天津市部分区2023-2024学年高二上学期期末英语汇编：完形填空

天津市部分区2023-2024学年高二上学期期末英语试题分类汇编 完形填空 天津市和平区2023-2024学年高二上学期1月期末英语试题（含解析） 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 题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 I was living in Cali, Colombia. One day my younger sister decided to visit me for a holiday and I was supposed to go to meet her at the airport. I somehow lost ____11____ of the time and realized that I was ____12____my home much later than I had wanted to. And to make matters ____13____, when I went outside, the rain was pouring from the sky and I couldn’t get a taxi to save my life. I ____14____ jumping on board a public bus to Palmira, where the airport was . The driver said that I would be dropped ____15____ at a crossroads which was located six kilometers away from the airport. I had no ____16____ but to travel with the bus. The journey took ages, however. When the bus did eventually ____17____ the previously mentioned crossroads, the driver pointed in a given ____18____ and told me that the airport was down that way. By this time, I had descended into tears. My sister would be arriving in twelve minutes, and there was no way I was going to be able to make it ____19____. Beside myself (失去控制) with worry, I ____20____ the driver to drive the six kilometers down to the airport to drop me off. He stood up and took a vote from the other passengers. Fortunately, they all ____21____. Thanks to them, I arrived on time. This was my first encounter with Murphy’s Law (墨菲定律): Whatever can go wrong will go wrong. And the only way to beat this devil is to take ____22____for the outcome of all your actions. I should have made a Plan B by ____23____ the possibility that there would be no taxis available. Of course, some major victories were achieved by the very fact that they did not have a Plan B to ____24____. However, most of the situations we encounter in our lives are much less dramatic and can often be ____25____ in more ways than one. It is ____26____to have a Plan B because you cannot always guarantee that your origina