2013高考英语完形填空经典训练题四十二（附答案）(1)

完形填空练习（八十三）

Some myths are stories told since ancient times to explain the causes for natural happenings. The Greek myth that explains why there are changes of   1   is about Demeter, the goddess of the harvest. She had a daughter, Persephone, whom she loved very much. Hades, god of the underworld, fell in love with Persephone, and he asked Zeus, the   2   of the gods, to give Persephone to him as his   3  . Zeus did not want either to disappoint Hades or to upset Demeter, so he said he would not agree to the marriage, but neither would he   4   it. Hades, therefore, decided to take the girl without   5  . When Persephone was picking flowers in the garden, he seized her and took her to the underworld. When Demeter   6   what happened to Persephone, she became so   7   that she caused all plants to   8   People were in   9   of starving. But Demeter was determined not to let crops grow   10   her daughter, Persephone, was returned to her.   11  , still not wanting to disappoint Hades, decided upon a condition for Persephone's   12  . She could go back to her mother if she had not   13   anything while she was in the underworld. Demeter   14   it because she did not know that Persephone had eaten several pomegranate (石榴) seeds in the underworld. When Zeus   15   this, he agreed that Persephone could spend part of the year with her   16  , but he added that since she had eaten the seeds, she must spend part of the year in the underworld. And so it   17   that when Persephone is in the underworld, Demeter is sad and therefore   18   not let the crops grow. That is   19   we have winter when plants do not grow. When Persephone returns, Demeter is   20  , it is spring, and plants begin to grow again.

1. A. periods                 B. seasons                     C. time                         D. age

2. A. winner                 B. ruler                        C. advisor                     D. fighter

3. A. wife                            B. lover                        C. partner                            D. daughter

4. A. forbid                  B. forgive                     C. admit                       D. accept

5. A. arrangement          B. warning                   C. reason                      D. permission

6. A. let out                  B. worked out               C. thought out               D. found out

7. A. excited                 B. tired                        C. angry                       D. serious

8. A. grow fast                     B. start growing            C. stop growing            D. grow slowly

9. A. danger                  B. hope                        C. turn                         D. case

10. A. since                  B. until                        C. after                        D. when

11. A. Persephone          B. Zeus                        C. Demeter                   D. Hades

12. A. return                 B. change                            C. marriage                  D. journey

13. A. stolen                 B. found                       C. eaten                        D. heard

14. A. understood          B. refused                     C. doubted                    D. accepted

15. A. discovered          B. studied                     C. forgot                      D. prepared

16. A. daughter             B. mother                            C. god                          D. ruler

17. A. works                 B. remains                    C. happens                    D. starts

18. A. should                B. can                          C. dare                         D. will

19. A. where                 B. because                    C. why                         D. how

20. A. nice                    B. friendly                    C. fresh                        D. happy

完形填空练习（八十四）

You are near the front line of a battle. Around you shells are exploding; people are shooting from a house behind you. What are you doing there? You aren’t a soldier. You aren’t   1   carrying a gun. You’re standing in front of a   2   and you’re telling the TV   3   what is happening.

It’s all in a day’s work for a war reporter, and it can be very   4  . In the first two years of the   5   in former Yugoslavia (前南斯拉夫), 28 reporters and photographers were killed .Hundreds more were   6  .What kind of people put themselves in danger to   7   pictures to our TV screens and   8   to our newspapers? Why do they do it?

“I think it’s every young journalist’s   9   to be a foreign reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s   10   you find the excitement. So when the first opportunity comes, you take it   11   it is a war.”

But there are moments of   12  . Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes, when you’re lying on the ground and bullets （子弹）are flying   13   your ears, you think: ‘What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.’ But that feeling   14   after a while and when the next war starts, you’ll be   15  .”

“None of us believes that we’re going to   16  ,” adds Michael .But he always   17   a lucky charm (护身符) with him .It was given to him by his wife for his first war. It’s a card which says “Take care of yourself.” Does he ever think about dying? “Oh,   18  , and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, ‘If you get me out of this, I   19   I’ll never do it again.’ You can almost hear God   20  , because you know he doesn’t believe you.”

1. A. simply                  B. really                       C. merely                            D. even

2. A. crowd                  B. house                       C. battlefield                 D. camera

3. A. producers             B. viewers                    C. directors                   D. actors

4. A. dangerous             B. exciting                    C. normal                            D. disappointing

5. A. stay                      B. fight                        C. war                          D. life

6. A. injured                 B. buried                      C. defeated                   D. saved

7. A. bring                    B. show                        C. take                         D. make

8. A. scenes                  B. passages                   C. stories                      D. contents

9. A. belief                   B. dream                      C. duty                         D. faith

10. A. why                   B. what                        C. how                         D. where

11. A. even so               B. ever since                 C. as if                         D. even if

12. A. fear                    B. surprise                    C. shame                      D. sadness

13. A. into                    B. around                            C. past                         D. through

14. A. returns                B. goes                         C. continues                  D. occurs

15. A. there                  B. away                        C. out                          D. home

16. A. leave                  B. escape                      C. die                           D. remain

7. A. hangs                   B. wears                       C. holds                       D. carries

18. A. never                  B. many times               C. some time                D. seldom

19. A. consider              B. accept                      C. promise                    D. guess

20. A. whispering          B. laughing                   C. screaming                 D. crying