2015-2016学年河南省郑州市第一中学高二下学期期中考试英语试题解析（解析版）

第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分）

第一节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中，选出可以填入 空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

“You are too small, Ginny, you will never make an Olympic team,” said my first-ever rowing coach, way back in the late winter of 1978. I had just 41. _____ my dream, which was obviously outsized at that point, to somebody whose opinion not only 42. _____, but whose emotional support could play a key role.

Then I was just 20, and still a young athlete. Maybe my dream wasn’t based on reality. 43._____, I had tried out for the national team for the first time the 44. _____ year and been cut. I lacked the height that most Olympic rowers 45. _____, not to mention much experience as an athlete, and I suffered from asthma, but still I was 46. _____ by my coach’s response. Discouraged not just by his choice of words, but by his 47. _____, I left the gym in a panic.

As I walked, I began to rethink my future, 48. _____ my dream into a dark corner and making room 49. _____ my coach’s opinion. A small 50. _____ voice had joined forces with the coach’s. “Maybe he is right.”

But then, another voice 51. _____: “What does he know? Why does he get to decide?” Just that my coach didn’t have 52. _____ in me didn’t mean I had to give up on myself so quickly. By the time I arrived back at my apartment, I was 53. _____ at my coach and my dream was back on center stage.

Nothing came easy when it came to 54. _____ that dream. I tried out for two more national teams and two different coaches cut me.

But I was 55. _____ by my love of the beauty of rowing. I wanted to row among the best and I refused to stop 56. _____ I achieved my goal.

I made that 1980 team, 57. _____ not getting to compete at the Olympics. I kept training for four more years, and finally won silver at the 1984 Olympics. All my efforts 58. _____.

Everything I have today is a result of 59. _____ with that dream. All those hours on the water,in the weight room, and in the stadium. They got me here, where I know now that big 60. _____ need not just time to develop, but firm belief in them. If I’m not going to be my own champion for my dreams, no one else will. And I will not allow anyone else to decide for me what’s possible.

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41. A. realized B. expressed C. abandoned D. reflected 42. A. mattered B. benefited C. encouraged D. adjusted 43. A. Above all B. All in all C. After all D. In all 44. A. academic B. previous C. abundant D. tough 45. A. recommended B. adapted C. desired D. possessed 46. A. shocked B. occupied C. prepared D. scared 47. A. sympathy 48 A. setting aside 49. A. in 50. A. absurd 51. A. paused 52. A. satisfaction 53. A. aware 54. A. fulfilling 55. A. annoyed 56. A. if 57. A. except 58. A. paid off 59. A. meeting 60. A. imaginations 【答案】 41B 42A 43C 44B 45D 46A 47C 48A

B. approval B. setting down B. to B. inner B. resigned B. patience B. mad B. substituting B. accompanied B. when B. opposite B. kept up B. operating B. ambitions C. certainty C. settling in C. on C. elegant C. participated C. faith C. elegant C. conducting C. driven C. until C. like C. helped out C. begging C. profits - 18 -

D. talent D. cutting out D. for D. vivid D. argued D. requirement D. casual D. changing D. dragged D. though D. despite D. fit in D. sticking D. firms 49B 50D 51D 52C 53B 54A 55C 56C 57D 58A 59D 60B

44. B 考查形容词辨析。形容词academic学术的；previous先前的；abundant丰富的；tough粗糙的，崎岖的；the previous year是句中的时间状语，指之前的一年。故B正确。

45. D 考查动词辨析。动词recommend推荐，建议；adapt适应；desire想要；possess占有，拥有；我缺少大部分奥运会划船运动员所拥有的身高。因为我很年轻，身体等方面还达不到奥运会的要求。故D 正确。 46. A 考查动词辨析。动词shock使...震惊；occupy占据；使...忙于；prepare准备；scare使...害怕；虽然我有思想准备，但是教练的反应还是让我很震惊，我没有想到教练对我的梦想是如此的态度。故A正确。 47. C 考查名词辨析。名词sympathy同情；approval批准；certainty肯定，确定；talent才干；教练所选择的词和他确定我无法成功都让我很恐慌。故C正确。

48. A 考查动词短语辨析。短语set aside放在一边；set down写下，记下；set in以...为背景；cut out停止，

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剪裁；当我回家的时候，我重新思考我的未来，把我的梦想放在一边，为教练的观点腾出空间。故A正确。 49. D 考查固定搭配。短语make room for为...腾地方；本句表示我不再考虑我的梦想，把教练的话当真了。故D正确。

50. D 考查形容词辨析。形容词absurd荒谬的；inner内在的；elegant优雅的；vivid生动的；清晰的；我内心深处一个清晰地声音告诉我说：也许他是对的。ABC三项与上下文不搭配。故D正确。

51. D 考查动词辨析。动词pause暂停；resign辞职；participate参加；argue争论；正当我要认同教练的说法时，内心深处的另外一个声音说：为什么要他来做出决定？本句是两种观点的争论。故D正确。 52. C 考查固定搭配。短语have faith in信任....；相信....；教练不信任我并不意味着我就要放弃我的梦想。故C正确。

53. B 考查固定搭配。短语be mad at sb生某人的气；当我到家的时候，我非常生气。我的梦想又一次回到了我的内心，我又鼓起勇气追求自己的梦想了。故B正确。

54. A 考查动词辨析。动词fulfill实现；substitute替换；conduct操作；change改变；当涉及到实现梦想的

58. A 考查动词短语辨析。短语pay off努力得到回报；keep up保持；hold out伸出；fit in相处融洽；我当赢得奥运会的银牌以后，我所有的努力得到了回报。故A正确。

59. D 考查动词辨析。动词meet遇见；operate操作；beg乞求；stick坚持；我今天获得的一切是我坚持的结果。故D正确。

60. B 考查名词辨析。名词imagination想象；ambition野心；抱负；profit利益；firm公司；我抱负需要的不仅仅是时间而且是对抱负的坚定信念。本句B项与文章的中心思想相一致。 【名师点睛】

要做好完形填空题，除了要具备较扎实的英语基本功之外，还必须具备良好的应试心态，掌握一定的答题技巧,这样有助于在做题时思路清晰,速度加快,节约时间,增进效益. 精读第一句

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