2013高考英语完形填空经典训练题六（附答案）(1)

完形填空训练（十一）

Take a taxi from Sydney Airport and chances are that the driver will not say “G’day” with the broad accent you might expect. Probe a little further and you will probably   1   that he was not born in Australia.   2   the United States, Australia is a society of   3  , and Sydney has been a preferred destination for many of these new   4  . Over the past half century the Anglo-Irish immigrants who   5   the city’s original population have been joined by successive waves of Italians, Greeks, Turks, Lebanese, and , more   6  , Asians. This mixture has   7  a cultural activeness and energy that were missing only a generation   8  . Sydney is a city   9  .

Compared with the traffic in the   10   of Australia, Sydney is fast and impatient. The more than 4 million people in this   11   work hard and play harder, moderation is something practiced by the citizens of Melbourne. Sydney   12   the tallest buildings, the most expensive real estate, the finest beaches, and the seediest nightlife of any Australian city. Most Australians   13   its loud brash ways with a mixture of fear and fascination,   14   Sydneysiders prefer to think of home as energetic rather than ordinary. Visiting this city is a(n)   15   part of an Australian experience. But remember, as you do so, that Sydney is no more representative of Australia   16   New York is of the United States. It has joined the   17   of the great global cities whose characters are essentially   18  , offering great looks, style, and sophistication. In 2000, the year that the Olympic Games   19   to the city, Sydney became one of the   20   destinations of the new millennium.

1. A. observe                B. discover                   C. expect                      D. catch

2. A. Like                            B. As                           C. With                        D. For

3. A. settlers                 B. immigrants               C. citizens                    D. the rich

4. A. people                  B. race                         C. strangers                  D. arrivals

5. A. took up                B. kept up                    C. made up                   D. brought

6. A. luckily                 B. surprisingly                     C. recently                    D. possibly

7. A. created                 B. supported                 C. given                       D. expressed

8. A. before                  B. after                        C. later                         D. ago

9. A. in a panic             B. in a hurry                 C. in a way                   D. in a sense

10. A. rest                    B. other                        C. else                          D. most

11. A. country               B. town                        C. city                          D. state

12. A. stands                 B. lies                          C. exists                       D. has

13. A. compare             B. think                        C. match                      D. regard

14. A. if                       B. unless                      C. although                   D. so

15. A. essential              B. final                        C. proud                       D. reasonable

16. A. than                   B. what                        C. that                          D. and

17. A. routes                 B. ranks                       C. circles                      D. ways

18. A. national                     B. racial                       C. personal                   D. international

19. A. added                 B. occurred                   C. came                        D. appeared

20. A. precious              B. fashionable               C. widespread               D. complex

完形填空训练（十二）

On Easter Day 1722,some European explorers found a lonely island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. They   1   it Easter Island. The explorers found that the island had good soil   2   the 200 natives living there survived with little food. Even more   3  , these people also lived among the ruins of what might have been a once great civilization. All that is left of it are around 800 giant stone statues   4   human heads. They   5   up to 270 tons and the tallest measures over 11 metres. The stone men face   6  , rather than out to sea, and their eyes are focused upon the sky. They are all carved from   7   volcanic rock (火山岩) and some have hats on their heads and eyes made from white coral. Since their   8  , these huge stone men   9   one of the greatest mysteries of all time. Who built them? Why did they do it? Some experts believe the stone men are   10   to Inca stonework, and suggest the figures were created by people of Peruvian descent (血统).   11   have even gone so far as to say that they came from outer space. The latest suggestion   12   the idea that Easter Island represents one of the worst cases of resource abuse in human history. It is said that a small group of Asians settled on Easter Island   13   between 400 and 700 AD. They developed a great civilization with huge forests and   14   food. At the peak of their civilization, the people began to build the giant   15   men. Why they did this is still   16   but it is possible the figures represent the settlers’ gods or ancestors.   17   the statues grew larger, the people’s lifestyles became more and more wasteful. The forest began to disappear, which   18   all the animals dying out.   19   couldn’t get food and were forced to eat other humans. Society began to   20   and the islanders themselves finally destroyed the stone men.

1. A. said                      B. were called               C. named                      D. spoke

2. A. and                      B. but                          C. however                   D. still

3. A. surprise                B. surprised                  C. surprising                 D. surprisingly

4. A. looking                B. resembling               C. liking                       D. standing for

5. A. weigh                   B. lift                           C. get                           D. measure

6. A. forward                B. outward                   C. onward                    D. inward

7. A. broken                 B. soft                          C. hard                         D. burnt

8. A. looking                B. invention                 C. discovery                 D. covering

9. A. have happened      B. have led to               C. have taken place        D. have created

10. A. usual                  B. common                   C. familiar                    D. similar

11. A. Another                     B. Other                       C. Others                      D. Many

12. A. is focused on              B. is based on               C. is depended on          D. is concentrated on

13. A. some day            B. one day                    C. sometime                 D. once

14. A. plenty of             B. number of                C. much of                   D. amount of

15. A. clever                 B. stone                        C. wooden                    D. iron

16. A. welcome             B. known                            C. unimportant              D. unknown

17. A. While                 B. After                        C. With                        D. As

18. A. resulted in           B. resulted from            C. created                     D. lay in

19. A. The islands          B. The people               C. The animals              D. The Europeans

20. A. break out            B. break in                   C. break into                 D. break down