英语完形填空训练.docx

英语完形填空训练 完形填空 1 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 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 D. places D. mountains D. frightening 2. A. roads 3. A. land B. ways C. danger B. leaves C. grass B. dark 4. A. lively C. noisy 5. A. moonlight B. light C. sunlight D. stars 6. A. summer B. spring C. autumn 7. A. speak 8. A. green 9. A. calm B. say D. winter D. tell C. talk about B. yellow C. white B. sleepy C. active D. gray D. helpful D. others 10. A. the other B. another C. other one 11. A. black B. green B. go by C. golden D. yellow D. go along 12. A. go round C. go off 13. A. one B. way C. fact D. matter D. hospital 14. A. factory B. classroom C. restaurant 15. A. Different B. Cool C. Warm D.All 2 For several years, Americans have enjoyed teleshopping-watching TV and buying things by phone. Now teleshopping is starting in Europe. In some _1_ countries, people can turn on their _2_ and shop for clothes, jewelry, food, toys and _3_ things. Teleshopping is becoming popular in Sweden. _4_, the biggest Swedish company sells different kinds of things on TV in fifteen European countries, and in one year, it makes $10 million. In France, there are two teleshopping channels, and the French _5_ about $ 20 million a year in buying things through those channels. In Germany, _6_ last year teleshopping was only possible on one channel for one hour every day. Then the government allowed more teleshopping. Other channels can _7_ for telebusiness, including the largest American teleshopping company and a 24-hour teleshopping company. German _8_ are hoping these will help them sell more things. Some people like teleshopping because it allows them to do their shopping without _9_. With all the traffic problems in cities, going shopping is not an easy thing. But at the same time, other Europeans _10_ like this new way of buying things. They call _11_ “junk on the air.” Many Europeans usually worry about the quality of the things _12_ on TV. They think high quality is the most important thing, and they dont believe they can be sure about the quality of the things _13_. The need of high quality means that European teleshopping companies will have to be _14_ the American companies. They will have to be more careful about _15_ of the things they sell. They will also have to work harder to sell things that the buyers cannot touch or see by themselves. 1. A. European B. Asian C. American D. African 2. A. lights B. switches C. radios D. TVs D. many other 3. A. some else B. another many 4. A. Such as 5. A. takes 6. A. to C. the other B. For example C. For teleshopping D. It is like C. spends C. unless D. spend D. by B. cost B. until 7. A. begin 8. A. people B. leave C. open D. turn on B. women C. businessmen D. officials B. going out 9. A. to go out C. to buy things 10. A. still D. buying things D. wont D. telephone D. to buy D. by this way B. dont C. even 11. A. teleshopping B. TV 12. A. appearing 13. A. in the shop C. radio B. coming out C. for sale B. on TV C. they bought 14. A. the same with C. as big as B. different from D. larger than 15. A. the number B. the quality C. the places D. the buyers 3 Last Friday, after doing all the family shopping in the town. I wanted to have a rest before catching the rain. I _1_ a newspaper and some chocolate and _2_ into the station coffee shop. It was a cheap self-service place with long tables to _3_ at. I put my heavy bag down on the floor, _4_ the newspaper and the chocolate on the table and then went to get a cup of coffee. When I came back with the coffee, There was someone _5_ in the next seat. _6_ was a boy, with dark glasses and old clothes, and _7_ bright red at the front. He had started to eat my chocolate! Naturally, I was rather uneasy about him, but I didnt want to have any _8_. I just read the newspaper, tasted my coffee and took a bit of chocolate. The boy looked at me in _9_.Then he took a _10_ piece of my chocolate. I could hardly believe it. Still I didnt say anything to him. When he took a third piece, I felt more angry than uneasy. I thought, “Well, I shall have the last piece.” And I got it. The boy gave me a strange look, then _11_ up. As he left, he shouted out, “Theres something _12_ with that woman!” Everyone looked at me, _13_ I didnt want to quarrel with the boy, so I kept quiet. I did not realize that I had _14_ a mistake until I finished my coffee and was ready to _15_. My face turned red when I saw my unopened chocolate under the newspaper. The chocolate that I had been eating was the boys! 1. A. stole 2. A. went 3. A. sit 4. A. pushed B. bought B. sat C. sold D. wrote C. seated D. looked D. laugh D. pulled D. sleeping B. seat C. lie B. took C. put 5. A. jumping 6. A. He 7. A. cut 8. A. coffee B. playing C. sitting B. It C. Who D. What C. covered D. colored B. washed B. trouble C. chocolate D. matter 9. A. carelessness B. anger C. surprise D. happiness 10. A. first B. second C. very D. last 11. A. stood 12. A. strange 13. A. and 14. A. spelt 15. A. finish B. took C. cried D. looked B. wrong C. OK C. so D. funny B. but D. while D. found B. corrected C. made B. leave C. jump D.shop 4 Rosa liked making up stories. She was so _1_ that her classmates believed her from time to time. In fact, the whole class believed her! At first she supposed it was _2_. Now, as she got up to _3_ before the class, She knew that make believe stories had some way of coming back to make you sad. Rosas parents were separated. Nine months out of the year, Rosa lived with her mother in an apartment on Anderson Street. But when summer _4_, she went to her fathers farm in Arizona. The farm was great! Rosa rode horses and _5_ with some farm work. Her father, however, was so _6_ that he couldnt find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would _7_ her at the airport and take her out to eat. And the day she went back to the _8_ he would always buy her a present. When summer came to a close, Rosa _9_ to her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a _10_ to talk about. Not long after _11_ began, Rosa was looking through travel magazines in the school library. They talked about many exciting _12_, like England and Germany. When Rosas friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was not _13_. Remembering the travel magazines she had looked at, she told her classmates that she and her father had gone to _14_. When the class began studying England, Mr. Thomas asked Rosa to tell all the things she could _15_ about her trip to England! 1. A. afraid B. worried C. sure D. happy 2. A. joke B. fun 3. A. talk B. teach 4. A. passed 5. A. made C. turn D. game C. show D. travel D. changed B. arrived C. lasted B. played C. helped D. did D. lonely D. send 6. A. weak B. pleased C. busy 7. A. show B. visit 8. A. farm B. city 9. A. wrote C. meet C. family D. school C. moved D. returned C. teacher D. farm C. summer D. talk C. languages D. places D. same D. home B. called 10. A. family B. school 11. A. meeting B. school 12. A. people B. cities 13. A interesting B. true C. long 14. A. England B. Germany C. farm 15. A. think B. see C. remember D. read 5 Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story _1_ their children. And they must have realized how difficult it is to write a _2_ childrens book. Either the author has aimed (定目标) too _3_, so that children cant follow what is in his ( or more often, her ) story, _4_ the story seems to be talking to the readers. The best childrens books are _5_ very difficult nor very simple, and satisfy the _6_ who hears the story and the adult who _7_ it. Unfortunately, there are in fact few books like this, _8_ the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not _9_ to solve. This may be why many of the books regarded as _10_ of childrens literature were in fact written for _11_ “Alice in Wonderland” is perhaps the most obviousof this. Children, left for themselves, often _12_ the worst possible interest in literature. Just leave a child in a bookshop or a _13_ and he will more willingly choose the books written in an unimaginative (并非想象的 ) way, or have a look at the most childrens comics, full of the stories and jokes which are the rejections of teachers and righting-thinking parents. Perhaps we parents should stop _14_ to brainwashchildren into acceptingour taste in literature. After all, children and adults are so _15_ that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy the same books. So I suppose well just have to compromiseover the bedtime story. 1. A. to B. in C. with C. bad D. around D. good 2. A. short 3. A. easy 4. A. and 5. A. both 6. A. child 7. A. hears 8. A. but B. long B. short C. high B. but C. or D. difficult D. so B. neither C. either D. very D. teacher D. reads B. father C. mother B. buys C. understands B. however C. so D. because 9. A. hard B. easy C. enough D. fast D. works D. children D. add 10.A. articles B. work C. arts 11. A. grown-ups B. girls C. boys 12. A. are B. show C. find 13. A. school B. home C. office 14. A. going B. liking C. trying D. library D. preferring D. common 15. A. same B. friendly C. different 6 Mrs. Ball had a son. His name was Mick. She _1_ him very much and as he was not a _2 _ child, she was always _3_ that he might be ill, _4_ she used to take him to see the best _5_ in the town four times a year to be looked _6_. During one of these _7_, the doctor gave Mick all kinds of tests and then said to him, “Have you had any _8_ with your nose or ears recently?” Mick _9_ for a second and then answered, “Yes, I _10_.” Mrs. Ball was very _11_. “But Im sure you have _12_ told me that, Mick!” She said worriedly. “Oh, really?” Said the doctor _13_. “And what trouble have you with your nose and ears, my boy?” “Well,” answered Mick, “I always have trouble with them when Im _14_ my sweater off, because the _15_ is very tight.” 1. A. loved 2. A. rich B. hated B. clever C. missed C. strong D. cared D. happy 3. A. afraid 4. A. which 5. A. player 6. A. round 7. A. talks 8. A. answer 9. A. waited 10. A. did B. surprised C. glad B. for C. but D. sure D. so D. lawyer B. teacher C. doctor B. over C. for D. after D. stays B. years C. visits B. thing C. word D. trouble D. looked D. do B. thought C. stood B. will C. have 11. A. excited B. interested B. just C. pleased D. surprised D. always 12. A. already 13. A. angrily C. never B. seriously C. happily B. taking D. carefully D. putting 14. A. turning 15. A. collar C. keeping B. nose C. mouth 7 D. ear The computer plays an important part in our everyday life. It is one of the great _1_ in the world in the _2_ century. It works for us not only at home, in the offices, in big shops, _3_ at schools. Today it is used _4_ many ways. It really _5_ the world large wealth (财富) and happiness. The first computer in the world was _6_ Enid. It was built in America in 1946. It was _7_ and heavy. _8_ it was born, it has been developing very fast. Until now it has gone _9_ four periodsand changed a lot. Therere many kinds of computers. Computers are getting smaller and smaller and computing faster and faster. It becomes more and more _10_. The computer can do most of the things _11_ the people. It can help us to _12_ about the real world more quickly, to learn _13_ we want to learn and to think _14_ ourselves. _15_ a student in the twenty-first century, you must work hard at it. 1. A. inventions B. discoveries C. robots D. inventors 2. A. twenty-first B. twenties C. twelfth 3. A. also 4. A. in 5. A. takes 6. A. found 7. A. easy 8. A. For 9. A. by B. but also C. too B. to B. helps C. by D. twentieth D. either D. over D. brings C. gets B. invented C. called D. bought B. small B. Until C. large D. light D. Since C. When B. across B. harmful. C. through D. against C. dangerous D. helpful D. with 10.A. serious 11.A. for B. to C. at 12.A. set 13.A. what 14.A. of 15.A. For B. tell C. know B. that D. talk C. which D. who D. for D. To 8 B. about C. out B. Be C. As You may think there is only sand in the desert of the world, _1_ it is not true. In the desert, as we know, there is a little _2_, but it is not _3_ for most plants. Still we can see some plants _4_ in the desert. There is _5_ in some places in the desert. We _6_ these places oases. In the oases, there are villages and towns.