浙江省杭州市高考英语二轮复习 完形填空(基础)演练(2)

浙江（杭州市）2016高考英语完形填空二轮（基础）演练（2）

完形填空

After 22 years of marriage，I have discovered the secret to keep love alive in my relationship with my wife，Peggy. I started dating another woman.

One day Peggy said to me，“Life is too__1__，and you need to spend time with the people you love. You probably won’t believe me，but I know you love her and I think that if you spend more time with her，it will make us__2__.”

The “other” woman my wife was encouraging me to__3__is my mother，a 72-year-old widow who has lived alone since my father__4__20 years ago. Right after his death，I__5__2,500 miles away to California and started my own life and career. When I moved back near my hometown six years ago，I promised myself that I would spend more time with my mom. But with the__6__of my job and three kids，I never got around to seeing her much__7__family get-togethers and holidays.

Mom was__8__and suspicious when I called and suggested the two of us go out to dinner and a movie.

We didn’t go anywhere __9__，just a neighboring place where we could talk.__10__her eyes now see only large shapes and shadows，I had to read the menu for her.

“I used to be the__11__when you were little，” she said.

“Then it is time for you to relax and let me__12__the favor，” I said.

We had a nice talk__13__dinner，just catching up on each other’s lives. We talked for so long that we__14__the movie.

“__15__was your date？my wife asked when I got home that evening.”

“Nice...nicer than I thought it would be，” I said.

Mom and I get out for__16__a couple of times a month. Sometimes we take in a movie，but__17__we talk. Through the talks，I know what it was like for her to work in a factory during the Second World War. I know how she met my father there，and know how they__18__the difficult times. I can’t get enough of these s tories. They

are__19__to me，a part of my history.

Peggy was right. Dating another woman has__20__my marriage.

【语篇解读】22年的婚姻之后，作者发现了维系夫妇二人良好关系的秘诀，那就是与另外一个女人约会，这个女人不是别人，正是自己的母亲。

1. A. easy B．difficult

C．short D．hard

解析根据1空后面的内容可知，作者的妻子认为人生太“短暂”。

答案 C

2． A. closer B．longer

C．happier D．easier

解析此处与第一段中的relationship相呼应，意思是这样做能让我们之间的关系“更加亲密”。

答案 A

3．A. date B．please

C．meet D．consult

解析根据第一段后半部分中的dating可知，作者的妻子鼓励作者与之“约会”的对象是作者的母亲。

答案 A

4．A. passed out B．passed by

C．passed down D．passed away

解析根据4空前面的widow可知，作者的母亲是一位寡妇，由此可知她自从丈夫在20年前“去世”后就一直独居。另外，5空前面的death是线索提示。

答案 D

5．A. went B．drove

C．moved D．removed

解析就在父亲去世后，作者“搬”到了2 500英里之外的加利福尼亚，开始了自己的生活和事业。此外，下一句开头部分的内容也是线索提示。

答案 C

6．A. pressure B．development

C．demand D．loss

解析虽然作者自我承诺多花时间陪母亲，但是由于工作和三个孩子的“需要”，除了家庭团聚和假期之外，作者从未能履行自己的诺言。

答案 C

7．A. beyond B．with

C．during D．on

解析参见上题解析。此处beyond表示“除……之外”。

答案 A

8．A. excited B．annoyed

C．delighted D．surprised

解析作者此前很少陪伴母亲，如今突然给母亲打电话并建议两人一同外出就餐和看电影，

她显然很“惊讶”。本句中的suspicious也是线索提示。

答案 D

9．A. ordinary B．fancy

C．plain D．common

解析作者和母亲并没有去任何“豪华的”地方，仅仅去了一个附近的可以说话的地方。

答案 B

10. A．Since B．Until

C．If D．Unless

解析“因为”她的视力不佳，作者不得不将菜单读给母亲听。

答案 A

11．A. worker B．waitress

C．reader D．owner

解析此处与上一段中的read相呼应，意思是当作者小的时候，作者的母亲经常是“读者”。答案 C

12．A. award B．return

C．turn D．answer

解析如今作者的母亲年事已高，是作者“回报”恩惠的时候了。

答案 B

13．A. over B．with

C．on D．across

解析作者和母亲在晚饭期间交谈甚欢，此处over表示“在……期间”。

答案 A

14．A. forgot B．refused

C．missed D．abandoned

解析作者和母亲交谈的时间很长，以至于“错过”了那部电影。

答案 C

15．A. What B．Who

C．Where D．How

解析根据下一段中的内容可知，作者的妻子询问的是这次约会“如何”。

答案 D

16．A .talk B．movie

C．walk D．dinner

解析根据第8空后面的“go out to dinner”可知作者和母亲每个月都要出去吃几次“晚饭”。

答案 D

17．A. finally B．merely

C．mostly D．especially

解析上文提到作者和母亲长时间交谈，以至于错过了电影，由此可知，两人在一起的时候“主要”是交谈。

答案 C

18．A. went through B．got through

C．looked through D．saw through

解析通过交谈，作者知道了母亲如何与父亲相识和他们如何“渡过”那些困难时光。

答案 A

19．A. friendly B．kind

C．loyal D．important

解析根据上下文内容可知，这些故事对作者而言很“重要”。

答案 D

20．A. ruined B．damaged

C．helped D．affected

解析根据第一段第一句的内容可知，与母亲约会对作者的婚姻有“帮助”。

答案 C

完型填空。阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从以下题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Nasreddin was a poor man, so he tried to grow __1__ he could in his own garden, so that he would not have to buy so many in the market.

One evening he heard a noise in his garden and looked out of the window. A white ox had got into the garden and __2__ his vegetables. Nasreddin at once took his stick, ran out and chased the ox, but he was too old to catch it. When he got back to his garden, he found that the ox had ruined most of his precious vegetables.

__3__, while he __4__ in the street near his house, he saw a cart with two white oxen which looked very much like the one that __5__ his vegetables. He was carrying his stick with him, __6__ he at once began to beat the two oxen with it. As neither of them looked more like the ox that had eaten his vegetables than the other, he beat

both of them equally hard.

The owner of the ox and cart was drinking coffee in a __7__ coffee-house. When he saw __8__ Nasreddin was doing __9__ his animals, he ran out and shouted, “What are you doing? What have those poor animals done to you for you to beat them like that?”

“You keep out this!” Nasreddin shouted back, “This is a matter betwee n me and one of these two oxen. He knows very well __10__ I am beating him!”

名师点评

这是一个笑话，贫农Nasreddin在街上碰到两头牛，搞不清是哪一头毁坏了他家的菜园，于是用棒子将两头牛一起抽打，牛主人制止时，他却强词夺理，无理取闹。

(D)1. A. so many vegetables B. many vegetables

C. as many as vegetables

D. as many vegetables as

【解析】D。习惯用语as many as possible 意为“尽可能多的”合乎文意，为正确选项。(A)2. A. was eating B. ate C. had eaten D. has eaten

【解析】A。过去进行时强调过去正在进行的动作，根据文意Nasreddin看到牛正在吃蔬菜，故选 was eating 。

(D)3. A. Next day B. Next morning C. Last morning D. The next morning 【解析】D。指过去某一天的第一天或第二天早上、晚上，应用the next day/morning/evening。故应选The next morning 。

(C)4. A. walks B. waked C. was walking D. walking

【解析】C。在从句动作进行的过程中，主句动作发生了，这时从句常用进行时态，故选择was walking 。

(B)5. A. ruined B. had eaten C. ate D. had ruin

【解析】B。牛吃蔬菜是贫农上街之前的事，文章本身讲的是过去的故事，指过去的过去应用过去完成时，故选had eaten。

(A)6. A. so B. and C. but D. or

【解析】A。从句子意思看，空白处前后构成因果关系，故选择so。

(B)7. A. beside B. nearby C. near D. near by

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