2014届高考英语二轮专题复习精选：完形填空22.docVIP

2014届高考英语二轮专题复习精选：完形填空 1.Section B (18 marks) Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B,C and D. Fill in each blank with a word or phrase that best fits the context. When I was in high school, I didn’t know anything about engineering. At that time, when the car I drove needed repairing, I was afraid to take it to the _36 . Because honestly, the mechanic could have _37__ me an electric can opener and said, “This is part of your car and it’s _38 -----pay me to fix it.” Then I wouldn’t have known any better. At the end of my junior year of high school, I heard about a summer program __39_ to interest girls in engineering. The six-week program was free, and students were _40_ college credits and a dorm room at the University of Maryland. I applied to the program, not because I wanted to be an engineer, but because I was looking forward to __41 and wanted to stay away from my parents for six weeks. I was accepted to the program and I earned six engineering credits. The next year I entered the university as an engineering student. Five years later I had a degree and three good job offers. I can’t help shaking _42__ I hear about studies that show women are __43_ when it comes to math. They imply that I am a little stupid. I’m not, but I _44__ know that if I hadn’t met with that summer program, I wouldn’t be an engineer. When I was growing up, I was told, as many students were, to do what I was best at. But I didn’t know what that was. Most people think that when you are _45__ something, it comes easily to you. But this is what I discovered: just because a subject is _46__ to learn, it does not mean you are not good at it. You just have to grit your teeth and work hard to get good at it. Once you do, there’s good __47_ that you will enjoy it more than anything else. 36. A. engineer B. salesman C. factory D. mechanic 37. A. shown B. given C. brought D. taken 38. A. old