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2023年高考英语完形填空冲刺押题(新高考卷专用)
专题08 新高考完形填空押题15篇(善行义举类)原卷版
(2023·全国·模拟预测)In 2001, Tropical Storm Allison hit Houston. As a result, more than 70,000 houses were ____1____, including the home of Sarah Feldman and her family.
At the time, they were in Connecticut on vacation, so they didn’t know what kind of ____2____ they were going to face when they got home to Texas. But then Feldman’s grandparents called with ____3____ news: all of her books had been destroyed in the flooding. Feldman was 14 at the time and loved ____4____.
To cheer her up, Feldman’s father ____5____ her to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. When they arrived, she met Bill Carver, an elderly ____6____.
“I asked him a bunch of questions like, ‘How do you ____7____ all these rare books in the library? What’s the oldest book you have?’” Feldman remembers.
Carver ____8____ answered all of Feldman’s questions. When she told him about her books being ____9____, he told her that he would send her a book in the mail, so she could _____10_____ her collection. After returning to Houston, she _____11_____ his gift, titled “The Medieval(中世纪的) Book” by Barbara A.Shailor.
Feldman is in her 30s now. But Carver’s _____12_____ has made a lifelong impact. Feldman has tried to _____13_____ Carver, with no success. “I actually sent the library a _____14_____ during the pandemic(大流行病), but I never heard back,” she said. “I’m not sure if he’s _____15_____ still, but I just would love to tell Bill Carver that he changed my life.”
1.A.flooded B.burnt C.removed D.buried
2.A.challenge B.damage C.pressure D.danger
3.A.false B.local C.bad D.daily
4.A.traveling B.reading C.chatting D.playing
5.A.took B.invited C.led D.rushed
6.A.artist B.professor C.writer D.librarian
7.A.buy B.keep C.pack D.gather
8.A.quickly B.loudly C.patiently D.secretly
9.A.disturbed B.stolen C.destroyed D.torn
10.A.own B.expand C.enrich D.restart
11.A.received B.opened C.returned D.lost
12.A.donation B.present C.suggestion D.l