【2011·河北邯郸市二模】

完型填空（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，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

“I am so proud of you and all you have achieved. I   21  your opinion from. The L. A. Times with my family and thought about you as my student at Hibbing High School.”

It was    22  Margarel Leibfried, — a teacher who helped me believe that I could become   23  .

Thirty years ago, in Hibbing, I  24  high school as a bookish introvert（内向）made all the more shy because I was the school’s only non—while student. I always felt  25  being swept away by a sea of golden hair schoolmates. By 10th grade, I’d developed strange behavior, hoping to   26  being laughed at as a “brain”. I spent a lot of time alone, reading and writing stories.

Ms. Leibfried taught composition grammar, as well as the usual – memorizing vocabulary and reading  27  .

Exciting to me, that is. Many of my classmates expressed dislike for novels because they were “not real.” For once, I didn’t care what they thought. Ms. Leibfried seemed to notice my   28  in both reading and writing, and she took the time to draw me out; she   29   offered reading suggestions.

That year’s big task was a book report, to be read aloud to   30  .   31  , Ms. Leibfried suggested I do something “a little different.” Instead of a report. I was to    32   a passage from a book, memorize it and reeite it in front of the class.

The morning of the presentations, I remember  33  sweating（出汗）so badly as I walked to the front of the class that I held my hands  34  in prayer（祈祷）formation, so I wouldn’t wipe them on my shirt. I finished and,   35  , the class broke out in applause（鼓掌）. “As a writer and a good reader, Marie has  36  a particularly sensitive part of novel and   37  it beautifully,” Ms. Leibfried said, smiling. I felt, maybe for the first time, confident.

I can now appreciate how much  38  it must have taken for those teachers to let me move away so   39  from the lesson plan. With today’s pressure on teachers to “teach to the test,” I wonder if any would or could take the time to find the potential（潜力）in a single,    40   student. Good teaching helps make productive and fully realized adults – a result that won’t show up in each term’s test scores.

21．A．shared                    B．proved                    C．introduced              D．explained

22．A．written                   B．signed                     C．marked                   D．said

23．A．a student                 B．a teacher                 C．a writer                  D．an adult

24．A．left                         B．served                    C．entered                   D．missed

25．A．in charge of            B．in honor of              C．in danger of            D．in need of

26．A．escape                    B．stand                      C．enjoy                      D．admit

27．A．news                      B．poems                    C．novels                    D．diaries

28．A．mistakes                 B．interest                   C．condition                D．trouble

29．A．still                         B．never                      C．only                       D．even

30．A．the teachers            B．the parents              C．the class                 D．the public

31．A．Therefore               B．However                 C．Besides                   D．Otherwise

32．A．pick                       B．write                      C．read                       D．describe

33．A．my face                  B．my legs                   C．my hands                D．my neck

34．A．cupped                   B．closed                     C．tied                        D．covered

35．A．to my sadness         B．to my surprise         C．to my joy                D．to my delight

36．A．looked out               B．picked out               C．put out                   D．carried out

37．A．carried                    B．drew                      C．delivered                 D．designed

38．A．courage                  B．attention                  C．knowledge              D．pleasure

39．A．seriously                 B．broadly                   C．similarly                  D．carly

40．A．good                      B．bad                         C．shy                        D．strange

    

The amount of usable water has always been of great interest in the world. ___36___ springs and streams sometimes means control,  particularly in the ___37___ areas like the desert. The control is possible even without possession of large areas of ___38___ land. In the early days of the American West,  gun fights were not ___39___ for the water resources (资源). And laws had to be ___40___ to protect the water rights of the ___41___ and the use of the water resources accordingly.

42___ is known to us all,  there is not ___43___ water in all places for everyone to use as much as he likes. Deciding on the ___44___ of water that will be used in any particular period

45___ careful planning,  so that people can manage and use water more ___46___. Farmers have to change their use of or demand for water ___47___ the water supply forecast (预报).

The ___48___ water supply forecast is based more on the water from the ___49___ than from the below. Interest is ___50___ in the ways to increase rainfall by man-made methods,  and to get water from the winter snow on mountain ___51___. With special equipment,  some scientists are studying the ways in which the mountain snow can be ___52___,  and with the help of a repeater station,  they send the ___53___ data (数据) to the base station. The operator at the base station can get the data at any time by ___54___ a button. In the near future,  the forecast and use of water ___55___ probably depend on the advance knowledge of snow on mountains,  not of water underground.

36. A. Using   B. Holding     C. Owning      D. Finding

37. A. dry       B. distant C. deserted     D. wild

38. A. fine      B. beautiful    C. rich    D. farming

39. A. unlawful      B. unacceptable      C. unpopular   D. uncommon

40. A. made    B. designed     C. signed D. written

41. A. winners       B. settlers       C. fighters      D. supporters

42. A. That     B. It C. What  D. As

43. A. plentiful      B. enough       C. any     D. much

44. A. type     B. quality       C. amount      D. level

45. A. requests       B. requires      C. means D. suggests

46. A. effectively   B. easily  C. conveniently      D. actively

47. A. leading to    B. due to C. owing to    D. according to

48. A. correct  B. further       C. average      D. early

49. A. clouds  B. sky     C. air      D. above

50. A. raising  B. rising  C. building     D. lasting

51. A. rocks    B. tips     C. cops    D. trees

52. A. taken care of       B. made use of       C. piled up     D. saved up

53. A. picked  B. produced    C. used    D. gathered

54. A. touching      B. knocking    C. pressing     D. turning

55. A. might   B. can     C. will    D. should

The amount of usable water has always been of great interest in the world． 36 springs and streams sometimes means control，particularly in the 37 areas like the desert．The control is possible even without possession of large areas of 38 land. In the early days of the American West，gun fights were not 39 for the water resources，and laws bad to be  40  to protect the water rights of the  41  and the use of the water resources accordingly.

42 is known to us all, there is not 43 water in all places for everyone to use as much as he likes. Deciding on the 44 of water that will be used in any particular period 45 careful planning, so that people can manage and use water more 46. Farmers have to change their use of or demand for water 47 the water supply forecast.

The 48 water supply forecast is based more on the water from the 49 than from the below. Interest is 50 in the ways to increase rainfall by man-made methods, and to get water from the winter snow on mountain 51. With special equipment, some scientists are studying the ways in which the mountain snow can be 52, and with the help of a repeater station, they send the 53 data(数据)to the base station. The operator at the base station can get the data at any time by   54 a button. In the near future, the forecast and use of water 55 probably depend on the advance knowledge of snow on mountains, not of water underground.

36. A. Using          B. Holding             C. Owning           D. Finding

37. A. dry                 B. distant          C. deserted          D. wild

38. A. fine                    B. beautiful     C. rich                 D. farming

39. A. unlawful      B. unacceptable      C. unpopular   D. uncommon

40. A. made           B. designed            C. signed               D. written

41. A. winners              B. settlers                 C. fighters           D. supporters

42. A. That            B. It                      C. What                D. As

43. A. plentiful       B. enough                 C. any                        D. much

44. A. type                   B. quality           C. amount           D. level

45. A. requests              B. requires                C. means                 D. suggests

46. A. effectively           B. easily  C. conveniently      D. actively

47. A. leading to            B. due to        C. owing to    D. according to

48. A. correct               B. further                 C. average           D. early

49. A. clouds                B. sky                      C. air                  D. above

50. A. raising                B. rising                C. building             D. lasting

51. A. rocks        B. tips                  C. tops                       D. trees

52. A. taken care of   B. made use of   C. piled up  D. saved up

53. A. picked         B. produced          C. used                 D. gathered

54. A. touching    B. knocking         C. pressing            D. turning

55. A. might        B. can                  C. will                      D. should