江苏省常州市高考英语 阅读理解、完形填空训练(13)

江苏省常州市

2014

高考英语阅读理解、完 形填空训练（

13

）含答案

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A man who knows how to write a personal letter has a very powerful tool.A letter can

be enjoyed, read and __1__.It can set up a warm conversation between two people far

apa rt(

远离的

)

；

it can keep a __2__ with very little effort.

I

will

give __3__.A

few

years

ago

my

older

brother

and

I

were

not

getting __4__.We

had been close as __5__ but had grown meetings were not __6__

；

our

conversation was filled with arguments and quarrels

；

and every effort to clear the

air seemed to only __7__ our he __8__ a small island in

the Caribbean and we __9__ day he wrote me a letter

，

which was beyond

my wildest described his island and its people

，

told me what he was doing

，

said how he felt

，

and encouraged me to __10__.Rereading the letter

，

I was __11__

by its humor (

幽默

)and clever were all qualities for which I had

__12__ respected my older brother but __13__ he no longer had them.I had never

known

he

could

write

so __14__.And

with

that

one

letter

we

became

friends __15__.

It might never have occurred to __16__ to write me if he had not been in a place

where there were no __17__.For him

，

writing was a also turned out to

be the best way for us to get back in e we live in an age of __18__

communication (

通讯

)

，

people often __19

__ that they don’t always have to phone

or have a __20__.And that is to write.

【解题导语】

在当今通讯发达的时代，除了电话和电子邮件等便利的通讯工具外，还有一

种似乎已经被 人们忘却的选择，那就是书信。正是因为书信，作者和哥哥才言归于好。

1

．

ed

C

．

returned

B

．

rewritten

D

．

reread

< br>解析：选

D

。信件可以被欣赏，被读，被“重新读”。前 三项都与本句内容不符。

2

．

C

．

friendship

B

．

promise

D

．

secret

< br>解析：选

C

。根据前一个分句中的内容可知几乎不费力气 就可以用信件保持“友谊”。

3

．

example

C

．

an experience

B

．

a lesson

D

．

a talk

< br>解析：选

A

。上文叙述的是信件的益处，本段则用作者与 哥哥重归于好的例子进行证明，由此

可知是“例证”。

4

．

h

C

．

along

B

．

together

D

．

away

解析：

选

C

。

本段中间部分提到两人之间存在误解，

由此可知两个人在几年前相处得不好。