2012届高考英语二轮：完形填空四月天天练【13】【答案】

2012届高考英语二轮：完形填空四月天天练【13】【答案】
该套资源选择的完形填空短文既有经典的，也有新颖的，排版工整，每两天的组合在一起，除去答案，刚好4页，印制成1张练习卷，是训练完形填空的极好材料。
（三十八）
There comes a time in a person's life when childhood fantasies (幻想) end and reality begins. Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny (复活节兔子) 1 to be Mum and Dad, and 2 fade away. I don't know if most people remember this event, but I know 3 it happened to me.
On a(an) 4 summer day, my grandfather told me one of his crazy stories. I headed off to 5 the Indians that grandpa said lived in the woods. But after some hours searching without success I gave up. Tired and 6 , I went to ask grandpa.
"How come 7 of your stories ever come true "
"Well, sometimes you have to make them come true," he answered. "I once had a friend named Huck Finn who made his own adventures."
He 8 to tell me about his buddy (密友) Huck, who floated down the Mississippi River on a raft (木筏). I sat listening to him, 9 every word he said. When he finished, I went off to have my own 10 .
Two hours later I had a small and badly made raft. I took it to the 11 along with a branch from a tree to use as an oar (桨). I couldn't 12 and had been told many times to stay away from the pond. But today I had the raft so with a big shove; I pushed it out and jumped on top.
I was fine for a total of four seconds; then I started to 13 . 14 , I tried to use the branch to paddle (划桨) 15 in, but 16 pushed myself farther out. Knowing that I would drown, I did what any other nine-year-old would do in a similar situation: I 17 ,
From the edge of the pond came my sister and cousins who easily rescued me. As my raft sank, 18 did my belief in my grandpa. Although I never stopped loving him, something 19 in our relationship that day.
Looking back now, I can see that the change wasn't in my grandfather, but in me. I was 20 .
1. A. happen B. end up C. work out D. turn out
2. A. heroes B. friends C. memories D. stories
3. A. how B. when C. so D. clearly
4. A. special B. interesting C. hot D. ordinary
5. A. meet B. track C. find D. check
6. A. unhappy B. cheated C. discouraged D. disappointed
7. A. neither B. none C. nothing D. any
8. A. continued B. loved C. started D. agreed
9. A. doubting B. believing C. remembering D. thinking of
10. A. adventure B. plan C. raft D. game
11. A. river B. waters C. pond D. stream
12. A. row B. swim C. water D. bathe
13. A. fall B. realize C. fear D. sink
14. A. Frightened B. Nervous C. Clear-headed D. Fighting
15. A. nearer B. close C. back D. up
16. A. then B. rather C. right D. only
17. A. jumped B. screamed C. sought help D. wept
18. A. thus B. also C. so D. such
19. A. changed B. disappeared C. lost D. happened
20. A. thinking for myself B. becoming cleverer
C. growing up D. learning from my experience
（三十八）
1~5 DABDC 6~10 CBCBA 11~15 CBDAC 16~20 DBCAC
（三十九）
Two kinds of people exist in this world: clean people and people who have found millions of ways to avoid cleaning their rooms.
I belong to 1 because I am a teenager. Like all teenagers I am 2 busy pretending to be receiving an education to 3 that scientists attribute 52 percent of global warming to the 4 that escapes from my bedroom window. 5 all you 6 get too angry, I want you to know that I closed my window last week.
Don’t think the messy state of my room doesn’t 7 me, it does. Every night I go to sleep, haunted (受折磨) by the thought that a(n) 8 I lost three years ago is somewhere in my room still plugged in (插着电源) and waiting to start a fire. 9 thing that worries me is my fish. I haven’t gotten around to cleaning their tank this year. I can’t 10 if they’re alive or not.
A few weeks ago my mother ordered me to clean my room. She said: “Tracie, you 11 not eat, sleep, or breathe until you clean up your room.”
I responded, “Mum, did I tell you I got an A on my physics test yesterday ”
“You don’t even take physics, Tracie, so how can you get an A ”
My Mum was 12 than I thought, so I decided to ignore (不理会) the question and change the 13 .
“Did you know that most kids today watch ten and a half hours of TV And high school students score an average of 500 points 14 on the SATs than the kids in your generation.”
“No! Really Well, Tracie, that’s just one more example of how the weak 15 of today affect the minds and education of the kids your age. Oh! I forgot to take the bread out of the oven !”
I smiled to myself for once again 16 my mother with perfectly useless and untrue 17 . Thereby I avoided the 18 task of cleaning my room.
Then I turned and observed the smoke and the big pile of smelly 19 . But, I am just too 20 to disturb the natural flow of things.
1. A. the former B. the latter C. the clean D. the messy
2. A. all B. so C. too D. very
3. A. know B. mind C. consider D. worry
4. A. smoke B. smell C. heat D. gas
5. A. Before B. In case C. While D. If
6. A. readers B. scientists C. cleaners D. environmentalists
7. A. bother B. affect C. puzzle D. speak to
8. A. radio B. iron C. recorder D. lamp
9. A. The B. One C. Another D. Next
10. A. see B. tell C. say D. decide
11. A. should B. can C. will D. must
12. A. slower B. cleverer C. quicker D. better
13. A. topic B. method C. point D. words
14. A. more B. less C. higher D. lower
15. A. school rules B. family values C. self-management D. parents’ controls
16. A. interrupting B. tricking C. persuading D. distracting
17. A. “facts” B. “questions” C. “figures” D. “information”
18. A. difficult B. dangerous C. boring D. senseless
19. A. waste B. clothes C. seaweeds D. shoes
20. A. busy B. lazy C. tired D. happy
（三十九）
1~5 BCDAA 6~10 DABCB 11~15 CBADB 16~20 DABAB
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