2012届高考英语二轮专题复习完形阅读强化综合训练(九)

1、2012届高考英语二轮专题复习完形阅读强化综合训练（九）完形填空he met her at a party. she was outstanding while he was normal. at the end of the用心爱心专心-6 -party, he invited her to have coffee. she was26but due to being polite,she27. sitting in a nice coffee shop, he was too28to sayanything.suddenly he asked the29, would you please

2、 give me some salt? id liketo put it in my coffee. everybody stared at him, so30! his face turnedred but still, he put the salt in his coffee and drank it. she asked him31why you have this hobby? he replied, when i was a little boy, i lived near thesea. i liked the32of the sea,justlikethe taste of t

3、he saltycoffee.33i have the salt y coffee, ialways34my childhood and myhometown. i miss my hometown and my parents.35saying that tears filledhis eyes. she wasdeeplytouched.manwhocan tellouthis homesickness mustbemanwhohas36of home.that was a really beautiful37oftheirstory.then thestory was just like

4、every beautifullovestorytheprincess38the prince.and every time shemade39for him, she put some salt in it, asshe knew thats the 40he liked it.41after 40 years, he passed away, her a letter which said, my dearest,please forgive me, forgivemy whole lifeslie-the saltycoffee. rememberthe firsttime we dat

5、ed? i was so nervous at that time,42i wanted some sugar,but i said salt. it was hard for meto43so i just went ahead. if ican live for the second time, istillwanttohave you formy whole life,44 ihave to drink the salty coffee again.her tearsmade the lettertotallywet. someday, someone asked her,whatsth

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8、. milkb.conceptb. beginningb. admiredb. watercccc40. a. way means 41. a. left writing42. a. fortunatelyhappily43. a. changebd. routed. wroted. possiblymethodb. leavingb. actuallyb. remindccccovercomed. remove44. a. as thoughb. now thatc. eventhoughd. so that45. a. sugaredb. oldc.instantd. salty阅读理解a

9、篇in 1841, a book was published which astonished the world. it was called“incidentsof travel in central america, chiapas and yucatan ” . the author john loud step hens had just returned from a long, difficult and dangerous journey through the thick rain forest of southern mexico and guatemala. he had

10、 once been there with frederick catherwood, an architect and artist, to search for the remains of a lost civilization known as the mayas （玛雅）.very little was known about the mayas at that time, but catherwood s drawing in the book showed incredible cities with temples, pyramids and other buildings a

11、s impressive as those of their northern neighbors, the aztecs.these cities, however, were deserted. the inhabitants （居民）had disappeared almost a thousand years before.since that time, far more has been learned about this remarkable civilization. the mayas had a highly developed system of government

12、and of agriculture, as well as an incredibly accurate system ofmeasuring time. they were also wonderfulengineers capable of moving huge blocks stone long distances and cutting them toaccurate shapes and sizes.and yet although the mayas knew about the wheel, they never used it.neither did they use me

13、tals other than copper. what is ever more surprising is that they suddenly abandoned many of their cities and built new ones in the jungle. some time around ad900, mayan civilization collapsed. by the year 1200, their last great capital, chichen itza, was deserted.who were these strange people and t

14、he even stranger gods they worshipped（ 崇拜）？ what brought about their sudden and mysterious collapse? some writers have tried to prove that the mayas had contact with visitors from space and even that they themselves came from another planet. some people believe that theircivilization came to an end

15、because the mayas never developed a proper resistance to local germs and diseases. all we really know is that when the first europeans appeared off their coast in 1517, this great and mysterious culture was only a memory.46. stephen s book astonished the world becausea. it was the first time people

16、heard about mayasb . the mayas were excellent builders and farmersc. he had experienced so maydifficulties to find this lost civilizationd. it described that the mayas used to be an advanced civilization47. one of the most surprising findings about mayas was that.a. they developed accurate system me

17、asuring timeb . they knew how to build py ramids with stonesc. they deserted their cities and moved to new onesd. they built cities which they never lived in48. mayas civilization collapsed probably in.a. a thousand years before 1841b . aroundad 900c. any year between 1200 and 151749. what brought a

18、bout mayan sudden collapse?a.tropicald. ad1200germsanddiseasesb. european conquestc. mysterious force from outer spaced . no one knowsfor sure b篇the food we eat seems to have a great effect on our health. although science has made big steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the sametime, ma

19、de many foodsunfit to eat. some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of human illness is related to food and forty percent of cancer is related to food as well. that food is related to illness is not a new discovery. in 1945, some researchers realized that things commonly used to keep colo

20、ur in meats and other food additives（添力口齐u）causedcancer.yet, these additives remain in our food, and it is difficult to know which thingson the wrappings（包装） of foods are helpful or harmful. the additives which we eat are not all so direct. farmers often give penicillin to their animals, and because

21、of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of cows. sometimes similar things aresupplied to animals not for their health, but just to make a profit.the farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to get a higher priceon the market. although some countries have tried to control such things, the practice continues.50. according to this passage, we can know.a. perhaps most of h uman illness is caused by what we eatb. perhaps most kinds of cancer are related to what people eatc. cancer was discovered in 1945d. science has made food unfit to eat51. things that