山西省部分市2023-2024学年高二上学期期末英语汇编：完形填空

山西省部分市 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 山西省大同市2023-2024学年高二上学期期末质量监测英语试题 第一节 (共15小题；每小题1分, 满分15分) 阅读下面短文, 从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Margaret Thompson and her husband, Kenneth, stretched their legs together on walking holidays in Switzerland. In Interlaken, they would head up the mountain and watch the paragliders(滑翔伞运动员) 41 themselves into the sky. Back in town, in a large park, they watched them return to the 42 . “Some day I'd love to do that, ”Thompson told Kenneth. But there was always so much to do in Interlaken. 43 , Thompson didn't know if Kenneth would have 44 it. “He was not so keen on heights as I was, ”she said. So she 45 to watch the gliders take flight and land. Kenneth died in 2005. Eleven years later, Thompson. 46 took to the skies herself, in a paraglider at the age of 80. Although some people get scared while flying, she said she just feels 47 . Thompson did her second paraglide when she turned 85. Thompson asked the organizers about the age. 48 for paragliding. They said:“Any age, as long as you're 49 . ”Thompson, now 86, plans her third flight for when she is 90。 Thompson 50 living above her parents' shop in Belfast. At 18, she helped in the shop while 51 for her music diplomas(文凭) in Stranmillis, south Belfast. She started to 52 piano to local children, and at the height of her teaching she gave 70. 53 a week. She still has 15 pupils on her books. Is she scared of getting older?“Fear? No. People say: ‘Isn't getting old 54 ?’I say: ‘No. You are free to do more things that you want to do, '"Thompson said. “People might worry about falling, it being the end of them. But that doesn't 55 me at all. When it's your time, it's your time. No matter where you are, "Thompson added. 41. A. launch B. move C. push D. pull 42. A. space B. ocean C. earth D. sky 43. A. Therefore B. Besides C. However D. Instead 44. A. cared B. enjoyed C. remembered D. needed 45. A. pretended B. determined C. continued D. tried 46. A. quietly B. immediately C. pat