高考英语词汇训练之补充全文（动词、形容词和副词的使用）

1、词汇训练之补充全文（动词、形容词和副词的使用）第一篇When a tornado（龙卷风）touched down in a small town nearby, many families were left 1._ ruined. One Sunday, a particular picture 2._ touched me. A young woman stood in front of an entirely ruined home. A young boy, seven or eight years old, stood at her side, eyes downcast. Clu

2、tching（紧握）at her skirt was a tiny girl who 3._ the camera, eyes wide with 4._ and fear. The article that went with the picture gave the clothing sizes of each family member. With growing interest, I noticed that their sizes closely matched ours. This would be a good opportunity to teach my children

3、to help those less fortunate than themselves. I taped the picture of the young family to our refrigerator, explaining their 4._ to my seven-year-old twins, Brad and Brett, and to threeyearold Meghan.“These poor people now have nothing,” I said. “Well share what we have with them.”I brought three lar

4、ge boxes and placed them on the living room floor, encouraging the boys to go through their toys and 5._ some of their less favorite things. Meghan watched seriously, as the boys and I filled one of the boxes with canned goods and foods that they no longer needed.Meghan walked up with Lucy, her much

5、loved doll, hugged 6._ to her chest. She stopped in front of the box, gave her doll a final kiss, then laid her 7._ on top of the other toys.“Oh, Honey,” I said. “You dont have to give Lucy. You love her so much.”Meghan 8._, “Lucy makes me happy, Mommy. Maybe shell make that other little girl 9._, t

6、oo.”completely 2. particularly/especially 3.stared at/gazed at 4. confusion donated 6. tightly 7. gently/tenderly 8. nodded heavily/slightly Delighted第二篇Catherine was the coolest kid in her class. Wherever she went, she was in the spotlight, with a bunch of kids following her and doing everything sh

7、e did. Her deskmate, Landy, 1._, was not in the cool kids group. Being the tallest kid in her class, she 2._ by her classmates, who were always chanting“Landy, Landy, long as spaghetti”. Catherine didnt really like it when the kids chanted “Landy, Landy, long as spaghetti”. But she never told them t

8、o stop either, and nor did she ever talk to her. She liked being 3._. One weekend, Catherine went over to visit her grandfather. Her grandfather lives on a farm, where he keeps chickens. While helping to feed the chickens, Catherine 4._ a special one. Hidden in the corner, it looked smaller than the

9、 others and was almost half-bare! “Whats the matter with it? ” She asked her grandfather, with a 5._ frown on her face. Her grandfather told her how chickens could act. “They have a peckingorder, ” he explained, wrinkles of concern 6._ around his forehead. “If one chicken is different, the others wi

10、ll push it away and keep pecking it. Sometimes they peck it so much that it dies. ” “Oh, what a poor little thing! ” Catherine let out a sigh as she picked the 7._ chicken up in her arms, whose heart was beating fast in the bony little body. 8._, she thought of Landy, the girl being “pecked” by her

11、classmates. “Im going to take it home and take good care of it, ” she said with a 9._ look. Back in school, Catherine told the cool kids about the chicken. “Its looking healthy, ” she said proudly. “Its fatter and its feathers are growing. Even the cat likes it. She carries it around the garden, and

12、.” Everyone was 10._ by Catherines story of her lovely chicken, laughter spreading around the classroom. however 2. was teased/ was laughed at 3. popular 4. observed 5.confused/puzzled 6. spreading 7. frightened/terrified 8. Suddenly9. determined 10. entertained/amused第三篇My daughter Eve used to be 1

13、._ about the Lightning McQueen character from the film Cars. As a little baby she began to stop and smile every time she saw the character. She was happy when a relative bought her some Cars toys. I knew her interest in Cars 2._ recently; shes developed new interests since starting school. But when

14、I found myself in a hurry to buy m ju rtn（盒装果汁）, nd th h w between Disney Princess or Cars cartons, I took the Cars ones. The next morning she saw a carton go into her lunch bag and took it out. She said it 3._ her. She told me it was because Cars is boyish. When I said to her that I thought she lik

15、ed Cars, she said, very quietly, “I do, but I dont want anyone to know ”. Eve says children should be able to like whatever they want to, but the pressure to 4._like a girl has got to her. Children do 5._ the gendered messages they receive. They understand the gender rule This is for boys and that i

16、s for girls, in the same way as other kinds of social rules. The period between birth and age 7 is 6._ The Imprint Period, because this is when children learn about everything around them. They accept much of it as true. Its one of the reasons gender-stereotyped（性别刻板印象的）toys can be so 7._. From the moment they are born, children are 8._ to live up to expectations of what it means to be a boy or a girl. Its easy to see that they are 9._ by the way toys are marketed. Children accept w