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1、高高 2013 级定时阅读系列训练级定时阅读系列训练高高 2013 级定时阅读训练级定时阅读训练 (5)(时间 40 分钟，总分 70 分) -By Bacon I. 完形填空（共完形填空（共 20 题；每小题题；每小题 1.5 分，满分分，满分 30 分）分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡 上将该项涂黑。Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we _1_ realize that those challenges are the very things that _2_
2、_ us and make us who we are. It is the same with the challenges that come with _3_. When we are faced with a challenge, we usually have two _ _4_. We can try to beat it off, or we can decide that thing _5_ the challenge isnt worth the _6_ and call it quits. Although there are certainly _7_ when call
3、ing it quits is the right thing to do, in most _8_ all that is needed is _9_ and communication. When we are committed to something, it means that no matter how _10_ or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to _11_ it and work it through instead of running away from it. Communication
4、is making a _12_ for discussion and talking about how you feel as opposed to just saying what the other person did wrong. _13_ you can say to a friend, “I got my feelings hurt,” _14_ “You hurt my feelings,” you are going to be able to solve the problem much faster. In dealing with many challenges th
5、at friendship will bring to you, try to see them for _15_ they are: small hurdles you need to jump or _16_ on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is _17_ to get over, and hurt only _18_ to make us stronger. It is all part of growing up, it _19_ to everyone, and some day you will _20_ al
6、l of this and say, “Hard as it was, it made me who I am today. And that is a good thing.” 1.A. seem to B. come to C. hope to D. try to 2.A. design B. promote C. direct D. shape 3.A. confidence B. pressure C. friendship D. difficulty 4.A. opportunities B. expectations C. choices D. aspects 5.A. deman
7、ding B. deserving C. predicting D. presenting 6.A.comment B. loss C. trouble D. expense 7.A. spans B.times C. dates D. ages 8.A.cases B. fields C. parts D. ocassions 9.A. assessment B. commitment C. encouragement D. adjustment 10.A. doubtful B. shameful C. harmful D. painful 11.A. keep B. control C.
8、 face D. catch 12.A. space B. plan C. topic D. room 13.A. If B. As C. While D. Unless 14.A. other than B. rather than C. or rather D. or else 15.A. what B. who C. where D. which 16.A. pass by B. come across C. get through D. run over 17.A. unnecessary B. necessary C. impossible D. possible 18.A. ser
9、ves B. means C. aims D. attempts 19.A. opens B. appeals C. goes D. happens 20.A. look down on B. look back on C. look forward to D. look up toII. 阅读理解（共阅读理解（共 20 小题，每小题小题，每小题 2 分，满分分，满分 40 分）分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项高高 2013 级定时阅读系列训练级定时阅读系列训练 涂黑。 AIn order to tell what I beli
10、eve, I must briefly sketch something of my personal history. The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a promising business career and study music. My parents, although sympathetic, and sharing my love of music, disapproved of it as a profession. This was understandable in view of the
11、family background. My grandfather had taught music for nearly forty years at Springhill College in Mobile and, though much beloved and respected in the community, earned barely enough to provide for his large family. My father often said it was only the hardheaded thriftiness of my grandmother that
12、kept the wolf at bay. As a consequence of this example, the very mention of music as a profession carried with it a picture of an insecure existence with uncertain financial rewards. My parents insisted upon college instead of a conservatory(音乐学院), and to college I went. Before my graduation form Co
13、lumbia, the family met with severe financial reverses and I felt it my duty to leave college and take a job. Thus was I launched upon a business career which I always think of as the wasted years. Now I do not for a moment mean to disparage business. My whole point is that it was not for me. I went
14、into it for money, and aside from the satisfaction of being able to help the family, money is all I got out of it. It was not enough. I felt that life was passing me by. From being merely discontented I became acutely miserable. My one ambition was to save enough to quit and go to Europe to study mu
15、sic. I continued to make money, and finally, bit by bit, accumulated enough to enable me to go abroad. The family being once more solvent, and my help no longer necessary, I resigned from my position and, feeling like a man released from jail, sailed for Europe. I stayed four years, worked harder than I had ever dreamed of working before and enjoy
