最新高考英语完形填空专项训练
完形填空。阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
“Now,” Mrs. Virginia DeView said, smiling, “we are going to discover our professions.” The class seemed to be greatly surprised. Our professions? We were only 13 and 14 years old! The teacher must be 1 . “Yes, you will all be searching for your future 2 . Each of you will have to 3 someone in your field, plus give an oral report.”
Each day in her class, Virginia DeView reminded us about this. Finally, I picked print journalism. This 4 I had to go to interview a true-blue newspaper reporter. I was extremely nervous. I sat down in front of him 5 able to speak. He looked at me and said, “Did you bring a pencil or pen?”
I shook my head.
“How about some 6 ?”
I shook my head again.
Finally, I thought he realized I was 7 , and I got my first big tip as a 8 . “Never, never go anywhere without a pen and paper. You never know what you’ll run into.” After a few days, I gave my oral report totally from memory in class. I got an A on the entire project.
Years later, I was in college looking around for a new career, but with no success. Then I 9 Virginia DeView and my desire at 13 to be a journalist. And I called my parents. They didn’t 10 me. They just reminded m e how competitive the field was and 11 all my life I had run away from competition. This was true. But journalism did something to me: it was in my blood. It gave me the freedom to go up to total strangers and ask what was 12 .
For the past 12 years, I’ve had the most satisfying reporting career, 13 stories from murders to airplane crashes and 14 choosing my strongest area. When I went to pick up my phone one day, an incredible wave of memories hit me and I realized that had it not been for Virginia DeView, I would not be sitting at that desk.
I was 15 all the time: “How did you pick journalism?”
“Well, you see, there was this teacher …” I always start out. I just wish I could thank her.
1. A. good B. mad C. careless D. curious
2. A. universities B. families C. professions D. lives
3. A. interview B. please C. admire D. respect
4. A. expressed B. ordered C. expected D. meant
5. A. hardly B. nearly C. naturally D. eagerly
6. A. drink B. newspapers C. preparations D. paper
7. A. satisfied B. comfortable C. terrified D. sorry
8. A. student B. journalist C. teacher D. writer
9. A. called B. recognized C. remembered D. visited
10. A. answer B. promise C. stop D. persuade
11. A. how B. whether C. why D. when
12. A. breaking in B. getting down C. falling off D. going on
13. A. making B. retelling C. covering D. writing
14. A. certainly B. finally C. doubtfully D. completely
15. A. hurt B. excited C. disappointed D. asked
【参考答案及解析】
解析：
1.选B, 由上一句中professiom 是职业和我们才仅仅13到14岁再结合选项应选B
2.选D,由前一句中Our profession? 即我们的职业？可推知search for(寻找) 职业
3.选A，由第二段中第二句I had to interview …可知次空选A
4.选D，由由前后句可知这意味着我要采访一个…故选D
5.选A，前一句说到我太紧张了所以我不能说话hardly 表示否定故选A
6.选D，由下下段中的第二句Never,never go anywhere without a pen and paper可知选D
7.选C，terrified 是很害怕的意思与前句中nervhous 意思一致
8.选B，由第二段中journalism 新闻业可知作者是一名记者即journalist
9.选C，由前后句意可推知我回想起了当年的老师
10，选C，由后句可知父母只是把这个领域的竞争激烈性告诉了作者没有阻止他。
11，选A，因为and 表示并列关系and 前句是how competitive the field was 12，选D，记者就是去采访发生了什么事，弄清事情真相的go on符合题意，故选D
13，选C，cover 有采访报道的意思
14，选B，根据句意Finally是最佳选项
15，选D，由后一句的问题可以看出是别人问作者这样的问题所以作者是被问。
完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并从答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
When I was a teenager I volunteered to work at the water station at a 10,000m race. My job was to 36 water to the runners. I remember being so 37 to see all the different kinds of people who passed by and grabbed a cup of water. Some ran past, some walked past and a few wheeled past. I saw so many types of people doing it. I thought maybe I could do it too! So the next year I 38 up for the race.
That first 10,000m race was quite an 39 . I jogged, I walked, I jogged and I walked. 40 , I didn’t know if I could finish. Then came a defining (决定性) 41 .
At one point near the end, a 70-year-old man ran past me, very, very fast, and I
