2014中职对口升学英语高考复习模拟试题完形填空汇编九（含答案）.docVIP

对口升学英语高考复习模拟试题（含答案）：完形填空完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出能填入空白处的最佳，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects (缺陷 that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things off!” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe 11 . These 12 may come from stories about us that have been 13 for years — often from as far back as childhood. These stories may have no 14 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical skills, and you will 15 have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life. ” How did these expectations 16 my development? I was never 17 to work on cars or be 18 tools. When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation! Six years later, 19 , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I 20 down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the 21 side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.” Bob 22 me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life 23 and told him about my poor 24 on the Army test. Bob then asked, “ 25 is it that you can solve complex mathematical problems, but you can’t solve 26 mechanical problems?” Suddenly I realized that I wasn’t 27 from some sort of genetic defects. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to 28 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been 29 my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true. 30 , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurab