- 1 - 中考英语完形填空训练专家（二）14 Rosa liked making up stories. She was so _1_ that her classmates believed her from time to time. In fact, the whole class believed her! At first she supposed it was _2_. Now, as she got up to _3_ before the class, She knew that make believe stories had some way of coming back to make you sad. Rosa s parents were separated. Nine months out of the year, Rosa lived with her mother in anapartment on Anderson Street. But when summer _4_ _, she went to her father s farm in Arizona.The farm was great! Rosa rode horses and _5_ with some farm work. Her father, however, was so _6_ that he couldn t find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would _7_ her at the airport and take her out to eat. And the day she went back to the _8_ he would always buy her a present. When summer came to a close, Rosa _9_ to her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a _10_ to talk about. Not long after _11_ began, Rosa was looking through travel magazines in the school library. They talked about many exciting _12_ _, like England and Germany. When Rosa s friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was not _13_. Remembering the travel magazines she had looked at, she told her classmates that she and her father had gone to _14_. When the class began studying England, Mr. Thomas asked Rosa to tell all the things she could _15_ about her trip to England! 1. A. afraid B. worried C. sure D. happy 2. A. joke B. fun C. turn D. game 3. A. talk B. teach C. show D. travel 4. A. passed B. arrived C. lasted D. changed 5. A. made B. played C. helped D. did 6. A. weak B. pleased C. busy D. lonely 7. A. show B. visit C. meet D. send 8. A. farm B. city C. family D. school 9. A. wrote B. called C. moved D. returned 10. A. family B. school C. teacher D. farm 11. A. meeting B. school C. summer D. talk 12. A. people B. cities C. languages D. places 13. A interesting B. true C. long D. same 14. A. England B. Germany C. farm D. home 15. A. think B. see C. remember D. read 名师点评本文讲述了父母已离异的罗莎喜欢编谎言骗人，从中获得乐趣。 暑假过后其他同学都在谈假期中的家庭旅游时，罗莎只得自欺欺人，骗大家说她与爸爸去了英国。结果上课时，老师让她谈英国的情况时，她无话可说了。答案简析1. C。罗莎的谎言经常让同学们信以为真，说明她骗人时自信心强，把握大。故选择sure.。- 2 - 2. B。与下文罗莎自欺欺人相对应，一开始她认为骗人是件快乐的事，故选择fun。3. A。根据文意，经过这件事后她意识到骗人其实就是骗自己，这种意识在平时与大伙交谈时更为强烈，故选talk。4. B。夏天到时，罗莎就会到爸爸农场去度假，故选arrive。5. C。help with sth. 意为“帮助干些事情” 。6. C。爸爸没时间陪她去其它地方游玩，说明爸爸很忙，故选busy。7. C。这里 meet 表示爸爸去机场接她。8. B。在农场度假结束后，罗莎应返回城里，故选city. 9. D。根据文意暑假结束了，罗莎要返回到妈妈身边。故选 returned. 10. A。与上文相对应，她的朋友都在谈假期与家人的旅游，罗莎因此希望拥有一个完整的家庭。11. B。假期结束了，新学期又开始了，且下文讲到了学校里的事情，故选school。12. D。下文的例子既不是城市也不是人或语言而是两个国家，只有选places。13. B。别人问起她夏天的旅游情况时，她只有编织一些不真实的事情骗大家，故选true。14. A。下文老师让她讲在英国旅行的情况，说明她骗大家去了英国，故选England。15. C。老师让罗莎对过去的事情进行回忆并讲述，故选remember。 15 Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story _1_ their children. And they must have realized how difficult it is to write a _2_ children s book. Either the author has aimed ( 定目标 ) too _3_ _, so that children can t follow what is in his ( or more often, her ) story, _4_ the story seems to be talking to the readers. The best children s books are _5_ very difficult nor very simple, and satisfy （令人满意的）the _6_ who hears the story and the adult（成年人）who _7_ it. Unfortunately （不幸的是） , there are in fact few books like this, _8_ the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not _9_ to solve. This may be why many of the books regarded as _10_ of children s literature（文学）were in fact written for _11 _ “Alice in Won derland ” is perhaps the most obvious（明显） of this. Children, left for themselves, often _12_ the worst possible interest in literature. Just leave a child in a bookshop or a _13_ and he will more willingly choose the books written in an unimaginative ( 并非想象的) way, or have a look at the most children s comics（连环图书） , full of the stories and jokes which are the rejections of teachers and righting-thinking parents. Perhaps we parents should stop _14_ to brainwash（洗脑） children into accepting （接受）our taste in literature. After all, children and adults are so _15_ that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy the same books. So I suppose we ll just have to compromise（妥协）over the bedtime story. 1. A. to B. in C. with D. around 2. A. short B. long C. bad D. good 3. A. easy B. short C. high D. difficult 4. A. and B. but C. or D. so 5. A. both B. neither C. either D. very 6. A. child B. father C. mother D. teacher 7. A. hears B. buys C. understands D. reads 8. A. but B. however C. so D. because - 3 - 9. A. hard B. easy C. enough D. fast 10.A. articles B. work C. arts D. works 11. A. grown-ups B. girls C. boys D. children 12. A. are B. show C. find D. add 13. A. school B. home C. office D. library 14. A. going B. liking C. trying D. preferring 15. A. same B. friendly C. different D. common 名师点评本文说明了写一本供孩子读的好书并非一件容易的事，并且告诫家长不要一味强迫孩子接受大人的观点，因为孩子和大人在兴趣方面不尽相同