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广东省部分名校2019-2020学年上学期高一英语期中试题精选汇编 完形填空专题 广东省汕头市金山中学2019-2020学年高一英语上学期期中试题 Ⅲ. 完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分) 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～50各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Many years later, I was sailing to Europe on a fine sailing ship across the Atlantic. For the greater part of the ____21____ we had pleasant weather, ____22____ towards the end of our crossing a terrible storm ____23____ and the ship would have sunk with all on ____24____ but for the efforts of the captain. The ship started to leak and began to fill with water. The sailors were strong, able and willing. But after pumping for one whole night, they were losing the battle against the rising water and were on the ____25____of giving up. The captain, as soon as he realized the ____26____, took charge. He ordered the sailors back to their pumps and encouraged them fiercely to ____27____ the ship. His strong will doubled their ____28____. How the men pumped like crazy! When the captain passed by me, I asked him whether there was any hope of saving the ship. He looked at me. “Yes sir.” he said. “While my feet remain standing above the water ____29____, there is hope. Neither I nor any of the sailors will leave the ship ____30____ it remains above the surface of the ____31____. We shall do everything we can to save the ship and if we should fail, it will not be our____32____.” Then he turned to all the passengers and shouted, “To the pumps, every one of you!” Three times during that day when we almost wanted to give up, the captains courage, determination and iron ____33____forced us to ____34____, and we went back to the pumps. “I will ____35____ you safe in Liverpool,” he cried. “If you will stay strong and firm with me.” In the end the ship sank soon after it reached the port of Liverpool but the captain did land us safe. The captain stood at the edge of the ship once it was safely tied up to the wall of the port and ____36____the thanks of the passengers as they hurried off the ship. As I expressed to him my____