冲刺原创05-冲刺2021年高考英语阅读理解+完形填空组合专练

冲刺2021年高考英语原创阅读理解+完形填空专练05 （阅读理解4篇+完形填空1篇） 一、阅读理解 1 I was reading Natalie Goldberg’s classic writing guide Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, and as I worked my way through its sixty-four short chapters, I became less and less attracted by her thoughts and suggestions as a sort of tiredness set in. Then I realized I had been doing it all wrong. Writing Down the Bones is not a book to be enjoyed during a short time, or even continuously in a handful of reading classes. Each of those dozens of distinct chapters should be experienced separately--- this is a book for snacking on over a period of time, not gorging on in one or a few meals. When it’s read part by part, I think, it provides a steady diet of encouragement and exercises. Why? Goldberg’s lively anybody-can-do-this essays are a little Zen(禅宗的), and sometimes a little strange, but her comments about how daily life can get in the way of fighting to become a Great Writer are supportive, somehow: “This woman has had false starts and personal crises and self-doubt, just like me,” I tell myself, “but here I am, holding in my hands a book she wrote, a book of hers that was published (the second of about a dozen so far), a book that a number of people have read, and continue to read.” Goldberg recommends writing in many of the various environments: not just at home or in a cafe or at a workshop; how about setting up a spontaneous writing booth at an outdoor fair or festival? It’s just like those kissing booths in the past ---except that instead of giving out kisses for a dollar, you write a poem on a topic of the customer’s choosing. She says the booth was always a hit. Her advice ranges from the practical---she prefers to have words written in full by hand rather than on a computer because it seems more personal and closer to the heart --- to the spiritual, though even her Zen master is matter of fact: “No matter how many times they knock you down, get up again.” Not very complex, is it? 1. Why did