英语完形填空78篇

英语完形填空78篇

No. 001

Back in my country, when I was a child, I used to go to “market day” with my mother. One day each week, farmers used to ___1___ their fruit and vegetables into the city. They ___2___ one street to all cars, and the farmers set up tables for their ___3___. This outdoor market was a great place to ___4___. Everything was fresher than produce in grocery stores because the farmers brought it in ___5___ after the harvest. My mother and I always got there early in the morning to get the ___6___ produce.

The outdoor market was a wonderful adventure for a small child, ___7___ was like a festival — full of colors and ___8___. There are red tomatoes, yellow lemons, green lettuce, peppers, grapes, onions. The farmers did their own ___9___. They all shouted loudly for ___10___ to buy their produce. “Come and buy my beautiful oranges! They’re juicy and delicious and full of vitamins to ___11___ your children healthy and strong!”

Everyone used to ___12___ with the farmers over the ___13___ of their produce. It was like a wonderful drama in a theatre; the buyers and sellers were the “___14___” in this drama. My mother was an ___15___ at this. First, she picked the freshest, most attractive tomatoes, for example. Then she asked the price. The seller told her.

“What?” she said. She looked very surprised. “ So ___16___?”

The seller looked terribly ___17___. “My dear lady!” he replied. “I’m a poor, ___18___ farmer. These are the cheapest tomatoes on the market!”

They always argued for several minutes before agreeing ___19___ a price. My mother took her tomatoes and left. Both buyer and seller were ___20___. The drama was over.

1. A. carry 2. A. opened 3. A. produce 4. A. buy 5. A. hurriedly 6. A. best 7. A. who 8. A. voices 9. A. shopping 10. A. customers 11. A. keep 12. A. argue 13. A. order 14. A. viewers

B. take B. closed B. goods B. sell B. immediately B. finest B. that B. noises B. business B. producers B. let B. talk B. price B. listeners

C. bring C. started C. food C. bargain C. directly C. freshest C. which C. sounds C. shouting C. themselves C. except C. discuss C. quality C. actors

D. fetch D. stopped D. product D. shop D. straightly D. cheapest D. what D. accent D. advertising D. sellers D. make D. speak D. form D. directors

15. A. actress 16. A. wonderful 17. A. injured 18. A. excellent 19. A. with

B. inventor B. exciting B. hurt B. fair B. to

C. advancer C. cheap C. damaged C. honest C. in C. satisfied No. 002

D. expert D. expensive D. wounded D. easy D. on D. tired

20. A. disappointed B. encouraged

When August Erdmann became leader of Milwaukee firefighters in 1989, only six units had defibrillators. The medical device(装置) sends out an electric shock to people suffering from sudden heart troubles, even ___1___ some back to life.

Hearing that 215,000 people die of ___2___ heart stop each year in the United States, Erdmann ___3___ pushed for each of Milwaukee’s 2 firefighter units to ___4___ a defibrillator and for 1100 fire fighters to be ___5___ to use them.

Last summer, Erdmann, by then fifty-eight ___6___ retired, was cutting grass at his backyard when he felt ___7___. “As if something was stuck in my throat,” he ___8___. His wife called 911. As Erdmann waited for ___9___, the pain went away. Eight rescuers(救援者) ___10___ in. “I felt foolish,” said Erdmann. He was ___11___.

Then he fell to the ground. Erdmann was a PNB—a firefighter term for “pulseless(无脉搏的) none-breather”. ___12___ worker Doran Kemp couldn’t get a heartbeat. ___13___ Erdmann had the rescuers and the ___14___ he needed for returning to life. Kemp shocked him ___15___ a defibrillator four times before getting a ___16___.

At the hospital, doctors gave him timely ___17___ and Erdmann returned to an ___18___ life. He is working hard to ___19___ defibrillators in businesses and public places. “It’s a wonderful machine,” he says. “I ___20___ felt lucky that day.”

1. A. leading 2. A. sudden 3. A. possibly 4. A. find 5. A. let 6. A. and 7. A. hungry 8. A. warned 9. A. medicine 10. A. broke 11. A. painful 12. A. Medical 13. A. Although

B. sending B. frequent B. have B. sent B. or B. tired B. said B. a moment B. rushed B. excited B. Technical B. While

C. keeping C. obvious C. operate C. trained C. as C. sleepy C. concluded C. help C. came C. fine C. Chemical C. But

D. bringing D. common D. correctly D. include D. supported D. when D. strange D. expressed D. firefighter D. marched D. expected D. Physical D. For

B. successfully C. fortunately

14. A. PNB 15. A. in 16. A. sense 17. A. medicine 18. A. active 19. A. buy 20. A. really

B. doctor B. with B. heart B. treatment B. easy B. get B. nearly

C. medicine C. by C. breath C. shock C. exciting C. treat C. always No. 003

D. machine D. from D. pulse D. defibrillators D. ordinary D. supply D. completely

How to Be Polite at a Dinner Party

It’s not polite to arrive at a dinner more than 15 to 20 minutes late. The host or hostess usually waits for all the ___1___ to arrive before serving the meal. If someone is late, the food may be spoiled(变味), and ___2___ may the host or hostess’ spirits. If you have to be ___3___ call and tell them to start ___4___ you.

It’s even worse to be early! The host or hostess will probably not be ___5___. If you are early, drive or walk around the block a few times, or just sit in your car until the right time.

Though it’s often ___6___ to arrive at a party on time, on the other hand, the host or hostess ___7___ guests to arrive and leave between certain times, so you can ___8___ at any time between the times he or she gives you.

It’s nice to bring an empty stomach, but it’s even nicer to bring ___9___ present. The present should not cost a lot, or you might make the host or hostess ___10___. Flowers, wine, or a box of candy will be fine. ___11___ bring money as a present. In an introduction, the ___12___ of a name is: (1) the given name; (2) the family name. In other ___13___, the given name comes ___14___. It’s important not only to learn and remember ___15___, but to repeat them often in conversation. After the introduction, we usually call friends by their ___16___ names. Older people may want you to call them by their titles and family names, such as “Mrs Smith”, “Mr Johnson”, “Dr. Brown”.

A maiden(闺女) name is a ___17___ family name at birth. In the United States and Canada, after a woman ___18___, she takes the family name of her ___19___ in place of her maiden name. It is now becoming common, however, for women to ___20___ their maiden names after they get married.

1. A. guests 2. A. or 3. A. tired 4. A. without 5. A. awake 6. A. useless 7. A. forces 8. A. play

B. visitors B. so B. hungry B. for B. ready B. impossible B. invites B. fly

C. customs C. but C. late C. with C. up C. unable C. begs C. arrive

D passengers D yet D. early D. after D. friendly D. important D. orders D. start

9. A. a big 10. A. pleased 11. A. Never 12. A. spelling 13. A. words 14. A. last 15. A. expressions 16. A. given 17. A. gentleman’s 18. A. works 19. A. husband 20. A. stop

B. a small B. satisfied B. Always B. calling B. letters B. first B. appearances B. family B. boy’s B. marries B. mother B. give up

C. a good C. interested C. Do C. order C. idioms C. finally C. names C. middle C. woman’s C. bears C. father C. keep No. 004

D. an expensive D. uneasy D. Be sure to D. pronunciation D. sentences D. in the middle D. addresses D. pen D. man’s D. dies D. sister D. find

Did you ever have someone’s name on the tip(尖，末梢) of your tongue and yet you were unable to recall it? ___1___ this happens again do not ___2___ to recall it. Do something ___3___ for a couple of minutes, ___4___ the name may come into our head. The name is there since you have met ___5___ person and learned his name. It ___6___ has to be dug out. The initial(最初的) effort to recall ___7___ the mind for operation, but it is the subconscious(下意识的) ___8___ that go to work to dig up a ___9___ memory. Forcing yourself to recall.

___10___ never helps because it doesn’t ___11___ your memory; it only tightens it. Students find the preparatory method helpful ___12___ examinations. They read over the questions ___13___ trying to answer any of them. ___14___ they answer first the ones ___15___ which they are most confident(有信心的). Meanwhile, deeper mental activities in the subconscious mind are taking ___16___; work is being done on the ___17___ difficult questions. By the time the easier questions are answered, answers ___18___ the more difficult ones will usually begin to ___19___ into consciousness. It is often ___20___ a question of waiting for recall to come to the memory.

1. A. As 2. A. try 3. A. simple 4. A. unless 5. A. some 6. A. then 7. A. leads 8. A. deeds 9. A. light 10. A. merely 11. A. loosen

B. When B. want B. apart B. and B. certain B. really B. begins B. activities B. fresh B. almost B. weaken

C. While C. delay C. else C. or C. any C. only C. helps C. movements C. dim C. barely C. decrease

D. Whether D. wait D. similar D. until D. this D. indeed D. prepares D. programmers D. dark D. hardly D. reduce