河南省开封市2016高考英语二轮复习 完形填空基础演练（2）.doc

河南开封市2016高考英语完形填空（二轮）基础演练（2） 2016高考完形填空选练 完型填空。阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! Southeast China’s?Taiwan — On the morning of February 4, 2015, a plane of Taiwan TransAsia Airways GE235 from Taipei Songshan airport, with 58 people 41 , crashed in the Keelung river shortly 42 take-off. Before it crashed, according to the recording and control personnel, the 43 of GE235 shouted MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY— the air traffic controllers on the radio called GE235 many times, but there was no 44 . “Mayday” is an emergency code word 45 around the world in voice communications. You 46 see a war movie in which an airplane has been 47 by rocket fire. The pilot 48 his radio and calls “mayday, mayday, mayday” to tell people that his plane is in danger of 49 to the ground. Mayday has 50 to do with the month of May. 51 , it comes from the French expressions “venez m’aider,” or “m’aidez”.The mayday call 52 was created by Frederick Stanley Mockford in 1923. Mockford, 53 was a senior radio officer at Croydon Airport in London, was asked to 54 a word that would indicate distress (遇难) and would easily be understood by all the pilots and ground staff in time of 55 . It was 56 much of the traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris that he 57 the word “Mayday” from the French “m’aider” (venez m’aider ) meaning “come help me ”. Today, many groups use the word to mean a 58 emergency. The call is always given three times to 59 mistaking it for some 60 sounding words under noisy condition.