模拟操练 阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从21—30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。 (1) Faith is an awesome force that can give us the power to accomplish the seemingly impossible. There are many well-known
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of the power of faith in action. Mother Theresa, for instance, always had
22 that God would somehow provide the food, money and
23 she needed to continue her service to the poorest of the poor. Writings about her work are filled with
24 stories of how the things she needed showed up exactly when she needed them, often in the most surprising ways. 21. A. stories
B. ways
C. examples
D. wonders 22. A. faith
B. reality
C. truth
D. evidence 23. A. fruit
B. vegetables
C. provisions D. inventions 24. A. strange
B. folk
C. foreign
D. true √ √ √ √ If you put your hand in 25 , do you believe it would burn? Of course you do, and it probably would. Yet if you were to attend a fire-walking event and spend an evening with a group of people convincing yourselves that the fire wouldn’t 26 , it probably wouldn't. Many ordinary people have attended such events and
27 walked over impossibly hot coals with little or no blistering(水泡). 25. A. sand
B. water
C. paper
D. fire 26.A. burn
B. end
C. hurt
D. work 27. A. carefully
B. successfully
C. beautifully
D. wonderfully √ √ √ Group 28
such as these, where a group of people decides that reality is going to work differently, are very powerful. Faith is 29. We can catch it from each other and one person with particularly 30 faith can encourage the faith of many. 28. A. agreements
B. movements
C. amusements
D. measurements
29. A. losing
B. realizing
C. going
D. catching 30. A. thankful
B. hopeful
C. powerful
D. thoughtful √ √ √
Spending time for a few minutes each day being awake and noticing is a good way to begin the practice of being present. It is a good way to begin to expand one’s idea of what
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a meaningful life. What is needed is the greater opening of the heart to the one
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self that exists within all. 21. A. lives
B. notices
C. brings
D. forms 22. A. all
B. self
C. world
D. person √ √
(2) The gift of being
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as it applies to relationships is that it brings love to every interaction, no matter how small or
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. And it brings
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into each moment as it unfolds. 23. A. excited
B. meaningful
C. present
D. intelligent 24. A. incorrect
B. insignificant
C. incomplete
D. inaccurate 25. A. gratitude
B. patience
C. presence
D. courage √ √ √ As a sense of being present deepens and one's capacity to 'notice'
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, the deep richness of life and of love can be found everywhere and
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nowhere. In this state, one
28 only the one who lives within all. One feels the
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within every other. Here, consciousness can only affirm(声称) the greater life: 26. A. plants
B. sows
C. waters D. flowers 27. A. discussion
B. creation
C. separation
D. cooperation 28. A. cares
B. likes
C. concerns D. senses
29. A. flavor
B. habit
C. hobby
D. assistance √ √ √ √
广东高考完形填空题究竟考什么?怎么考?请看以下研究结果。 命题揭密 I Am and You Are. We are both of the stars and of the dust of the earth. We are both of the rocks and of the sandy shores. We are water and we are sky; we are earth, and we are air. We are the breath that life
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through itself, in a single and continuous song of creation. 30. A. holds
B. takes
D. expresses √
C. breathes
(3)
Millions of people come into this world and leave this world and never ever realize or develop their full powers and potential. They
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in life for a penny, and life would pay no more, not realizing that any wage they would have asked of life would have been gladly paid. Some of those people never even
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, they just settled for ordinariness. Others, got a dream, an idea, a desire or goal, and decided to go for it, but then
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when the going got tough.
21. A. paid
B. asked
C. bargained
D. looked 22. A. tried
B. worked C. started
D. dreamed 23. A. sold out
B. came out
C. dropped out
D. found out √ √ √
There are many
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in life, but very few finish. Too many people give up on their dreams too soon in life.
No matter what the level of our ability, we have more
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than we can ever develop in a lifetime. Deep within every man and woman dwells those sleeping powers; powers that would astonish them, which they never dreamed of possessing; forces that would
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their life if aroused and put into action. 24. A. dreamers
B. settlers
C. droppers
D. starters 25. A. confidential
B. refusal
C. potential
D. trial 26. A. revolutionize
B. modernize
C. popularize
D. socialize √ √ √ Potential means:
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-- and unrealized -- powers, possibilities, and capabilities -- that can -- but have not yet come into being. In other words, the best is yet to
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! You have powers and talent you have not developed or used yet. You also have
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and fantasies you have not realized yet. Your unlimited
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are still alive, just waiting for you to give them power. 27. A. undeveloped
B. unfinished
C. uncertain
D. unfortunate 28. A. end
B. bargain
C. develop
D. come 29. A. powers
B. dreams
C. possessions
D. thoughts 30. A. qualities
B. disabilities
C. equalities
D. possibilities √ √ √ √
(4)
Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sickly
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will express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as
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as a bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly. The people who live in fear of
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are the people who get it. Anxiety quickly
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the whole body, and lays it open to the entrance of disease, while impure thoughts, even if not physically spoiled,
21. A. stories
B. thoughts C. examples
D. people 22. A. violently
B. steadily
C. speedily
D. sharply 23. A. disease
B. dark
C. hospital D. cancer 24. A. dismisses
B. discourages
C. displeases
D. disappoints
√ √ √ √ will soon
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the nervous system.
Strong, pure and happy thoughts build up the body in
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and grace. The body is a delicate and plastic instrument, which
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readily to the thoughts by which it is impressed, and habits of thought will produce their own effects, good or bad, upon it. 25. A. create
B. poison
C. accelerate D. destroy 26. A. energy
B. force
C. shape
D. health 27. A. leads
B. sticks
C. responds
D. contributes √ √ √
Men will continue to have
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and poisoned blood so long as they convey unclean thoughts. Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean body. Out of a dirty mind
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a dirty life and corrupt body. Thought is the
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of action and life; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure. 28. A. immovable
B. imbalanced
C. impolite
D. impure
29. A. keeps
B. follows
C. provides
D. protects 30. A. guide
B. fountain
C. power
D. direction √ √ √
(5)
There is a very old joke about two young brothers. One was an optimist and one was a
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. As a test, they were each told they had received a gift and then were put in a
22 with a huge pile of horse droppings. The pessimist was, understandably, disgusted. When the researchers went into the room with the optimistic child, they found him
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digging in the horse dung, exclaiming, “I know there’s a pony in here somewhere!” 21. A. cyclist
B. tourist
C. novelist D. pessimist 22. A. garden
B. park C. farm D. room 23. A. bitterly
B. happily
C. willingly
D. understandably √ √ √
A poor joke perhaps, but an excellent life lesson. How our lives unfold is largely dependant on how we
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challenges that present themselves.
24. A. realize
B. give
C. approach
D. offer √
广东高考完形填空题究竟考什么?怎么考?请看以下研究结果。 命题揭密
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is a fact of life. How you view trouble controls your reality. If you are always looking at the down side of life, that is what you are going to
26
. Understandably, some challenges are bigger than others and take more work to deal with. However, you can
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them if you begin to see them as challenges to be worked out rather than
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that are not overcome.
25. A. Challenge
B. Trouble
C. Optimism D. Pessimism 26. A. accept
B. suffer C. get
D. drop 27. A. overcome
B. receive
C. develop
D. control 28. A. ends
B. thoughts
C. dreams
D. walls √ √ √ √
It is really just as easy to be optimistic. In fact, it may be easier to see the good in life and the 29
in trouble. Being happy takes less energy. Why not be the type of person who
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the pony?
29. A. meanings
B. challenges
C. possessions
D. morals
30. A. heads for
B. waits for
C. looks for
D. calls for
√ √
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