考点07 完形填空夹叙夹议文-2021届高三《新题速递•英语》5月刊（适用于高考复习）

考点07 完形填空夹叙夹议文 Passage1 （2021·江西景德镇市·高三一模） Henry Brown was at the top of his game. The 53-year-old chairman and chief executive of AMC in the US was working hard, supporting a happy family， 1 a busy social life and making plans for a long, well-earned 2 . In May 2005, he went for check-up with neurologist to 3 a slight facial droop. A scan 4 he was suffering from terminal brain cancer and had only three months to live. As Mr. Brown explains in “Chasing, Daylight”, his 5 , published posthumously of his final weeks of life, he 6 this news as a kind of blessing. He would have 100 days to make good 7 : to say goodbye to colleagues, friends and family and to plan a future for his wife and children. Like the accountant he was, Mr. Brown wanted to close the book on his life and leave his 8 in good order.. The diagnosis also 9 him thinking about his career and 10 it had truly meant. “Before my illness, I had 11 commitment king among virtues,” he writes. “After I was 12 , I came to treat consciousness as the most important 13 .” Mr. Brown now believed, like Socrates, that “the unconsidered life is not worth 14 .” And he felt sorry for colleagues and peers who had not the 15 to reflect more seriously on their lives. “I felt sorry that they had not been 16 as I had, with this sudden change to life,” he writes. “They had no real motivation or clear timeline, to stop what they were so busy at, to 17 ,and. so ask what 18 they were doing with their life. Many of them had money; many of them had more money than they needed.” 19 , money is not the problem. Fulfillment is. Career goals may have been met, but the excitement and 20 the job once offered are now a distant memory. 1．A．making B．maintaining C．adding D．starting4 2．A．improvement B．involvement C．retirement D．punishment 3．A．investigate B．find C．inspect D．search 4．A．proved B．noticed C．recovered D．revea