江苏历年高考英语完型填空

2008年

Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion in Scotland. In an interview, she recalled how she became a percussion soloist (打击乐器独奏演员) in spite of her disability.

“Early on I decided not to allow the 36 of others to stop me from becoming a musician. I grew up on a farm in northeast Scotland and began 37 piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got, the more my passion (酷爱) for music grew. But I also began to gradually lose my 38. Doctors concluded that the nerve damage was the 39 and by age twelve, I was completely deaf. But my love for music never 40 me.

“My 41 was to become a percussion soloist, even though there were none at that time. To perform, I 42 to hear music differently from others. I play in my stocking feet and can 43 the pitch of a note (音调高低) by the vibrations (振动). I feel through my body and through my 44. My entire sound world exists by making use of almost every 45 that I have.

“I was 46 to be assessed as a musician, not as a deaf musician, and I applied to the famous Royal Academy of Music in London. No other deaf student had 47 this before

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and some teachers 48 my admission. Based on my performance, I was 49 admitted and went to 50 with the academy’s highest honors.

“After that, I established myself as the first full-time solo percussionist. I 51 and arranged a lot of musical compositions since 52 had been written specially for solo percussionists.

“I have been a soloist for over ten years. 53 the doctor thought was a totally deaf, it didn’t that my passion couldn’t be realized. I would encourage people not to allow themselves to be 55 by others. Follow your passion; follow your heart, they will lead you to the place you want to go.” 36. A. conditions recommendations

37. A. enjoying B. choosing C. taking 38. A. sight

B. hearing

C. touch C. excuse

D. giving D. taste D. cause

B. opinions C. actions D.

39. A. evidence B. result 40. A. left disappointed

B. excited

C. accompanied D.

41. A. purpose B. decision C. promise D. goal 42. A. turned B. learned 43. A. tell

B. see

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D. ought D. smell

44. A. carefulness experience 45. A. sense

B. effort

B. movement C. imagination D.

C. feeling D. idea

46. A. dissatisfied discouraged 47. A. done

B. astonished C. determined D.

B. accepted C. advised D. admitted

48. A. supported opposed

49. A. usually B. finally 50. A. study 51. A. wrote

B. followed C. required D.

C. possibly D. hopefully

B. research C. graduate D. progress B. translated C. copied

C. many

D. read D. few D. Since

52. A. enough B. some

53. A. However B. Although C. When . A. mean

B. seem

C. conclude D. say C. taught

D. Limited

55. A. directed B. guided

2009年

The requirements for high school graduation have just changed in my community. As a result, all students must 36 sixty hours of service learning, 37 they will not receive a diploma. Service learning is academic learning that also helps the community. 38 of service learning include cleaning up a polluted river, working in a soup

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kitchen, or tutoring a student. 39 a service experience, students must keep a journal（日志）and then write a 40 about what they have learned.

Supporters claim that there are many 41 of service learning. Perhaps most importantly, students are forced to think 42 their own interests and become 43 of the needs of others. Students are also able to learn real-life skills that 44 responsibility, problem-solving, and working as part of a team. 45 , students can explore possible careers 46 service learning.

For example, if a student wonders what teaching is like, he or she can choose to work in an elementary school classroom a few afternoons each month. 47 there are many benefits, opponents （反对者） 48 problems with the new requirement. First, they 49 that the main reason students go to school is to learn core subjects and skills. Because service learning is time-consuming, students spend 50 time studying the core subjects. Second, they believe that forcing students to work without 51 goes against the law. By requiring service, the school takes away an individual's freedom to choose.

In my view, service learning is a great way to 52 to

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the community, learn new skills, and explore different careers. 53 , I don’t believe you should force people to help others – the to help must come from the heart. I think the best 55 is one that gives students choices: a student should be able to choose sixty hours of independent study or sixty hours of service. Choice encourages both freedom and responsibility, and as young adults, we must learn to handle both wisely. 36. A. spend save

37. A. and

B. or

C. but

D. for

D.

B. gain

C plete

D.

38. A. Subjects Examples 39. A. With After

40. A. diary notice

41. A. courses

D. features

B. Ideas C. Procedures

B. Before C. During D.

B, report C. note D.

B. benefits C. challenges

42. A. beyond in

43. A. careful

B. about C. over D.

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C. tired D.

aware

44. A. possess develop

45. A. Gradually Hopefully 46. A. through on

47. A. So

While

48. A. deal with D. take down 49. A. argue

admit

50. A. much

more

51. A. cost

praise

52. A. contribute

D. belong

53. A. Therefore

D. However

. A. courage

B. apply

C. include

D.

B. Finally

C. Luckily

D.

B. across

C. of

D.

B. Thus

C. Since

D.

B. look into

C. point out

B. doubt

C. overlook

D.

B. full

C. less

D.

B. pay

C. care

D.

B. appeal

C. attend

B. Otherwise

C. Besides

B. desire C. emotion D.

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spirit

55. A. decision D. result

2010年

Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my stepmother.

I was nine years old when she entered our home in rural Virginia. My father__36__me to her with these words: “I would like you to meet the fellow who is___37 for being the worst boy in this county and will probably start throwing rocks at you no ___38 than tomorrow morning.”

My stepmother walked over to me, ___39 my head slightly upward, and looked me right in the eye. Then she looked at my father and replied, “You are ___40 .This is not the worst boy at all, ___41 the smartest one who hasn’t yet found an outlet（释放的途径）for his enthusiasm.”

That statement began a (n) ___42 between us. No one had ever called me smart, My family and neighbors had built me up in my ___43 as a bad boy. My stepmother changed all that.

She changed many things. She ___44 my father to go to

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B. purpose

C. solution

a dental school, from which he graduated with honors. She moved our family into the county srat, where my father’s career could be more ___45 and my brother and I could be better___46 .

When

I

turned

fourteen,

she

bought

me

a

secondhand___47 and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I knew her ernthusiasm; I___48it had already improved our lives. I accepted her ___49 and began to write for local newspapers. I was doing the same kind of___50 that great day I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and received the task which became my life’s work later. I wasn’t the ___51 beneficiary (受益者).My father became the ___52 man in town. My brother and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college president.

What power __53 has! When that power is released to support the certainty of one’s purpose and is ___ strengthened by faith, it becomes an irresistible（不可抗拒的）force which poverty and temporary defeat can never ___55 . You can communicate that power to anyone who needs it. This is probably the greatest work you can do with your enthusiasm.

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36. A.rushed B .sent

D .introduced

C .carried

37. A.distinguished B .favored

D .rewarded

38. A. sooner B .later

C .mistaken

C .longer

D .earlier

39. A. dragged

D .bent

40. A. perfect

D .impolite

41. A. but 42. A. batement

D .relationship

43. A. opinion

D .mind

44. A. begged

D .invited

45. A. successful

D .useful

46. A. reared

D .respected

47. A.cemera B .shook

C .raised

B .right C .wrong

B .so

C .and D .or

B .friendship C .gap

B .image C .expectation

B .persuaded

C .ordered

B .meaningful C.helpful B .entertained C.educated B .radio

C .bicycle

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D .typewriter

48. A. considered B .suspected

C .ignored

D .appreciated

49. A. belief B .request

C .criticism

D .description

50. A. teaching B .writing

C .studying

D .reading

51. A. next B .same

C .only

D .real

52. A. cleverest B .wealthiest

D .healthiest

53. A. enthusiasm B .sympathy

D .confidence

. A. deliberately B .happily

D.constantly

55. A. wins B .match

D .doubt

C .strongest

C .fortune

C .traditionally

C .reach

（2011）A boy was walking home from school when he saw a large, tempting （诱人的）apple on one of the branches of an apple tree hanging out over a tall fence. The boy wasn’t much of a fruit-eater, 36 a bar of chocolate if given the choice, 37 , as they say, the forbidden fruit can be tempting. Seeing the apple, the boy wanted it. The more he looked at it,

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the 38 he felt and the more he wanted that apple.

39 as high as he could , but even as his tallest 40 he was unable to touch It. He began to 41 up and down , as high as he could, at the 42 of each jump stretching his arms to get the apple . Still it remained out of 43 .

Not giving up , he though , if only he had something to 44 on . His school bag wouldn’t give enough height and he didn’t want to 45 the things inside , like his lunch box , pencil case , and Gameboy . Looking 46 , he hoped he might find an old box , a rock , or , 47 luck , even a ladder , but it was a tidy neighborhood and there was nothing he could use .

He had tired everything he could think to do . 48 seeing any other choices , he gave up and started to walk 49 . At first he felt angry and disappointed thinking about how hungry he had become from his 50 , and how he really wanted that apple . The more he 51 like this , the more unhappy he became.

52 ,the boy of our story was a preetty smart guy,even if he cloudn’t always get what get he wanted .He started to say to himself .,This isn’t 53 ,I don’t have the apple and I’m feeling miserable as well.There’s more Ican

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do to get the apple_that is unchangeable-but we are

supposed to be able to 55 our feelings. If that’s the case, what can I do to feel better?

36.A. preferring B.offering C.receiving D.allowing

37.A. so B.then C..but D or 38.A.sadder B.angrier C. hungrier D.tastier

39.A. expanding B. stretching C.swinging D.pulling

40.A. strength B. length C. range D.heigh

41.A.jump B.look C. walk D.glance 42.A. tip B. stage C. top D. level 43.A hope B. hand C. sight D. reach

44.A. put B. stand C. get D. hold 45.A. break B. shake C.take D. strike 46.A. up B. forword C.down D. around 47.A.for B. with C.on D. of 48.A. After B. Through C .Without D.Upon 49.A. back B. away C. up D. down

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50.A. wishes B. beliefs C. efforts D. goals 51.A. thought B. imagoned C.tried D. cliamed

52.A.Therefore B.However C.Moreover D.Otherwise

53.A. skilful B. cheerful C.harmful D. helpful

. A. something B. anything C.everything D.nothing

55.A．change B.express C.forget D.describe （2012）The concept of solitude (独处) in the digital world is almost non-existent. In the world of digital technology, e-mail, social networking and online video games,

information is meant to be____36___. Solitude can be hard to discover ___37____it has been given up. In this respect, new technologies have ___38____our culture.

The desire to be connected has brought solitude to a(n) ___39____as we’ve known it. People have become so

___40____in the world of networks and connections that one can often be contacted ____41___they’d rather not be. Today we can talk, text, e-mail, chat and blog (写博客), not only from our ___42____, but from our mobile phones as well.

Most developed nations have become ___43____on digital technology simply because they’ve grown accustomed to it, and at this point not ___44____it would make them an

outsider. ___45____, many jobs and careers require people to be ___46____. From this point of view, technology has

changed the culture of work. Being reachable might feel like a ___47____to those who may not want to be able to be contacted at all times.

I suppose the positive side is that solitude is still possible for anyone who ___48____wants it. Computers can be shut ___49____and mobile phones can be turned off. The ability to be “connected”and “ on”has many ___50____, as well as

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disadvantages. Travelers have ended up ___51____on

mountains, and mobile phones have saved countless lives. They can also make people feel ___52____and forced to answer unwanted calls or___53____to unwanted texts.

Attitudes towards our connectedness as a society

_______ across generations. Some find today’s technology a gift. Others consider it a curse. Regardless of anyone’s view on the subject, it’s hard to imagine what life would be like ___55____daily advancements in technology.

36. A. updated B. received C. shared D. collected

37. A. though B. until C. once D. before

38. A. respected B. shaped C. ignored D. preserved

39. A. edge B. stage C. end D. balance

40. A. sensitive B. intelligent C. considerate D. reachable

41. A. even if B. only if C. as if D. if only

42. A. media B. computers C. databases D. monitors

43. A. bent B. hard C. keen D. dependent

44. A. finding B. using C. protecting D. changing

45. A. Also B. Instead C. Otherwise D. Somehow

46. A. connected B. trained C. recommended D. interested

47. A. pleasure B. benefit C. burden D. disappointment

48. A. slightly B. hardly C. merely D. really

49. A. out B. down C. up D. in

50. A. aspects B. weaknesses C. advantages D. exceptions

51. A. hidden B. lost C. relaxed D. deserted

52. A. trapped B. excited C. confused D. amused

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53. A. turn B. submit C. object D. reply

. A. vary B. arise C. spread D. exist

55. A. beyond B. within C. despite D. wit

（2013）I used to believe in the American Dream, which meant a job, a mortgage (按揭), credit cards, success. I wanted it and worked toward it like everyone else, all of us 36 chasing the same thing.

One year, through a series of unhappy events, it all fell 37 . I found myself homeless and alone. I had my truck and $56. I 38 teh countryside for some place I could rent for the 39 possible amount. I came upon a shabby house four miles up a winding mountain road 40 the Potomac River in West Virginia. It was 41 , full of broken glass and rubbish. I found the owner, rented it, and 42 a corner to camp in.

The locals knew nothing about me, 43 slowly, they started teaching me the 44 of being a neighbor. They dropped off blankets, candles, and tools, and began 45 around to chat. They started to teach me a belief in a 46 American Dream—not the one of individual achievement but of 47 .

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What I have believed in, all those things I thought were 48 for a civilized life, were nonexistent in this place. 49 on teh mountain, my most valuable possessions were my 50 with my neighbors.

Four years later, I moved back into 51 . I saw many people were having a really hard time, 52 their jobs and homes. I managed to reant a big enough house to 53 a handful of people. There are four of us now in the house, but over time I’ve had nine people come in and move on to other places. We’d all be in if we hadn’t banded together.

The American Dream I believe in now is a shared one. It’s not so much about what I can get for mysefl; it’s about 55 we can all get by together. 36. A. separately

D. naturally

B. apart

C. over

D.

B. equally

C. violently

37. A. off out

38. A. crossed

D. searched

B. left C. toured

39. A. fullest

D. cheapest

B. largest C. fairest

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40. A. at round

B. through C. over D.

41. A. occupied

D. robbed

B. abandoned C. emptied

42. A. turned

D. cut

B. approached C. cleared

43. A. but

D. for

B. although C. otherwise

44. A. benefit

D. art

B. lesson C. nature

45. A. sticking

D. turning

B. looking C. swingting

46. A. wild remote

B. real C. different D.

47. A. neighborliness

D. kindness

B. happiness C. friendliness

48. A. unique

B. expensive C. rare

D. necessary

B. Down

C. Deep

49. A. Up

D. Along

50. A. cooperation

B. relationship C. satisfaction

D. appointments

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51. A. reality

D. life

B. society C. town

52. A. creating

D. offering

B. losing C. quitting

53. A. put in

B. turn in C. take in

D. get in

B. shelters

C. camps

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D. cottages

55. A. when How

B. what C. whehter D.

（2014）Dale Carnegie rose from the unknown of a Missouri farm to international fame because he found a way to fill a universal human need.

It was a need that he first 36 back in 1906 when young Dale was a junior at State Teachers College in Warrensburg. To get an 37 , he was struggling against many difficulties. His family was poor. His Dad couldn’t afford the 38 at college, so Dale had to ride horseback 12 miles to attend classes. Study had to be done 39 his farm-work routines. He withdrew from many school activities 40 he didn’t have the time or the 41 . He had only one good suit. He tried 42 the football team, but the coach

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turned him down for being too 43 . During this period Dale was slowly 44 an inferiority complex (自卑感), which his mother knew could 45 him from achieving his real potential. She 46 that Dale join the debating team, believing that 47 in speaking could give him the confidence and recognition that he needed.

Dale took his mother’s advice, tried desperately and after several attempts 48 made it. This proved to be a 49 point in his life. Speaking before groups did help him gain the 50 he needed. By the time Dale was a senior, he had won every top honor in 51 . Now other students were coming to him for coaching and they, 52 , were winning contests.

Out of this early struggle to 53 his feelings of inferiority, Dale came to understand that the ability to an idea to an audience builds a person’s confidence. And, 55 it, Dale knew he could do anything he wanted to do—and so could others.

36. A. admitted B. filled recognized

37. A. assignment B. education instruction 38. A. training

B. board

C. teaching

D.

C. advantage

D.

C. supplied

D.

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equipment

39. A. between B. during 40. A. while

B. when

C. over

D. through D. though D. clothes

C. because

41. A. permits B. interest 42. A. on 43. A. light

B. for

C. talent C. in

D. with

D. outgoing

B. flexible C. optimistic

44. A. gaining B. achieving obtaining

45. A. prevent B. protect

C. developing D.

C. save D. free

D.

46. A. suggested B. demanded insisted

47. A. presence B. practice potential

48. A. hopefully B. certainly naturally 49. A. key

B. breaking

C. required

C. patience D.

C. finally D.

C. basic D. turning

D.

50. A. progress B. experience confidence

51. A. horse-riding B. football farming

52. A. in return B. in brief 53. A. convey B. overcome

C. competence

C. speech D.

C. in turn D. in fact D. build

C. understand

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55. A. besides B. beyond

C. contribute D.

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（2013）Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. And he surely deserves additional praise: the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.

I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of theliterature in the years before the Civil War. H. B. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is only the most famous example. These early stories dealt directly with slavery. With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface

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about something else entirely. He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.

Again and again, in the postwar years, Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race. Consider the most controversial, at least today, of Twain’s novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Only a few books have been kicked off

the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twains most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck them as rude. Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums (贫民窟).” More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim, the escaped slave, and many occurences of the word nigger. (The term Nigger Jim, for which the novel is often severely criticized, never appears in it.)

But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point. The novel is strongly anti-slavery. Jim’s search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic. As J. Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the voice

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of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual: Jim, the father and the man.”

There is much more. Twain’s mystery novel

Pudd’nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs

of even many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior (低等的) to whites, especially in intelligence, Twain’s tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth to her master’s baby and, for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the master’s baby by his wife. The slave’s light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class. The master’s wife’s baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.

The point was difficult to miss: nurture (养育), not nature, was the key to social status. The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice—manner of speech, for example—were, to Twain, indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.

Twain’s racial tone was not perfect. One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography (自

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传) about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youth—mostly with white men performing in black-face—and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them. Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality. His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.

Was Twain a racist? Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln. If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black manthe inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.

65. How do Twain’s novels on slavery differ from Stowe’s? A. Twain was more willing to deal with racism. B. Twain’s attack on racism was much less open. C. Twain’s themes seemed to agree with plots. D. Twain was openly concerned with racism.

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66. Recent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose partly from its _____.

A. target readers at the bottom B. anti-slavery attitude C. rather impolite language D. frequent use of “nigger”

67. What best proves Twain’s anti-slavery stand according to the author?

A. Jim’s search for his family was described in detail. B. The slave’s voice was first heard in American novels. C. Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture.

D. Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent. 68. The story of two babies switched mainly indicates that _____.

A. slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters

B. slaves’ babies could pick up slave-holders’ way of speaking

C. blacks’ social position was shaped by how they were brought up

D. blacks were born with certain features of prejudice

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69. What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 7 refer to?

A. The attacks.

B. Slavery and prejudice. C. White men. D. The shows.

70. What does the author mainly argue for?

A. Twain had done more than his contemporary writers to attack racism.

B. Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln.

C. Twain’s works had been banned on unreasonable grounds.

D. Twain’s works should be read from a historical point of view.

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