完形填空精练（20）
Passage 1
Pain is important. I learned the lesson at 12 through a child-directed sandlot football （沙地橄榄球）game.We planned a
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with a similar team from a nearby town. It never
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to us to practice or
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for the game except to do what we had done for years — run around, pass the football and yell.
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, our opponents（对手）were prepared. At the beginning they defeated us.
lf we were to
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, we had to prepare and learn the discipline of practice and be
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. At that moment one of my teammates volunteered to be the captain. His voice is loud and
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. He focused my attention on the importance of
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and the reaction to it. We had been pushed around unmercifully by a larger and
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opponent. On our five-yard line, he told the team he would take the ball on every play
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we lost it. But from the
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in his eye, we all knew we’d better not lose it. He ran into the center of the line
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pads（护具）or helmet to protect him.
The first rush caught the other team by
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, and he went for 10 yards. On the second rush, they defended, but we still moved. For 60 yards, we
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forward. By the time we had
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to their 30-yard-line, our captain was covered with
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and blood, but still giving the same
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:“Pass the ball to me on three.” Finally we defeated our opponents surprisingly.
I have never forgotten that day and that
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I learned. The fear of pain could be
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and learning to live with pain can give one
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to overcome difficulties of all sorts.
41. A. party
B. game
C. trip
D. visit
42. A. struck
B. thought
C. occurred
D. intended
43. A. prepare
B. train
C. defend
D. struggle
44. A. Therefore B. Besides
C. Otherwise
D. However
45. A. compete B. win
C. improve
D. quit
46. A. united
B. criticized
C. praised
D. divided
47. A. concerned
B. worried
C. determined D. satisfied
48. A. performance B. leadership
C. failure
D. pain
49. A. stronger
B. taller
C. wiser
D. better
50. A. unless
B. if
C. until
D. once
51. A. look
B. patience
C. excitement
D. color
52. A. through
B. without
C. by
D. for
53. A. chance
B. accident
C. luck
D. surprise
54. A. approached B. adventured C. inched
D. looked
55. A. advanced B. reached C. marched D. escaped
56. A. anger
B. water
C. dust
D. shame
57. A. devotion B. command C. pressure D. courage
58. A. sport
B. contributionC. friendship D. lesson
59. A. overcome B. comforted C. neglected D. considered
60. A. caution B. strength C. anger
D. advantage
Passage ： 12岁的时候在一次沙地橄榄球联谊赛中，由于我队对比赛的认识和准备不足，开始时，节节败退。这时，一个队友挺身而出，充当队长。面对强大的对手，我们克服了对身心痛苦的恐惧，最终赢得了比赛。这次比赛使我认识到了痛苦是很重要的。学会承受痛苦能赋予一个人克服困难的力量。
41. B从文章开头可以得知我们经历了一场沙地橄榄球比赛，这里开始叙述事情的始末。因此我们策划的是比赛。
42. C除了做几年来我们一直在做的事情外，我们从来没有想过为这次比赛进行训练或做准备。It occurred to sb. that…是习惯表达，表示”某人想到……”。
43. A从下文可知对方是充分准备了的，和我们没有做任何准备(包括比赛护具和头盔都没有带)形成对比，这也是导致我们比赛开始时被打败的原因。train训练;defend防御，保护;struggle挣扎，奋斗。选train不足以覆盖语境需要。首先它和practice语义
重复。其次，prepare有多层含义，包括思想、比赛用品及技术训练等多方面。
44. D对方有备而来和我们没有任何准备形成转折对比。However然而。Therefore因此，Otherwise否则，Besides此外。
45. B如果我们想赢得比赛，就必须准备并了解比赛规则，并且要团结一致。
46. A
united团结一致的，联合的。criticized受到批评，praised得到表扬，divided分裂的。
47. C他讲话的声音很大，很坚定。通过下文描述，他领导球队一次次冲破对方的防范，即使受伤流血也要奋力拼搏的精神可知这位临时主动担当队长的队友意志坚定。determined意志坚定的，concerned焦虑的，担忧的，worried着急，担心的，satisfied满意的。
48. D他使我注意到了痛苦的重要性，以及对痛苦所作出的反应。我们比赛开始遭到重创，遭到了有备而来的强大对手无情冲撞。这是我们球队面临的痛苦。这时我的队友所作出的反应是，挺身而出，直面挑战。
49. A我们的对手身材高大而强壮,因此我们的队员遭到无情冲撞。
50. C在我们的五码线上他告诉全队，每次都由他来带球直到我们丢球为止。unless如果不，除非，if如果，until直到，once一旦。
51. A而从他的眼神中我们都明白，最好不要丢球。
look神色，神情;patience耐心;excitement激动;color颜色。
52. B在没有护具和头盔的保护下，他冲向中心区。
53. D第一次攻击把对手打了个措手不及。by surprise出其不意，冷不防;by chance偶然，意外;
by luck侥幸，凭运气;by accident偶然，不经意的。
54. C第二次攻击时，对方开始防守，因此前进很困难。因此选用inch表示缓慢，吃力地
移动。approach靠近;adventure冒险;look看。
55. A当我们前进到30码线的时候，我们的队长浑身都是土和血。reach是及物动词，不能跟too
march行军，疾步前进，由于对方有防守，因此我们不可能大步前进。escape 逃跑。
56. C因为比赛为沙地橄榄球，因此双方比赛争斗中会把尘土(dust)弄到身上，因为我们的队长没有护具和头盔，因此在激烈的角逐中会受伤，身上会有血(blood)
57. B尽管队长浑身是土和血，他仍然发着同样的命令:在3码线处把球传给我。command命令;devotion奉献，忠诚;pressure压力;courage勇气。
58. D我没有忘记那一天和那次得到的教训。learn a lesson得到教训。与开头呼应。
59. A对痛苦的恐惧是可以克服的，学会忍受痛苦能赋予一个人克服各种困难的力量。
60. B strength力量;caution小心，谨慎;anger愤怒;生气;advantage优势。Passage 2
I was fifteen months old, a happy kid until the day I fell. It was a 21 fall. I landed on a glass rabbit which cut my eye badly enough to make it blind. Trying to save the eye, the doctors stitched（缝合） the eyeball together where it was 22 , leaving a big ugly scar（疤痕） in the middle of my eye. The attempt 23 , but my mother, in all of her wisdom, found another doctor who knew that if the eye were removed 24 , my face would grow up badly distorted（扭曲）, 25 my scarred, sightless, cloudy and gray eye lived on with me. As I grew, this sightless eye in so many ways
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me. I walked with my face looking at the 27 so that people would not see the 28
me. Yet my mother would say to me, at every turn, “Hold your head up high and 29 the world. If you hold your head up high, it will be OK, and people will see your 30 soul.” She continued this 31 whenever I was trying to hide. Mama’s words were of great help for me to face the world 32 . As a teenager, even though I tended to look down to hide my shame, I found that sometimes when I held my head up high and let people know me, they 33 me. In high school, I was 34 both academically and socially. I was 35 elected class president. My mother’s words helped me begin to realize that by letting people look at my face, I let them 36 the intelligence and beauty behind both eyes, even if they couldn’t see it on the 37 .
Now I’m a happy wife and great mother. The message “Hold your head up high,” has been 38 many times in my 39 home. Each of my children has felt 40
invitation, and the gift my mother gave me has lived on in another generation.
21．A．surprising
B．sudden
C．bad
D．big
22．A．separated
B．destroyed C．hurt
D．cut
23．A．tried
B．failed
C．succeeded
D．managed
24．A．quickly
B．slowly
C．carefully
D．entirely
25．A．then
B． so
C．still
D．if
26．A．affected
B．protected
C．stopped
D．interrupted
27．A．front
B．world
C．floor
D．people
28．A．ugly B．elderly
C．shy
D．strange
29．A．deal with
B．see
C．face
D．laugh at
30．A．different
B．honest
C．lonely D．beautiful
31．A．sentence
B．message
C．opinion
D．passage
32．A．simply
B．proudly
C．bravely
D．fairly
33．A．liked
B．disliked C．hated
D．noticed
34．A．comfortable B．successful C．valuable
D．special
35．A．nearly
B．still
C．hardly
D．even
36．A．recognize B．observe
C．watch
D．touch
37．A．surface
B．outing
C．head
D．scar
38．A．discussed
B．talked
C．heard
D．written
39．A．brave
B．peaceful
C．exciting
D．sweet
40．A．its
B．my
C．their
D．herPassage 2：21-25 CDBDB
26-30 ACACD
31-35 BCABD
36-40ABCDA
Passage 3
My father, a sale trainer, tried to teach me the importance of hard work. But then there were the things he taught me unintentionally (非故意地)，like when he arrived home from
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for the last time and climbed up the stairs that night. His body was so
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with cancer. But he
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left the hospital to give a lecture in another city. He probably
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his good fame that day, but he paid the price: He
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to the hospital soon after and
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three months later, at the age of 58.The
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that my father climbed up the stairs always
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before my eyes. And since then, I’ve thought a lot about work. I’ve
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something: I won’t live like my father and I will
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my work at five o’clock every day.
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I love my job as a newspaper reporter, I will never work so
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as to end my life so early like my father.
My father once told me he was
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to enjoy a beautiful sunset because he always had a lot of things to do. You could say he was a
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person: He was a famous author, a good musician, and good at German---- that’s a(n)
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list, but here’s the thing: I just want to
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sunsets. I don’t want to be writing a report at the same time.
This raises the
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: If I leave work at five o’clock to watch the sunset, what will be the
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? Will I risk not reaching the top of my career? Maybe. But, leaving work at five o’clock
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that I can eat dinner with my family, play with my children and go on a bicycle ride in the city
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watching sunsets. And I get to take in a lot of sunsets. That’s got to be worth something.
21. A. vocation
B. school
C. hospital
D. work
22. A. soft
B. weak
C. strong
D. small
23. A. never
B. still
C. really
D. almost
24. A. kept
B. forgot
C. used
D. destroyed
25. A. travelled
B. drove
C. returned
D. raced
26. A. laughed
B. recovered
C. retired
D. died
27. A. purpose
B. dream
C. scene
D. hope
28. A. appeared
B. stayed
C. waited
D. changed
29. A. noticed
B. decided
C. earned
D. lost
30. A. start
B. continue
C. leave
D. report
31. A. Since
B. If
C. Until
D. Though
32. A. hard
B. carefully
C. fast
D. painfully
33. A. unwilling
B. unable
C. ready
D. eager
34. A. brave
B. happy
C. successful
D. strange
35. A. beautiful
B. amazing
C. common
D. popular
36. A. enjoy
B. protect
C. paint
D. learn
37. A. joke
B. idea
C. fight
D. question
38. A. causes
B. plans
C. dangers
D. results
39. A. means
B. predicts
C. suggests
D. expects
40. A. without
B. along
C. besides
D. about
Passage 3：21-25DBBAC
26-30 DCABC
31-35 DABCB
36-40 ADDAC
Passage 4
If a teenager had some problems in her life years ago, she might go home and write them in her diary. Now, a teenager with the
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problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog. In many ways, a diary and a blog are very
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. So, what makes blogging different from writing in a
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diary?
The biggest difference is that blogging is much more
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than a diary. Usually a teenager treats her diary like a book full of
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that she doesn’t want to
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.
It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog
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a diary will probably write nearly the same information. Both diaries and blogs tell details about what happened to the
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that day.
I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her
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. She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not
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enough for her chemistry test. When I was her
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, I wrote about the same things, but
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in my diary. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was
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that my sister might read it!
Because blogging is such a public way of writing, it has both good and bad points. The biggest
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with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something
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about her in my diary, she would
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know.
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, if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend
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read her blog and got angry.
Because we do not always
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things carefully before we write about our days, it is 40 to accidentally write something that hurts someone’s feelings in a blog.
21. A. different
B. difficult
C. same
D. easy
22. A. special
B. similar
C. common
D. different
23. A. popular
B. modern
C. traditional
D. new
24. A. hidden
B. familiar
C. attractive
D. public
25. A. secrets
B. tales
C. stories
D. jokes
26. A. share
B. hide
C. play
D. publish
27. A. as well as
B. in spite of
C. in favor of
D. instead of
28. A. reader
B. listener
C. writer
D. friend
29. A. blog
B. diary
C. e-mail
D. report
30. A. writing
B. studying
C. teaching
D. copying
31. A. age
B. weight
C. height
D. size
32. A. still
B. only
C. already
D. never
33. A. glad
B. sad
C. worried
D. satisfied
34. A. advantage
B. doubt
C. mistake
D. problem
35. A. strange
B. unpleasant
C. good
D. interesting
36. A. surely
B. never
C. always
D. already
37. A. So
B. And
C. However
D. Therefore
38. A. might
B. should
C. must
D. shall
39. A. talk about
B. hear about
C. care about
D. think about
40. A. hard
B. funny
C. easy
D. interesting
Passage 4：2125 CBCDA
26-30 ADCAB
31-35 ABCDB
36-40 BCADC