2013高考英语二轮完形填空（昆明市）训练（5）及答案

热身训练--------------------------------完形填空

In a national spelling contest in America, an 11－year－old girl was asked to spell a certain word. But with her __1__ voice the judges were not sure if she spelled the word with the letter A or E. They talked it over and __2__ decided to simply ask her what she had said. By now, the girl knew she had __3__ the word. But instead of lying, she told the truth that she had said the __4__ letter—so she lost the contest.

As the girl walked off the __5__， the entire audience stood to their feet clapping to applaud her __6__. Later, dozens of newspaper reporters wrote about this 11－year－old girl’s honesty, even when it __7__ her the contest. But the fact is that she __8__ the biggest contest that day: the contest of her __9__.

Probably the biggest test of our character is what we would do if we knew we would never get __10__. This young girl could easily have __11__ and nobody would have known it but herself. But that’s just