02：【好题精选】完形填空-2023年九年级英语名校试题专题集训（重庆）

02：【好题精选】完形填空-2023年九年级下学期英语专题周周练 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 01 根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个填入相应空格内的最佳答案，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。 My father died when I was nine, and I remember doing chores to help my mother. I hated changing the vacuum cleaner (真空吸尘器) bag and picking up the things the machine ____1____ to take in. Twenty years later, I was doing chores at home with my wife and I had to empty the bag because I could not find a new one. I had always hated the way the machine worked and I decided to make a vacuum cleaner without ____2____. Easier said than done, of course. I didn’t ____3____ that I would spend the next five years perfecting my design, a process that resulted in 5, 127 different prototypes (设计原型). By the time I made my 15th prototype, my third child was born. By 2, 627, my wife and I were really short of money. By 3, 727, my wife was giving art lessons for some money. These were hard times, but each failure brought me closer to ____4____ the problem. However, at first I ____5____ thought of going into a business with it. In the early 1980s, I started trying to get a license for my technology. The reality was very different, though. The big vacuum makers made most of the money from bags. No one would license my idea, not because it was a ____6____ one, but because it was bad for business. The unfairness gave me the ____7____ to keep going, but soon after, the companies that I had talked with started making machines ____8____ mine. I had to fight to protect the patents (专利) on my invention. My invention didn’t go into production ____9____ a bank lent me 1 million pounds in 1993. Within two years, my invention—the Dyson vacuum cleaner—became a success in Britain. Today, I still welcome risk and failure as part of the process. _____10_____ beats the excitement of invention. Go out and brainstorm your ideas. Rules can’t get in the way of you. In fact, the stranger and riskier your idea is, the better. 1．A．missed B．failed C．managed D．sto