学位英语试题课堂精讲五(含答案解析).doc

学位英语试题课堂精讲五：完形填空

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I played a tennis game against my cousin Ed last week, and I will never forget it.

I had played a lot of games before, but it was one of the most __1__ games I've ever had. When Ed first phoned and suggested we play, I__2__quietly, thinking I was sure to beat him, because I didn't think Ed could win any games with his fat body.

As long as I can remember: Ed's been the least physically fit member in the family, but strangely__3__of himself. His big stomach has always ballooned out between his T-shirt and trousers. Although the family often joked about that, Ed__4__ to buy a larger T-shirt or to lose weight. So when Ed arrived for our game not only with the bottom of his shirt inside his trousers but also with a stomach you could __5__ notice. I was so surprised that I was speechless.

My cousin must have made an effort to get himself into __6__. As a result, at the point in our game, when I'd have predicted(预测) I would win the game by 9 to 1, it was__7__ 7 to 9 —and Ed was leading. The sudden realization was__8__. We continued to play like two__9__ men. When the score was 16 up. I even thought if I could stay alive. When the game finally ended, my cousin and I were lying on the floor on our backs, too tired to move. In some ways, I think that we__10__won: I won the game, but Cousin Ed won my respect. 1.A．tiring B．interesting C．moving D．frightening 2.A．cheered B．screamed C．performed D．smiled 3.A．proud B．afraid C．shy D．guilty 4. A．agreed B．wanted C．refused D．afforded 5.A．nearly B．hardly C．properly D．suddenly 6.A．size B．shape C．height D．weight 7. A．like B．between C．around D．instead 8.A．unknown B．ungrateful C．unpleasant D．unnecessary 9.A．mad B．smart C．lucky D．brave 10. A．none B．either C．both D．neither

这篇短文主要讲了我永远无法忘记和Ed在上星期打的那场网球比赛。Ed是一个大腹便便的人，很胖。我本以为能够很轻松地打败他，但是结果却发现比赛很艰巨。我们两个人都赢了：我赢了比赛，但Ed赢得了我的尊敬。

【小题1A】考查形容词。A. tiring累人的；B. interesting有趣的；C. moving感人的；

D. frightening害怕的。句意：我以前打过很多比赛，但是这次是我曾经打过的最累的比赛之一。从后文中得知，Ed打网球打得很好，我们两人棋鼓相当。故选A。

【小题2D】考查动词。A. cheered欢呼；B. screamed尖叫；C. performed 表演；D. smiled微笑。句意：当Ed第一次打电话给我，建议我们两个打网球时，我静静地微笑，心想我一定能打败他，因为我认为Ed身体这么胖是不能赢得任何比赛的。根据题意，可知我胜券在握，因此我微笑。故选D。

【小题3A】考查形容词。A. proud自豪的；B. afraid害怕的；C. shy害羞的；D. guilty 内疚的。句意：我记得，Ed是家里身体最不健康的，但是奇怪的是他对自己很自豪。从but中，可以看出，虽然他身体胖，但是他对自己很有信心，很自豪。故选A。

【小题4C】考查动词。A. agreed 同意；B. wanted想；C. refused拒绝；D. afforded 承担得起。句意：尽管家人常常拿这个开开玩笑，Ed拒绝买一件更大的T-shirt和减

肥。although尽管，可知后半句应有转折。故选C。

【小题5B】考查副词。A. nearly几乎，将近；B. hardly 几乎不；C. properly合适地；

D. suddenly突然。句意：所以当Ed到达我们的比赛场地时，不仅仅衬衫塞在裤子里面，而且你几乎注意不到他的肚子，我是如此吃惊以致于我无语了。从上文中可知，Ed常常露出他的大肚子，而下文说我感到吃惊，说明他的肚子几乎注意不到了。根据题意，故选B。

【小题6B】考查名词及语境的理解。A. size大小；B. shape形状；C. height高度；D. weight重量。Get oneself into shape意思是“使自己有个好体型”。句意：我表兄肯定经过一翻努力使自己有了一个好的体型。故选B。

【小题7D】考查介词及语境的理解。A. like像；B. between在两者之间；C. around 在……周围；D. instead相反。句意：结果在比赛时，我预测我能够以9：1赢得比赛，相反地是7：9，Ed领先。这个结果和我预想的不一样，故用instead。故选D。【小题8C】考查形容词及语境的理解。A. unknown不被知道的；B. ungrateful不感激的；C. unpleasant使人不高兴的；D. unnecessary不必要的。句意：这个突然的认识让我很不高兴。上文说是Ed领先，我肯定不高兴。故选C。

【小题9A】考查形容词。A. mad疯狂的，生气的；B. smart聪明的，漂亮的；C. lucky 幸运的；D. brave勇敢的。句意：我们打，就像两个疯狂的人。下文说当比分上了16后，我甚至想我是否能活着。说明打得很疯狂。故选A。

【小题10C】考查代词及语境的理解。A. none一个也没有；B. either 两者中任意一个；C. both两者都；D. neither两者都不。句意：在某些方面，我想我们两个人都赢了：我赢了比赛，但Ed赢得了我的尊敬。根据题意，故选C。

B

It was an early morning in summer. In the streets, sleepy eyed people were moving quickly, heading towards their jobs. This was the beginning of another ___1___ day in New York City. ___2___ this day was to be different.

Waiting ___3___ the crowded streets, on top of a building 110 stories high, was Philippe Petit. This daring Frenchman was about to ___4___ a tightrope（绷索）between the two towers of the World Trade Center.

Philippe took his first ___5___ with great care. The wire held. Now he was sure he could do it. With only a balancing pole, Philippe walked his way across a ___6___ of 131 feet.

Soon the rush hour crowds began to notice. What a wonder! There, 1350 feet above the street, a tiny figure was walking on air.

Philippe made seven trips, back and forth（来回）. He wasn't satisfied with just ___7 ___. At times, he would turn, sit down, and even go on his knees. Once, he had the astonishing courage to lie down on the thin thread. And thousands of ___8___ watchers stared with their hearts beating fast.

After the forty-five minute ___9___, Philippe was taken to the police station. He was asked ___10___ he did it. Philippe shrugged（耸肩）and said, When I see two tall buildings, I walk.

1.A. working B. hot C. same D. ordinary

D【精析】空缺处必定填与“different”意思相悖的词，而another same day是错误表

达，

2.A. And B. So C. But D. Thus

C精析】分析句子内容可知此空前后两句意思有明显的转折之意，故应由but来连接。

3.A. for B. in C. by D. above

D【精析】此题如不留心，很容易错选B，但通过下文提示“在100层高的大楼顶端”，应选above. 4.A. throw B. walk C. climb D. fix

B【精析】下文有反复提示walk。此句意思是：这个大胆的法国人正要在世贸中心的两幢高楼之间走绷索。

5.A. act B. landing C. step D. trip C【精析】take one's step意为“迈出步伐”，显然，此处指的是在绷索上迈出第一步。

6.A. distance B. height C. space D. rope A【精析】此处指他走完了绷索的全程，所以这指的是一段距离。

7.A. walking B. staying C. acting D. showing A 【精析】由上下文可知，他不满足于只在绷索上行走，因此选walking. 8.A. patient B. terrified C. pleased D. enjoyable

B 【精析】本句大意是：数以千计的人目不转睛地盯着他，惊恐万状，心跳加速。patient：耐心的，pleased：高兴的，enjoyable：令人愉快的，从逻辑上看只有terrified 合适。

9.A. show B. trick C. try D. program

A【精析】本句意为：45分钟的表演后，他被带到了警局。trick：花招、技巧，try：尝试，program：节目、项目，只有show（表演）才合适。

10.A. how B. why C. whether D. when B 【精析】警察询问的显然是他这么做的原因，所以选择why.

C

Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the experiment, of Fredrick II in the thirteenth century, it __1__. Hoping to discover what language a child would __2__ if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.

All the babies died before __3__ first year. Without good mothering, in the first year of life, especially, the __4_ to survive is seriously influenced.

Today no such severe lack exists as __5__ ordered by Fredrick II. Nevertheless，some children are still

__6__ in speaking. Most often the __7__ for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the baby; __8__ brain is made to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for __9__

skills passes, and they might never be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at the __10__ time, but the process is slow and hard once the critical stage has passed. Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed order and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be clever.

1.A. must be B. may be C. should be D. ought to be

2.A. speak B. say C. talk D. discuss

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D. this 4.A. power B. opportunity

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D

A daily dose of laughte r may be good for the heart because it makes blood vessels work more efficiently, Depression, __1__ the other hand, can raise the risk of dying from heart failure, a separate study found. The two studies, __2__ at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Florida, show how psychological factors can__3__ a person's health.

We don't recommend that you laugh and not exercise, __4__ we do recommend that you try to laugh on a regular basis. Thirty minutes of exercise three times a week, and fifteen minutes of laughter on a daily__5__is probably good for the vascular system,' said Dr. Michael Miller.

Miller and his colleagues at the school __6__ two movies, one humorous, __7__ stressful, to twenty healthy volunteers and tested the function of their blood vessels. The researchers specifically looked at the lining of the vessels and found that blood __8__ was reduced in fourteen of the twenty volunteers after stressful movie cuttings.

But blood flowed more freely in nineteen of the twenty subjects__9__hey laughed at funny movie segments. Average blood flow increased 22% during laughter, and __10__

35%during mental stress, the researchers told the meeting.

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E

Humans fall into two types when it comes to biological clock: the early-to-bed and early-to-rise or the late-night-loving who wake up long after the dawn. As any parent knows, teenagers may take the __1__ to extremes. But their oversleeping does not relax them. Some researchers say: Biology is to blame.

The researchers surveyed the sleep habits of 25,000 Germans. __2__ from 8 to 90, and found that as the teenage years wear on, the hour when kids go to bed and get up drifts later and later. It's not that they're sleeping more. __3__, it's that their living clocks are twisted. However, when they are around age 20, the pattern reverses. The clocks tick __4__, and

young adults begin to go to sleep and wake up earlier and earlier. Eventually, their clocks go along with __5__ of older people.

The quick change may mark the biological end of teenage years. A difference __6__ the timing in man and

in woman points to a biological cause, perhaps a hormonal effect, Because the living clock is __7__ by exposure to sunlight, the researchers suspect the many hours some kids __8__ staying in their dark rooms could push the clocks even later'--a pattern that may be more common in industrialized societies. The researchers also discovered that rural residents,

__9__ lifestyle puts them in daylight more, go to bed and get up an hour earlier than city

__10__ “We think this is only the tip of an iceberg that shows us the consequences of dim-light environments,' the researchers say.

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2.[A] range [B] ranges [C] ranging[D] ranged

3.[A] Rather [B] Though [C] Yet [D] Nevertheless

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一，词汇复现；二，分词（一个主动，一个被动）；三，状语从句（集中在转折，相反的连词或词组）；比较状语从句(as,that) ；宾语从句（what）定语从句（whose,where）四，常见的固定搭配