高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练：完形填空专题十九.docx

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1、 高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练 完形填空专题十九A passenger gets an emergency flying lesson when his pilot passes out 3000 metres above the ocean.The plane is being flown by Ken Allen, a 64-year-old veteran pilot. To Allens right, in the co-pilots seat, is his 70-year-old friend Russ Franck who is no pilot, but does enjoy

2、going along for the 1 . The passenger Harrison, a 39-year-old sales executive, is returning to his home in Florida.Some 45 minutes into their scheduled 75-minute 2 to Fort Pierce Airport, Allen suddenly undergoes a severe heart attack and Harrison watches him slump back in his seat. The plane is now

3、 careening towards the 3 without a pilot. He and Franck try to wake him up. No 4 . The pilot is unconscious and the plane is out of control.Although hes never taken a flying lesson, Harrison has flown on enough small planes and 5 enough pilots to know that he has to pull back on the planes yoke(操纵杆)

4、 to bring its nose up. Squatting behind Allens seat, he reaches over the unconscious pilot and 6 the yoke while Franck grabs the co-pilots yoke.“Can you hold this steady?” Harrison asks Franck. While holding the co-pilots yoke, Franck helps Harrison unbuckle Allens seat belt. Harrison pulls him off

5、the seat and gently 7 the unconscious pilot on the floor. Harrison quickly climbs into the pilots seat and takes stock of the situation. He needs to 8 an Air-traffic controller to get a quick flying 9 .Harrison gets a call on his headset and the controller Morgan calmly tells him, “Try to hold the w

6、ings 10 and see if you can start 11 . Push forward on the controls and descend at a very slow rate.” While Harrison holds the plane steady, Franck tries to figure out where they are and if they are even flying in the right 12 . Harrison and Franck are glued to their headsets, listening to the 13 . “

7、Maintain your height at 3000 feet and start a shallow turn to the right,” the controller guided again. Harrison follows each of the instructions and is now turning the plane back to the airport to make his 14 to the massive runway.As the plane nears the airport, tortuous silence follows. Morgan swal

8、lows deeply as he and the other controllers in the blacked-out radar room stare at the screens. Then the rooms loudspeaker crackles to life. Its Harrison.“Im on the ground!”The radar room 15 in cheers. Ambulances rushed Ken Allen to hospital where doctors operated and he made a full recovery.【Reader

9、s Digest Australia (June, 2023)】1. A. plane B. ride C. record D. use 2.A. flight B. departure C. journey D. movement 3.A. tower B. airport C. runway D. sea 4.A. answer B. response C. argument D. complaint 5.A. observed B. hired C. followed D. cooperated 6.A. breaks B. damages C. protects D. grabs 7.

10、A. lays B. throws C. casts D. flings 8.A. employ B. appoint C. move D. contact 9.A. permit B. lesson C. occupation D. position 10.A. level B. firm C. tight D. correct 11.A. visiting B. descending C. stopping D. exchanging 12.A. direction B. orbit C. facility D. procedure 13.A. orders B. commands C.

11、signals D. instructions 14.A. way B. approach C. vehicle D. craft 15.A. erupts B. shouts C. drowns D. knocks My mother looks just like many grandmothers. She is short, plump and white-haired. She comes from a traditional Catholic family. In short, she didnt do 1 stuff. That all changed a few years a

12、go. She began to surprise my older brother and me with bouts of what she described as“2 ”. In early 2015, the year she turned 75, she 3 us shed booked a seven-night trip to Turkey. Alone. Of course, that was absurd. A vulnerable old lady 4 the streets of Istanbul on her own, not speaking a word of T

13、urkish, with no 5 of the laws and customs of the land it was out of the question!She paid no attention to us. Off she went. When she returned she told us it had been a total 6 . As it turns out, she had barely spent any time alone after 7 a taxi driver to show her around Istanbul for a few days. He

14、took her to the souks, mosques and restaurants. He introduced her to a rug vendor and she bought some rugs. The vendor had taken her 8 and promised to ship the rugs home. The vendor and my mother apparently struck up quite a 9 . My mother beamed as she told this story.We couldnt believe how naive sh

15、e had been and sat her down to explain that she had been 10 . The vendor had her money. She neither had nor would be 11 any rugs. Some weeks later, her rugs arrived. As did a lovely note from Mustafa, the driver. To our even greater 12 , the following year Mustafa himself arrived. “He came by for a

16、cup of tea. They drink a lot of tea in Turkey,” my mother told my amused brother and me.Mum proved that she was thinking 13 than most of us. Her streak of independence seems to be thoughtfully based on a realisation that life is to be 14 , and when theres relatively little of it left, it needs to be

17、 lived now. I dont think Mum has decided what her next big thing is. Yes, shes prone to folly, but maybe thats what we all need. Some 15 , but wonderful folly.【Readers Digest Australia (June, 2023)】1. A. crazy B. different C. effective D. flexible 2.A. congratulation B. breakthrough C. intention D.i

18、ndependence 3.A. questioned B. informed C. debated D. discussed4.A. wandering B. sweeping C. recognizing D. reminding 5.A. aim B. control C. knowledge D. help 6.A. shock B. success C. fright D. failure 7.A. expecting B. experiencing C. assisting D. hiring 8.A. number B. address C. money D. passport

19、9.A. trouble B. relationship C. meeting D. friendship10.A. protected B. spotted C. cheated D. pursued 11.A. receiving B. fixing C. ignoring D. judging 12.A. disappointment B. regret C. surprise D. amusement13.A. straighter B. simpler C. deeper D. wider 14.A. survived B. sacrificed C. swapped D. live

20、d 15.A. priceless B. pointless C. effortless D. careless It was rush hour. White, 38, was driving home from his work. He noticed a Nissan pickup(小卡车) on the opposite side of the two-lane street. It was 1 to miss, since it was swerving and careening into the curb（路缘石）.As the pickup drew closer, White

21、 got a good look at the problem: The driver appeared to be asleep. Pretty soon, this guys going to 2 a house and kill himself or somebody else, White thought. While many people would have kept on driving, thats not how White 3 . He had to stop that vehicle.White busted a U-turn and was now facing in

22、 the 4 direction as the pickup, but there were four cars 5 them. White honked his horn, hoping the cars in front would 6 . They didnt. He tried to swing into the left lane and 7 everyone, but oncoming traffic made it impossible.Trapped, White pulled his car over, jumped out and sprinted up the sidew

23、alk. He darted into the road, 8 around to the drivers side. The window was 9 on this temperate autumn day. White grabbed the frame of the windowhis legs moving in 10 with the pickupand with a mighty heave, 11 in. White was now inside the cab of the truck, waist deep, his legs dangling out the window

24、. The man behind the 12 , 64-year-old Todd DeAngelis, was just conscious enough to be startled by the peculiar sight of a 13 sprawled across his stomach.White worked quickly. He took hold of the gear shift and forced the pickup into park, causing it to jolt to a stop. He ejected himself from the tru

25、ck window the same way he came in. White 14 a police officer. An ambulance soon arrived and took DeAngelis to a hospital.“He kept me from a much worse accident than it could have been,”DeAngelis said after his recovery.Whites actions that day were not out of 15 . “Im always trying to help, where I c

26、an, when I can,” he says.【Readers Digest USA (May, 2023)】1. A. immediate B. hard C. easy D. smart 2.A. crashed into B. broke into C. divided into D. got into 3.A. plotted B. maintained C. attached D. operates 4.A. same B. wrong C. opposite D. obvious 5.A. following B. seizing C. separating D. chasin

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