完型填空模擬試題（四）

Although I love my life, it hasn’t been a lot of fun as I’ve been ill for 28 years.

Music has always been a great love of mine and, in my 20s, when my  21  was more manageable , I  22  ten years as a professional singer in restaurants, playing and singing folk songs.  23  that was years ago and times have changed.  24   I live with mother on a country farm.

Two years ago, I decided that I would need to have some kind of extra work to  25  my disability pension (殘疾撫恤金).  26  I needed to sleep in the afternoons, I was limited in my  27  . I decided that I would consider  28  to singing in restaurants.

My family are all musicians, so I was  29  when I went into our local music store. I explained that I wanted to sing again but using recorded karaoke music. I knew that discs were very expensive and I really didn’t have a lot of  30  to get started. And  31  you find only three to four songs out of ten on a disc that you can  32  use.

When I told the owner of the shop about my  33  ; he gave me a long thoughtful  34  . “This means a lot to you, doesn’t it?” he said. “Come with me.”

He led me  35   the crowded shop and to a bench with a large professional karaoke box on it. He placed his large hand  36  on his treasure and said, “I have 800 karaoke songs in here. You can take your  37  and I’ll record them for you. That should get you started.”

I 38  . Thanking him, I made a time with him to listen to all the songs and choose  39   that I could sing. I have come full circle with his help.

His  40  still warms my heart and makes me do just that bit extra, when I have the chance.

21. A. loneliness B. sadness C. tiredness D. sickness

22. A. set B. enjoyed C. kept D. shared

23. A. Gladly B. Eventually C. Unfortunately D. Surprisingly

24. A. Now B. Then C. Sometime D. Meanwhile

25. A. add up to B. make up for C. get rid of D. take advantage of

26. A. If B. As C. Though D. Before

27. A. movement B. condition C. choices D. positions

28. A. reaching out B. living up C. getting on D. going back

29. A. recognized B. interviewed C. found D. invited

30. A. money B. time C. energy D. knowledge

31. A. thus B. once C. seldom D. often

32. A. actually B. hardly C. nearly D. formerly

33. A. job B. family C. idea D. offer

34. A. face B. view C. look D. sight

35. A. over B. along C. towards D. through

36. A. unhappily B. lovingly C. pitifully D. gratefully

37. A. pick B. turn C. role D. step

38. A. had to cry B. ought to cry C. should have cried D. could have cried

39. A. more B. the ones C. few D. the rest

40. A. courage B. devotion C. kindness D. trust

【解析】

21題，屬于上文提示法，首句中出現ill，此選項應是ill的同義表達，故選D.sickness。

22題，屬于上文提示法，上句出現病情可以manageable，所以作者應該是享受那段過去的美好時光，故選B.enjoyed。

23題，屬于下文解釋法，下文出現發生改變，結合首句作者生病，可推出作者表達的是不幸的情緒，故選C.unfortunately。

24題，屬于轉折對比法，上文出現yearsago和changed，因此推出此題應回歸現實，故選A.now。

25題，屬于固定搭配法，addupto總計，makeupfor彌補，補償，getridof處理，擺脫，takeadvantageof利用，此題應選B.makeupfor。

26題，屬于邏輯關系法，此法多用于句子與句子之間，解決連詞的問題。此題因為作者下午需要睡覺，所以受到限制。故選B.As。

27題，屬于上文解釋法，第三段首句提到作者打算做某事，但由于病情，下午需要睡覺，所以選擇受限，故選C.choices。

28題，屬于前后照應法，上文提到過幾年之前唱歌的事實，此處再次出現要去唱歌，故選D.goingback。

29題，屬于中文代入法，全家都是音樂家，所以走進音像店會被認出，故選A.recognized。

30題，屬于AandB法，這是并列結構，要求前后詞性與詞義要相似，幾乎在每年的高考完形中都會考查這個知識點。本題and之前說東西很貴，之后理應推出沒有足夠的錢，故選A.money。

31題，屬于反義多一對，即四個選項中有一組反義詞，答案多在這組反義詞中出現。此題C和D構成反義結構，根據文章信息，故選D.often。

32題，屬于中文代入法，實際上一張光盤里的十首歌也只有三/四首可以用，故選A.actually。

33題，屬于上文提示法，上文中作者有提到過想再次唱歌的這個想法，故選C.idea。

34題，屬于同義辨析法，此題中的B.view強調的是眺望風景，C.look強調看的眼神，D.sight強調視力，本文店主深深地看了作者，屬于眼神之間的交流，故選C.look。

35題，屬于固定搭配法，店主帶領作者穿過擁擠的店鋪，從空間穿過，故選D.through。

36題，屬于感情色彩法，此法多用于解決形容詞或副詞。下文出現treasure，因此可以推出店主對自己的寶物愛不釋手，心愛地觸摸，故選B.lovingly。

37題，屬于固定搭配法，takeyourpick，美國俚語，隨你挑選的意思，故選A.pick。

38題，屬于語法識別法，近幾年高考完形填空部分逐步淡化語法點考查，一般只會涉及一道。C.shouldhavecried,本應該做的事情而沒有做，放在原文中過于牽強，而本題是作者受到店主的感激，非常感動，本可以哭但沒有哭，故選D.couldhavecried。

39題，屬于尋找重復法，31題與32題之前曾出現onlythreetofoursongs...canuse，對應...couldsing,故選B.theones。

40題，屬于主旨概況法，即所選選項要與原文中心相一致。本文詳細描述店主對作者的幫助，店主的善舉感動作者，故選C.kindness。