2022年北京市各区中考英语一模试题汇编-03完形填空

2022年北京市各区中考英语一模试题汇编-03完形填空 一、完形填空 （2022·北京·中关村中学校考一模）阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。 When I got the driving license (驾照) last summer, Mom and I took our first trip around an empty parking lot. Then I found that my mother was not the best ___1___ for me. It wasn’t that she shouted, or told me that I was doing poorly. As you can imagine, my mother’s “helpful instructions” only managed to make me more ___2___. Since I could no longer practice with her, the job was ___3___ in the hands of my father. The idea of learning from Dad was not one that trilled me. I loved him dearly, but I just did not see Dad as someone I could be comfortable leaning from. He almost never talked. We shared a typical father-daughter relationship. He’d ask how school was, and I’d say it was fine. ___4___, that was the most of our conversations. Spending hours alone with someone who might as well have been a stranger really scared me. As we got into the car that first time, I was not ___5___ at what happened. Dad and I drove around, saying almost nothing, except from a few instructions on how to turn. As my lessons went on, however, things began to ____6____. Dad would turn the radio up so I could fully appreciate his favorite Stones music. And he actually began talking. I was soon hearing about past failed dates, “basic body” gym class, and other tales from his past. Dad’s sudden chattiness was shocking until I thought about why he was telling me so much in the car. In all the years that I had wondered why my father never spoke that much, I had never stopped to consider that it was because I had never spent time ___7___. Homework, friends, and even TV had all called me away from him, and, as a result, I never thought my quiet father had anything to say. Since I began driving with him, my driving skill has greatly increased. More important, though, is that my knowledge of who my father is has also increased. Just living with him wasn’t ___8___—it took driving with him for me to