2014届高考英语一轮系列训练：完形填空、书面表达 17（含答案）.docVIP

2014高考英语完形填空及书面表达系列训练（17）（答案） 第二节　完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5，满分30分) 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。 (2012·长春第一次调研) My sister，Cathy，who lives in Vancouver，sent me a package full of Christmas gifts.She told me that she had __36__ it in advance to make sure it would arrive at my house weeks before the __37__.Christmas was drawing near，but no package arrived.Cathy checked the tracking number every __38__ with Canada Post，and every evening she would call me to __39__ if there was any sign of it on our end. The __40__ always started with questions about the package，but twenty minutes later we would still be __41__.We talked about our family，such as parents，our kids and __42__.Of course we also talked about our jobs.We had never made so much __43__for each other！The talk always took us back to the hours we spent together in our childhood. By Christmas Eve we finally had to __44__ the fact that the package was __45__lost.On Christmas morning，Cathy got on the phone with everyone in my __46__ and told them what she had sent.Later on，after a big family Christmas dinner，I had forgotten all about the __47__ package when there was a knock on the door.Who could it be at such a time？As I __48__ the door，a man was standing there. “I __49__this is yours，”he said，holding a package.Just then I __50__ that it had been delivered to the wrong address，“I just got home from vacation，”he explained，“__51__ I wanted you to have this in time to open for Christmas.”I thanked this __52__stranger for taking so much trouble to __53__ this gift to us on Christmas Day，and __54__ thanked God that the package had been lost in the first place. The real gift of that holiday season was the new __55__ to my sister who lives far away from us.It seemed that my sister was just by my side now. 36．A.booked B．decorated C．mailed D．listed 37．A.appointment B．holiday C．deadline D．party 38．A.year B．month C．week D．morning 39．A.find out B．take out C．figure out D．pick out 40．A.complaint B．discussi