第二部分 第七节 完形填空之他人经历类-【高考领航】2023高考英语总复习四测通关卷

第七节　完形填空之他人经历类

A

(2021·全国甲卷)It's the seaside birds that deserve at least part of the blame for getting Nick Burchill blacklisted at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, Canada.

Burchill was __1__ at the hotel on business and planning to __2__ some friends in the area. They had asked him to __3__ some pepperoni (辣香肠) from back east. So he __4__ a suitcase full of pepperoni. As he was __5__ that it would be too warm, he __6__ it out on the table near an open window. He thought his pepperoni was __7__ and well chilled (冷却) and he __8__．

That's when things went __9__. “I remember walking down the long __10___ and opening the door to my room to find an entire flock of seagulls，” Burchill said in a recent letter of __11__ to the 4­star hotel. “The seagulls immediately went __12__. They rushed to the window, 30 or 40 birds all trying to __13__ at the same time, and pepperoni — everywhere. The curtains were falling down, the lamps were falling down. It was a real __14__．”

Older and wiser now, Burchill chalked up the incident to youthful indiscretion (莽撞)．

“I have __15__ and I admit responsibility of my __16__，” he said in the letter. “I come to you, __17__， to apologize for the damage I had __18__ caused and to ask you to __19__ my lifetime ban from the hotel.”

His letter __20__. Banned from the hotel since 2001.Burchill is now welcome to come back, the Fairmont said.

1．A.studying　　　　 B．staying

C．looking  D．packing

2．A.visit  B．help

C．follow  D．make

3．A.sell  B．have

C．bring  D．taste

4．A.filled  B．locked

C．abandoned  D．lost

5．A.surprised  B．pleased

C．excited  D．worried

6．A.dug  B．cleared

C．cut  D．laid

7．A.delicious  B．safe

C．soft  D．ready

8．A.left  B．nodded

C．waited  D．regretted

9．A.far  B．funny

C．wrong  D．blind

10．A.beach  B．driveway

C．hall  D．table

11．A.application  B．apology

C．request  D．invitation

12．A.hungry  B．dead

C．missing  D．wild

13．A.wake up  B．get out

C．take off  D．break in

14．A.mess  B．puzzle

C．fight  D．challenge

15．A.recovered  B．retired

C．escaped  D．matured

16．A.suffering  B．plans

C．madness  D．actions

17．A.hands in pocket  B．nose in the air

C．hat in hand  D．feet on the ground

18．A.indirectly  B．deliberately

C．cautiously  D．secretly

19．A.replace  B．remember

C．reconsider  D．renew

20．A.arrived  B．worked

C．ended  D．disappeared

B

(2020·全国卷Ⅱ)It was just after sunrise on a June morning. “Nicolo，” whose real name cannot be __21__ to the public because of Italy's privacy laws, __22__ working the whole night at a factory in Turin. As he often did, he stopped by the “after work auction(拍卖)” __23__ by the Italian police where things __24__ on the trains were sold to the highest bidder. There, among many other things, Nicolo spotted two paintings he thought would look __25__above his dining room table. Nicolo and another bidder __26__ until Nicolo finally won the paintings for $32.

When Nicolo retired and went to live in Sicily, he __27__ the paintings with him. He hung them above the same table he had __28__ from Turin. His son, age 15, who had __29__ an art appreciation class, thought that there was something __30__ about the one with a young girl sitting on a garden chair. It was signed (签名) “Bonnato” or so he thought, but when he __31__ it, he only found “Bonnard”， a French __32__ he had never heard of. He bought a book and was __33__ to find a picture of the artist Pierre Bonnard sitting on the same chair in the same __34__ as his father's painting.

“That's the garden in our picture，” Nicolo's son told his father. They __35__ learned that the painting they __36__was called “The Girl with Two Chairs.” They __37__ the other painting and learned that it was __38__ Paul Gauguin's “Still Life of Fruit on a Table with a Small Dog.” The __39__ called the Italian Culture Ministry; the official confirmed that the paintings were __40__ and worth as much as $50 million.

21．A.attached  B．allocated

C．exposed  D．submitted

22．A.finished  B．delayed

C．considered  D．tried

23．A.attended  B．reserved

C．cancelled  D．run

24．A.shown  B．found

C．kept  D．hidden

25．A.nice  B．familiar

C．useful  D．real

26．A.battled  B．debated

C．discussed  D．bargained

27．A.held  B．left

C．registered  D．brought

28．A.chosen  B．received

C．ordered  D．moved

29．A.missed  B．failed

C．taken  D．led

30．A.concrete  B．unusual

C．unappealing  D．natual

31．A.appreciated  B．touched