2018年江苏高考英语完形填空(夹叙夹议)汇编

专题8--完形填空（夹叙夹议）

--2018年江苏高考二模英语分项版汇编

【江苏省南通市2018届高三第二次调研测试英语试题】

完形填空（共20小题！每小题1分，满分20分）

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I’ve been obsessed (困扰) with languages for as long as I can remember. My dad could talk to everyone with ease, confidently 36 between languages. His abilities made a big impression on me, but he didn’t 37 me to follow his lead.

I wasn’t a(n) 38 language learner. I made slow progress with French at school and almost gave it up. But things felt different when I 39 German at university — loving many German writers in translation, I wanted to read them in their 40 tongue, and that’s been my main 41 for learning new ones since. Once I got German, I was 42 ; French, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit quickly followed. The idea of having a 43 overview of the world has always fascinated me, and 44 languages seemed a good way of achieving that. By my 20s, I’d set my heart on 45 the rest of my life to learning as many as I could.

I’m often asked what the 46 is, and whether some people have a gift for absorbing words and phrases. The truth is that it’s down to endless hours of 47 — reading, studying and practicing grammar. 48 , all these wonderful languages start to swim into focus, and ever increasing numbers of great works become 49 .

It’s hard, but the 50 can be thrilling. When I started studying Spanish, there was a moment when the living language suddenly 51 itself to me. Something 52 happened when I heard Swedish spoken around me. It seemed to 53 elements of languages I was familiar with. The more of them I know, the more I see how inter-related they are. All it took was three weeks and I was able to 54 effectively in complex conversations.

Now, I can read about three dozen languages and speak most of them fluently. I think I’m much richer for that — it makes me more 55 .

36. A. distinguishing B. switching C. comparing D. dividing

37. A. threaten B. encourage C. promise D. trust

38. A. sensitive B. average C. individual D. natural

39. A. took on B. put down C. made up D. went over

40. A. simple B. sharp C. native D. polite

41. A. advantage B. appreciation C. foundation D. motivation

42. A. shocked B. relieved C. depressed D. hooked

43. A. comprehensive B. historical C. scientific D. skeptical

44. A. speaking B. selecting C. imitating D. acquiring

45. A. adjusting B. devoting C. reducing D. attaching

46. A. secret B. purpose C. benefit D. puzzle

47. A. expectation B. admiration C. concentration D. evaluation

48. A. Gradually B. Suddenly C. Regularly D. Usually

49. A. affordable B. accessible C. invisible D. assessable

50. A. circle B. beginning C. options D. rewards

51. A. revealed B. explained C. limited D. recommended

52. A. reasonable B. significant C. similar D. funny

53. A. substitute B. combine C. promote D. transform

54. A. compromise B. compete C. communicate D. compensate

55. A. arbitrary B. objective C. considerate D. confident 【答案】36-40BBDAC 41-45 DDADB 46-50 ACADB 51-55 ACBCD

【解析】

第36题父亲在各种语言间灵活切换

第37题他也没有鼓励我能够遵循他的领导学习语言

第38题我天生并不是一个适合学习语言的人

第39题我大学学习德语，习得语言，用take on the language

第40题我想要阅读他们的本土语言，即母语

第41题这就是我学习英语的主要动力

第42题学好一门语言后，我被其他语言深深吸引了，也想学习

第43题需要有一个综合大局观

第44题习得语言能够帮助我对世界有一个综合性的认识

第45题我把自己的余生致力学习语言

第46题我经常被人问到，我学习语言学得这么好，背后的秘密是什么

第47题我背后无数个小时集中精力学习语言

第48题慢慢地，所有的语言都开始往一个方向焦距，也就是我开始找到这些语言的相似点。