高考英语完形填空练习(含答案详解)

A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to 1 , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.

“Frank！” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t 2 , as I knew, but all the time 3 his foot against mine.

My 4 raced back more than thirty years to the 5 days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The 6 was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.

7 wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to 8 each other very well. Frank West 9 me because he wasn’t10 , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had 11 of a mind than a baby has. His “12 ” consisted of rough sounds——sounds of pleasure or anger and 13 more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank 14 on her entirely. He needed all the 15 of a baby.

One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She 16 nearly everything she owned.

When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the 17 ones. So before we 18 that morning, I stood beside Frank and 19 my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his 20 to me was always the same.

1．A．work B．stay C．live D．expect 2．A．answer B．speak C．smile D．laugh 3．A．covering B．moving C．fighting D．pressing 4．A．minds B．memories C．thoughts D．brains 5．A．better B．dark C．younger D．old

6．A．cave B．place C．sight D．scene 7．A．Discussing B．Solving C．Sharing D．Suffering 8．A．learn from B．talk to C．help D．know 9．A．needed B．recognized C．interested D．encouraged 10．A．normal B．common C．unusual D．quick 11．A．more B．worse C．fewer D．less 12．A．word B．speech C．sentence D．language 13．A．not B．no C．something D．nothing 14．A．fed B．kept C．lived D．depended 15．A．attention B．control C．treatment D．management 16．A．lost B．needed C．destroyed D．left 17．A．troublesome B．unlucky C．angry D．unpopular 18．A．separated B．went C．reunited D．returned 19．A．pushed B．tried C．showed D．measured 20．A．nodding B．greeting C．meeting D．acting

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A newly trained teacher named Mary went to teach at a Navajo Indian reservation. Every day, she would ask five of the young Navajo students to __1__ the chalkboard and complete a simple math problem from 2 homework.

They would stand there, silently, 3 to complete the task. Mary couldn’t figure it out. 4 she had studied in her educational curriculum helped, and she 5 hadn’t seen anything like it in her student-teaching days back in Phoenix.

What am I doing wrong? Could I have chosen five students who can’t do the 6 ? Mary would wonder. No, 7 couldn’t be that. Finally she 8 the students what was wrong. And in their answers, she learned a 9 lesson from her young 10 pupils about self-image and a(n) 11 of self-worth.

It seemed that the students 12 each other’s individuality and knew that 13 of them were capable of doing the problems. 14 at their early age, they understood the senselessness of the win-lose approach in the classroom. They believed no one would 15 if any students were shown up or embarrassed at the 16 . So they 17 to compete with each other in public.

Once she understood, Mary changed the system 18 she could check each child’s math problem individually, but not at any child’s expense 19 his classmates. They all wanted to learn, 20 not at someone else’s expense.

1．A．go to B．come to C．get close to D．bring

2．A．his B．their C．his own D．her 3．A．happy B．willingly C．readily D．unwilling 4．A．Anything B．Nothing C．Everything D．Neither 5．A．almost B．certainly C．hardly D．never 6．A．question B．chalkboard C．problem D．homework 7．A．they B．it C．everything D．each 8．A．asked B．questioned C．told D．understood 9．A．Outstanding B．surprising C．annoying D．frightening 10．A．sunburned B．tender C．Indian D．naughty 11．A．sense B．image C．way D．aspect 12．A．had B．ignored C．respected D．cared 13．A．none B．no one C．each D．not all 14．A．Especially B．Even though C．Even so D．Even 15．A．lose B．win C．achieve D．answer 16．A．time B．situation C．chalkboard D．condition 17．A．refused B．rejected C．tried D．promised 18．A．if B．so that C．unless D．in case

19．A．in favour of B．of C．by means of D．in front of 20．A．and B．but C．so D．or