强化训练09 完形填空(一)
(45分钟，100分)
A
Death can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere. I lost my grandpa a little over two years ago. He was and will be always a second dad to me. He was there for all of my success and
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He
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in 2011, two days after Christmas. After he was gone, everyone in my family was on edge and sobbing for months. No one
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to talk about what happened. Every time a memory was
__4__ back we laughed and then cried. When going through grief, you want comfort from those who are
__5__ to you. But whom do you
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when everyone around you is in the same
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After my grandpa's death, I fell into a depression
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for months. I didn't know how to deal with my pain. I wanted to be in a selfclosed world. But being
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was the worst possible outcome.
I had no idea how to cope with his absence. After I broke down in front of my mom she
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me to counseling(心理咨询). I
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thought counseling could help. However, it was
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what I needed: someone to talk to who wouldn't
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, who would listen, and give
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advice. Eventually, I fought through my
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.
A couple of years before my grandpa died, my grandma died from cancer. I
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how grandpa used to cry for her. He was
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her so much and wanted to be with her in heaven. He
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the person he loved the most, with whom he had spent over 50 years.
I
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realized that he was with his love, smiling down on me, and telling me he was happy in heaven! The hole in my heart began to
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1. A. progress B. failure
C. happiness
D. development
2. A. passed away
B. broke down
C. died away
D. passed down
3. A. demanded
B. managed
C. decided
D. wanted
4. A. picked
B. brought
C. talked
D. set
5. A. familiar
B. similar
C. close
D. helpful
6. A. deal with
B. turn to
C. call on
D. refer to
7. A. situation
B. position
C. status
D. level
8. A. waiting
B. lasting
C. running
D. changing
9. A. dependent
B. silent
C. alone
D. negative
10. A. invited
B. treated
C. adapted
D. guided
11. A. even
B. never
C. also
D. still
12．A. exactly
B. generally
C. typically
D. possibly
13．A. accept
B. judge
C. care
D. refuse
14．A. reasonable
B. critical
C. interesting
D. shocking
15．A. depression
B. anxiety
C. disappointment
D. fear
16．A. realized
B. understood
C. remembered
D. recognized
17．A. interrupting
B. missing
C. embarrassing
D. bothering
18．A. forgot
B. abandoned
C. lost
D. ignored
19．A. constantly
B. finally
C. immediately
D. completely
20．A. enlarge
B. fill
C. appear
D. break
【语篇解读】 爷爷的离世使作者和家人陷入极大的悲痛中。很长的一段时间内，作者都不能从失去亲人的痛苦中走出来，最后在心理咨询师的帮助下，作者终于摆脱了痛苦。
1．解析：与句中的“success”形成对比，故选failure，指无论作者是在成功还是失败时，爷爷总是和作者在一起。
答案：B
2．解析：上文的“I lost my grandpa a little over two years ago”和后文的内容说明作者的爷爷去世了。pass away“去世”，符合语境。
答案：A
3．解析：上文表明家人处于悲痛之中，由此可知没有人想(wanted)谈令人难过的事。
答案：D
4．解析：每次我们回忆起爷爷的时候，笑起来之后便哭了。bring back“回忆起”。
答案：B
5．解析：此处指当经历悲痛的时候，你会想从与你关系密切的人那儿寻求安慰。close to表示“与……关系密切”。
答案：C
6．解析：但是当你身边的每个人都处于相同的境况时，你向谁求助呢？turn to sb.“向某人求助”，符合语境。
答案：B
7．解析：参见上题解析。situation“状况，境况”。
答案：A
8．解析：爷爷去世后，“我”的沮丧持续了几个月。last表示时间的持续，符合语境。
答案：B
9．解析：上文的“I wanted to be in a selfclosed world”表明，一个人待着是最坏的结果。alone“单独，独自”。
答案：C
10．解析：“我”在母亲面前崩溃之后，母亲带着“我”去进行心理咨询。guide sb. to...表示“引导……到……”。
答案：D
11．解析：下文的转折词“However”说明，作者之前从没想过心理咨询会有所帮助。
答案：B
12．解析：下文表明，这正是作者所需要的，exactly表示“确切地，恰恰”。
答案：A
13．解析：下文的“who would listen”暗示着心理咨询师会耐心听，不评判。其他三项与语境不符。
答案：B
14．解析：心理咨询师听完后会给出合理的建议，reasonable表示“合理的，明智的”。
答案：A
15．解析：上文的“I fell into a depression”说明作者从失去爷爷的沮丧中走了出来。depression“沮丧，抑郁”。
答案：A
16．解析：此处指作者记得爷爷怎样为奶奶哭泣。remember“记得，想起”。
答案：C
17．解析：句中的“wanted to be with her in heaven”表明了爷爷对奶奶的思念。miss表示“思念”。
答案：B
18．解析：奶奶的去世使爷爷失去了他最爱的人。lose“失去”。
答案：C
19．解析：根据上下文，此处指作者最终意识到爷爷跟奶奶在一起，微笑着俯视着自己，告诉自己他在天堂很开心。finally“最终，最后”。
答案：B
20．解析：通过心理咨询，作者受伤的心情得到了修复，心里的空洞开始被填满，故选fill表示“(使)充满”。
答案：B
B
Since I was 12 years old, I've suffered from a condition called Compulsive Hair Pulling(强迫性拔毛癖). The physical destruction was severe, but the emotional
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was worse. When I was young, no one,
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my doctor, knew how to help me. I was alone.
Growing up, I didn't
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anywhere and I suffered great shame knowing I'd brought this
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of their own.
“What's wrong with me？” I'd often wonder. Sometimes, people asked about my
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of eyelashes(睫毛) and eyebrows. I was lonely, but I kept people at a distance. However, each night,
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I fell asleep, I'd pray to God to send someone who
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Then when I was 25, I read a letter from a mom whose child suffered from the same illness. I could
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believe my eyes. After all these years, I discovered, I was not
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At that moment, my journey for
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began. I took small
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at first－telling only a few friends. Some of them tried to understand. Then, they began to
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their secrets with me. I learned to see
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the way God saw me, someone
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love.
One day, my
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happened. A friend called with wonderful news. She just met a woman with Compulsive Hair Pulling－someone just like me. She gave me her phone number. I was
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to meet soon, only to find we lived just two blocks away. We immediately
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our phones, and in the dark of night, ran outside to the nearby park in our pajamas,
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we hugged, cried and talked for hours,
l felt I'd just met my long lost twin, someone who understood my pain and struggles.
Yes, it was true. I was not alone.
1. A. conflict
B. threat
C. damage
D. puzzle
2. A. including
B. except
C. beyond
D. but
3. A. belong to
B. fit in
C. come up
D. fall over
4. A. shyness
B. pain
C. anger
D. tiredness
5. A. decision
B. solution
C. mind
D. conclusion
6. A. color
B. shape
C. recovery
D. lack
7. A. after
B. before
C. if
D. though
8. A. understood
B. missed
C. thought
D. listened
9. A. never
B. hardly
C. seldom
D. rarely
10. A. ill
B. weak
C. sad
D. alone
11. A. healing
B. praying
C. searching
D. longing
12. A. efforts
B. suggestions
C. steps
D. walks
13. A. share
B. betray
C. sell
D. keep
14．A. them
B. everyone
C. anyone
D. myself
15．A. wasting
B. deserving
C. giving
D. refusing
16．A. illness
B. symptom
C. prediction
D. miracle
17．A. peaceful
B. surprised
C. overjoyed
D. cold
18．A. went
B. ran
C. planned
D. imagined
19．A. dialed
B. exchanged
C. fell
D. dropped
20．A. where
B. when
C. how
D. why
【语篇解读】 “我”在12岁的时候得了一种“强迫性拔毛癖”的怪病，觉得自己既孤单又自卑。在“我”25岁时，当“我”得知有人和“我”一样患有这种病的时候，“我”觉得自己并不孤单并开始治疗。
1．解析：下文表示“我”年轻的时候，没有人知道怎么帮助“我”，故此处指“我”身体上受到的伤害很严重，心理上的伤害更为严重。此处和前面的“destruction”应是同义词，故选C项。conflict“冲突”；threat“威胁”；puzzle“困惑”。
答案：C
2．解析：根据空格前面的“no one”可知，包括“我”的医生在内没有人知道怎么帮助“我”，故选A项。except“除了”；beyond“超出……的范围”；but“除……以外”。
答案：A
3．解析：根据空格后面的“I suffered great shame”可知，长大后，“我”任何地方都适应不了。fit in“适应”，符合语境。belong to“属于”；come up“出现”；fall over“倒下”。
答案：B
4．解析：这样的痛苦(pain)是“我”自作自受，故选B项。bring sth. upon oneself表示“自作自受”。
答案：B
5．解析：根据上文提到的强迫性拔毛癖这种疾病可知，此处表示，“我”的手看起来好像有自己的思想，故选C项。
答案：C
6．解析：根据强迫性拔毛癖的症状可知，人们会问“我”缺少的睫毛和眉毛，故选D项。color“颜色”；shape“形状”；recovery“恢复”；lack“缺乏”。
答案：D
7．解析：根据生活常识可知应是在睡觉之前(before)祈祷，故选B项。
答案：B
8．解析：根据上下文的内容可知，“我”觉得自己非常孤单，故这里是在祈祷上帝能送给“我”一个理解“我”的人。understand“理解”；miss“错过”；think“想”；listen“听”。
答案：A
9．解析：“我”觉得自己很孤单，认为不幸的人只有“我”一个人，所以当看到这封信，得知有人和“我”患有一样的疾病的时候，“我”几乎不能相信自己的眼睛，故选B项。never“从不”；hardly“几乎不”；seldom“很少”；rarely“很少”。
答案：B
10．解析：经过了这些年，“我”发现自己并不孤单，最后一段中的“I was not alone”也是提示。故选D项。
答案：D
11．解析：“我”开始治病了，故选A项。heal“医治”，符合语境。
答案：A
12．解析：根据空格后面的“telling only a few friends”可知，开始的时候，“我”采取了一些小措施，故选C项。
答案：C
13．解析：在“我”告诉他们“我”的疾病之后，他们开始和“我”分享他们的秘密，故选A项。
答案：A
14．解析：“我”学着用上帝看待“我”的方式来看待“我”自己——“我”是一个值得被爱的人。故选D项。
答案：D
15．解析：参见上题解析。deserve表示“应得，应受到”。
答案：B
16．解析：有一天，奇迹发生了，故选D项。illness“疾病”；symptom“症状”；prediction“预测”；miracle“奇迹”。
答案：D
17．解析：根据上下文内容可知，“我”此时非常开心，故选C项。peaceful“和平的，平静的”；surprised“惊奇的”；overjoyed“极为高兴的，十分开心的”；cold“寒冷的”。
答案：C
18．解析：我们打算尽快见面，故选C项。
答案：C
19．解析：根据前文中的“I quickly dialed...”和后文中的“and in the dark of night, ran outside to the nearby park in our pajamas”可知，此处指我们放下了电话，出来见面了，故选D项。dial“打电话”；exchange“交换”；fall“跌落”；drop“放下”。
答案：D
20．解析：空处引导了一个定语从句，先行词是“the nearby park”，空处所填词在从句中作地点状语，故用where引导该定语从句。
答案：A
C
One afternoon last summer I was driving along on my way home. Then I noticed a woman at the roadside near the edge of town
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with a wheeled suitcase. There was no sidewalk, only grass, and she was having a
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way to go.
I pulled over to a nearby parking lot to
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her. I suspected that she was heading to the homeless shelter across the street. As it was
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that she was on her way somewhere, I continued to watch. In truth I was not only assessing her
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but whether or not she had the
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to harm me if I gave her a hand.
After a couple of minutes I turned around,
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the car next to her and offered her a ride. She
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. She told me that she had been traveling for a while and that
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had helped her along the way. Her
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was a city about three hours' drive from where we were. I offered to take her to the halfway point and she accepted.
Along the way, we stopped for food and drink for her which she
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paying for with her own money. When we reached the town we stopped at a grocery store. I was
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that by this time she had developed enough
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in me to leave her suitcase in the car while she shopped. While she was inside I
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a Holiday Inn nearby and called
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to see if there were vacancies.
Upon her
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from the grocery store, I
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what I had done and she accepted my
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of a room for the night. We drove to the __19__ and the kind young woman there provided what discounts she could
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a room with a refrigerator. She stated that she was touched and that “people don't do this kind of thing”．
1. A. fighting
B. working
C．struggling
D. dealing
2. A. strange
B. rough
C. familiar
D. narrow
3. A. help
B. accompany
C. drive
D. observe
4. A. apparent
B. ridiculous
C. doubtful
D. uncertain
5. A. attitude
B. identity
C. situation
D. concern
6. A. ability
B. potential
C. thought
D. strength
7. A. pulled up
B. pulled out
C. pulled back
D. pulled on
8. A. rejected
B. responded
C. promised
D. accepted
9. A. locals
B. friends
C. families
D. strangers
10. A. destination
B. station
C. office
D. hometown
11. A. insisted on
B. appealed to
C. gave up
D. longed for
12. A. satisfied
B. touched
C. astonished
D. frightened
13．A. persistence
B. courage
C. confidence
D. interest
14．A. discovered
B. located
C. managed
D. opened
15．A. ahead
B. around
C. aside
D. alone
16．A. recovery
B. return
C. escape
D. absence
17．A. showed
B. shared
C. kept
D. provided
18．A. offer
B. advice
C. service
D. desire
19．A. shelter
B. stop
C. hotel
D. shop
20．A. as far as
B. as long as
C. as soon as
D. as well as
【语篇解读】 作者在回家的路上偶遇一位带着行李箱行走的路人，作者热心帮助这位路人，令其感动不已。
1．解析：下文的“a wheeled suitcase”“There was no sidewalk, only grass”说明这位女士拉着行李箱在路上吃力地走着。struggle“艰难地行进，吃力地进行”。
答案：C
2．解析：依据句中的“no sidewalk, only grass”可知，这位女士所走的路高低不平。rough“粗糙的，高低不平的”。
答案：B
3．解析：下文的内容表明作者在观察(observe)这位走在路上的女士。下文中的“I continued to watch”也是提示。
答案：D
4．解析：上文的“... heading to the homeless shelter”表明，作者看出来这位女士显然(apparent)要去某个地方。
答案：A
5．解析：此处指作者不仅在评估这位女士所处的境况，也在评估如果自己帮助她，她是否会有伤害自己的可能性。situation“处境，状况”，符合语境。attitude“态度”；identity“身份”；concern“关心”。
答案：C
6．解析：参见上题解析。potential“可能性，潜在性”。
答案：B
7．解析：上文的“I was driving along on my way”和下文的“offered her a ride”表明此处指作者停下车帮助她。pull up“停车”，符合语境。pull out“驶出”；pull back“撤退”；pull on“猛吸，猛抽”。
答案：A
8．解析：依据下文可知，这位女士接受(accepted)了作者的帮助。
答案：D
9．解析：这位女士走在路上，她得到的帮助自然来自于陌生人(strangers)。
答案：D
10．解析：她的目的地(destination)是一个距离我们所在的地方有大约三小时车程的城市。
答案：A
11．解析：路上，我们停下来买食品和饮料，她坚持要自己付钱。insist on“坚持做某事”，符合语境。appeal to“呼吁，请求”；give up“放弃”；long for“渴望”。
答案：A
12．解析：结合上 下文可知，此处指作者对于这位女士如此信任自己感到很感动(touched)。
答案：B
13．解析：参见上题解析。confidence“信任，信赖”。
答案：C
14．解析：当她在商店购物的时候，作者找到附近的假日旅馆locate是及物动词，表示“确定……的准确地点，找到”。
答案：B
15．解析：在去旅馆之前，作者提前打电话询问那里是否有空房间。ahead“提前”。
答案：A
16．解析：上文提到这位女士把行李箱放在作者的车上，到商店购物去了，故此处指她一回来(return)。
答案：B
17．解析：作者告诉了这位女士为她做的事，故选share表示“告诉”。
答案：B
18．解析：由下文的内容可知，这位女士接受了作者的好意。accept an offer“接受好意”，故选offer。
答案：A
19．解析：结合上下文可知，作者开车把这位女士送到了旅馆(hotel)。
答案：C
20．解析：此处指旅馆里一位年轻善良的女士不仅提供了打折，而且还提供了带有冰箱的房间。as well as连接了“what discounts she could”和“a room with a refrigerator”，表示“不仅……而且……”。
答案：D