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高二10月月考篇章训练
第二节: 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)
Until a few years ago, I was a calm person. If you were going to ___36___ me I almost never lost it ___37___; of course I felt hurt, but I didn't show it.
Then, one day, I met my husband and I fell ___38___ in love with him, a proud Italian who loudly discusses things ___39___ with himself when he's not happy. Things got worse for me when we started ___40___ on things. He seemed really angry and loud, while I seemed detached and polite. Truth is that I was ___41___ too. Fight after fight, he always acted as if nothing had happened a few minutes after each quarrel, while my moments of ___42___ discontent started to ___43___ more and more in time until they became hours, sometimes even days.
I felt this had to change and the conversation went ___44___ like this:
Me: “Either you change your ___45___ when we fight or I will start avoiding any discussion, and this will ___46___ our relationship.”
Him: “Did you ___47___ the Mpemba Effect? If you put two ___48___ containers filled with the same amount of water into the fridge except that one has boiling water in it while the other one has water at ambient(周围的)___49___, the boiling water will ___50___ faster than the ambient water. Baby, you got to boil first, to cool down faster. That's why the Italians live ___51___ than Canadians.”
The connection he suggested is to be ___52___. but I have learned a fact I didn't know, one that has ___53___ me to understand that if I'm angry about something or someone, for that anger to disappear, it has to be towards the ___54___ or otherwise it is like hiding the dust under the ___55___: your house might look clean, but it is not.
36. A. cheat B. offend C. impress D. defend
37. A. in return B. in place C. in public D. in time
38. A. hopelessly B. steadily C. hurriedly D. blindly
39. A. always B. ever C. even D. seldom
40. A. working B. disagreeing C. operati