2024届高考英语DAY 21 考前冲刺语言运用：完形填空 阅读理解议论文（含解析）

DAY 21考前冲刺语言运用：完形填空+阅读理解议论文 一、完形填空 （1） It was early morning. Peter Corbett helped Mark Wellman out of his 1 and onto the ground. They 2 before El Capitan, a huge mass of 3 almost three-quarters of a mile high in California’s beautiful Yosemite Valley. It had been Mark’s dream to climb El Capitan for as 4 as he could remember. 5 how could a person without the use of his legs hope to try to climb it Mark knew he couldn’t finish the climb alone, but his friend Peter, an expert rock climber, would be there to 6 a helping hand. He and Mark thought that it would take seven days to reach the top. Peter climbed about 100 feet up and 7 a piton ( 岩 钉 ) into the rock. Fastening one end of a 165-foot rope to the piton, he let one end of the rope 8 . Mark caught the rope and fastened it to his 9 with a special instrument. This instrument would 10 Mark to move upward, but would 11 him from falling even as much as a single inch. He next reached 12 his head and fastened a T-shaped bar to the rope, using the same kind of instrument. Seven years before, at the age of twenty-one, he had fallen while mountain climbing, injuring his backbone. The fall 13 him the use of his legs, but he never lost his love of adventure or his joyful 14 . For the first four days the two men 15 steadily upward without incident. But on the fifth day an unbearably hot wind began to blow, and as time went by, it became stronger and stronger, causing Mark to sway 16 on his rope. But Mark kept on determinedly pushing up the T-bar and pulling himself up. 17 that, he had to admit that he felt a lot better when the wind finally died down and his body touched 18 rock again. It took them one day more than they had expected, but on July 26 at 1:45 in the afternoon, the crowd of people waiting on the top went 19 with joy as the two heads appeared. Mark Wellman had shown that if you 20 your heart and mind on a goal, no wall is too high, no dream impossible. 1．A．bed B．car C．wheelchair D．house 2．A．stood B．removed C．touched D．rose 3．A．grass B．dirt C．tree D．rock 4．A．young B．long C．old D．short 5．A．Or B．While C．But D．Although 6．A．lend B．reach C．show D．have 7．A．hammered B．shot C．placed D．stuck 8．A．rise up B．fall down C．stand up D．fall behind 9．A．neck B．helmet C．belt D．fist 10．A．let B．have C．make D．allow 11．A．permit B．prevent C．forbid D．accelerate 12．A．behind B．below C．above D．beside 13．A．cost B．lost C．missed D．enhanced 14．A．spirit B．occasion C．thought D．will 15．A．progressed B．hung C．extended D．intended 16．A．gently B．firmly C．barely D．violently 17．A．Owing to B．In spite of C．In order to D．By reason of 18．A．soft B．solid C．concrete D．distinct 19．A．pale B．wild C．blank D．easy 20．A．put B．devote C．set D．sacrifice 【答案】 1．C 2．A 3．D 4．B 5．C 6．A 7．A 8．B 9．C 10．D 11．B 12．C 13．A 14．A 15．A 16．D 17．B 18．B 19．B 20．C 【详解】这是一篇记叙文。马克·韦尔曼失去了双腿，但是 ... ...