2014届高三英语二轮复习完形填空增分训练21.docVIP

2014届高三英语二轮复习完形填空增分训练21 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。 It was the first weekend after Christmas and all I wanted to do was lie on the sofa and watch TV. However , I had two lawns to mow (修剪) .Too bad ! I 36 as I crossed to the lawn next door. / Five years ago my 72-year-old next-door neighbor fell down in the driveway. We both 37?? to be working on our lawns that day. 38??for us ,we’d stopped to chat. I ? 39?Glen before his head hit the ground. He lay semiconscious (半昏迷的) in my ? 40? until the ambulance arrived . I rode with Glen and his wife , Grace , to the hospital. Over the next few weeks , I cut his lawn.Glen 41? fully recovered. He could hardly walk.Within two years , he was dead. I had 42 for Grace .With nobody else to help ,I ’d been attending her lawn ? 43?. I liked to think someone would take care of my lawn for my ? 44? if anything like that happened to me . But that didn’t make the promise any 45?. I needed to buy twice as much gas—not ? 46?. Besides, my old mower regularly 47?.Grace let me use Glen’s lawnmower and chipped in(凑钱) for 48 ? , but eventually that mower also started going wrong. I admired the fancy new models ? 49?. “Light as a feather.” “Almost does the job itself.” But it was 50?me right now. “Glen would do it for me,” I ? 51? myself as I walked to Grace’s 52? .Maybe I just didn’t want to spend the post-Christmas day cutting grass with that terrible mower, 53 I wanted to let Grace down even less. I opened the garage door.The old lawnmower was 54 ?. In its place sat the latest mower on the market. 55 to it ,a sign read, “Merry Christmas, Joe. Hope you like your new lawnmower. ” One gentle pull of the starter rope ,and it came to life. It was Christmas all over again. 36. A. whispered B. complained C. waited D. paused 37. A. remembered B. offered C. agreed D. happened 38. A. Funny B. Impractical C. Lucky D. Impossible 39. A. left B. caught