2014届高考英语完形填空抓分练习精品题：56（含答案）.docVIP

2014高考英语完形填空抓分练习精品题（56）及答案 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·河南三市第二次调研) In 1901，the citizens of Colorado Springs in the USA decided to collect everyday items and to seal them in a steel box.The box was marked“To be __36__ after midnight，December 31st,2000 AD”，and was __37__ in Colorado College Library. One hundred years later，on the appointed day,300 people __38__ to watch the opening of the box.Many in the __39__ were the descendants of people who had placed things __40__ the box. When the box was opened __41__ midnight，the contents were in very good __42__.There were newspapers，photographs，diaries，name cards，family trees，books __43__ dozens of letters，including one __44__ by Theodore Roosevelt，who became the __45__ of the USA later.One of Roosevelts friends lived in Colorado Springs at that time. Many of the letters were __46__ to their descendants.They describe the __47__ that people of 1901 had for people of the next __48__.At that time，Colorado Springs had just a few thousand __49__.Now nearly half a million people live there. Colorado College Library has scanned the materials and put them on a __50__.Cecil Muller，whose grandfather had __51__ a collection of postcards in the box，said that the time capsule was a great __52__.“This is a wonderful educational resource.We can learn so __53__ about our history，”he said.“I never knew my grandfather，but now I feel very __54__ to him.” In April,2001，a committee filled the time capsule with __55__ from modern Colorado Springs and resealed it for another hundred years. 36．A.closed B．opened C．covered D．discovered 37．A.hidden B．forgotten C．stored D．packed 38．A.gathered B．dismissed C．advanced D．arrived 39．A.union B．league C．group D．crowd 40．A.outside B．inside C．above D．under 41．A.before B．since C．after D．until 42．A.condition B．mass C．situation D．copy 43．A.so B．but C．or D．and 44．A.invented B．written C．observed D．described 45．A.Minister B．Major C．Pr