内容正文:
2024天津中考英语二轮重难题型研究复习 语篇组合训练七
(时间:20分钟 分值:35分)
外国名人介绍+人物经历及感受+教育故事+说明介绍
一、 完形填空(每小题1分,共10分)
外文素材选自Glencoe Literature
思想家——享利·戴维·棱罗
Henry David Thoreau died at the age of fortyfour. He became famous around the world as a thinker and environmentalist in the twentieth century.
After graduating from Harvard College, Thoreau found a __1__ as a school teacher. He enjoyed teaching. Except for a short period of time, Thoreau __2__ the Concord area his lifelong home. There he spent his time in nature study, reading, and writing, and he supported __3__ with odd jobs (零工). When his brother John died suddenly, Thoreau was __4__ influenced. About three years after John's death, Thoreau decided to pay a gift to his __5__ by writing an account of the camping and boating trip that he and John had taken a few years before.
Thoreau needed a __6__ place to write, so he persuaded(说服) his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson to __7__ him to build a house on Emerson's land at Walden Pond.
He used these notes as the basis for his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Thoreau continued his wide nature writing during the two years that he lived alone at Walden Pond. His famous work, Walden, depended __8__ his observations(观察)there.
Thoreau became a popular speaker known for his humor as well as his philosophical(哲学上的) ideas.__9__ very few copies of Thoreau's first book sold during his lifetime, Walden was well received. It __10__ in 1854, and the first edition sold out in five years. Thoreau continued to write until his death.
1. A. plan B. project
C. job D. decision
2. A. made B. bought
C. sold D. left
3. A. myself B. yourself
C. herself D. himself
4. A. hardly B. deeply
C. slowly D. simply
5. A. father B. mother
C. brother D. sister
6. A. quiet B. noisy
C. busy D. strange
7. A. invite B. order
C. hope D. allow
8. A. in B. on
C. at D. from
9.