江苏省泰兴市第三高级中学高三英语一轮复习 限时训练1.docVIP

限时训练 第一部分 完形填空 I grew up one of ten children on a farm in Wyoming. After my dad’s service in World War II, he was 36 again to fight during the Korean War, and when he returned home, he couldn’t drink 37 to numb (麻痹) his terrible memories. He struggled to 38 for his growing family. On our occasional trips to town, I 39 out boxfuls of books from the library. When I opened a book, I could 40 myself in unknown places — where children weren’t hungry and were in 41 of little. When I wasn’t daydreaming, my 42 was the life I shared with my brothers and sisters. At night I hid under the covers 43 to silence the sounds of life in an alcoholic home. Classmates asked 44 we didn’t have electricity or a telephone. I suppose my explanations were 45 more than lies, but the stories I told improved 46 every book I read. Starting at a very young age, my siblings (兄弟姐妹) and I sometimes got jobs to earn money — to put more food on the family table. We 47 newspapers, babysat, and cleaned other people’s houses. Mom grew vegetables, raised chickens, and baked bread, so we seldom went hungry, even when supper was only a pot of beans. 48 my real hunger wasn’t for food — it was a hunger for a better life. It was a hunger for knowledge about the world 49 our simple existence. It was a hunger to prove Dad 50 when he told us we would never amount to anything. Hunger motivated my brothers and sisters to achieve much 51 than our parents expected 52 us. We devoured (如饥似渴地吸取) the offerings of the public schools because we realized that 53 would be our steppingstone into a brighter future. Now I’m 54 of the accomplishments of my siblings: an art professor; a well-known doctor; plus business owners. And me, I’m the keeper of the family stores. I’ll never know if we would have so many accumulated successes if we had not known 55 as children. But this I do know: I believe it can be a