卡莉·克劳斯硬照:2009高考英语强化训练——完形填空９（含详细分析）

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As Christmas is coming, there are presents to be bought, cards to be sent, and rooms to be cleaned. Parents are ___1___ with difficult jobs of hiding presents from curious young children. If the gifts are large, this is sometimes a real ___2___. On Christmas Eve, young children find the excitement almost unbearable. They are torn between the wish to go to bed early so that Father Christmas will bring their presents quickly and the wish to ___3___ up late so that they will not ___4___ the fun. The wish for gifts usually proves stronger. But though children go to bed early, they often lie ___5___ for a long time, hoping to get a short ___6___ at Father Christmas.
Last Christmas, my wife and I ___7___ hid a few large presents in the storeroom. I ___8___ the moment when my son, Jimmy, would ___9___ me where that new bike had come from, but ___10___ he did not see it.
On Christmas Eve, ___11___ took the children hours to go to sleep. It must have been nearly ___12___ when my wife and I went quietly into their room and began ___13___ stockings. Then I pushed in the ___14___ I bought for Jimmy and left it beside the Christmas tree. We knew we would not get much sleep that night, for the children were ___15___ to get up early. At about five o’clock the next morning, we were ___16___ by loud sounds coming from the children’s room — they were shouting excitedly! ___17___ I had time to get out of bed, young Jimmy came riding into the room on his new bike, and his sister, Mary, followed close behind pushing her new baby carriage. ___18___ the baby arrived. He moved ___19___ the hands and knees into the room dragging a large balloon behind him. Suddenly it burst. That woke us up ___20___. The day had really begun with a band(巨响) !
1. A. faced           B. met            C. filled       D. pleased
2. A. question           B. matter        C. problem       D. business
3. A. get               B. stay           C. stand       D. wake
4. A. lose              B. break        C. miss       D. leave
5. A. awake           B. wake        C. asleep       D. sleep
6. A. look               B. stare        C. glare       D. watch
7. A. hopefully           B. busily        C. gladly       D. successfully
8. A. liked          B. feared        C. surprised  D. hated
9. A. answer          B. tell            C. ask      D. search
10. A. sadly          B. unluckily        C. possibly  D. fortunately
11. A. it              B. they            C. I          D. we
12. A. morning      B. midnight        C. evening      D. daybreak
13. A. filling          B. sewing        C. mending  D. preparing
14. A. present          B. stocking        C. bike      D. tree
15. A. going          B. sure            C. glad      D. excited
16. A. troubled          B. frightened       C. woken      D. shocked
17. A. Before          B. After            C. Until      D. Since
18. A. Even          B. And            C. Soon      D. Then
19. A. with          B. on            C. over      D. by
20. A. all              B. nearly       C. happily      D. completely

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Our airplane was just beside the airport building. It did not look too strong to me, but I decided not to think about such things. We saw the baggage going out ___1___ it on trolleys and being loaded from ___2___ the aircraft. Next, three men and three girls, all in uniform, went over to the plane and ___3___ it. Over the loudspeakers we were ___4___ the plane was ready to leave and were asked to walk ___5___ to it. Everybody moved quickly in order to ___6___ the seats they wanted. I was ___7___ to get a seat near the tail, but the plane looked ___8___ inside than it had from outside. I fastened my seat belt ___9___ we took off and tried to ___10___ my nervousness.
After an hour’s flying I ___11___ black clouds ahead through my window. An electric sign flashed ___12___: “Fasten your seat belts, please,” one of the hostesses made a ___13___ request over the loudspeakers. She told us we were about to fly into a storm but ___14___ cheerfully there was nothing to worry ___15___. Suddenly, the plane ___16___ all over, dropped about twenty feet and seemed to hang on one ___17___. Then it rose twenty feet and there was a great flash of lightning. The three girls did their best to ___3___ pills for airsickness and ___19___ the passengers. Soon the sky became light again. The pilot had ___20___ to get above the storm.
1. A. at         B. over          C. to           D. above
2. A. inside     B. beside          C. behind       D. under
3. A. arrived     B. entered      C. climbed       D. flew
4. A. asked     B. noticed      C. announced       D. told
5. A. out         B. inside          C. in           D. by
6. A. fetch     B. hold          C. keep           D. get
7. A. impossible B. possible      C. unable         D. unsuitable
8. A. prettier     B. stronger      C. smaller       D. heavier
9. A. before     B. after          C. until           D. when
10. A. smooth     B. forget          C. correct       D. drive
11. A. noticed     B. looked          C. watched       D. realized
12. A. on         B. up          C. out           D. in
13. A. general   B. similar          C. common       D. sharp
14. A. smiled     B. spoke          C. added       D. acted
15. A. at         B. about          C. on           D. with
16. A. shake     B. shaken          C. shook       D. shocked
17. A. edge     B. line          C. side           D. wing
18. A. give out    B. give off      C. give up       D. give back
19. A. save     B. cool          C. persuade       D. comfort
20. A. succeeded     B. flown          C. planned       D. managed

答案与解析
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1. A。从空格后difficult jobs of… 推测意思为“be faced with面临”, 此处搭配应用被动语态。
1. C。想把大型的礼物藏起来不是一件容易的事情。question=疑问，matter=麻烦或毛病，business =商业或买卖，均不符句意。
3. B。stay up late 意为“熬夜”。
4. C。平安夜孩子们通常呆着不睡，等待享受圣诞老人送礼物的喜悦。
5. A。尽管孩子们早早上床，因为想看到圣诞老人，会长时间睡不着。
6. A。stare at=瞪着眼睛看，glare at=怒目而视，watch是及物动词，后面不能接at。
7. D。预阅文章得知去年成功地给了孩子们一个大惊喜。
8. B。上文已说大的礼物难藏，作者在把自行车放在储藏室，最担心的是被孩子们发现，而不是喜欢。C、D不符句意。
9. C。如果孩子看到礼物，肯定会问礼物从哪儿来。
10. D。从空格后he didn’t see it 及这次给孩子的惊喜可推知答案。
11. A。it做形式主语为固定句型。
12. B。首先排除不符句意的A、D，再从we knew we wouldn’t get much sleep…，及 at about five o’clock the next morning ,we were… 提示。
13. A。根据圣诞老人总是把礼物塞在孩子的袜子里面传说，应选fill。
14. C。从下文Jimmy came riding into the room on his new bike可知，推进来的是为Jimmy买的自行车。
15. B。根据父母的了解，孩子盼望礼物心切, 肯定会起得很早，其他三个选项不够准确。
 16. C。孩子发现礼物的吵闹声不会使人害怕或麻烦，只会把人吵醒。
17. A。before引导的时间状语从句为“还未来得及…, 就…”。
18. A。even 用来加强语气。
19. B。on the hands and knees 意为“用手和膝盖爬行”，其中on表示方式。
20. D。作者和妻子刚睡不久就被孩子吵醒，这时气球被玩爆了，一声巨响让他们彻底醒来，这爆炸声也预示喜庆的一天开始了。

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1. C。/
2. D。此句意为：在作者登机之前，他看到乘客们的行李首先被用运货车运出并运至飞机身边，在从飞机底部的货物进口处装进飞机(飞机行李、货物进口处常设在机身底部，而乘客入口处设在机身侧面)。
3. B。穿着制服的三男三女走到飞机旁边并进入(enter)飞机。
4. C。/ 5. A。乘客们听到候机室内的广播通知，飞机即将起程并要求乘客走出候机室。注意：be told意为“听到、被告知”；announce解释为“通知某人”时，常构成短语：announce sth to sb。
5. D。下文已有暗示：to get a seat near the tail。
6. C。乘客们快速登机的目的就是想能得到他想要的理想的座位，(一般来说，靠近飞机尾部的座位更安全)，而作者未能(unable)得到。
7. B。从文章开始It did not look too strong to me.可知，当作者登上飞机以后，他感觉到飞机内部看上去要比从外部看上去更坚固。
8. A。
9. B。该句意为：在飞机起飞之前，作者系好安全带，并尽力忘掉自己心中的紧张。
10. B
11. A。look“看”为不及物动词，不可直接跟宾语；watch“注视、观看”；realize“认识到、意识到”不符句意。
12. A。flash on “闪现”。
13. B。一个空中小姐作出了与广播中相同的要求“请系好你们的安全带”。
14. C。add在此意为“补充说”。
15. B。不定式短语to worry about“担心……”作定语，修饰不定代词nothing。
16. C。此处说明飞机在空中上下颠簸起来，与后面的dropped为并列谓语动词，故应选动词shake的过去式shook，而shock意为“震惊”，不符句意。
17. D。飞机靠两只机翼平衡机身，但由于飞机颠簸得太厉害，所以作者感觉到飞机好像仅靠一只机翼在平衡机身。
18. A。
19. D。动词短语give out在此意为“分发”。而give off“发出(光、热、气味等)”，give up“放弃、投降”，give back“归还”均不符句意。
20. D。不久天空变得晴朗起来，飞行员最终战胜了风暴(manage to do sth)。选项A应构成短语succeed in doing sth 选项B, C不符句意。