2014届高考英语二轮专题复习突破完形填空32.docVIP

2014届高考英语二轮专题复习突破：完形填空 1.阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Someone said that encouragement is simply reminding a person of the shoulders hes standing on. Thats what happened when a young man, the son of a 11 baseball player, joined one of the minor-league teams. Hard as he tried, his first season was 12 , and by midseason he expected to be 13 any day. The coaches were upset by his 14 because he possessed all the characteristics of a 15 athlete, but he seemed to have become disconnected from his 16 . His future seemed 17 one day when he had already 18 out his first time at bat. Then he stepped up to the batters box (击球位置) again and quickly ran up two strikes. The catcher called a time-out (暂停) and went for a discussion. 19 they were busy, the umpire (裁判) 20 casually (随意地) to the boy. Then the play continued. The next pitch (投球) was thrown and the young man 21 it out of the park. That was the 22 point. From then on, he played the game with a new 23 and power that quickly 24 the attention of the 25 team, and he was called up to the major teams. On the day he was leaving for the city, one of his coaches asked him what had caused such a turnaround. The young man replied that it was the 26 remark the umpire had 27 that day when his baseball career seemed to have come to an end. “He told me I 28 him of all the times he had stood behind my dad in the batter’s box, the boy explained. He said I was holding the bat just the way 29 had held it. And he told me, ‘I can see his genes in you, and his arms.’ After that, whenever I swung the bat, I just 30 I was using Dads arms instead of my own.” man star sun woman disappointing satisfactory skillful impressive employed left fired praised laziness habit failure carelessness terrible ordinary thoughtless super potential practice training desire nearest darkest better further jumped struck gave reached While Because Until