高考英语完形填空考前训练-15(附详解)
When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to ___1___ and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the ___2___ side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the ___3___ to keep in good health, or advice about how to behave and conduct oneself in ___4___. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to suffer ___5___, leaving out half of it or keeping the ___6___ without the title. Therefore, the scissors would ___7___ before they start, or halfway done when I find out the regretful ___8___.
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both ___9___ your attention. You can only take up one of them, ___10___ has to wait or be given up. But you know the ___11___ is unpredictable—the changed situation may not allow you to do what is ___12___ behind. Thus you are caught in a difficult ___13___ and feel sad. How ___14___ that nice changes and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life changes greatly on your ___15___ of one choice to the other.
In fact that is what ___16___ is like: we are often faced with the two opposite ___17___ of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper
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cutting. It often occurs that our attention is ___18___ to one thing only after we get into another. The former may be more important than the ___19___ and give rise to a divided mind. I still remember a philosopher’s remarks: “When one door shuts, another opens in life.” So a casual ___20___ may not be a bad one.
1. A. cut B. collect D. print
2. A. other B. opposite D. back
3. A. way B. situation D. attitude
4. A. class B. society D. designing
5. A. pain B. damage D. injury
6. A. test B. word 2
C. buy C. front C. manner C. play C. wound C. paper
D. text
7. A. use B. cut C. stay D. continue
8. A. condition D. trouble
9. A. value D. favourite
10. A. anther D. the rest
11. A. future D. dream
12. A. remained D. interested
13. A. position D. part
B. result B. worth B. one B. past left B. surrounding 3
C. pain C. means C. the other C. force C. worried C. ground B.
14. A. dares B. comes C. deals D. happens
15. A. dislike B. job C. feeling D. preference
16. A. cutting D. friendship
17. A. methods D. opening
18. A. drawn D. put
19. A. head D. below
20. A. action D. choice 【答案与解析】
B. life B. conditions B. placed B. latter B. remark 4
C. weather C. sides C. paid C. above C. movement
本文由剪报遇到报纸正反两面都有好文章时难于决断时的问题引发到人生中类似的问题的解决。在剪报时常遇到正反两面都有好文章的情况，如果剪下正面的后面的文章就会出现残缺不全的情况，因此在下刀前要思考或斟酌一下决定取舍；同样，人生中有时也会遇到当做一件事时同时也发现另一件事也很重要，怎么办？有时不经意的选择也是挺不错的选择。
1. A。从上下文特别是本段最后一句话 the scissors would ___7___ before they start, or halfway done… 来看，此处说的是每当看报时遇到好文章就剪下保存起来，故用 cut。
2. B。此句意为“当我准备剪下我发现的好文章时，却发现报纸的另一面还有很有趣的文章”。这在下文中的 If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to suffer… 有暗示。
3. A。从后面的 to keep in good health及advice about how to behave or conduct oneself… 来推测，此处说的是有关介绍保持健康的方法的文章。
4. B。根据 advice about how to behave and conduct oneself 来推测，所谈文章涉及社交场合的行为举止问题，即关于为人处事方面的建议或劝戒。
5. B。根据上下文知道此时说的是遇到报纸两面都有好文章而不好剪辑而左右为
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难的场景，由此可推测，如果把前面的文章剪了，反面的文章有可能被破坏掉，即 suffer damage。
6. D。此处是举例说明剪掉前面文章而致使反面文章受损的情况，或剩一半，或只有文章(text)而没有标题。
7. C。通过前面举例可知，下刀剪报有时因文章正反两面都有好文章而左右为难，因此在下刀开始剪前应停下来仔细考虑一下。stay 在此意为“停下来”。
8. B。前面说在下刀前要仔细思考，否则剪到一半就会发现令人遗憾的结果。
9. B。从下文来看，此处说的是“有时候有两件事需要同时做，都值得关注与思考”。
10. C。前面共提到两种事情，已提到一种，当然现在的就是另一种(the other)事情。
11. A。此处表示“未来是无法预料的”。
12. B。从破折号来看，这里是对前面的解释。从前面 the other has to wait or be given up 等来看，此处说的是“被留下来或放弃”的事情，故用 left。
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13. A。一开始说另一件事或等或放弃(准备以后做)，但是变化了的形式也许不允许你做留下来的事，这样你就处于困难的境地了，这在语意上与feel sad 一致。be caught in (a difficult position) 表示“困在(艰难的境地)中”。
14. B。从后面的 …that nice changes and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once 来看，此处大意是：各种好的想法怎么会一下子涌现出来呢？ How comes that… 是个句型。意为：怎么会……
15. D。此句意为：也许你个人偏好(preference)的选择改变了你的人生。
16. B。从这里开始转到谈论人生了。由上面的例子联想到人生，即人生就是这个样子。
17.C 从上面举例来看，这里说的是我们经常面临的事情两个方面问题抉择的难题。sides 指问题的两个方面。
18. A。前面说剪报时剪到一半时发现反面的文章很好，同样在做一件事时碰巧发现另一件事也很好，吸引了你，这让你难以取舍。draw one’s attention 为“吸引某人的注意力”。
19. B。由前文的 the former，可推测此处说的是“后者”。
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20. D。结合那句哲人说的话可推测，此处说的是当遇到左右为难不好取舍时随便挑选也许不坏。
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