2014届高三英语二轮专题精品特训：完形填空5.docVIP

2014届高三英语二轮专题精品特训：完形填空 Eric Brown was one of my best friends who was crazy about mountains. Climbing was the 16 of his life. Church towers, seaside cliffs（悬崖）, rock faces, ice mountains, anything “If it is there”, he used to say, “then I want to climb it.” So the news of his marriage gave me a 17 . I’d never known him to take much interest in 18 . Well, Eric Brown, a married man! I couldn’t 19 it. I 20 whether his wife would try to stop some of his risky 21 . She was French perhaps—from that 22 where he usually spent his holidays. Chamonix, wasn’t it? From Chamonix he’d climbed Mount Blanc on his seventeenth birthday, and another one the day after! That was it, then: She was French, from a mountaineering family. No 23 . No other explanation. A month later I met them 24 in town. Anna surprised me—because she was English. She was a dancer in the 25 . “I have 26 climbed more than sixty steps in my life,” she told me. “Eric has his 27 , and I’ve got mine. No 28 ”. “None at all.” Eric said, smiling. “Where did you spend your 29 ?” I asked. Somewhere far 30 theatres and mountains, was it? “We had a week’s holiday,” Anna said, “I flew to New York to see Dirke Dancers on Broadway. A wonderful 31 !” Eric said: “I didn’t want to 32 the good weather. So I went to Switzerland and climbed the north 33 of the Eiger with Allen Dunlop. Great 34 , the Eiger. Grand place for a honeymoon! I’ll show you the 35 we took one day.” 16. A. reason B. love C. answer D. sense 17. A. joy B. thought C. lesson D. shock 18. A. mountains B. churches C. faces D. girls 19. A. receive B. understand C. bear D. tell 20. A. believed B. knew C. wondered D. realized 21. A. jobs B. words C. adventures D. mountains 22. A. place B. time C. girl D. language 23. A. one B. reason C. sign D. doubt 24. A. all B. either C. both D. double 25. A. family　 B. mou