2017届高考英语一轮复习完形填空A family had a hobby of putting together jigsaw puzzles.The father regularly brought home puzzles of greater and greater
__1__.One night he
__2__
his family with a puzzle of over one thousand pieces.Immediately they
__3__
it.After an hour,__4__,the family was frustrated.No matter how hard they tried,they couldn't get the
__5__ started.
The father then discovered that he had
__6__
switched the box top with the top from another puzzle.The picture they were looking at wasn't the puzzle they were __7__.
We may feel
__8__ with God because he doesn't live up to the
__9__
we have of him.Sometimes we feel frustrated with the church because it doesn't
__10__
the ideal church that we have in mind.We're often frustrated with
__11__
because they fall short of expectations that we have of them.
Perhaps we should consider
__12__
the problem in all these cases is that we are
__13__
our expectations on a distorted view—of God or of the church or of others.Perhaps our expectations are
__14__
and can never be realized because we've been looking at the
__15__
on the wrong box top.
We may also feel frustrated with
__16__
because we don't believe we live up to what others want from us or __17__ what we think God wants from us.More often than not,though,our problem is trying to make ourselves into someone else's image or
__18__
ourselves to fit someone else's standards for us.God created us each to be
__19__.We all have our own “boxtoppicture,” and the only way we can ever be
__20__
in life is to be ourselves,allowing God to use us just the way we are.
Notes:
①jigsaw puzzles智力拼图玩具 ②distorted view偏见
【语篇解读】 本文是议论文。作者首先讲述了一家人在玩智力拼图时遇到的困难,然后联想到生活中我们也会有如此的经历,认识到只有勇敢做自己,我们才能成功。
1.A.interest
B.excitement
C.difficulty
D.fun
答案 C [从后面他们遇到困难可以知道,他们买的拼图玩具难度也越来越大。]
2.A.presented
B.helped
C.covered
D.taught
答案 A [一天晚上他给家人带回了一个一千多块的拼图玩具。其他选项均有一定的干扰性,联系上文的“The father regularly brought home puzzles”可以得出答案。]
3.A.made
B.managed
C.solved
D.tried
答案 D [联系下文的“the family was frustrated”可知这个家庭进行了没有成功的尝试。make it指“做到”;manage it指“设法对付过去”;solve it指“解决”。]
4.A.therefore
B.however
C.still
D.then
答案 B [前后为转折关系。]
5.A.engine
B.top
C.puzzle
D.question
答案 C [由上下文可知他们要开始的是智力拼图,因此本空用puzzle。]
6.A.accidentally
B.occasionally
C.immediately
D.purposely
答案 A [他偶然地用另一个游戏的顶部接到这个游戏的顶部。occasionally指“有时候”;immediately指“立刻”;purposely指“故意地”。] 7.A.meeting with
B.working onC.making up
D.knowing of
答案 B [此处指“他们正在解决这个游戏”,因此用work on。meet with“偶然遇到”;make up“编造”;know of“知道有关情况”。]
8.A.anxious
B.thankful
C.frustrated
D.sad
答案 C [联系空后的“because He doesn't live up to...”可知,因为上帝没有实现我们对他的期待,我们会很失落的。联系后面几段我们也可以得出答案。]9.A.promises
B.hopes
C.actions
D.expectations
答案 D [他没有实现我们对他的期望。空前的live up to意思是“实践,实现”。promise“承诺”;hope“希望”;action“行为”。]
10.A.match up with
B.fit inC.look like
D.stand for
答案 A [这个教堂跟我们心目中的教堂不相配。match up with意思是“匹配”。fit in“装配”;look like“看上去像”;stand for“代表”。]
11.A.friends
B.relatives
C.others
D.children
答案 C [联系下文中的“of God or of the church or of others”可以得出答案。]
12.A.whether
B.how
C.why
D.what
答案 A [whether引导宾语从句,在句中的意思是“是否”。]
13.A.focusing
B.basing
C.making
D.breaking
答案 B [我们把期待建立在偏见之上。A项有一定的干扰性,focus...on的意思是“集中……”。 ]
14.A.useful
B.practical
C.improper
D.unrealistic
答案 D [联系空后的“can never be realized ”可知,我们的期待是不现实的。useful“有用的”;practical“切合实际的”;improper“不适当的”。] 15.A.style
B.design
C.picture
D.shape
答案 C [联系文章第二段最后一句“The picture they were looking at...”可以得出答案。]
16.A.God
B.churches
C.others
D.ourselves
答案 D [联系空后的“because we don't believe we live up to what others want from us or...”可知,因为我们不能实现别人甚至上帝对我们的期待,我们对自己也会失落。] 17.A.even
B.ever
C.also
D.only
答案 A [even在这里表示程度的加深。甚至我们觉得我们都不能实现上帝对我们的期待。]
18.A.improve
B.change
C.help
D.force
答案 B [联系空后的“fit someone else's standards for us”可知,我们改变自己以适应别人对我们的标准。从下文中的“to be ourselves”也可以得到答案提示。]
19.A.necessary
B.helpful
C.different
D.great
答案 C [联系空后的“We all have our own...”可以得出答案。]
20.A.independent
B.happyC.known
D.successful
答案 D [只有做自己我们才能成功。]
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Amanda took whatever pills she could get,largely because she was finding life hard to take.“There were a lot of __1__,” she says.She had just found out that her parents were splitting.It took her __2__—and she was __3__.“I woke up one morning,and they told me.”
On a few __4__ during her two years of going to parties.“My heart would race so fast it felt like it was going to __5__.I felt weak and confused sometimes and __6__ passed out several times,” she recalls.“But I picked up from the ground __7__ I had a lot of pride in my drinking and drugging.I was really __8__ about it and proud of the fact that I could take more than a lot of people.I could come home and have a __9__ with my parents.”
Finally,__10__,things got out of control.“I couldn't go a day without taking something,” she __11__,“and after a while,the pills __12__ my stomach;it hurt all the time,and I hardly ate.Finally,I couldn't __13__ it any more.I went to my parents and told them I needed help.”
Amanda entered a __14__ program and has been calm since her release last January.“Detox was the __15__ four days of my entire life,” she says.“I was throwing up all the __16__ and had the shakes.”
She doesn't __17__ drugs.“I'm so hurt from this,” says Amanda,who has ulcers and damaged kidneys from the drugs and alcohol.“I have to __18__ daily to stay calm.But in some ways,I feel lucky I __19__ it,and I'm out of it now.”Amanda wrote a song called “Goodnight to the Moonlight.” Amanda says,“It's about how it feels to be taking drugs and alcohol,how it __20__,how it makes you feel like you're losing yourself.”
Notes:
detox n.戒瘾 ②ulcer n.溃疡 ③kidney n.肾脏
【语篇解读】 Amanda因为吸毒导致身体出现各种不适,于是她到戒毒中心参加治疗。戒毒的过程艰难而痛苦,她从中也悟到了许多。
1.A.pills
B.problems
C.people
D.work答案 B [联系上文的“she was finding life hard to take”可知,她的生活中出现了很多问题。]
2.A.by surprise
B.by hands
C.with sadness
D.over again
答案 A [take sb by surprise意思是“突如其来”,联系下文可知,一天早晨醒来,她的父母告诉她此事。]
3.A.angry
B.anxious
C.shocked
D.frightened
答案 C [因为这一切来得突然,因此她震惊了。]
4.A.days
B.weeks
C.periods
D.occasions
答案 D [联系空后的“her two years of going to parties”可知有很多“场合”。C有一定的干扰性,period指“一段时间”。]
5.A.beat
B.stop
C.explode
D.rest
答案 C [联系空前的“My heart would race so fast”可知,她的心脏跳得太快,就像要爆炸一样。]
6.A.ever
B.even
C.already
D.yet
答案 B [“passed out several times”是程度的加深,因此用even,表示“甚至有几次都昏倒了”。]
7.A.while
B.so
C.because
D.although
答案 C [前后为因果关系,后面是前面的原因。]
8.A.crazy
B.concerned
C.anxious
D.worried
答案 A [联系上文的“had a lot of pride in my drinking and drugging”可知,最厉害的时候,她对毒品达到痴迷的程度。]
9.A.meal
B.gathering
C.conversation
D.meeting
答案 C [在吸食了毒品后她才感觉好受,回到家里可以与父母交谈。其他选项都不能表达毒品对她的巨大作用。]
10.A.therefore
B.though
C.then
D.still
答案 B [上文叙述的是毒品带给自己的安慰,后面讲述的是毒品对自己的伤害,因此这里是转折。]
11.A.replies
B.regrets
C.phones
D.recalls
答案 D [联系上下文可知,这是Amanda对过去经历的回忆。]
12.A.upset
B.harmed
C.filled
D.knocked
答案 A [联系下文的“it hurt all the time,and I hardly ate”可知,毒品开始使肠胃不适,故选upset。]
13.A.know
B.take
C.eat
D.see
答案 B [联系空前的“Finally”和空后的“anymore”可知,她再也不能忍受了。take在这里是 “忍受”的意思。]
14.A.TV
B.show
C.treatment
D.talk
答案 C [联系下文“Detox was the __15__ four days of my entire life”可知,她参加了治疗计划。]
15.A.worst
B.happiest
C.luckiest
D.best
答案 A [联系下文“I have to __18__(struggle) daily to stay calm.”可知,治疗的这四天是最糟糕的日子。]
16.A.medicine
B.water
C.food
D.wine
答案 C [联系空前的“throwing up”可知,在治疗中心,她把吃的食物全部吐出了。]
17.A.rely on
B.know about
C.think of
D.care about
答案 D [联系下文她说的“I'm so hurt from this”可知,她对毒品万分痛恨,因此再也不喜欢它了。]
18.A.stand
B.struggle
C.exercise
D.write
答案 B [联系空后的“to stay calm”可知,每天为了能保持安静,她要努力与毒品抗争。]
19.A.went through
B.looked through
C.put through
D.put down
答案 A [联系下文“I'm out of it now”可知,她觉得自己很幸运,因为经历了这个痛苦,现在摆脱了毒品。go through指“经历艰难痛苦的事情”。]
20.A.feels
B.wastes
C.hurts
D.affects
答案 C [最后一句讲述的是从开始吸毒到最后戒毒的过程,此空表达的是毒品带给她的伤害,因此用hurts。]