完形填空 Although in 1947 we were still very new to the atomic (原子的) age, we knew about mushroom clouds. A huge crack (裂縫) spread across the library wall upstairs, sending teachers and __1__ screaming down the hall. Had a new world war started? Palefaced, our young science teacher quickly__2__us for a fire drill. We huddled (卷縮) in little groups on the beach side of the school grounds and__3__the spreading cloud darken the bright spring sky. Rumors flew every which way, __4__two hours would pass before we got the full story. One rumor we heard was that the Texas City Monsanto Chemical plant had__5__; children whose parents__6__ there began to cry. I__7__-that was where my father was working that day. The school bell called us back inside, and we were dismissed (解散) to__8__our way home the best way we could. I'd walked a quarter of the threemile trip to my home__9__a car horn frightened me to __10__. My Uncle Barney__11__alongside me in his old Ford. The instant I saw him, I knew my father __12__. Otherwise, Papa would have__13__for me himself. As if in slow motion from a great distance, Uncle Barney motioned for me to__14__. Numb with grief, I crawled into the back__15__. I barely took notice of the man sitting there, and didn't recognize him until he __16__me. When Papa put his strong arms around me, I forgot for a moment that Cherokees aren't supposed to__17__. Many of my fellow students lost their__18__in the explosion. Tragedy would one day come to our __19__, as it inevitably (不可避免地) comes to all, but one day Texas City blew up, it miraculously (奇跡般地) passed us by. Because he lost his keys on that April morning, as he explained, my father lived for__20__32 years-we were to have a second lifetime forever. | ||||
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科目:高中英語 來源:遼寧省期中題 題型:完形填空
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It was on a winter morning, near Oxford, Maryland, that I set the breakfast table beside the huge window, which _1_ the Tred Avon River.The snow decorated the shore in white.For a moment I stood quietly against the bookcase, appreciating what the night's snow had _2 . 3 I leaned forward and peered (盯著看) close to the frosted window."It really is!" I cried out loud."There is a goose out there! " I _4_ to the bookcase and pulled out a pair of binoculars (望遠鏡).Into their sights came the 5_ of a large Canada goose, very still, its wings folded tight to its sides, its _6_ frozen to the ice.Then from the dark sides, I saw a line of swans.They crossed 7 the west of the broad river, moving _8_ to the east. As I _9_, the leader swung to the right, and then the white _10_ of birds become a white circle.It floated from the top of the sky downward.At last, as easy as feathers coming to earth, the circle _11 the ice. The swans _12_ the frozen goose! Amazingly, those bills (啄) began to work on _13 .The long necks were lifted and curved down, _14_. It went on for a long time.At last, the goose was free and _15_ its big webbed (有蹼的) feet slowly.The goose _16 its wings as far as they would go.The swans took off and _17 on their eastward journey, in perfect formation, to their secret destination._18_ them, rising with incredible speed and joy, the goose moved into the sky.I watched them _19 they disappeared over the tips of the farthest trees.Only then did I realize that tears were running down my cheeks.This is a true story.I do not try to interpret it here.I just often 20 it in the bad moments, and tell myself, "If so for birds, why not for man?" | ||||
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