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专题 02 人与社会- 2023年高考英语完形填空名校好题100篇(原卷版)
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(2023·山西太原·统考一模)My husband and I had dreamed about moving to the countryside for years. And finally, we found our own piece of paradise on Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau. We built a house and ____1____ a big vegetable garden. Life was good.
But as most country-dwellers(乡村居民)know, at some point you have to deal with uncooperative(不合作的)____2____. Our mistake was thinking that because we had a dog named Heidi, we were ____3____.
Jeff and I ____4____ town one day to find some of our new neighbors standing in our driveway. It seemed that a small group of cows had been in our street lately and none was sure where they came from or who ____5____ them. All they were sure of was that these cows were a grade-A problem. ____6____, our thoughtful neighbors had come to ____7____ our property while we were gone, driving them away.
But about a week later, we suddenly heard mooing coming from the front yard. Our beautiful vegetable garden, which we had put so much time and money into, had just been ____8____ by the mooing cows.
We ____9____ finding out who owned the cows and soon learned they were from another town. A field owner was renting some land to a cattle owner, but didn’t keep the fence in good ____10____. The cows’ owner apologized and paid for our damaged ____11____. We thought that was the end of the ____12____.
But one day, Melissa, our neighbor from two doors away, ____13____ at my door. She said, “Those ____14____ cows are at my house. They are trying to get into the pool!” But when we got there, it turned out that the cows were just ____15____ and were drinking from it. I helped Melissa drive them off and gave her the owner’s name and phone number.
Either the fence was finally fixed or the owner sold them, because that was the last time we saw those cows.
1.A.abandoned B.displayed C.reserved D.planted
2.A.farmers B.birds C.animals D.neighbors
3.A.healthy B.calm C.blessed D.safe
4.A.went through B.passed by C.returned from D