2009届上海市高三英语二模汇编——完型填空 含答案.docVIP

完型填空专项练习 For each blank in the following passage, there are four words marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. （1） Rachel Carson, a biologist, grew up wanting to become a writer. Her mother taught her to appreciate nature and encouraged her growing interest in zoology. In 192, she published The Sea Around Us, which was an immediate 1 and won the National Book Award. This book, and her next, The Edge of the Sea, made her famous as a naturalist. A main theme in her works was the 2 that human beings are part of nature. 3. ,she believed that humans carried a great 4 because they had the power to change the environment.Her most influential book,.Silent Spring, warned against the abuse (滥用)of the power. In Silent Spring, Carson the use of chemical pesticides, particularly DDT. She argued that DDT had 6 agricultural productivity but killed various plants and animals along with insect pests. Silent Spring caused a big stir. The chemical industry 7 vigorously, arguing that Carson confused the issues and left readers 8 to sort fact from fancy. The public was not persuaded by this attack. So great was national 9 that a special presidential advisory committee was 10 . It called for continued research and warned against the 11 use of pesticides. Eventually DDT was banned in the US, and other chemicals were controlled more 12 . It was not only DDT that worried people. They became more 13 of poisonous fumes in the air, oil spills on the beach and polluted wastes buried in the ground. In the mid-199s, President Lyndon Johnson addressed environmental concern as part of the Great Society. Johnson hoped for an environment that is 14 to the senses and healthy to live in. 15 lawmaking was part of his broader reform program. 1. A. failure B. bestseller C. contribution D. honor 2. A. dream B. wonder C. belief D. mystery 3. A. F