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台儿庄市2014高考英语完形填空、阅读理解精品系列（4）含答案典型例题 i was studying theater at southem methodist university in dallas and felling anxious and uncertain about my future. will i be able to 1 myself? i wondered. that summer, i decided to see if i could get out 2 my own. two girlfriends and i piled into a car and 3 to aspen, colo. where i found a job as a maid at a hotel. i dont remem- ber what i 4 ,but it was so little that i lived a difficult life. i was at the hotel by six oclock every morning to 5 breakfast. when breakfast was finished, i 6 the room where it was served and then the rest rooms. i had 7 been in a mens room hefore, and i was always 8 of someone walking in while i was on my knees cleaning the floors and toilets. i came from an upper-middle-class back ground(背景), and my parentsfriends always 9 me well. but now that i was a servant, i found that many of the guests of 10 background were not so nice. that was a shock. people were 11 to serve themselves at the breakfast; it was my 12 to go through the room and add coffee ad juice. but some people wanted me to do 13 for them, i remember one man who kept 14 me to get his food and demanding things we did not serve. he was also very critical (挑剔的). 15 i wanted to say, go and get it yourself. i knew it was my job to be quiet and do in a nice way 16 i was told. id take a deep breath and .somehow get what he wanted. still, ive never forgotten how it felt to be spoken to so rudely. today, whenever i am in a taxi or being 17 , i always try to be as considerate (体贴的)as possible. .service-industry jobs are not easy, and theyre even 18 when people treat you like dirt.my first job also helped me achieve more confidence (信心). after that summer i realized that what i had been afraid of was 19 . i now knew that the worst thing would be if i failed at it without really trying. i decided to give it all my energy. if i falied, 20 i would always know that i had done my best. 1. a. enjoy b. support c. manage d. live 答案：b 指导：support sboneself当“养活、维持的生计”讲，作者此处想自己将来能否养活自己?enioyoneself当“玩得高兴”讲；manage1ive后面不跟反身代词。2. a. in b. for c. on d. of 答案：c 指导：onones own依靠自己”。作者此处强调的还是“养活自己”。3. a. headed b. rushed c. returned d. turnd 答案：a 指导：head用作动词，当“向地方去”讲，后面出现表示方位或地点的副词或介词短语。此处表示作者向着那个方向去，不可能用rush冲”。4. a. got b. found c. had d. earned 答案：d 指导：从后面一句看，此处作者是不记得当时自己能“挣”多少钱，但确实很少。“得到”只能是具体的东西，而不能表示挣多少钱。5. a. have b. cook c. help with d. prepare for 答案：c 指导：此处作者是在餐馆里打工，因此是“帮助准备”早饭。help with sth“帮助干”。作者是在打工，因此不一定是“做”早饭，因此不用cook；prepare for breakfast当“准备吃早饭”讲，不合语境。6. a. cleaned b. checked c. left d. closed 答案：a 指导：从作者当服务员的身份可断定，此处早饭过后，作者要“清理”房间。check意为“核查、核对”多指数字或答案；其他选项也不合题意。7. a. once b. ever c. even d. never 答案：d 指导：作者应是“从来没有”到过男厕所。8. a. afraid b. proud c. fond d. sorry 答案：a 指导：因为作者从来没有到过男厕所，因此当有人进来， 而作者跪在地上擦地板时感到“害怕”。once，ever都表示肯定；even用来说明程度的递增，都不合语境。9. a. liked b. knew c. treated d. helped 答案：c 指导：此处作者拿自己生活圈子里的人跟来这儿的顾客做比较。作者因为出身中产阶级，因此大家对她都不错。因此用treat sb. wellknow sbwell当“非常了解某人”讲，其他动词不与副词well搭配。10. a. another b. the same c. a differentd. a higher 答案：b 指导：作者此处认为来自于“同样”背景的人们对我并不友好，因此作者感到震惊。由作者感到震惊来看，其他选项不合逻辑。11. a. asked b. supposed c. advised d. due答案：b 指导：be supposed to可表示“预计”或“应该”两个意 思，此处为后者。其他选项“被要求”“被建议到期”都不合题意。12. a. job b. turn c. pleasure d. hono 答案：a 指导：此处指作者的工作是“跑腿、给客人倒咖啡和果汁”。13. a. favor b. nothing c. duty d. everyth4& 答案：d 指导：此处指有些客人让作者为他们做“一切”事情。rum“依次”，pleasure快乐”，honor“荣誉”都不合题意。14. a. begging b. ordering c. helping d. paying 答案：b 指导：本句紧接上句，指有些客人很不友好，总是“命令”作者做一些不该做的事情。由前面客人“不友好”这一点可排除其他。15. a. as though b. since c. even thoughd. while 答案：c 指导：“即使”作者想拒绝他们，但最终还是默默忍受了下来。even thoughif 引导让步状语从句。as though“好像”，引导方式状语从句；since引导时间状语从句或原因状语从句；while可引导时间状语从句、并列句或让步状语从句。16. a. whatever b. whichever c. however d. whenev 答案：a 指导：表示作者答应客人的一切要求。故用whatever引导宾语从句。whichever表示某一范围中的“任何一个”；however一般引导让步状语从句，当“无论如何”讲；whenv er引导的也是让步状语从句，当“无论什么时候”讲。17. a. looked down upon b. waited onc. looked after d. helped out 答案：b 指导：wait on sb当“伺候某人”讲，相当于servesb.。此处作者表示的意思是当别人伺候自己的时候，作者总是尽可能地体贴。lookafter当“照料”讲，helpout当“帮助某人摆脱(困境等)”讲，在此都不合题意。18. a. worse b. hopelessc. harder d. discouraging 答案：c 指导：此处作者强调服务行业是非常不容易的行业，尤其当人们对你不友好的时候，就更为“艰难”。“更为糟糕的”“无望的”“令人灰心的”都不合语境。19. a. coldness b. impolitenessc. cruelty d. failure 答案：d 指导：作者从第一次工作经历中获得了信心，因此意识到原来害怕的是“失败”，但现在知道真正的失败不是失败本身，而是你没有真正地去尝试。其他名词都偏离了作者要表达的思想。20. a. at most b. at least c. in fact d. at last答案：b 指导：此处用“至少”表示作者的观点：即使失败了，至少我知道自己已经尽力了。atmost至多in fact事实上” atlast最终”都不合逻辑。located in the forests near the village of harads in northern sweden, the treehotel opened its doors in the summer of 2010 and offers six guest roomsowners, britta and kent lindvall, invited designers and architects to create a series of unique tree houses that reflect the growing popularity of ecologically-themedholidaystheres the mirrorcube, a 4x4x4 meter aluminum box in mirrored glassaccessed via a footbridge, the cabin is suspended （悬吊） from the surrounding pines on a steep bank, affording views of the lulea riverboth these rooms sleep two people while the nest （covered in branches）, the blue cone （which is actually painted red） and the ufo （a spaceship skewered by pines） all have enough room to sleep a family of fourthe treehotel was built after they saw a 2008 swedish documentary （记录片） called tradalskaren （the tree lover） that tells the story of three men who build a tree house near harads in an attempt to rediscover their rural roots after years of living in a citythe lindvalls, who already owned and ran a nearby guesthouse, saw the chance to create a different kind of holiday experiencewhen the film was over, interest in the original tree house grew so we decided to build our own, closer to our place, kent lindvall saidthe plan for next year is five new roomswe also plan to build a chapel so people can get married up thereopen all year round, the treehotel might attract only the hardest of souls during the winter as temperatures typically dip to around minus 15 degrees celsiusbut brave travelers will be rewarded with stunning snowy landscapes as well as a three sauna and under-floor heating in every room delivered by renewable energy53britta and kent lindvall opened the treehotel to _aprotect forestsbintroduce excellent ideas of designerscprovide a peaceful lifestyle for citizensdmeet the tourists demand for getting close to nature54which of the following rooms suits a couple most?athe cabin bthe ufocthe nest dthe blue cone55what can we learn about tradalskaren ?ait introduces the way of building treehotelsbit is about experience of returning to naturecit aims to attract holidaymakers to the treehoteldit is about britta and kent lindvalls life experience56what does the underlined part the hardest of souls refer to?ahard-working couples bstrong-willed peoplecskilled travelers dthe youth*结束 good fences make good neighbors, the television commentator said, misquoting robert frost for the millionth time in my memoryit made me wonder if the poet was not looking down from heaven and sadly shaking his headno line of poetry has ever been more misused in history than that oneit comes from frost s great poem mending wallin it he writes of him and his neighbor repairing the broken stone wall that divides their property （财产）frost questions why they are doing so, because there are no animals that need fencing inhe sees as well that the wall is a symbol of the barriers （障碍） that people create to separate themselves from each otherhe wisely writes that, before i built a wall id ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence （冒犯）something there is that doesnt love a wall, that wants it downhis neighbor, however, who frost describes as a stone savage who moves in darkness refuses to part from the ways of his forefathers and goes along foolishly with their belief that good fences make good neighborsi wonder if mrfrost would have ever written his poem if he had known that the line he wrote in irony （讽刺） would be used again and again to encourage what he was so againstperhaps he would have written a different one about tearing down the fences that separate us and breaking apart the walls that hide our hearts from each othereither way, we should embrace the wisdom he shared with usfences and walls separate us from each otherwe need to take them down stone by stone, walk through them, and embrace each other in joywe need to love our neighborswe need to see that good fences do not make good neighborsthey just make lonely hearts57what can we say about the author from the text?ahe thinks highly of frost s poemsbhe has a low opinion of frosts neighborche looks down upon the tv commentatordhe is anxious about the misunderstanding of frosts idea58what does the wall in frosts poem stand for according to the author?abroken fences bquarrels with neighborscthe distance between neighbors dthe insisting on the forefathers belief59frost wrote good fences make good neighbors while he thought _ait was wise to have no fencebneighbors should be good onescfences played an important roledbad fences made bad neighbors60the author wrote the last paragraph to _asay frost was a wise manbexpress his admiration for frostccall on us to tear down the fences in our heartdencourage people to read frost s poems in a right way参考答案完形填空passage *many years ago,i owned a service station and roadhouse on the main road between melbourne and adelaide.one very cold,wet night at about 3:30 a.m.,there was a 41 on the front door of our house.a young man,wet from 42 to toe,explained that he had 43 out of petrol about 30 km up the road.he had left his pregnant(怀孕的) wife and his two children 44 at the car and siad that he would hitchhike(搭便车) back.once i had 45 a can with petrol,i took him back to his car where his two-year-old and four-year-old children were both 46 ,saying that they were cold.once the car had started,i suggested that he 47 me back.before leaving,i had turned the heater 48 in the roadhouse,so that when we went in,it was nice and 49 .while the little ones played and ran 50 ,i prepared bread and butter for the children,and hot chocolate for the 51 .it was about 5 a.m. before they 52 .the young fellow asked me how much he 53 me and i told him that the petrol pump(加油泵) had 54 $15.he offered to pay “call-out fee”,but i wouldnt accept it.about a month later,i received a 55 from interstate,a large bus company that we had been t