(第4部分)完形填空.doc

第四部分 完形填空 （共30篇） Passage 1 Man has always wanted to fly. Even as long as eight hundred years ago, an Englishman had tried. He made a pair of___21__from chicken feathers and fixed them to his shoulders. Then he jumped from a tall building. As you can imagine, he did not fly very far. ___22__, he fell to the ground and broke several bones. The first real attempt at flying took place in France in 1783. The two Mongolian brothers knew that hot air rose. If they could fill a large balloon with hot air, they thought it would rise into the air and ___23__. They were right. They made a very large hot air balloon of cloth and paper. It measured ten meters in diameter. They filled it with hot air and the balloon got two hundred meters into the air. It fell to earth about three kilometers___24__. At the next attempt, they arranged for a balloon to carry passengers. We do not know what the passengers felt about the trip as they were a cock, a duck, and a sheep. But we ___25__ know that the trip lasted eight minutes and the animals landed safely. A. Instead B. wings C. do D. away E. fly KEY:BAEDC Passage 2 Mom, can I have some money? Those are the words my mother used to hear all the time. In return, I heard, Why dont you get a job? Not to make me happy, but so that you have your own money and gain a bit more responsibility. So last year I got a job working about 25 hours a week. For $5 an hour, working as a salesman in a photo studio. After I got this___21__, I had to do football, homework and job at the same time. It was really hard for me. I was burning out, falling asleep at school and failing ___22__ many courses. My teachers were mad at me and yelled at me: why have a job? I missed a lot practice in football team and could only___23__back down at the match. My coach was cold at me with an unasked question : why have a job? I told them it was for the things I need, when actually it was for the things I wanted. Needing and wanting are different. Nee