陌生人分享了照片。A. comparing比较;B. exchanging交换;C. discussing讨论;D. sharing分享。故选D。
50. B 考查动词。根据前文Dennis got a group text 44 him that a couple he didn’t know可知,Dennis不认识他们。A. accept接受;B. know认识,了解;C. believe相信;D. bother打扰,麻烦。故选B。
51. 考查名词。根据前文可以推知,这对夫妇为新父母。A. parents父母;B. doctors医生;C. patients病人;D. visitors游客。故选A。
52. B 考查名词。根据后文He turned up at the hospital 53 gifts for the new mother Lindsey and her baby boy.可知,他坚守了自己对于新妈妈Lindsey和她的孩子礼物的承诺。A. dream梦想;B. promise承诺;C. agenda会议议程;D. principle原则。故选B。 53. A 考查动词。根据语境可知,他是拿着礼物来的。A. bearing携带,拿;B. collecting收集;C. opening打开;D. making制造。故选A。
54. C 考查形容词。A. discouraged沮丧;B. relaxed根据unexpected可知,她丈夫是十分惊讶。放松的;C. astonished吃惊的;D. defeated打败的。故选C。
55. C 考查动词。根据语境以及后文往网上发帖可知,Teresa夫妇十分感激Dennis的到来以及带来的礼物。A. admit承认;B. need需要;C. appreciate感激;D. expect期望。故选C。 56. D考查动词。根据后文The post has since gained the 60 of social media users all over the world, receiving more than 184,000 shares and 61, 500 likes in just three days.可知,她把照片贴到了网上。A. found发现;B. selected选择;C. developed发展;D. posted发帖。故选D。 57. D考查动词。A. confirmed确定;B. simplified根据语境可知,照片后面附着一段感人的文字。简化;C. clarified分类;D. accompanied伴随着。故选D。
58. B考查名词。根据语境可推知,这位母亲认为这位年轻的陌生人来看望宝宝是上帝的祝福。A. pity同情,怜悯;B. blessing祝福;C. relief放松,如释重负;D. problem问题。故选B。
59. C考查形容词。根据语境He was so 59 and kind to do this.可知,与kind并列,所以用sweet,表甜美善良。A. smart聪明的;B. calm冷静的;C. sweet甜美的;D. fair公平的。故选C。 60. B考查名词。根据文章最后一句The post has since gained the 60 of social media users all over the world, receiving more than 184,000 shares and 61, 500 likes in just three days.可知,三61,500点赞,A. sympathy同情;B. attention天里有184,000人分享,所以是引起了极大关注。关注;C. control控制;D. trust信任。故选B。
【点睛】完形填空的解题技巧之一就是要根据上下文来学会“推理”出最佳选项。同学们要遵循“上下求索”的原则来查找信息。例如,第5,11小题可以判断这对夫妇在等待新生儿的出生,所以这对夫妇是新父母。而第16,20题是相互联系的,可以推断出他们是在网上发帖,引起了人们的关注。而根据文章第1题和第3题可知,Dennis做的是与众不同的事情,所以完形填空的解答要注重上下文的结合。
【2018·浙江卷】阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
We have all heard how time is more valuable than money, but is it ___36___ to have too much?
I___37___back in high school I spent most of my day at school since I also ___38___a team sport. By the time I got home, I only had a few hours to do my homework, and I had to do it ____39____ When I got into college, things ___40___ I suddenly found myself out of class before noon time. Because of all this ____41____ there was no sense of ____42____ to do my school work immediately. I was performing this action of waiting until it later became ___43___. Once that happened, I just kept___44___my studying further and further back in my day. Then I got to the point where I was____45____really late at night to get my work alone. One day I ____46____a former classmate of mine who was ____47____ a lot of money running a sideline(副业).Since his regular job was ____48____, I asked him why he just didn't do his sideline full-time. He said without the job, he would ____49____ have too much time and would just do what I did back in____50____.He said that if he ____51____the job, he would lose his ____52____ to work and succeed. So, try ____53____ your time with other work. This is why there is a ____54____ that if you want something done, ask a ____55____person to do it. 36. A. true
B. fair
C. strange
D. possible D. expect
37. A. remember 38. A. watched 39. A.al last
B. admit B. loved.
C. understand
C. Coached D. played C. of course
D. mattered
D. mattered D. limited
B. right away B. repeated
40. A. happened C. changed C. valuable
41. A. extra B .difficult.
42. A. duty 43. A. burden
B. achievement
C .urgency
D. direction D. habit D. calling D. showing off D. hired D. making D. rewarding D. simply
B. relief C. risk
44. A. pushing B. taking C. setting 45. A. hanging out 46. A. met
B. staying up B. helped B. wasting
C. jogging round C. treated
47. A. raising 48. A. safe
C. demanding
B. important C. boring B. hardly B. college B. found B. chance B. filling up B. story B. busy
C. hopefully
49. A. luckily 50. A. childhood 51. A. quit 52. A. heart
C. town
D. business
D. kept D. way D. trading D. fact D. kind
C. accepted C. drive C. giving up C. saying C. reliable
53. A. saving 54. A. message
55. A. careful
【答案】36. D 37. A 38. D 39. B 40. C 41. A 42. C 43. D 44. A 45. B 46. A 47. D 48. C 49. D 50. B 51. A 52. C 53. B 54. C 55. B
【解析】作者通过亲身经历告诉我们:拥有太多时间就会拖延做事情,时间紧迫反而能合理安排时间把事情做好。
36. 考查形容词。A. true真实的;B. fair公平的;C. strange奇怪的;D. possible可能的。句意:我们都听说过时间比金钱更有价值,但是拥有的时间太多可能会把事情做好吗?表示“可能的”,表示作者的疑问,故选D。
37. 考查动词。A. remember记得;B. admit承认;C. understand理解;D. expect期望。此处表示回忆起高中时自己的生活,表示“回忆起”是remember back,故选A。
38. 考查动词。A. watched观察;B. loved热爱;C. coached训练;D. played玩。此处指自从我进行团体体育锻炼后多数时间在学校,表示“进行体育锻炼”是play sport,故选D。 39. 考查固定短语。A.at last最后;B. right away立刻,马上;C. of course当然;D. mattered因为在校时间多,在家做作业的时间就少了,所以在家时必须马上写作业。下文do my school work immediately给了提示,故选B。
43. 考查名词。A. burden负担;B. relief救济;C. risk冒险;D. habit习惯。由于不急着写作业,所以后来就形成了等的习惯。故选D。
44. 考查动词。A. pushing推;B. taking拿;C. setting放置;D. calling呼唤。与上文的waiting呼应,指形成等的习惯后,我就不断地把学习往后推,越推越远。根据常识也可知答案,故选A。
45. 考查动词短语。A. hanging out挂出,B. staying up熬夜; C. jogging round常去某处;慢跑;D. showing off炫耀。根据late at night可知是熬夜,此处指作业等到最后熬夜完成,故选B。
46. 考查动词。A. met遇见;B. helped帮助;C. treated治疗;D. hired雇用。此处指遇到了以前的同学,根据句意选A。
47. 考查动词。A. raising举起;B. wasting浪费;C. demanding要求;D. making获得。此处指经营副业挣了许多钱,“挣钱”是make money,故选D。
48. 考查形容词。A. safe安全的;B. important重要的;C. boring无聊的;D. rewarding有益的。因为他的常规工作是无聊的,所以作者建议他把副业作为全职工作。故选C。
49. 考查副词。A. luckily幸运地;B. hardly几乎不;C. hopefully有希望地;D. simply简单地。朋友说如果没有这个工作,很简单他就会有太多无聊的时间。根据句意可知选D。 50. 考查名词。A. childhood童年时期;B. college大学;C. town城镇;D. business商业。他就会像我大学时一样因为有太多的时间而不忙着做事,与上文内容呼应,故选B。 51. 考查动词。A. quit放弃;B. found发现; C. accepted接受; D. kept保持。如果他放弃工作,就会失去工作和成功的动力。与作者的建议呼应,故选A。
52. 考查名词。A. heart心脏;B. chance机会;C. drive驱动力;D. way方法。此处指如果他放弃工作,就失去了紧迫感,就会失去工作和成功的动力。表示“动力”,故选C。
53. 考查动词。A. saving节约;B. filling up装满;C. giving up放弃;D. trading交易。句意:试着用其他工作装满你的时间,使自己忙起来。故选B。
54. 考查名词。A. message消息;B. story故事;C. saying谚语;D. fact事实。此处指if you want something done, ask a 55 person to do it.这句谚语,故选C。
55. 考查形容词。A. careful小心的;B. busy忙碌的;C. reliable可靠的; D. kind善良的。此处指如果你想做某事,请忙碌的人去做。忙碌的人会抓紧时间完成,不忙的人只会拖延时间。故选B。 【点睛】
完形填空的解题技巧之一就是要根据上下文来学会“推理”出最佳选项。同学们要遵循“上下求索”的原则来查找信息。例如小题4因为在校时间多,在家做作业的时间就少了,所以在家时必须马上写作业。下文do my school work immediately给了提示,故选B. 小题10根据句中late at night可知是熬夜,此处指作业等到最后熬夜才完成。
【2018·北京】 阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The Homeless Hero
For many, finding an unattended wallet filled with £400 in cash would be a source(来源)of temptation. But the ___16___ would no doubt be greater if you were living on the streets (诱惑)with little food and money. All of this makes the actions of the homeless Tom Smith ____17____ more remarkable.
After spotting a ___18___ on the front seat inside a parked car with its window down, he stood guard in the rain for about two hours waiting for the ____19____ to return. After hours in the cold and wet, he ____20____ inside and pulled the wallet out hoping to find some ID so he could contactthe driver, only to ____21____ it contained £400 in notes, (联系)with another £50 in spare change beside it.
He then took the wallet to a nearby police station after ____22____ a note behind to let the owner know it was safe. When the car’s owner John Anderson and his colleague Carol Lawrence returned to the car—which was itself worth £35, 000—in Glasgow city centre, they were ____23____ to find two policemen standing next to it. The policemen told them what Mr. Smith did and that the wallet was ____24____. The pair were later able to thank Mr. Smith for his ____25____. Mr. Anderson said:"I couldn’t believe that the guy never took a penny. To think he is