2012高考备考之完形填空和语法填空专项训练11

2012届高三英语二轮复习

第一节完形填空（广东省六校联合体2012届高三联考）

There once lived a young man who was always unhappy and complained about his poverty. One day, he went to see a fortune teller to inquire how to become_____1____. The fortune teller said, "Young man, you are already wealthy now."

"Where is my wealth?" the young man asked _______2____.

"It is with you. Your _______3___ is (are) your wealth. You use them to see this world. You use them to see all the ______4______things in this world. You can read, study and learn. Your hands are your wealth. You can use them to work. You can use them to hug your beloved ones. Your ____5_____are your wealth. You can go to any places..." the fortune teller said.

"You call these wealth? Everyone has them," the young man said.

"These are wealth. What you have now are not what others can luckily have. Are you ______6___ to give your eyes to me? I am willing to give you a lot of money to _____7_____ for them," the fortune teller said. "No, are you crazy? I am not going to exchange my eyes for money! They are _____8____ to me!" the young man ____9______.

"Precisely, these are wealth to you. You will not exchange them for money. Furthermore, although a lot of people have their wealthy things, they do not ____10_____ them or treasure them. They are not _______11____ to Heaven for giving them their wealth. They even complain that Heaven is unfair to them. Do you want to _____12_____one of them before you will treasure them?" the fortune teller said.

Everyone is wealthy. But we should not ____13______it for granted. We need to treasure our wealth, take care of it and use it _____14_____. We should not overuse it because once it is ____15____, it is gone forever. Remember it is our wealth that we do not want to lose.

1. A. happy B. young C. wealthy D. poor

2. A. anxiously B. sadly C. quietly D. patiently

3. A. knowledge B. skills C. brain D. eyes

4. A. ugly B. beautiful C. strange D. useful

5. A. legs B. cars C. jewels D. banknotes

6. A. lovely B. optimistic C. angry D. willing

7. A. charge B. buy C. exchange D. change

8. A. precious B. useless C. extra D. special

9. A. wept B. demonstrated C. smiled D. yelled

10. A. see B. realize C. keep D. hold

11. A. grateful B. careful C. meaningful D. faithful

12. A. get B. grasp C. have D. lose

13. A. take B. make C. set D. sell

14. A. wrongly B. wisely C. naturally D. really

15. A. old B. used C. gone D. dead

专题训练：语法填空（11）

（一）

There are some special traditions in Hawaii. People are very friendly and always welcome visitors. They give visitors __1___ lei along necklace of beautiful fresh flowers. Men wear bright ___2___ (flower) shirts, and

women often wear long flowered dresses. There are ___3____(tradition) Chinese, Japanese and Filipino holidays and all the holidays from the United States. They call Hawaii the Aloha State. Aloha __4____ (mean)both hello and goodbye. It also means “I love you”.

Usually when people from different countries, races, and traditions live together, there are serious problems. There are a few problems in Hawaii,__5___ in general, people have learned to live together __6___peace. Hawaiians earn most of their money from travelers , most of __7____ come from the mainland and from Japan. There are many people__8__ (live)in Hawaii now so there are residential areas ___9____there used to be farms. Some of the big sugar and pineapple companies have moved to the Philippines, where they do not have to pay workers ___10__ much money. The families of the first people who came from the U.S. mainland own the important banks and companies. Japanese are also buying or starting businesses here.

（二）

With the reform of Chinese higher education, more and more colleges and universities put emphasis on nurturing students' abilities. 1 a consequence, elective courses are 2

(avail) not only for excellent academic performers but also for students of the average level. Certainly, students have different reasons 3 (choose) their own electives. For some, practical skills are the essence (本质) of college education, and therefore, courses on computer science, marketing, and finance 4 (prefer). On the other hand, 5 may hold the idea of liberal education and electives concerning literature, history, and philosophy are the most welcome.

Take me as 6 example: being a disciple of free education, I stand for the idea 7 university is not a place for survival skills, 8 a palace of knowledge and critical reasoning. 9 my major is chemistry, the electives I attend most frequently are English literature, an Introduction to Classic Music, and Different Schools of Western Painting. 10 really widen my horizon.

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第一节完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

其实健康的身体就是我们最大的财富。

1. C。他不安于贫困，去找算命先生自然是询问如何致富。

2. A。四个选项中只有A项anxiously可以表现他迫不及待的心情。

3. D。根据下文“You use them to see this world.”可知应为eyes。

4. B。虽然四个选项所表示的都是眼睛可以看到的，但beautiful合乎算命先生说话的意思。

5. A。根据后面的“You can run very fast.”可知应为legs。

6. D。根据后面的“I am willing to give you…”及willing的用法可知选D项。

7. C。charge和change意思不符；buy后不跟for, 所以用exchange。

8. A。根据前面的一句“I am not going to exchange my eyes for money!”可知年轻人不愿意交换，可以推断眼睛对他来说是重要的、宝贵的。所以选A。

9. D。从年轻人说话的语气推断他应该很生气，所以冲着算卦先生大声嚷道。yelled符合文中的情形。

10. B。realize为“意识到”，其他三个选项不妥。

11. A。对上苍赐给我们的财富我们应该心怀感激，grateful符合文意。

12. D。根据上文可知应该选lose。

13. A。take…for granted是固定搭配。

14. B。根据上文“We need to treasure our wealth, take care of them…”推断应该选B项。

15. C。联系下一句“…they are gone forever.”可知应该选gone。gone是形容词，表示动作的完成，不表示被动。

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