高二英语寒假作业-- 完形填空20篇

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People often ask which is the most difficult language to learn, and it is not easy to answer because there are many factors to take into consideration. Firstly, in a first language the differences are 1 as people learn their mother tongue naturally, so the question of how hard a language is to learn is only 2 when learning a second language.

A native speaker of Spanish, 3 , will find Portuguese much easier to learn than a native speaker of Chinese, because Portuguese is very similar to Spanish, 4 Chinese is very different. So first language can 5 learning a second language. The greater the differences between the second language and our first are, the 6 it will be for most people to learn. Many people answer that Chinese is the hardest language to learn, possibly 7 by the thought of learning the Chinese writing system, and the pronunciation of Chinese does appear to be very difficult for many foreign learners. 8 , for Japanese speakers, who already use Chinese characters in their own language, learning 9 will be less difficult than for speakers of languages using the Roman alphabet.

Some people seem to learn languages 10 , while others find it very difficult. Teachers and the 11 in which the language is learned also play an important role, as well as each learner's motivation for learning. If people learn a language because they need to use it 12 , they often learn it faster than people studying a language that has no direct use in their day to day life.

Difference cultures and 13 from those cultures will find different languages more difficult. No language is easy to learn well, 14 languages which are related to our first language are easier. Learning a completely different writing system is a huge 15 , but that does not necessarily make a language more difficult than another. 1. A. apparent 2. A. relevant 3. A. by contrast 4. A. when 5. A. affect 6. A. easier 7. A. inherited 8. A. However 9. A. speaking 10. A. gradually 11. A. learners 12. A. occasionally 13. A. societies 14. A. as 15. A. success

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Twenty years ago only a very small number of people had the skills or equipment to make fake money. Today computer, copier and printer technology is so 1 that almost anyone can

B. extensive B. permanent B. in addition B. while B. achieve B. harder B. overtaken B. Moreover B. listening B. steadily B. materials B. professionally B. characters B. though B. surprise

C. decline C. essential C. for example C. where C. attach C. faster C. influenced C. Therefore C. reading C. readily C. tutors C. properly C. individuals C. because C. opportunity

D. unimportant D. progressive D. after all D. whether D. assemble D. slower D. restricted D. Anyhow D. writing D. subconsciously D. circumstances D. informally D. visitors D. since D. challenge

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“make” money. With the new technology there is a new kind of casual faking machine. The number of bills made by casual fakers on their home or office computer is growing fast. In fact, this number has doubled every year since 1989! There is no way to 2 faking completely. But the government has recently found a few ways to make casual faking very 3 . One way is to put very, very small words, called microprints (微型印刷), in 4 places on the bill. The words are only 6/1000 inch. No one can read them 5 a magnifying glass, and they are too small to come out 6 on a copier. If someone copies a bill that has microprints, the microprinted words on the bill will only be black lines.

Another way to stop people from making fake money on their home computer is to use special color-changing ink. Money printed with color-changing ink will look green from one 7 and yellow from 8 . Home computers cannot use color-changing ink. Copies from a home computer only have normal ink and that can be 9 quite easily.

10 , money is made on special paper with very small pieces of red and blue silk mixed in. And on each bill there is a special line that 11 from the top to the bottom of the bill. The blue turns red if you put it under a special 12 . This line and the special paper with red and blue silk are not easy for home computers to 13 .

The government must try many different ways to stop faking. It needs to keep 14 the way money is made because fakers can learn to copy the 15 . Today copiers can’t copy microprinted words or color-changing ink. But, in a few years, who knows? 1. A. perfect 2. A. start 3. A. simple 4. A. hidden 5. A. until 6. A. immediately 7. A. page 8. A. another 9. A. overlooked 10. A. Occasionally 11. A. runs 12. A. equipment 13. A. copy 14. A. making 15. A. measures

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Most young people 1 some form of 2 activity. It may be walking, cycling, or swimming, or in winter, skating, or skiing. It may be a game of some kind—football, hockey, golf or tennis. It may be mountaineering (登山运动).

Those who have a 3 for climbing high and difficult mountains are often 4 with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to 5 cold and hardship, and to take 6 on high mountains? This astonishment is caused, probably, by the 7 between mountaineer-

B. advanced B. continue B. reluctant B. obvious B. with B. clearly B. place B. other B. noticed B. Permanently B. flows B. light B. create B. searching B. development

C. new C. stop C. difficult C. correct C. without C. easily C. layer C. anyway C. explained C. Additionally C. passes C. treatment C. operate C. taking C. changes

D. unthinkable D. resist D. surprising D. various D. under D. dimly D. angle D. each D. attached D. Temporarily D. straightens D. technology D. perform D. changing D. information

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ing and other forms of activity 8 which men 9 their leisure (空闲的) time.

Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no manmade rules, 10 there are for such games as golf and football. There are, 11 rules of a different kind which would be dangerous to ignore, but it is this freedom from manmade rules 12 makes mountaineering 13 to many people. Those who climb mountains are 14 to use their own methods.

If we compare mountaineering and other more familiar sports we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a “team game” .We should be mistaken in this. There are, it is true, no “matches” between “teams” of climbers but when climbers are on a rock face 15 by a rope 16 which their lives may depend, there is obviously teamwork.

The mountain climber knows that he may have to fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of nature. His sport requires high mental and physical 17 . A mountain climber continues to improve in skill year after year. A skier is probably past his best by the age of thirty, and most international tennis 18 are in their early twenties. 19 it is not unusual for men of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more time than younger men, but they probably climb with more skills and less waste of effort, and they certainly 20 equal enjoyment. 1. A. please 2. A. physical 3. A. feeling 4. A. looked down 5. A. suffer 6. A. danger 7. A. difference 8. A. into 9. A. draw 10. A. as 11. A. sometimes 12. A. which 13. A. satisfying 14. A. urged 15. A. fixed 16. A. at 17. A. efforts 18. A. athletes 19. A. But 20. A. experience

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Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we 1 realize that those challenges are the very things that 2 us and make us who we are. It is the same with the challenges that come with 3 .

B. play B. mental B. thirst B. looked out B. observe B. pains B. distance B. at B. spend B. and B. however B. that B. tiresome B. forced B. hung B. in B. spirits B. observers B. Therefore B. give

C. get C. joy C. possession C. looked upon C. enjoy C. risks C. similarity C. for C. devote C. or C. of course C. what C. terrifying C. limited C. linked C. over C. techniques C. champions C. So C. receive

D. enjoy D. pleasant D. position D. looked round D. stare at D. efforts D. relationship D. to D. spare D. so D. therefore D. whatever D. attractive D. free D. winded D. on D. qualities D. sportsmen D. Thus D. want

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When we are faced with a challenge, we usually have two 4 . We can try to beat it off, or we can decide that the thing 5 the challenge isn’t worth the 6 and call it quits. Although there are certainly 7 when calling it quits is the right thing to do, in most 8 all that is needed is 9 and communication.

When we are committed to something, it means that no matter how 10 or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to 11 it and work it through instead of running away from it. Communication is making a 12 for discussion and talking about how you feel as opposed to just saying what the other person did wrong. 13 you can say to a friend, “I got my feelings hurt.” 14 “You hurt my feelings”, you are going to be able to solve the problem much faster.

In dealing with the many challenges that friendship will bring to you, try to see them for 15 they are: small hurdles you need to jump or 16 on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is 17 to get over, and hurt only 18 to make us stronger. It’s all part of growing up, it 19 to everyone, and some day you will 20 all of this and say, “Hard as it was, it made me who I am today. And that is a good thing.” 1. A. seem to 2. A. design 3. A. confidence 4. A. opportunities 5. A. demanding 6. A. comment 7. A. spans 8. A. cases 9. A. assessment 10. A. doubtful 11. A. keep 12. A. space 13. A. If 14. A. other than 15. A. what 16. A. pass by 17. A. unnecessary 18. A. serves 19. A. opens 20. A. look down on

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We all have dreams. Yet so few of us realize them. Often, a dream dies as quickly as it is born 1 we lack the confidence to keep it. When I was old enough to understand the realities of life, I realized that society puts a high 2 on youth, beauty and academic achievement. This discovery gave me some idea to develop my dream although I was 3 .

My dream was 4 . I just dreamed of becoming a 5 when I was in secondary school.

B. come to B. promote B. pressure B. expectations B. deserving B. loss B. times B. fields B. commitment B. shameful B. control B. plan B. As B. rather than B. who B. come across B. necessary B. means B. appeals B. look back on

C. hope to C. direct C. friendship C. choices C. predicting C. trouble C. dates C. parts

C. encouragement C. harmful C. face C. topic C. While C. or rather C. where C. get through C. impossible C. aims C. goes

C. look forward to

D. try to D. shape D. difficulty D. aspects D. presenting D. expense D. ages D. occasions D. adjustment D. painful D. catch D. room D. Unless D. or else D. which D. run over D. possible D. attempts D. happens D. look up to

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