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名师精心整理
助您一臂之力
2018
届高考英语三轮复习完形与阅读强化训练
11
题号
得分
一
二
总分
一、完形填空（本大题共
1
小题，共
30
分）
1.
Now, perhaps, more than
ever before, people are wondering what life is all
about,
and what it is for. Seeking
material success is beginning to
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large numbers of
people
around the world. They feel that the long-hours
work culture to make more
money to buy
more things is
2
up their
lives, leaving them very little
3
or
energy
for
family
or
hobbies.
Many
are
turning
to
4
ways
of
living
and
downshifting
(
过田园式的生活
) is one of them.
Six
percent
of
the
workers
in
Britain
took
the
decision
to
5
last
year.
One
couple
who downshifted are
Daniel and Liz. They
6
to
work in central London. He was a
newspaper reporter and she worked for
an international bank. They
7
go to work
by train every
day from their large house in the suburbs,
8
their two children
with
a
nanny
(
保姆
).
Nearly
twice
a
month
Daniel
had
to
9
to
New
York
for
meetings.
They both earned a
large amount of money
10
began to feel that life was passing
them by.
Nowadays,
they
run
a
11
in
the
mountains
of
Wales.
“I
always
wanted
to
have
one
here,”
says
Daniel,
“and
we
took
almost
a
year
to
12
the
decision
to
downshift.
It’s taken some time getting used to,
but it’s been
13
it. We have to think
14
now
about
spending
money
on
car
repairs
and
we
no
longer
have
any
15
.
However,
I
think it’s made us stronger as a family, and the
children are a lot
16
.”
Liz, however,
is not quite sure. “I used to enjoy my
job,
17
it was
hard work
and long hours. I’m not
really a country girl, but I suppose
I’m
18
getting
used to looking after the animals. One
thing I do
19
, though, is
being able to
see more of my children.
My advice for other people wanting to do the
20
is not
to
think about it too much or you might not do it at
all.”
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1. A.
troubleB. attractC. encourageD. frighten
2. A. puttingB. lookingC. buildingD.
eating
3. A. moneyB. materialC.
spiritD. time
4. A. otherB. simpleC.
freeD. many
5. A. retireB. downshiftC.
restD. travel
6. A. wantedB. likedC.
usedD. planned
7. A. shouldB. wouldC.
mightD. could
8. A. keepingB. sendingC.
lettingD. leaving
9. A. fly
B. walkC. moveD. run
10. A.
andB. soC. butD. however
11. A.
companyB. farm
C. houseD. school
12. A. discussB. studyC. haveD. make
13. A. worthyB. worthC. worthlessD.
worthwhile
14. A. onceB. twiceC.
hardlyD. worriedly
15. A. moneyB.
holidaysC. friendsD. difficulties
16.
A. more boredB. more worried
C. happierD. cleverer
17. A.
even thoughB. when
C. as
ifD. unless
18. A. directlyB.
particularlyC. especiallyD. gradually
19. A. doubtB. admireC. like
D. admit
20. A.
jobB. researchC. experimentD. same
二、阅读理解（本大题共
2
小题，共
20
分）
A
2.
Sir
Henry
Stewart
was
certainly
successful.
I
asked
one
day,
soon
after
he’d
retired
to
attend his garden, what it was like to
hav
e achieved all of one’s ambitions.
He looked down at his roses, and went
on watering them. Then he said, “The only
value
in
achieving
one’s
ambitions
is
that
you
then
realize
that
they
are
not
worth
achieving. ” Within a moment we were
back to a safe discu
ssion on the
weather.
That was two years ago.
I recall this incident, for yesterday,
I was passing his house, and had drawn up
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my cart
just outside his garden wall. I had pulled in from
the road for no other
reason than to
let a bus pass me. As I set there filling my pipe,
I suddenly heard
a shout of sheer joy
come from the other side of the wall.
I
looked
over.
There
stood
Sir
Henry
doing
nothing
less
than
a
dance
of
pure
unashamed
delight. Even when he observed my
puzzled face staring over the wall he did not
seem embarrassed, but shouted to me to
climb over.
“Come and see, Jan. Look! I
have done it at last! I have done it at
last!”
There
he
was
,
holding
a
small
box
of
earth
in
his
hand.
I
observed
three
tiny
shoots
out
of it.
“And there were only
three!”
he said, his eye laughing to
heaven.
“Three what?” I
asked.
“Peach
stones”,
he
replied.
“I’ve
always
wanted
to
make
peach
stones
grow,
ever
since
I
was a
child, when I used
to take them home after a party,
or as
a man after
a banquet. And I used to plant them,
and forget where I planted them. But now at
last I have done it , and , what’s
more, I had only three stones, and there they
are, one, two, three shoots,” he
counted.
And Sir Henry ran
off, calling for his wife to come and see his
achievement
—
the
achievement of simplicity.
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．
The main idea
of this passage probably is
A
．
real joy comes
from simple things
．
B
．
great achievements can
bring comfort
C
．
gardening is a
pleasure D.
one’s best life
comes after retiring
68
．
What was Sir
Hen
ry’s attitude towards
success?
A
．
Delightful
B
．
Valuable
C
．
Worthless
D
．
Suffering
69
．
What was the
writer doing when he heard the shout of joy from
Sir Henry?
A
．
Repairing the
pipe.B
．
Preparing to smoke.
C
．
Drawing up his
cart.D
．
Staring at the
garden.
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．
What
did Sir Henry do when he saw the writer?
A
．
He
felt ashamed about his behavior
B
．
He invited the
writer to climb over to share his joy.
C
．
He called his
wife to join them.
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