2024届湖南省部分市高三下学期二模英语汇编：完形填空

湖南省部分市2024届高三英语二模试题分类汇编： 完形填空 湖南省邵阳市2024届高三二模英语试题 第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 I used to hate being called upon in class mainly because I didn’t like attention drawn to myself. And unless otherwise ____21____ a seat by the teacher, I always chose to sit at the back of the classroom. All this____22____ after I joined a sports team. It began when a teacher suggested I ____23____ the basketball team. At first I thought it was a crazy ____24____ because I didn’t have a good sense of balance, nor did I have the ability to keep pace with the others on the team and they would tease me. But for the teacher who kept insisting on my “____25____ for it”, I wouldn’t have decided to give a try. Getting up the courage to go to the tryouts was only the half of it! When I first started ____26____the practice sessions, I didn’t even know the rules of the game, much worse what I was doing. Sometimes I’d get ____27____and take a shot at the wrong direction, which made me feel really stupid. ____28____ I wasn’t the only one "new” at the game, so I decided to focus on learning the game, do my best at each practice session, and not be too hard on myself for the things I didn’t ____29____ “just yet”. I practiced and practiced. Soon I knew the rules and the “moves”. Being part of a team was fun and motivating. Very soon the competitive____30____ in me was winning over my lack of ____31____. With time, I learned how to play and made friends in the process-friends who respected my efforts to work hard and be a team player. I never had so much ____32____! With my improved self-confidence comes more ____33____ from teachers and classmates. I have-gone from “____34____” in the back of the classroom and not wanting to call attention to myself, to raising my hand-even when I sometimes wasn’t and not 100 percent ____35____ I had the rightanswer. Now I have more self-confidence in myself. 21. A. assigned B. occupied C. possessed D. established 22. A