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Did you hear the sports story that came out of Greece a few years ago? No, it wasn’t from the country that started the Olympics, 1 it has an Olympic quality. The story came out of Greece, New York, and it was about Jason McElwain, a 17-year-old autistic(自闭的)kid, and Jim Johnson, a high school basketball 2 .
Jason, who didn’t speak until he was five and always 3 with learning challenges, was 4 for a basketball player, only five foot six. In fact, he never 5 the team. He was the team manager, who kept statistics and handed out water bottles.
But Coach Johnson 6 Jason’s enthusiasm for the game and his unselfish dedication to the team. So he decided if the score 7 , he might let him 8 a few minutes.
Word got around and a group of students came to the game with signs 9 his nickname, “J-Mac”, and cut-outs of his face placed on popsicle(冰棒)sticks.
When Jason was put into the game with four minutes left, they 10 wildly hoping that he might even 11 a basket. In Hollywood, he would have done just that, and his teammates would have 12 him off on their shoulders. But in the 13 world of Greece, New York, Jason took a 14 and missed by about six feet. His supporters 15 and the coach worried that he may have set this young man up for 16 .
But J-Mac 17 another shot, and another, and another. 18 he took 10 shots, and scored 20 points in his four minutes of 19 .
And, yes, he was carried off on the shoulders of his teammates. And it was the career high point in the life of a coach who just gave a good kid a(n) 20 . 【文章大意】一位教练给了一个孩子一次机会, 从而创造了一个奇迹。 1. A. if
B. though
C. since
D. for
【解析】选B。逻辑推理题。这个故事并非来自奥运会诞生的那个国家, 虽然它具有奥林匹克的特征。这个故事来自纽约的一个小镇——Greece。 2. A. star
B. game
C. coach
D. play
【解析】选C。词汇复现题。由下文可知, 本文讲述的是一个男孩和一位中学篮球教练的故事。
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3. A. began B. went C. listened D. struggled
【解析】选D。固定搭配题。由上文的autistic以及“他五岁才说话”的事实, 我们可以推断出Jason学习有障碍。struggle with“斗争, 抗争”, 符合语境。 4. A. short
B. big
C. good
D. ready
【解析】选A。逻辑推理题。根据后面的only five foot six可知他太矮了, 所以不适合打篮球。
5. A. gathered
B. organized
C. supported
D. made
【解析】选D。逻辑推理题。由下文的He was the team manager, who kept statistics and handed out water bottles. 可知Jason实际上并没有成为真正的球员, 而只是做一些计分、分发水壶之类的事情。make the team加入团队。 6. A. showed
B. liked
C. developed
D. lost
【解析】选B。词语辨析题。虽然Jason并不是真正的球员, 但教练很欣赏他对篮球的热情以及他对球队无私的奉献。 7. A. decreased B. changed
C. mattered
D. permitted
【解析】选D。词语辨析题。所以他想如果赛场上比分允许的话, 他会让Jason打一会儿球。 8. A. train
B. rest
C. play
D. direct
【解析】选C。词语辨析题。教练很感动, 所以他想如果赛场上比分允许的话, 他会让Jason打一会儿球。 9. A. giving
B. bearing
C. calling
D. keeping
【解析】选B。词语辨析题。bear此处的意思是 “显示, 带有”。signs bearing his nickname写着他的绰号的招牌。 10. A. blamed
B. laughed
C. ran
D. cheered
【解析】选D。词语辨析题。比赛还有四分钟就要结束的时候, Jason上场了。大家欢呼着, 希望他能投篮成功。 11. A. score
B. find
C. fill
D. hang
【解析】选A。词语辨析题。score此处用作动词, 意思是“得分”。 12. A. cut
B. carried
C. put
D. knocked
【解析】选B。固定搭配题。如果是在好莱坞电影中, Jason很有可能在最后关头投篮成功, 队员们也会把他高高举过肩头。carry sb. off on sb. ’s shoulder将某人举过肩头。 13. A. real
B. modern C. whole D. natural
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【解析】选A。逻辑推理题。但是, 在真实的世界里, Jason投篮未中。此处将现实与虚幻进行了对比。 14. A. shot
B. seat
C. look
D. step
【解析】选A。固定搭配题。take a shot投篮; 下文“he took 10 shots”也有提示。 15. A. nodded
B. broke
C. agreed
D. complained
【解析】选D。前后照应题。Jason投篮未中, 他的支持者开始抱怨。missed, worried是关键信息。 16. A. fame
B. embarrassment
C. courage
D. achievement
【解析】选B。词语辨析题。Jason投篮未中, 观众开始抱怨。此时, 教练开始怀疑自己的做法是否正确。他担心他把Jason置于尴尬的境地。 17. A. took
B. heard
C. got
D. fired
【解析】选A。词汇复现题。与上一段“Jason took a ”和下文“he took 10 shots”呼应。
18. A. In fact
B. In turn
C. However
D. Meanwhile
【解析】选A。词语辨析题。Jason一次次地投篮。事实上, 他投了十次篮。in fact用来作进一步的解释说明。 19. A. sorrow
B. joy
C. glory
D. guilt
【解析】选C。词语辨析题。Jason在四分钟内得了20分。此处选glory突出他的成绩非凡。 20. A. lesson
B. chance
C. prize
D. award
【解析】选B。前后照应题。本文讲的是一位教练给了一个孩子一次机会, 从而创造了一个奇迹。
完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—40各题所给的四个选项（A,B,C和D）中，选出一个最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The professor’s house，big and untidy，stood alone at one end of a huge garden.The place was totally uncared for，quite 21 and overgrown with all sorts of useless things. I 22
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my way through bushes and tall weeds to the front door and rang the bell.
I was glad that I had found him. In twenty minutes he 23 me right on all the 24
that had puzzled me. I was on the 25 of leaving when I looked out of his study window and said，“You’re very fond of gardening，I see.”
“No，I’m not，” he said.“ 26 ，I love this garden，though. It’s 27 I always wanted it to be. I never touch it at all.”
“It could be made lovely. It 28 a pity to let all this ground go to waste. But perhaps you don’t 29 that way?” said I.
“I don’t. I lived here when I was a child，and I had 30 of gardening then. It was my father’s hobby，you see. Unfortunately，he wasn’t 31 enough to do it himself. My brother and I did all of it between us year after year. There was one right way and many wrong ways. Each blade（叶片） of grass was an enemy to be 32 by hand, not just cut off. I’ve spent a good part of life at work here.”
“I see. You took a dislike to it, and now you’re getting even！”
“I dislike it. Then, of course, I didn’t understand the 33 it had. It used to 34
me. It appeared in my dreams—a mistake here, something not quite straight here, the enemy showing its head in a place I was 35 to have cleaned. The work was too much. It seemed endless. The size of the place was itself a fight to a boy.”
“And now it’s yours，you’re just letting it go to... ”
“ 36 ?” he said.“No，I don’t agree with that. This garden and I are now the best friends. I like 37 it grow 38 its own way. I make no demands on it. I never disturb it, and it never disturbs me. It has 39 at last, and so have I.”
“But the path is over grown. It’s inconvenient for you，isn’t it?” “That’s part of my 40 ，” he laughed.“You can go out the back way. The weeds are shorter there because they don’t get the sun.” 21. A. wild 22. A. lost 23. A. let
B. crazy
C. large
D. nice
B. felt B. put
C. took D. made
D. explained
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C. taught
24. A. gardening 25. A. time
B. plants B. point
C. problems
D. solution D. request
C. permission
26. A. Even if 27. A. as
B. So C. As though C. why
D. Even so
B. where
B. is
D. whether
D. sounds
D. know
D. enough
28. A. seems 29. A. recognize 30. A. fond
C. proves
C. see C. free
B. sense B. short B. fit
31. A. interested C. content
D. demanding
D.
cut
32. A. fought against B. cleared up down
33. A. effect 34. A. astonish 35. A. thought 36. A. Sell
B. reason B. shock
C. rooted out
C. cause C. worry C. ordered
D. result
D. disappoint D. expected D. Ruin
D.
B. supposed B. Develop
C. Grow
37. A. noticing watching 38. A. on
B. attending C. watering
B. in B. time
C. with
D. of
D. space D. research
39. A. freedom 40. A. life
【参考答案】
C. sunlight
C. job
B. pleasure
21-25 ADBCB 26-30 DAACD 31-35 BCACB 36-40 DDBAB
2016高考完形填空选练
完型填空。阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
In a bakery I heard a lady say her foot was hurting and that she was going to call a cab. When walking back home I saw her outside the store, probably 21 for a cab. I asked her where she was going. She told me a place which was actually on the
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22 to the craft store I’d be 23 to. So I asked her to 24 the cab and I’d give her a ride. To my __25 , she said okay without 26 . I wonder if I’d have been so 27 if a stranger made me the same offer!
Where she was going was 28 on the way to where I was going. It was such a 29__ interaction. But there was more!
When I had 30 what I went for and was waiting at the checkout, the woman behind me said she had a coupon（优惠券）for 50% off any 31 in the store. She gave it to me because she had a（an） 32 one! I thanked and gave her a 33 card. They say “What goes around comes around”, but sometimes it is hard to see how that 34__ as there is often a “manifestation（显现）delay”. Each action 35 a ripple （涟漪）that eventually 36 back to us, but sometimes it is much 37 so we forget their connection.
Today the causes and effects have appeared in a linkable manner where in 38 I’m also opening myself to receiving gifts, now or in the future. I can learn so much from others as to how __39 they are to receive in a way I might not have been if 40 the same gift.
21. A. caring B. waiting C. applying D. ordering 22. A. left B. right
C. carriage D. way
23. A. driving B. leading C. walking D. pulling 24. A. take B. postpone C. cancel D. charge
25. A. sadness B. amazement C. respect D. disappointment 26. A. hesitationB. aim C. doubt
D. delay
27. A. enthusiastic B. inviting C. trusting D. puzzled 28. A. very B. universallyC. surely D. right 29. A. shameful B. beautiful
C. careful D. frightful
30. A. picked up B. put up C. gave up D. went up 31. A. load B. demand C. limit
D. item
D. important
32. A. familiar B. devoted C. extra 33. A. post B. smile
C. note D. paper
34. A. shares B. compromises C. recognizes D. works
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35. A. creates B. freezes C. ships 36. A. puts B. holds
C. comes
D. affects
D. keeps D. swifter
37. A. easier B. funnier C. later
38. A. giving B. appreciating C. persuading D. demanding 39. A. close
B. open C. confident
D. anxious
40. A. brought B. learned C. booked D. offered
参考答案21-25：BDACB 26-30:ACDBA 31-35 DCBDA 36-40 CCABD
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