human side of the problem,” Russell says. In Canada —a country where cities spread deep into the rural landscape and hunters kill about 450 bears annually, he is determined to change the way we treat our neighbors.
Russell was raised with the idea that “the only good bear is a dead bear.” His father, a hunter, shared stories of cruel brown bears with his five children. However, when the family’s hunting business declined in the early 1960s, Russell joined his father on an expedition to film brown bears in Alaska. Russell cou ldn’t help but wonder why bears behaved aggressively towards people carrying guns, but left the film-makers alone. “I suspected they didn’t like cruelty,” he says.
In 1994 he tested out his theory in British Columbia’s Khutzeymateen Inlet, where he took to urists on
bear-viewing tours. One afternoon, while resting on a log between guiding trips, Russell sat still as a female brown bear casually approached. “I knew if I did not move, she would keep coming,” he later said. “I had decided to let her come as clo se as she wanted.” Russell spoke to the bear in gentle tones and she sat down beside him. She put her paw on his hand and Russell responded to the gesture, touching her nose, lip and teeth. These were the iron jaws featured in his father’s campfire stories, now no more threatening than the nose of a little dog. If he could repeat similar moments, Russell believed he could prove that “just by treating bears kindly, people can live safely with them”.
21. According to Russell, bears attack humans because they ________.
A. mistreat them
B. are afraid of them
C. mistake their playful tricks
D. have no idea of their real nature
22. The underlined part in Para. 4 suggests ________.
A. a good bear never dies
B. a live bear is dangerous
C. the only good bear is dead
D. a bear is aggressive to gun holders
23. The author’s purpose of writing this passage is to ________.
A. show us how brave he is
B. warn us not to approach bears
C. encourage us to play with bears
D. tell us to live in peace with bears
A survey of 1,000 people showed that an incredible 60 percent of workers ate at their desks every day while two thirds take 30 minutes or less for lunch. This means they are working an extra 180 hours a year—equal to 16 eight-hour days. Even when staffs do manage to leave their desks, they are usually on business with nearly a quarter admitting to regularly using the time to catch up with professional contacts.
An academic expert in the science of workplaces said employees were putting their health at risk by refusing to take a lunch break. Dr Tissington, Associate Dean of Business Partnerships at Aston University, said people feel “under pressure” at work, with many spending long hours at their desks, “tapping away at keyboards, staring at screens and sitting with bad post ure in awkward positions.”
He said it was important for workers to take regular breaks, get up, move and walk around a bit. “Resting, or taking a break in the middle of the day helps to clear out the mind and prepares us for a productive afternoon,” he sai d. “The feeling of guilt for taking lunch breaks is a subject that is concerning and probably requires proper investigation,” he added.
Dr. Tissington mentioned he makes sure to get away from his desk at lunchtime and deliberately chooses to get lunch from different places—changing his route to get there. “This has the added benefit of exercise,” he explained,” and, working in a large organization, it gives me the opportunity to meet different colleagues along the way.”
Office workers had admitted to sacrificing their lunch breaks to further their careers. PR assistant Tammy Phillips, 24, said he hadn’t taken a lunch break since past two years. “The way I view it is that I can get on with work when it’s quieter at lunch time and it never hurts your career fo r the bosses to see you at your desk when your colleagues swan out for a sandwich,” he said.
“The competition for jobs now is so fierce that I’ve known friends who have quit smoking because they don’t want to be seen to go out for a cigarette during the da y.”
24. We can learn from the first paragraph that ________.
A. workers want to escape from their work
B. many workers do not take a full lunch break
C. different workers have different lunch breaks
D. most workers are not permitted to have a full lunch break
25. Which of the following is true about Dr. Tissington?
A. He enjoys physical exercise.
B. He feels guilty at taking lunch breaks.
C. He likes to stay away from his colleagues.
D. He takes different routes to have lunch purposely.
26What is probably the best title for the text?
A. Time for Having a Lunch Break
B. An Increasingly Popular Working Style
C. Lunch Skippers Work Extra 16 Days Yearly
D. Giving up a Lunch Break: Risk Your Health
“What are you?” they ask. “Guess,” I say. Some suggest I have Japanese eyes. Others think I’m Filipino, maybe Indian. Few guess the truth: I am Mexican American. But it’s not like I’ve ever worn that name alone. I’m part of a younger generation of Americans whose identity is shaped neither by where we came from nor where we ended up.
My parents know the California immigrant experience first-hand. They grew up picking fruit in the San Joaquin Valley, knowing what it was to be poor, but also knowing what it was to be Mexican. Wanting a better life for their children, they went to college and got professional jobs. By the time I was born, they were fully accepted into the middle class. I grew up in the racially mixed zones of Sacramento, and when my parents talked of their years in the fields it was hard to connect those stories to where we found ourselves now.
By the time I reached my teens, difference had announced itself. We were all struggling for a sense of individuality, looking everywhere but where we came from. Identity became goods. Wearing certain clothes and liking certain kinds of music created social categories.
I became a junkman, sorting through the ruins of pop culture past looking for the pieces of myself. In love with the Beatles, I linked myself to England. Fascinated by Japanese cartoon, I took language classes at the local Buddhist temple.
I grew up American to a fault, rarely considering my own people’s culture and humanity. I left Sacramento and moved to San Francisco’s Mission District to put myself together again. There I fir st saw my people living in a separate community that had its own language, one I’d never learned. My brown face led people to ask me for directions in Spanish. I could only respond with a universally understood shrug.
“This is what I am,” I said to myself,looking at a street full of newly arrived immigrants. No, that wasn’t quite it. I corrected myself: “This is where I come from.”
Is it tragic that I grew up far from my mother culture, discovering it so late in life? I prefer to think that my American upbringing has taught me to apply insights from many different cultures to my everyday life. I am a product not just of Mexico or the U.S. but of the world as a whole.
27. Where does the writer grow up?
A. In Sacramento.
B. In a Mexico town.
C. In the San Joaquin Valley.
D. In San Francisco’s Mission District.
28. What did the writer learn from his American upbringing?
A. To promote mother culture.
B. To adapt to new surroundings.
C. To clearly express individuality.
D. To learn from different cultures.
29. You can infer from the article that the writer ________.
A. liked to play sports
B. wanted to learn Spanish
C. was interested in different cultures
D. did not like living in San Francisco
30. This article is mainly about ________.
A. the growing pains of immigrants
B. the culture differences in America
C the author’s exploration of his identity D. the problems of immigrants in America
参考答案
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【答案】36. A 37. C 38. D 39. B 40. D 41. B 42. B 43. C 44. D 45. A 46.
B 47. D 48. B 49.
C 50. A 51. C 52. A 53. A 54.
D 55. C
【解析】
这是一篇记叙文。

短文叙述了在1963年发生在美国的一个故事，保罗是白人，乔是黑人，那时有规定白种人和黑种人不能在一起。

保罗有些饿了，所以他们决定去商店买些吃的，当两个人进入商店时却遭到服务员的冷眼且挡住了他们的路，服务员让他们马上离开商店，这时一位坐着轮椅的女人走过来帮助他们解了围，他们顺利地在商店吃到了他们想吃的东西，虽然他们没有问这个女人的名字，但是他们从来没有忘记过她。

【36题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。

句意：大约在中午时，保罗开始感到饥饿。

A. hungry饥饿的；B. sick生病的；C. hot 热的；D. thirsty渴的。

由“He wanted a burger from the drugstore on Center Street with Joe.”可知，他想和乔一起去中央大街上的商店买个汉堡包，所以判断出，保罗感到饿了。

故选A项。

【37题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。

句意：我需要她的许可。

A. action行动；B. decision决定；C. permission许可；D. attention 注意力。

由“I’ll ask my mom if I can go”可知，乔要得到妈妈的许可才能去。

故选C项。

【38题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。

句意：根据规定，因为他的肤色，他不能和白人朋友坐在一起。

A. beliefs信念；B. chances 机会；C. sayings言论；D. rules规则。

由下文“those rules”可知，根据规定白人和黑人不能坐在一起。

故选D项。

【39题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。

句意：乔的父母和许多其他人都试图改变这些规定。

A. keep保持；B. change改变；
C. accept接受；
D. make制作。

由下文“remove”可知，乔的父母和许多其他人都试图改变这些规定。

因为这些规定是不平等的。

故选B项。

【40题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。

句意：他们听了马丁·路德·金的演讲，他试图彻底消除这样不公平的做法。

A. unusual不平常的；B. unfit不健康的；C. unpleasant不令人愉快的；D. unfair不公平的。

由上文可知，白人和黑人是不允许坐在一起的，这是不公平的表现之一。

故选D项。

【41题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。

句意：自行车挺好。

A. necessary必要的；B. fine好的；C. comfortable舒服的；D. popular
流行的。

由“Paul hated riding the bus with Joe”可知，自行车是挺好的代步工具，因为骑自行车不会受到歧视。

故选B项。

【42题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。

句意：保罗讨厌和乔一起坐公共汽车，因为他们不得不坐在后面。

A. guided指导；B. forced强迫；C. advised建议；D. persuaded说服。

因为Joe是黑人，所以他们要被迫坐在后面。

这是种族歧视的表现。

故选B项。

【43题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。

句意：当孩子们到达中心街时，乔开始紧张起来。

A. desperate绝望的；B. curious 好奇的；C. nervous紧张的；D. ashamed惭愧的。

由“Dad told me about some trouble here last week”可知，父亲告诉了乔黑人所面对的麻烦，所以乔感到紧张。

故选C项。

【44题详解】
考查副词词义辨析。

句意：我就在外面等。

A. downstairs在楼下；B. inside在……里；C. upstairs在楼上；
D. outside在……外面。

因为乔感到紧张且悲伤，所以为了避免麻烦，他想在商店外面等保罗。

故选D项。

【45题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。

句意：保罗边说边抓住乔的胳膊，两个男孩大步走进商店。

A. marched大步走；B. hurried 赶紧；C. slid滑动；D. broke打破。

由下文可知，服务员让他们出去，所以他们一定是走进了商店。

march into“大步进入”符合语境。

故选A项。

【46题详解】
考查连词辨析。

句意：他们朝两张空椅子走去时，保罗握紧了拳头。

A. after在……之后；B. as当……时；
C. though尽管；
D. if如果。

分析句子可知，当他们朝两张空椅子走去时，保罗握紧了拳头。

所以本句为时间状语从句，表示“当……时”。

故选B项。

【47题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。

句意：一个服务员狠狠地看了他们一眼，挡住了他们的路。

A. found发现；B. made 制作；C. showed展示；D. blocked阻止。

由下文“Go around back”可知，服务员挡住了他们的路，让他们出去。

故选D项。

【48题详解】
考查介词词义辨析。

句意：“如果你和他在一起，就出去吧”他指着乔说。

A. for因为；B. with和；C. against 反对；D. after之后。

服务员对保罗说，如果你和乔在一起，就出去吧。

这是种族歧视的另一个表现。

故选B项。

【49题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。

句意：男孩们还没来得及回复，一个温柔的声音就打断了他们的谈话。

A. declare宣称；
B. leave离开；
C. respond回复；
D. enter进入。

前文已经提到，服务员让他们出去，马上离开。

还没等他们做出回复，一个温柔的声音就打断了他们的谈话。

故选C项。

【50题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。

句意：这个男人和男孩们转过头，看到了一个坐轮椅的女人。

A. turned转向；B. happened 发生；C. stopped停止；D. expected期望。

坐轮椅的女人打断了男孩们和服务员的谈话。

所以大家都转过头看看是谁在说话。

故选A项。

【51题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。

句意：“对不起”她微笑着说，一面把轮椅向那人挪过去，打算往前走。

A. pretending 假装；B. hesitating犹豫；C. intending打算；D. begging乞讨。

intend to do sth “打算做某事”表示女人打算往前走。

故选C项。

【52题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。

句意：那个男人不想在女人面前显得粗鲁，于是他走到了一旁。

A. rude粗鲁的；B. kind善良的；C. polite礼貌的；D. harmful有害的。

因为打断谈话的是一位女士，所以那个服务员不想在这位女士面前展示他粗鲁的一面，更不想有失绅士风度，所以走到了一旁。

故选A项。

【53题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。

句意：她把轮椅停在他们的旁边，在他们点餐和吃午饭的时候，她不慌不忙地说着话。

A. parked停车；
B. stood站立；
C. waited等待；
D. slept睡觉。

因为女士坐着轮椅，所以要把轮椅停在两个男孩身边。

故选A项。

【54题详解】
考查情态动词词义辨析。

句意：饭后，她说，“像你们这样的两个人，成为朋友不应该是个问题”。

A. needn’t 不需要；B. couldn’t不能；C. wouldn’t不会；D. shouldn’t不应该。

女士认为，肤色、种族不应该是成为朋友的分界线。

故选D项。

【55题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。

句意：然后她推着轮椅离开了。

A. cycled骑自行车；B. drove开车；C. wheeled滚动；
D. fled逃走。

坐着轮椅的女士，要离开也是要自己滚动车轮才能离开。

故选C项。

阅读理解
A
【答案】21. A 22. B 23. D
【解析】
【分析】
这是一篇新闻报道。

短文报道了查理·罗素与棕熊一起生活，研究棕熊的行为方式。

他告诉人们只要善待熊，人们就能和棕熊和睦相处。

【21题详解】
细节理解题。

由第二段“They attack us because we abuse them”可知，熊攻击人类是因为人类虐待它们。

所以据罗素说，熊攻击人类是因为人类虐待它们。

故选A项。

【22题详解】
词句猜测题。

由第四段“Russell was raised with the idea that “the only good bear is a dead bear.” His father, a hunter, shared stories of cruel brown bears with his five children”可知，罗素从小就有这样的想法：“唯一不危险的熊就是死熊。

”他的父亲是一名猎人，他向他的五个孩子讲述了残忍的棕熊的故事。

所以通过上下文的语境可以判断出，第4段中的下划线部分表明活熊是危险的。

故选B项。

【23题详解】
推理判断题。

通读全文尤其是第一段“Russell believed he could prove that “just by treating bears kindly, people can live safely with them”可知，短文报道了查理·罗素与棕熊一起生活，研究棕熊的行为方式。

他告诉人们只要善待熊，人们就能安全地与它们生活在一起。

所以作者写这篇文章的目的是为了告诉我们要与熊和平共处。

故选D项。

【点睛】由上下文的语境是解决词义猜测题的重要解题方法。

划线词的意思往往是我们要猜测的意思。

我们可以通过已知的上下文的词汇或者句子来猜测未知的意思.
由第四段“Russell was raised with the idea that “the only good bear is a dead bear.” His father, a hunter, shared stories of cruel brown bears with his five children”可知，罗素从小就有这样的想法:“只有死熊才是好熊。

”他的父亲是一名猎人，他向他的五个孩子讲述了残忍的棕熊的故事。

所以通过上下文的语境可以判断出，第4段中的下划线部分表明活熊是危险的。

故小题2选B项。

B
【答案】24. B 25. D 26. C
【解析】
这是一篇说明文。

一项研究表明60%的员工每天都在办公桌前吃饭，而三分之二的员工午餐时间不超过30分钟。

这意味着他们每年要多工作180小时——相当于每年工作多工作16天。

但员工拒绝午休是在拿自己的健康冒险。

24题详解】
推理判断题。

根据第一段中A survey of 1,000 people showed that an incredible 60 percent of workers ate at their desks every day while two thirds take 30 minutes or less for lunch.可知，一项针对1000人的调查显示，令人难以置信的是，60%的员工每天都在办公桌前吃饭，而三分之二的员工午餐时间不超过30分钟。

所以通过数
字“60 percent of workers，30 minutes or less”可以判断出，许多工人没有充分的午餐休息时间。

故选B。

【25题详解】
细节理解题。

根据第四段中Dr. Tissington mentioned he makes sure to get away from his desk at lunchtime and deliberately chooses to get lunch from different places—changing his route to get there.可知，Dr. Tissington提到，他在午餐时间一定要离开办公桌，故意选择从不同的地方吃午餐——改变了去吃午饭的路线。

故选D。

【26题详解】
主旨大意题。

通读全文尤其是第一段This means they are working an extra 180 hours a year—equal to 16 eight-hour days.可知，一项研究表明，60%的员工每天都在办公桌前吃饭，而三分之二的员工午餐时间不超过30分钟。

这意味着他们每年要多工作180小时——相当于每年工作16个8小时。

但员工拒绝午休是在拿自己的健康冒险。

所以短文主要是围绕着在办公桌前吃午饭的人的人每年要多工作16天而展开的。

故短文的最佳标题是“在办公桌前吃午饭的人的人每年要多工作16天”。

故选C项。

C
【答案】27. A 28. D 29. C 30. C
【解析】
【分析】
这是一篇记叙文。

短文叙述了作者的成长经历，同时作者一直在探索自己的身份。

【27题详解】
细节理解题。

由第二段“I grew up in the racially mixed zones of Sacramento”可知，作者在Sacramento的多种族区长大。

所以作者在Sacramento长大。

故选A项。

【28题详解】
细节理解题。

由最后一段“I prefer to think that my American upbringing has taught me to apply insights from many different cultures to my everyday life.”可知，我更愿意认为，我在美国的成长经历教会了我将许多不同文化的深刻见解应用到日常生活中。

所以作者从他的美国成长经历中学到要向不同的文化学习。

故选D 项。

【29题详解】
推理判断题。

由第四段“I became a junkman, sorting through the ruins of pop culture past looking for the pieces of myself. In love with the Beatles, I linked myself to England. Fascinated by Japanese cartoon, I took language classes at the local Buddhist temple.”可知，我成了一名拾荒者，在过去流行文化的废墟中寻找自己的碎片。

我爱上披头士，所以我把自己和英国联系在一起。

我迷上了日本漫画，所以去当地的佛教寺庙学习了日语。

所以通过关键词“Beatles，England，Japanese cartoon，took language classes”可以判断出，作者对不同的文化很感兴趣。

故选C项。

【30题详解】
主旨大意题。

通读全文尤其是第一段“I’m part of a younger generation of Americans whose identity is shaped neither by where we came from nor where we ended up.”可知，作者是美国年轻一代的一员，他们的身份既不受他们来自哪里，也不受他们结束在哪里的影响。

以及下文作者对于自己成长经历的叙述都在说明作者在探索着自己的身份。

所以短文主要是关于作者对于自己身份的探索。

故选C项。

【点睛】抓住特定信息进行逆向或者正向推理。

做此类试题要善于抓住某一段话中的关键信息，即某些关键词或短语去分析、推理、判断，利用逆向思维或正面推理，从而推断出这句话所隐含的深层含义。

由第四段“I became a junkman, sorting through the ruins of pop culture past looking for the pieces of myself. In love with the Beatles, I linked myself to England. Fascinated by Japanese cartoon, I took language classes at the local Buddhist temple.”可知，我成了一名拾荒者，在过去流行文化的废墟中寻找自己的碎片。

我爱上披头士，所以我把自己和英国联系在一起。

我迷上了日本漫画，所以去当地的佛教寺庙学习了日语。

所以通过关键词“ Beatles，England，Japanese cartoon，took language classes”可以判断出，作者对不同的文化很感兴趣。

故小题3选C项。