高中英语人教版 必修4 unit 3 taste of English humour.doc

Ⅰ.完形填空(建议用时17′) [2016·河北阶段检测]Years ago, I would wake up two or three times each night because of terrible pains. Having watched my father die of cancer, I __1__ that I also had a cancer. So I went to a clinic. A doctor examined me, gave me some medicine and cleared my mind of __2__ that I had a cancer. He suggested I should relax. After hearing these words, I felt __3__ and acted on the doctors __4__. One day while I was looking over an accumulation of old __5__ on matters that were past and gone, I threw them into the wastebasket one by one. __6__ I stopped and said to myself, “Bill, why dont you do the __7__ thing with your worries that you are doing with these notes？” That idea gave me immediate __8__—gave me the feeling of a weight being lifted from me. From that day, I have made it a(n) __9__ to throw into the wastebasket all the __10__ that I can no longer do anything about. Then one day while my wife was wiping the dishes happily, another idea __11__ to me. I thought, “Look, Bill, how __12__ your wife is. Had she thought of washing the pile of dirty dishes like a barn these years, she would have been __13__ by the thought. The reason my wife doesnt __14__ washing the dishes now is that she washes only one days dishes at a time.” I saw what my __15__ was. I was trying to wash todays dishes and yesterdays dishes and __16__ the dishes that werent dirty yet. I saw how __17__ I was. I used to stand in front of people, telling other people how to live, yet I myself was leading a tense, worried, hurried existence. I felt __18__ of myself. Worries dont __19__ me any more. I now throw yesterdays anxieties into the wastebasket, and I have __20__ trying to wash tomorrows dirty dishes today. 作者曾经生活得过度紧张，夜不能寐，甚至怀疑自己得了绝症，但他最终通过观察生活细节悟出了让自己生活轻松、充实的办法。 1．A.declared B．feared C．acknowledged D．confirmed 答案：B 上文提到作者过去常常晚上因剧烈疼痛而醒来两、三次及目睹了他的父亲因癌症去世，所以担心自己也会患上癌症。 2．A.dissatisfaction B．misfortune C．doubt D．threat 答案：C 医生给作者检查、开了药并消除了作者的疑虑。 3．A.relieved B．optimistic C．content D