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四川省成都市2019-2022三年高二上学期英语期末试卷汇编
完形填空专题
四川省成都市2021-2022学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题
第一节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A,B、C和D)中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Have you ever met someone with exactly the same name as you? Paul O’ Sullivan from Baltimore has, and his fellow Paul O’ Sullivans ended up becoming ___21___.
One night Baltimore Paul was adding Paul O’ Sullivans on Facebook and many of them ___22___ his friend request. He ___23___ what they had in common: They were all ___24___. Rotterdam Paul sings and plays the guitar. Another from Pennsylvania is a drummer. Baltimore Paul reached out to other Paul around the world. Finally, three Pauls ___25___ to form a musical group with him, named The Paul O’ Sullivan Band.
When the world shut down due to COVID-19, they ___26___ they had been working remotely together, so they ___27___ to use the lockdown (防范禁闭期) to ___28___ a whole album for the first time.
“It feels great to be able to ___29___ people on the other side of the world because you don’t feel ____30____ at the moment,” said Rotterdam Paul. For all four Pauls, music was more ____31____ than ever. “I have always used music to ____32____ me to get through the bad times. ____33____, I think the lockdown went faster because I was doing this at this moment.” Rotterdam Paul added.
During a year when many things were put on pause, these four were able to stay ____34____ and make something great. “Once COVID came, so many ____35____ had shut on musicians,” Pennsylvania Paul said, “And Baltimore Paul ____36____ this door already, right?Then we had a(an) ____37____ purpose,” “And I think for me, that gave me a lot of ____38____, that I wasn't locked out of ____39____.In fact, we could ____40____ something, despite the new adversity (逆境),” he continued, “Everybody said no, and The Paul O’ Sullivan Band said yes.”
21 A. colleagues B. friends C. neighbors D. relatives
22. A. accepted B. needed C. met D. expressed
23. A. believed B. notic