天津市部分区2023-2024学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题汇编：完形填空

天津市部分区 2023-2024学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题分类汇编 完形填空 天津市河北区2023-2024学年高二上学期期末年级质量检测英语试卷 第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从26-45各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 I started collecting shopping lists around 1997. It was just by 11 . I was shopping for my wife’s birthday party in St Louis, and I remembered coming across a yellow sticky 12 . I picked it up and it was somebody’s shopping list. I thought, “That’s 13 . Whenever I see them at the store, I am going to 14 them.” At first, it was just people I knew who would 15 lists for me. In 2000, as the Web became increasingly popular, I put it online. At that point, the 16 was fun and friendly, and blogs were going mainstream (主要趋势). I had people messaging me, 17 : “I work at a grocery store and I have my own little collection, but I am not going to do 18 with it, do you want them?” A lot of people 19 me. Therefore, I set up a mailbox and started receiving lists 20 everywhere in the world. Some people would send just one funny list, but sometimes I would get a handful. It seemed there was a never-ending 21 . At first, I kept my lists in an envelope. Then, 22 the collection grew, they went to a grocery bag, a cardboard box and finally a large plastic storage bin that I kept in my attic (阁楼). Around 2005, a publisher approached me and wanted to turn my 23 into a book. That’s when I started 24 all my lists, figuring out ways to interpret (诠释) and categorize (归类) them. I found lists written on 25 things: leaflets (传单), clothing tags (标签), tax return forms and even a piece of wood. Some lists are written in detail. Others are 26 . There is one with just “toothbrush”, and another with just “celery (芹菜)”. Lists can 27 you many things about a person. Some of us are 28 and divide lists into parts — fruit, vegetables and drinks. Some of us are careless. Some are saving 29 and you can really tell from their lists, perhaps just “sa