高考英语《完型填空》专项练习题（含答案）
After the Civil War, Mark Twain briefly rved in the Confederate Army (南方邦联军), then rejoined his brother Orion, who had recently won a position in the Nevada territory government as 1 for his work on President Abraham Lincoln's re-election campaign. Twain traveled with his brother to Nevada then began a year's work criticizing gold and silver. The experiences would later provide the basis for his volume Roughing It (1872). In 1862, he joined the publication and assumed the Mark Twain pudonym (笔名) almost exclusively when 2 his humorous reports with conventional pieces.
Throughout the remainder of the 1860s, Twain traveled widely and 3 his obrvations to various West Coast publications. For much of this period he even rved as an official journalist for the San Francisco Daily Morning. One of his most celebrated and notorious writings from this period, 4 came as a journalist for the Alta California, who editors he 5 to finance a five-month journey aboard the Quaker in Europe and the Middle East. Upon returning to the United States, he compiled (编写) the Quaker City correspondence as The Innocents Abroad (1869) and agreed to widespread demand for his 6 as a public lecturer.
With The Innocents Abroad, Twain enjoyed considerable commercial and 7 success. Its popularity was rather 8 , for the book was published by a subscription hou，which sold works door to door before publication. Interested readers would pay in advance for the book, which would 9 , realize actual publication only after sufficient sales had been 10 . Twain, who significantly filled the book with 61 chapters of real-life stories - great length was a disadvantage for sales - 11 succeeded in producing a work that appealed to readers with its lively humor and 12 insights and depictions. Notable in the book are 13 in Venice, Italy, where the boatmen are inevitably 14 as cheery opportunists, and in Palestine, where deceitful beggars exploit the company's more vulnerable members. Perhaps becau of the work's broad, emingly bitter humor, The Innocents Abroad still 15 among Twain's most accomplished works.
1．A．reception B．admission C．reward D．award
2．A．associating B．replacing C．comparing D．alternating
3．A．attributed B．contributed C．distributed D．formulated
4．A．therefore B．moreover C．however D．besides
5．A．inspired B．convinced C．promid D．appealed
6．A．prence B．experience C．emergence D．competence
7．A．crucial B．critical C．magical D．economical
8．A．surprising B．encouraging C．confusing D．satisfying
9．A．in ca B．in turn C．in person D．in time
10．A．boosted B．proved C．projected D．guaranteed
11．A．instead B．nonetheless C．afterwards D．thus
12．A．typical B．fundamental C．keen D．active
13．A．episodes B．events C．landmarks D．columns
14．A．rationalized B．personalized C．characterized D．popularized
15．A．ranks B．puts C．grades D．places
It was many years ago. I was a young dad sitting on the couch reading a fairy tale 16 my little girl. She sat next to me with her 17 on my arm as I told the tale. When it came to the end I finished with tho famous words: “And they lived happily ever after.” I could e the 18 on her face and I never expected it to end. Suddenly I 19 that the ending of the tale was what I wanted for her. I 20 her to “live happily ever after.”
Still, deep in my heart I knew that this couldn’t always be true. I knew that there would be times when her 21 was broken. I knew there would be times when she cried and I couldn’t 22 her. I knew there would be times when all she 23 was fear, sadness, sorrow, and despair. As I stroked her hair and smiled at her I hoped that tho times would be brief and that she would have 24 in her life more often than not. Living 25 ever after, though, emed out of the question.
It took me a lot of years to realize that it is 26 to live happily ever after. You just have to do it “one day at a time.” Happiness you e isn’t some 27 that you get at the end of your journey. Happiness isn’t something that depends on what life hands you. Happiness is something you 28 in your life day by day.
The truth is that happiness comes when you choo love. Love is a gift from God. It is love 29 defeats fear. It is love that reduces sorrow. It is love that brings light to darkness. It is love that 30 us joy. Choo to “live happily ever after, one day at a time.”
16．A．from B．to C．at D．through
17．A．head B．book C．hair D．leg
18．A．puzzlement B．surpri C．doubt D．smile
19．A．said B．suppod C．realized D．decided
20．A．wanted B．allowed C．ordered D．advid
21．A．rule B．promi C．mirror D．heart
22．A．comfort B．affect C．touch D．inspire
23．A．lost B．felt C．cho D．sought
24．A．confidence B．courage C．joy D．love
25．A．happily B．simply C．actively D．carefully
26．A．important B．necessary C．difficult D．possible
27．A．relief B．credit C．reward D．attention
28．A．meet B．create C．accept D．expect
29．A．which B．whom C．that D．what
30．A．costs B．owes C．charges D．gives
