2016高考英语二轮复习专题限时训练（江苏专用）
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（A）
The friendship between us never fades. Mary Allen was my best friend—like a sister I never1. ______. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, horseback riding, and so on.
When I was 13, my family moved. Mary and I 2. ______ in touch through letters, and we saw each other on special3. ______ — like my wedding and Mary’s. Soon we were 4. ______ with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote 5. ______. One day a card that I sent came back 6. ______ “Address Unknown.” I had no idea how to 7. ______ Mary.
Over the years, I thought of Mary often. I wanted to 8. ______ stories of my children and then grandchildren. I need to share my 9. ______ when my brother and then my mother died. There was a(n) 10. ______ place in my heart that only a friend like Mary could 11. ______.
One day I was reading a newspaper when I 12. ______ a picture of a young woman who looked a lot like Mary and whose 13. ______ name was Wagman— Mary’s married name. “There 14. ______ be thousands of Wagmans,” I thought,15. ______ I wrote to her anyway.
She 16. ______ as soon as she got my letter. “Mrs. Tobin!” she said excitedly, “Mary Allen Wagman is my 17. ______.” Minutes later I heard a voice that I 18. ______ at once, even after 40 years. We laughed and cried and asked about each other’s 19. ______.
Now the empty place in my heart is filled, and there is one thing that Mary and I know 20. ______: We won’t lose each other again!
1. A. had B. love C. left D. met
2. A. got B. kept C. lost D. fell
3. A. places B. occasions C. festivals D. things
4. A. comfortable B. careful C. easy D. busy
5. A. more B. much C. less D. least
6. A. said B. fastened C. read D. stamped
7. A. know B. stop C. find D. help
8. A. share B. tell C. write D. remember
9. A. news B. sorrow C. stories D. failure
10. A. big B. small C. wild D. empty
11. A. stay B. hide C. fill D. live
12. A. took B. noticed C. drew D. picked
13. A. last B. first C. nick D. given
14. A. should B. need C. can’t D. must
15. A. and B. since C. but D. so
16. A. called B. laughed C. cried D. shouted
17. A. friend B. mother C. sister D. daughter
18. A. realized B. received C. contacted D. recognized
19. A. future B. progress C. lives D. weddings
20. A. for sure B. at all C. in all D. as well
（B）
Perhaps you’ve attended some parties. But like New York，where a party or dinner often __1__ business with pleasure, a Washington party is a __2__ part of the business of politics, the business of making __3_ connections.
Some Washington parties have a __4__ aura (气氛) about them, depending on who gives them and who is there, but most parties are open-house __5__ in fact, with the hosts not knowing most of the __6__ who are there.
I went to a few of these parties __7__ I wanted to see the inside of some of the Washington mansions (公馆) I had __8__ so much about. Almost every time during the evening some man would come close to talk with me __9__, we didn’t know each other at all. Such a __10__ exchange clearly proves “a gathering of friends” __11__ Washington party standards. You don’t even need an __12__ to attend many Washington parties. You just have to know about them. No Washington hostess would __13__ her servants to ask you who you were. Most of the bigger parties, those with 300 or 400 guests, _14__ to impress somebody, and Washingtonians
__15_.
Most members of the Congress ,for example, _16__ middle-class backgrounds in smaller communities _17__ the country. They are dazzled (眼花缭乱的) by _18__. They are dazzled by big names. They are ready to help Washington __19__ hostesses. They go along with them because they are good friends or they don’t notice that they __20__ or they don’t care if they are.
1. A. follows
B. connects
C. mixes
D. goes
2. A. daily
B. necessary
C. chief
D. cheap
3. A. still
B. cruel
C. mental
D. important
4. A. social
B. nervous
C. terrible
D. simple
5. A. events
B. affairs
C. conferences
D. games
6. A. guests
B. customers
C. guards
D. guides
7. A. so that
B. in order that
C. as if
D. because
8. A. found
B. noticed
C. heard
D. wrote
9. A. since
B. though
C. when
D. whether
10. A. common
B. strict
C. public
D. special
11. A. including
B. comparing with
C. according to
D. depending on
12. A. invitation
B. envelope
C. instrument
D. acceptance
13. A. refuse
B. allow
C. agree
D. warn
14. A. are given
B. give
C. are supplied
D. supply
15. A. easily forget
B. hardly remember
C. easily impress
D. are easily impressed
16. A. hear from
B. write to
C. come from
D. call out
17. A. over
B. below
C. between
D. across
18. A. money
B. equal
C. freedom
D. discussion
19. A. strange
B. famous
C. poor
D. stupid
20. A. are using
B. are being used
C. are obeying
D. are being obeyed