江苏省泗阳中学2013届高三冲刺试题-完形填空2

Holly the cat

Holly the cat has become an internet sensation, mystified animal experts [and used up an unknown number of her nine lives] by trekking 200 miles home after 1 on a family road trip eight weeks earlier. 2 and emaciated, barely able to stand and too weak to miaow, the cat appeared from nowhere on New Year`s Eve in the back garden of a Florida family home.

For six days, Barb Mazzola and her children put out food and milk for the nervous animal, eventually inviting her inside their house in West Palm Beach. They fell in love with the cat, a tortoiseshell with distinctive black, brown and ginger 3 . But when Mrs Mazzola took it to the vet, she 4 asked if the cat had an implanted microchip that would 5 its original owners.She did. And it 6 her name was Holly and that her owners Jacob and Bonnie Richter lived just a mile away.But 7 was truly remarkable was that they 8 Holly two months earlier when she bolted out of their mobile home on a trip to Daytona Beach – 200 miles north along Florida`s Atlantic coast.

How Holly, a house cat who 9 ventured outside, 10 make it to back to her hometown from unknown place so far away has 11 animal behaviourists. It has also turned her into an internet 12 among the people who love cats and 13 countless theories about how sights, sounds and smells, an inner compass or some memories of the drive north may have guided her homeward

14 a long wandering and eventful journey.

"It is a 15 mystery," said Marc Bekoff, a University of Colorado professor who 16 in animal behaviour. "She may have had some basic sense of direction and then got 17 from sights or sounds as she got closer, but the truth is that we have no idea how she got home."

What seems certain, 18 the state of its paws, is that it walked home by road and pavement, 19 somehow hitching a lift or going cross-country. Its back feet, the ones that cat use to 20 themselves, were swollen, rubbed and raw and the claws were worn down to stubs.

1.A appear B appearing C disappear D disappearing

2. A Hesitant B Casual C Exhausted D Heartbroken

3.A looking B patterning C symbol D shape

4.A reluctantly B carefully C seriously D directly

5.A recognize B distinguish C qualify D identify

6.A found out B worked out C turned out D make out

7.A As B It C What D Whether

8.A lost B have lost C would lose D had lost

9.A rarely B constantly C as often as not D now and then

10.A tried to B succeeded in C managed to D sought to

11.A disturbed B troubled C bothered D puzzled

12.A event B hit C matter D figure

13.A arise B rose C resulted from D resulted in

14.A coming up with B ending up with C putting up with D catching with up

15. A competitive B complicated C complete D compromised

16.A is interested B specializes C is involved D studied

17.A clues B signs C signals D marks

18.A judged from B judging from C judging D Having judged from

19.A other than B none other than C rather than D or rather

20.Acarry B push C pull D drag

答案

导读：“神猫”霍莉近日走红网络，也令动物学家大惑不解。它在一次家庭驾车游中走失，历时八周徒步200英里返回家中，此时已筋疲力尽。

D 根据上下文的语境

C 形容词作状语，加词义理解

B 考查with sth doing的复合结构，

A副词词义区别

D 动词词义辨析

C 考查动词短语及固定句型

C考查名词性从句

D 考查时态

A 考查表频率的副词或词组

C 考查动词短语

D 在语境中区别动词词义

B 名词词义辨析

D 动词辨析

B 易混淆的词组辨析

C 词形相近的形容词辨析

B 根据上下文推测specialize 词义

A 易混淆的名词词义辨析

B 考查非谓语动词

C 考查介词短语

B 考查动词词义