2024英语考前冲刺Ⅳ专题03 完形填空
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Different things usually stand for different feelings. Red, for example, is the color of fire, heat, blood and life. People say red is an exciting and active color. They associate（使发生联系） red with a strong feeling like
1
. Red is used for signs of
2
, such as STOP signs and fire engines. Orange is the bright, warm color of
3
in autumn. People say orange is a
4
color. They associate orange with happiness. Yellow is the color of __5__. People say it is a cheerful color. They associate yellow too, with happiness. Green is the cool color of grass in __6__. People say it is a refreshing color. In general, people __7__ two groups of colors: warm colors and cool colors. The warm colors are red, orange and __8__. Where there are warm color and a lot of light, people usually want to be __9__. Those who like to be with __10 _ like red. The cool colors are __11_
and blue. Where are these colors, people are usually worried. Some scientists say that time seems to __12 _ more slowly in a room with warm colors. They suggest that a warm color is a good __13_
for a living room or a __14_ . People who are having a rest or are eating do not want time to pass quickly. __15
colors are better for some offices if the people working there want time to pass quickly.
1. A. sadness
B. anger
C. administration D. smile
2. A. roads
B. ways
C. danger
D. places
3. A. land
B. leaves
C. grass
D. mountains
4. A. lively
B. dark
C. noisy
D. frightening
5. A. moonlight
B. light
C. sunlight
D. stars
6. A. summer
B. spring
C. autumn
D. winter
7. A. speak
B. say
C. talk about
D. tell
8. A. green
B. yellow
C. white
D. gray
9. A. calm
B. sleepy
C. active
D. helpful
10. A. the other
B. another
C. other one
D. others
11. A. black
B. green
C. golden
D. yellow
12. A. go round
B. go by
C. go off
D. go along
13. A. one
B. way
C. fact
D. matter
14. A. factory
B. classroom
C. restaurant
D. hospital
15. A. Different
B. Cool
C. Warm
D. All
名师点评
进行”；go by意为“走过，流逝”。根据文意，应选go by。
13．B。way根据上文，暖色调的环境下时间似乎过得更慢，说明暖色调是用来装饰居室和饭馆的好方法，故选择way。
14．C。比较四个场所只有饭馆适合使用暖色调。
15．B。与暖色调相对立，冷色调适用于办公室，以使人感觉时间过得比较快。
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Charlie came from a poor village. His parents had __1__ money to send him to school when he was young. The boy was very sad. Mr. King lived next to him. He found the boy __2__ and had pity on him and lent some money to him. So the boy could go to school. He studied hard and __3__ all his lessons. When he finished middle school, the man introduced him to his friend in the town. And he began to work.
Once Mr. King was seriously hurt in an accident. Dying, he asked Charlie to take care of his daughter, Sharon. The young man __4__ and several years later he married the girl. He loved her very much and tried his best to make her happy. He often bought beautiful clothes and delicious food for her. He was good at cooking and he cooked __5__ for her. So she became very fat and she felt it difficult to walk. And one day she found there was something wrong with her heart. Her husband wasn’t at home and she had to go to __6__ at once. The doctors looked her over and told her __7__ eat meat, sugar, chocolate and things like these. She was afraid __8__ the doctor’s words and wrote all the names of the food on the paper. When she got home, she put the list on the table and __9__. When she returned home that afternoon, she found many kinds of food: meat, sugar and chocolate in the kitchen. Charlie was busy __10__ there. As soon as he saw her, he said happily, “I’ve bought all the food you like, dear!”
1. A. no
B. some
C. much
D. enough
2. A. lazy
B. clever
C. careful
D. hard
3. A. did well in B. was poor at C. was working D. was good for
4. A. was angry B. thought hard C. agreed
D. said “No.”
5. A. a little
B. a few
C. many
D. a lot
6. A. rest
B. sleep
C. hospital
D. work
7. A. should
B. would
C. to
D. not to
8. A. to remember B. to forget C. to catch
D. to teach
9. A. slept
B. went out C. cooked
D. ate
10. A. reading
B. seeing
C. cooking
D. writing
名师点评
7. D。由于她的病是因营养过剩引起的，医生应让她不要吃肉，糖果之类的食物，故选not to。
8. B。她害怕忘了医生的指示，因此将其写在纸上，故选to forget。
9. B。与下文相对应，这里应填went out。
10. C。擅长烹饪的查理将菜买回之后，肯定要忙着为爱妻做饭，故cooking为正确答案。
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Why do I want to go to college? No one has ever asked me __1 _ a question. But many times I have asked myself. I have __2__ a whole variety of reasons. __3__ important reason is that I want to be a better man.
Many things make human beings different __4__ or better than or even superior to animals.
One of the most important things is __5__ . If I fail to receive higher education, my education __6__. As I want to be a fully __7__ man, I must get a well-rounded education, which good colleges and universities are supposed to __8__. I know one can get educated in many ways, but colleges and universities are __9__ the best places to teach me how to educate myself. Only when I am well-educated, will I be a better human being and __10__ fit into society.
1. A. quite
B. so
C. such
D. another
2. A. come up with B. agreed with C. been fed up with D. got on well with
3. A. Most
B. The most C. More
D. Much
4. A. to
B. around
C. between
D. from
5. A. education B. weather C. temperature
D. science
6. A. finished
B. don’t finish C. will not finish D. has finished
7. A. develop
B. developed C. developing
D. experience
8. A. improve
B. graduate C. hear
D. provide
9. A. between
B. among
C. inside
D. outside
10. A. can good B. may better C. be able to better D. be able to best
名师点评
本文主要围绕“我为什么要上大学？”这一话题展开讨论，首先介绍了教育对人发展的重要性，然后说明大学在教育中的地位，从而层次分明地解释了上大学的原因。
答案简析
7. B。这里只能选可作定语的选项。过去分词developed表示“成熟的”，为正确选项。
8. D。大学应是提供高等教育的地方, provide符合文意为正确选项。
9. B。介词among可表示”包括……在内”为正确选项。
10. C。与前半句相对应，这里仍应用比较级，而may better意思不对，因此be able to better为正确选项。
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Farley worked for the Canadian government. One day, he was __1__ to learn more about wolves. Do wolves kill lots of caribou（北美驯鹿）? Do they kill people?
They gave him lots of food and clothes and guns. Then they put him on a plane and took him to __2__. The plane put him down and went away. There were no houses or people in this place. But there were lots of animals and lots of wolves.
People tell terrible stories about wolves. They say wolves like to kill and eat people. Farley remembered these stories, and he was __3__. He had his gun with him__4_.
Then one day, he saw a group of wolves. There was a mother wolf with four baby wolves. A father wolf and another young wolf lived with them.
Farley watched these wolves every day. The mother was a very __5__ mother. She gave milk to her babies. She gave them lessons about life. They learned how to __6__ food. The father wolf got food for the mother. The young wolf __7__ the children. They were a nice, happy family—wolf family! Farley did not need his __8__ any more. In a short time, he got on well with the family. Farley watched them for five months. He learned that many stories about the wolves were __9__. Wolves do not eat people, and they do not eat many large animals. And he also learned bad things about men. It was men who killed many caribou and wolves.
Later, Farley wrote a book about wolves. He wanted people to __10__ them and not to kill them.
1. A. seen
B. told
C. heard
D. found
2. A. a small town B. a big city C. a far place
D. a lonely village
3. A. afraid
B. happy
C. angry
D. tired
4. A. at times
B. all the time C. once a week
D. every afternoon
5. A. bad
B. good
C. hungry
D. thirsty
6. A. cook
B. make
C. get
D. pick
7. A. shouted at B. looked into C. laughed at
D. played with
8. A. food
B. clothes
C. gun
D. plane
9. A. not good
B. not true
C. not easy
D. not clear
10. A. grow
B. have
C. teach
D. understand
名师点评
C。狼只能猎取食物, 而不能烧食物, 生产食物。get合乎文意，为正确答案。
D。shout at意为“朝……大声叫喊”；look into意为“调查、观察”；laugh at意为“嘲笑……”。这三个词组都不符文意。play with意为“和……一起玩耍”，合文意为正确答案。
C。the nice happy wolf family让Farley不再害怕，因此也就不再需要枪了，故选择gun.。
B。因为他的亲身体验与他所听到的相违背，说明以前关于狼的说法是不对的, 故选not true。
10. D。understand意为“了解”合乎文意，为正确答案。
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Many people think that Americans
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their cars almost more than anything else. When
2__ people are fourteen years old, they want to have their __3_
cars. They don’t ask for a car from their
4__. So many of them work in
_5_
time during their last year of high school to buy a car. Learning to
6 _ and getting a driver’s license may be one of the most exciting things in a young person’s life.
Some people almost
7 _ go to a doctor when they are ill. But they will __8_
their cars to a garage as soon as they think there is a
9
. On Saturdays or Sundays some people may
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most of their time washing and repairing their cars.
1. A. prefer
B. love
C. drive
D. play
2. A. little
B. big
C. old
D. young
3. A. new
B. own
C. expensive
D. cheap
4. A, friends
B. teachers
C. parents
D. brothers
5. A. free
B. busy
C. study
D. good
6. A. make
B. mend
C. wash
D. drive
7. A. always
B. never
C. often
D. usually
8. A. take
B. carry
C. pull
D. lift
9. A. question
B. wrong
C. mistake
D. problem
10. A. cost
B. get
C. spend
D. use
名师点评
本文介绍了美国人尤其是年轻人对于轿车的厚爱，并列举了一些事例加以说明。让人们看到了一个发达国家的富裕和人民生活的繁荣。
答案简析
1. B。通过下文的事例不难看出美国人对汽车不是一般的喜欢，故用love it，较贴近文章的意思。
2. D。按常识，十四五岁的人应称为年轻人，故应说young。
3. B。根据下文他们不想通过索要来获取别人的小轿车，而是想拥有自己的小汽车，故选own。
4. C。如果说想要索要小汽车的话，那只有先从父母亲那儿开始了，故应选parents。
5. A。十四五岁的年轻人大多在上学，所以工作占用的应是上学期间的空隙，故应选free。
6. D。要想获得驾照得先学开车，故应选drive。
7. B。与下文“车子一有问题就去修理”相对应，有些人病了却从不看医生，故应选never。
8. A。carry应为“搬运”，push 为“推”，lift 意思为“举，提起”都不合文意，take sth. to 某地，意为“把……带到……”。
9. D。只能选择一个名词, 表示汽车的“故障,毛病”, 故选problem。
10. C。spend some time doing sth.为一个固定搭配，意为“花时间干某事”。
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Who designed (设计) the first helicopter (直升飞机)? Who __1__ of the most famous pictures in the world? Who knew more about the human body than most __2__? There is an answer __3__ all these
questions --- Leonardo de Vinci (达芬奇).
Leonardo may have been the greatest genius (天才) __4__ have ever known. He lived in Italy around the year 1500, but many of his inventions seem modern to us today. For example, one of his notebooks has drawings of a helicopter. Of course, he couldn’t __5__ a helicopter with the things he had. But scientists say his idea would have worked.
But Leonardo __6__ an inventor. He was one of the greatest artists of his day. By the time he was twenty years old, he was called a master ( 大师) painter, and as he got older he became __7__ more famous. Sometimes he drew a hand ten different ways __8__ he was ready to paint.
