2013高考英语完形填空经典训练题十三（附答案）(1)

完形填空练习（二十五）

“My name’s Jim Shelley and I’m an addict (有瘾的人) …”

With these words I began to   1   the problem, the problem of my telephone addiction. I used to call people   2  , from the moment I woke up to the time I went to sleep. I   3   to be phoned, I wanted to phone. Just one more call.

It started socially—a few calls each day. It seemed   4  , just a quick chat. Gradually though, the   5   got worse. Soon it was   6   use, until, finally, addiction.

And it began to affect my   7  . During the day I would disappear for   8   call. If I couldn’t make a call, I spent the whole time waiting for the phone to ring. Getting more and more   9  , in the end, I would ring someone, then someone else,   10   myself just one more call.

I was phoning people and   11   messages to make sure   12   calls would see me through the day. I used to arrive at friends’ homes and before the door was closed, go straight for the phone with the   13   “Is it OK if I just use the phone …?” At work, I became   14   when my fellow workers tried to   15   me from using the phone. And one day I hit my boss (with the phone). Finally the police caught me   16   a phone box that had taken my last one pound coin, and I was   17   to see a psychiatrist (心理医生).

I haven’t   18   a phone in the house for three weeks now, and it’s several days   19   I used a phone box. I try not to watch TV because there are   20   people on it making phone calls. My name is Jim Shelley and I am an addict.

1. A. face                            B. find                         C. accept                      D. notice

2. A. now and then        B. all the time               C. at home                    D. at work

3. A. tried                            B. asked                       C. waited                      D. invited

4. A. polite                   B. important                 C. fine                         D. special

5. A. condition                     B. situation                   C. result                       D. effect

6. A. frequent               B. regular                            C. unusual                    D. particular

7. A. friends                 B. study                       C. family                      D. work

8. A. a quick                 B. a secret                    C. an expected                     D. an extra

9. A. hopeful                B. delighted                  C. frightened                D. anxious

10. A. forcing               B. telling                      C. giving                      D. limiting

11. A. leaving               B. taking                      C. passing                     D. recording

12. A. long                   B. immediate                C. enough                     D. surprising

13. A. saying                B. demands                   C. wish                        D. words

14. A. careful                B. mad                         C. determined               D. helpless

15. A. save                   B. reduce                      C. protect                            D. stop

16. A. destroying           B. using                       C. stealing                    D. emptying

17. A. offered               B. guided                            C. ordered                    D. reminded

18. A. missed                B. had                          C. received                   D. fixed

19. A. as                       B. when                       C. if                             D. since

20. A. always                B. just                          C. more                        D. different

完形填空练习（二十六）

He has been called the “missing link”. Half-man, half beast. He is supposed to live in the highest mountain in the world—Mount Everest.

He is known as the Abominable Snowman. The   1   of the Snowman has been around for   2  . Climbers in the 1920s reported finding marks like those of human feet high up on the side of Mount Everest. The native people said they   3   this creature and called it the “Yeti,” and they said that they had   4   caught Yetis on two occasions   5   none has ever been produced as evidence.

Over the years, the story of the Yetis has   6  . In 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Shipton believed that they were not   7   the tracks of a monkey or bear and   8   that the Abominable Snow man might really   9  .

Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis. But the only things people have ever found were   10   footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than   11   animal tracks, which had been made   12   as they melted and refroze in the snow.   13  , in 1964, a Russian scientist said that the Abominable Snowman was   14   and was a remaining link with the prehistoric humans. But,   15  , no evidence has ever   16   been produced.

These days, only a few people continue to take the story of the Abominable Snowman   17  . But if they ever   18   catching one, they may face a real   19  : Would they put it in a   20   or give it a room in a hotel?

1. A. event                    B. story                        C. adventure                 D. description

2. A. centuries               B. too long                   C. some time                D. many years

3. A. heard from           B. cared for                  C. knew of                   D. read about

4. A. even                     B. hardly                      C. certainly                   D. probably

5. A. as                        B. though                            C. when                       D. until

6. A. developed             B. changed                   C. occurred                   D. continued

7. A. entirely                B. naturally                  C. clearly                            D. simply

8. A. found                   B. declared                   C. felt                          D. doubted

9. A. exist                     B. escape                      C. disappear                  D. return

10. A. clearer                B. more                        C. possible                    D. rare

11. A. huge                   B. recent                      C. ordinary                   D. frightening

12. A. strange               B. large                        C. deep                        D. rough

13. A. In the end           B. Therefore                 C. After all                   D. However

14. A. imagined            B. real                          C. special                            D. familiar

15. A. so                      B. besides                     C. again                       D. instead

16. A. rightly                B. actually                    C. Normally                 D. particularly

17. A. lightly                B. jokingly                   C. seriously                  D. properly

18. A. succeed in           B. insist on                   C. depend on                D. join in

19. A. decision                     B. situation                   C. subject                            D. problem

20. A. zoo                    B. mountain                  C. museum                   D. laboratory