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2016届广东高考英语一轮复习训练:完形填空6

来源 :中华考试网 2016-01-08

  选材相似度:★★★★

  设题相似度:★★★

  难度系数:★★★★

  Like that of her own character,Harry Potter,J.K.Rowling's life is like a fairy tale.Divorced,living on public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant daughter,Rowling __1__ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone __2__ a table in a cafe during her daughter's naps—and it was Harry Potter __3__ rescued her.

  Rowling __4__ that she always wanted to write and that the first __5__ she actually wrote down,when she was five or six,was a story about a rabbit __6__ Rabbit.Many of her favorite __7__ center around reading—hearing The Wind in the Willows __8__ aloud by her father when she had the measles,enjoying the fantastic adventure stories of E.Nesbit,and her favorite story of all,The Little White Horse.

  At Exeter University Rowling took her degree in French and __9__ one year studying in Paris.After college she moved to London to __10__ as a researcher and bilingual secretary.The best thing about working in an office,she has said,was __11__ up stories on the computer when no one was __12__.During this time,on a particularly long train ride from Manchester to London in the summer of 1990,the idea __13__ her of a boy who is a wizard and doesn't know it.He __14__ a school for wizardry—she could see him very plainly in her mind.By the time the train __15__ into Kings Cross station four hours later,many of the characters and the early stages of the plot were fully __16__ in her head.The story took further shape as she continued working on it in __17__ and cafes over her lunch hours.

  After her marriage to a Portuguese TV journalist ended in divorce,Rowling returned to Britain with her infant daughter and a suitcase full of Harry Potter notes and __18__.She settled in Edinburgh to be near her sister and __19__ to finish the book before looking for a teaching job.Wheeling her daughter's carriage around the city to escape their __20__,cold apartment,she would duck into coffee shops to write when the baby fell asleep.In this way she finished the book and started sending it to publishers.

  Notes:

  measle n.麻疹 ②bilingual adj.双语的

  【语篇解读】 Harry Potter是受全世界书迷喜欢的系列小说,可很少有人知道此书的作者J.K.Rowling的命运就像书中人物哈利·波特一样具有传奇色彩。

  1.A.read B.recited C.wrote D.copied

  答案 C [作为一个作家,应该是“写”或“创作”小说。]

  2.A.on B.in C.around D.at

  答案 D [写作时应该是“坐在桌子前”,用at a table。]

  3.A.what B.that C.which D.who

  答案 B [本句采用了强调句型,强调的是主语Harry Potter。] 4.A.remembers B.thinks

  C.reminds D.supposes

  答案 A [此处是Rowling对往事的回忆,所以应该选 remembers。]

  5.A.book B.story C.novel D.fiction

  答案 B [下文“was a story about a rabbit __6__ Rabbit”暗示了答案。novel 指一般的小说;fiction多指科幻方面的小说。]

  6.A.colored B.published C.called D.replaced

  答案 C [语境为“关于一只名叫Rabbit的兔子的故事”。]

  7.A.songs B.sports C.things D.memories

  答案 D [此段主要讲述的是Rowling对往事的回忆,这里的意思为“她的许多美好回忆集中在读书上”。]

  8.A.spoken B.said C.told D.read答案 D [read aloud意思为“大声朗读”;虽然tell可以表示“讲故事”,但它不与aloud搭配。]

  9.A.cost B.spared C.took D.spent

  答案 D [spend time(in)doing sth为固定结构。]

  10.A.regard B.consider C.work D.treat

  答案 C [虽然四个动词都与as搭配,但此处表示“当研究员和秘书”,所以用work as。]

  11.A.searching B.reading C.listening D.typing

  答案 D [此处表示在上班期间搞业余创作,应该是在电脑上把构思的小说“打出来”。]

  12.A.noticing B.watching C.observing D.seeing

  答案 B [语境为“当没有观察时,她就在电脑上打字”。watch表示“观看,观察,监视”,符合语境;notice表示“无意中注意到”;observe多表示“搞专门研究的人长期地进行某一方面的观察”;see表示“有意或无意中看到”。]

  13.A.came to B.struck to C.stuck to D.hit on

  答案 A [表示“某人产生一个主意”常用an idea comes to sb,an idea strikes sb或sb hits on/upon an idea。]

  14.A.studies B.attends C.builds D.goes

  答案 B [与上学有关的短语为study at/in a school,attend a school,enter a school和go to school。]

  15.A.entered B.pulled C.reached D.arrived

  答案 B [火车进站、出站常用动词“pull into”和“pull out of”。另外,这两个短语还可表示轮船进出码头。]

  16.A.organized B.taken C.formed D.appeared

  答案 C [此处表示故事中的人物和前边的部分已经在她大脑中“形成”。]

  17.A.theatres B.pubs C.cinemas D.concerts

  答案 B [由“over her lunch hours”可知,此处应选pubs(酒吧)。]

  18.A.chapters B.books C.magazines D.newspapers

  答案 A [从上文的“notes”一词和下文的“to finish the book”可知,此处表示那本书的“章节”。]

  19.A.set about B.set off C.set up D.set out

  答案 D [此处表示定居下来以后着手完成她的书。表示“着手干某事”常用set out to do sth和set about doing sth两个短语,由后边的不定式结构推断出选D。set off表示“动身,出发”;set up意为“建立”。]

  20.A.splendid B.large C.comfortable D.tiny

  答案 D [此处意为“离开她们狭小而又寒冷的公寓……”。]

  维A 完形填空(每题1.5分,满选材相似度:★★★★

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