第五部分语篇型语法填空Cloze 1[2017丙卷(全国Ⅲ)]She looks like any other schoolgirl, fresh-faced and full of life. Sarah Thomas is looking forward to the challenge of her new A-level course. But unlike her school friends, 16-year-old Sarah is not spending half-term 41(rest). Instead, she is earning ￡6,500 a day as 42 model in New York.Sarah 43(tell) that she could be Britain’s new supermodel, earning a million dollars in the next year. Her father Peter, 44, wants her to give up school to model full-time. But Sarah, 44has taken part in shows along with top models, wants 45(prove) that she has brains as well as beauty. She is determined to carry on with her 46(educate).She has turned down several 47(invitation) to star at shows in order to concentrate on her studies. After school she plans to take a year off to model full-time before going to university to get a degree 48engineering or architecture.Sarah says, "My dad thinks I should take the offer now. But at the moment, school 49 (come) first. I don’t want to get too absorbed in modeling. It is 50(certain) fun but the lifestyle is a little unreal. I don’t want to have nothing else to fall back on when I can’t model any more."Chengdu has dozens of new millionaires, Asia’s biggest building, and fancy new hotels. But for tourists like me, pandas are its top61(attract).So it was a great honour to be invited backstage at the not-for-profit Panda Base, where ticket money helps pay for research. I62(allow) to get up close to these cute animals at the 600-acre centre. From tomorrow, I will be their UK ambassador. The title will be63(official)given to me at a ceremony in London. But my connection with pandas goes back 64my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s,65I was the first Western TV reporter66(permit) to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild. My ambassadorial duties will include67(introduce) British visitors to the 120-plus pandas at Chengdu and others at a research centre in the misty mountains of Bifengxia.On my recent visit, I held a lively three-month-old twin that had been rejected by68(it) mother. The nursery team switches him every few69(day) with his sister so that while one is being bottle-fed, 70other is with mum — she never suspects.The giant panda 61(love) by people throughout the world. Chinese scientists 62 (recent) had a chance to study a wild female panda with a newborn baby. She was a very 63 (care) mother. For 25 days, she never left her baby, not even to find something 64(eat)! She would not let any other pandas come near. She licked the baby constantly to keep it clean. Any smell might attract natural 65(enemy) that would try to eatthe little panda. The mother held the baby in her front paws much the way a human does. 66it cried, she rocked it back and forth and gave it little comforting pats. The mother continued to care for the young panda 67more than two years. By that time, the panda no longer needed 68(it) mother for food. However, it stayed with her and learned about the ways of the forest. Then, after two and a half years, the mother 69(drive) the young panda away. It was time for her to have a new baby, 70it was also time for the young panda to be independent.Cloze 4[2015新课标全国Ⅱ]The adobe dwellings (土坯房) 61(build) by the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest are admired by even 62most modern of architects and engineers. In addition to their simple beauty, what makes the adobe dwellings admirable is their 63(able) to "air condition" a house without 64(use) electric equipment. Walls made of adobe take in the heat from the sun on hot days and give out that heat 65(slow) during cool nights, thus warming the house. When a new day breaks, the walls have given up their heat and are now cold enough 66(cool) the house during the hot day; 67the same time, they warm up again for the night. This cycle 68(go) day after day: The walls warm up during the day and cool off during the night and are thus always a timely offset (抵消) for the outside temperatures. As69(nature) architects, the Pueblo Indians figured out exactly 70thick the adobe walls needed to be to make the cycle work on most days.答案Cloze 1本文是一篇记叙文,讲述了16岁的Sarah在上学的同时兼职做模特,并且取得了巨大的成功;虽然她父亲希望她当全职模特,但是Sarah仍然坚持要完成学业。
41.resting。
考查固定搭配。
spend time doing sth. 是固定搭配,故填resting。
42.a。
考查冠词。
model是可数名词单数,此处表示"作为一名模特",故填a。
43.has been told/was told。
考查动词时态和语态。
此处动词tell与Sarah是动宾关系,因此可以用现在完成时表达过去对现在的影响,填has been told。