河北省武邑中学高考英语复习：完型专练1012（含答案）

1、.完型专练10Finding meaningThis is a part of Debra Jarvis speech at TED in 2019, which described what she learned when she was a cancer patient.In 2019, it was at a big cancer center where I was working 1 I received the news that my mother had breast cancer. And then five days later, I received the news

2、that I had breast cancer. My mother and I can be competitive, but I was really not trying to 2 with her on this one.I learned a lot being a patient, and one of the surprising things was that only a small part of the cancer experience is about 3 . Most of it is about feelings and faith, losing and 4

3、your identity, and discovering 5 you never even knew you had. Its about realizing that the most important things in life are not things at all, 6 relationships. Its about laughing in the 7 of uncertainty and learning that the way to get out of almost anything is to say: “I 8 cancer.So the other thin

4、g I 9 was that I dont have to 10 “cancer survivor as my identity. Sometimes, it feels like people are too crazy 11 it and they start telling us how were going to feel.About a week after my operation, we had a houseguest. So at dinner that night, our houseguest said: “You know, Deb, now youre really

5、going to learn whats 12 . Yes, you are going to make some big changes in your life, and now youre going to start 13 about your death. Yep, this cancer is your wake-up call. Now, these are golden 14 coming from someone who is speaking about their own experience, but when someone is telling you how yo

6、u are going to feel, it doesnt 15 . After my treatment, it just felt like everyone was telling me what my 16 was going to mean.It was at that point where I felt like, oh my God, this is just 17 over my life. And thats when I told myself: Take charge of your experience. Dont let it 18 you. We all kno

7、w that the way to deal with this unpleasant experience, with loss, with any life-changing experience, is to find 19 . But heres the thing: No one can tell us what our experience means. We have to 20 what it means.1A. where B. what C. that D. which 2A. agree B. compete C. argue D. struggle 3A. advent

8、ure B. medicine C. life D. money 4A. receiving B. exchanging C. defending D. finding5A. energy B. fitness C. strength D. force6A. and B. so C. but D. for7A. middle B. face C. front D. course8A. hate B. have C. dislike D. advocate9A. assumed B. studied C. recognized D. learned10A. take off B. take on

9、 C. take back D. take in 11A. at B. about C. on D. of12A. important B. splendid C. remote D. original13A. debating B. worrying C. thinking D. quarrelling 14A. languages B. rules C. sayings D. words15A. work out B. pay off C. hold out D. make sense16A. experience B. puzzle C. loss D. effect17A. handi

10、ng B. getting C. taking D. turning18A. allocate B. control C. instruct D. blame 19A. difficulty B. truth C. fact D. meaning 20A. decide B. suggest C. respect D. insist11When I was about five years old, I used to watch a bird in the skies of southern Alberta from the Blackfoot Blood Reserve in northe

11、rn Montana where I was bornI loved this bird; I would 1 him for hoursHe would 2 effortlessly in that gigantic sky, or he would come down and light on the 3 and float there beautifullySometimes when I watched him, he would not make a sound and liked to move 4 into the grassesWe called him meksikatsi,

12、 which in the Blackfoot language 5 “pink-colored feet; meksikatsi and I became very good friendsThe bird had a very particular significance to me 6 I desperately wanted to be able to fly tooI felt very much as if I was the kind of person who had been born into a world where 7 was impossibleAnd most

13、of the things that I 8 about would not be possible for me but would be possible only for other peopleWhen I was ten years old, something unexpected 9 my life suddenly. I found myself become an 10 child in a family I was not born into; I found myself in a 11 position that many native Americans find t

14、hemselves in, living in a city that they do not understand at all, not in another culture but 12 two culturesA teacher of the English language told me that meksikatsi was not called meksikatsi, even though that is what 13 people have called that bird for thousands of yearsMeksikatsi, he said, was re

15、ally “duckI was very 14 with EnglishI could not understand itFirst of all, the bird did not look like “duck, and when it made a 15 , it did not sound like “duck, I was even more 16 when I found out that the meaning of the verb “to duck came from the birdAs I 17 to understand English better, I unders

16、tand that it made a great deal of 18 , but I never forgot that meksikatsi made a different kind of meaningI 19 that languages are not just different words for the same things but totally different 20 , totally different ways of experiencing and looking at the world1Akeep BwatchCfollowDsearch2Ajump B

17、dive Ccircle Dwander3Anest Bhill Cwater Droad 4AquicklyBnaturallyCfreely Dquietly5AmeansBreads CshowsDstates 6AthoughBbecauseCwhile Duntil7Acommunication Bimagination Cbelief Dflight8AdreamedBworriedCknew Dargued9AimprovedBenrichedCchangedDruined10AeducatedBadoptedCoutgoingDindependent11Aweak Bcomfo

18、rtableCterribleDcentral12AbetweenBagainstCwithoutDbeyond13Amost Bfew Ctheir Dmy14AdesperateBbored Cuncomfortable Ddisappointed15Anoise Bcall CdecisionDchoice16AashamedBconfusedCembarrassed Dfrightened17Atried Bcame Cdetermined Dexpected18AevidenceBdistinctionCprofitDsense19AidentifiedBconfirmedCreal

19、izedDpredicted20AconceptsBregulations CmessagesDevaluations12Life LessonsSometimes Life will send you an experience when you least expect it. Recently, I 1 a little girl when I was shopping. She was helping her 2 get the items they needed. She was bald 秃头的 but beautiful, wearing a big smile on her f

20、ace. However, she was 3 going through some kind of treatment and was very 4 . I couldnt help moving near to them and starting a 5 . “Hi， I said，“You're 6 and I want you to know, I once had your same 7 .And now look at my hairit all 8 . “See， her mom said , “It will come back. We just have to be

21、9 .We smiled at one another and continued with our shopping. Then, suddenly the little girl ran up to me and gave me a big 10 . It caught me off guard but I hugged her back. This experience left a deep impression on me.Life treated her unfairly. Her family was being 11 to face any parent's worst

22、 nightmare 噩梦 ：a 12 child. I can't imagine how hard it is for her parents to 13 life. But they were doing it, and doing it 14 .They were warm and pleasant. They were doing the best they could withthe 15 situation they were in. And，isn't that all of us should do? Whatever we meet in our 16 ，w

23、e should be optimistic 乐观的.I wasn't 17 this lesson when I walked into the store， 18 I don't think I'll forget this family. That's the thing about life. There are lessons all around for us to 19 .Sometimes, you just have to open your eyes and be willing to see and 20 all that is there.1A. saved B. met C. cured D. recognized2A. friends B. customers C. classmates D. family3A. luckily B. frequently C. clearly D. simply4A. weak B. healthy C. lovely D. unhappy5A. plan B