本文为大家搜集整理了2014年职称英语综合类B级完形填空练习题,供大家参考。
It was a great legend while it lasted, but DNA testing has ____1_____ ended a two-century-old story of the Hawiian arrow 箭头carved from the bone of British explorer Captain James Cook ___2___ died in the Sandwich Islands1 in 1779.
There is _____3____ Cook2 in the Australian Museum, museum collection manager Jude Philip said not long ago in announcing the DNA evidence that the arrow was not made of Cooks bone. But that will not stop the museum from continuing to display the arrow in its _____4___, Uncovered: Treasures of the Australian Museum3, which ____5____include a feather cape presented to Cook by Hawaiian King Kalaniopuu in 1778.
Cook was one of Britains great explorers and is credited with ____6____ the Great South Land, _____7_____ Australia, in 1770. He was clubbed棍打 to death in the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii. 夏威夷, 夏威夷岛
The legend of Cooks arrow began in 1824 ____8___ Hawaiian King Kamehameha on his deathbed临死所卧之床, 临终之时 gave the arrow to William Adams, a London surgeon and relative of Cooks wife, saying it was made of Cooks bone after the fatal ____9____ with islanders.
In the 1890s the arrow was given to the Australian Museum and the legend continued ____10_____ it came face-to-face with science.
DNA testing by laboratories in Australia and New Zealand revealed the arrow was not made of Cooks bone but was more _____11____ made of animal bone, said Philp.
However, Cooks fans ____12___ to give up hope that one Cook legend will prove true and that part of his remains will still be uncovered, as they say there is evidence not all of Cooks body was___13___ at sea in 1779. On this occasion technology has won,4 said Cliff Thornton, president of the Captain Cook Society, in a ____14_____ from Britain. But I am ____15___ that one of these daysone of the Cook legends will prove to be true and it will happen one day.
1. A) finally B) firstly C) lately D) usually
2. A) whose B) who C) which D) what
3. A) some B) none C) neither D) no
4. A) cinema B) exhibition C) shop D) market
5. A) must B) did C) has to D) does
6. A) discovering B) visiting C) traveling D) using
7. A) then B) now C) past D) previously
8. A) how B) where C) when D) that
9. A) conversation B) fight C) meal D) dance
10. A) however B) until C) after D) whenever
11. A) helpfully B) usefully C) likely D) readily
12. A) refuse B) return C) regain D) reply
13. A) collected B) washed C) stored D) buried
14. A) statement B) suggestion C) proposal D) guess
15. A) safe B) weak C) sure D) lucky
美国习惯用语-第157讲:OUT OF ONE´S SKULL/S
美国习惯用语-第179讲:to beat one´s brains
美国习惯用语-第143讲:one of a kind/top-notch
美国习惯用语-第129讲:baby boomers/yuppies
美国习惯用语-第136讲:now the ball is in&
美国习惯用语-第124讲:a straw in the wind
美国习惯用语-第130讲:dinks/sandwich generation
美国习惯用语-第169讲:Nothing special
美国习惯用语-第162讲:To get it in the&nb
美国习惯用语-第152讲:street smarts/two-way street
美国习惯用语-第122讲:the last straw/to sow&nb
美国习惯用语-第140讲:spinning one´s wheel
美国习惯用语-第125讲:trailblazer/cutting edge
美国习惯用语-第142讲:to skin someone alive/sk
美国习惯用语-第147讲:green thumb/all thumbs
美国习惯用语-第141讲:all skin and bones
美国习惯用语-第151讲:Easy street/Out on the&n
美国习惯用语-第177讲:hit the ceiling
美国习惯用语-第150讲:to kiss someone or
美国习惯用语-第176讲:To make one´s blood&
美国习惯用语-第180讲:Brain drain
美国习惯用语-第148讲:under the thumb/to stick
美国习惯用语-第131讲:couch potato/mall rats
美国习惯用语-第173讲:to keep one´s cool
美国习惯用语-第164讲:Over one´s head/Over 
美国习惯用语-第156讲:LOOSE LIPS/AT LOOSE ENDS
美国习惯用语-第158讲:To have a feeling i
美国习惯用语-第163讲:Cold shoulder/Hot air
美国习惯用语-第155讲:Tight-lipped/Tight with someo
美国习惯用语-第174讲:All in the same boa
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