高二英语上册完型填空练习(二)
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The sun was shining when I got on No.151 Bus. We passengers sat jammed together in heavy clothes. No one spoke. That’s one of the 1 rules. 2 we see the same faces every day, we prefer to 3 behind our newspapers. People who sit so close together are using those thin sheets of newsprint to keep their 4 .
As the bus came near the Mile, a 5 suddenly rang out “ 6 !This is your driver speaking.” We looked at the back of the driver’s head. “Put your papers down. All of you.” The 7 came down. “Now, turn and face the person next to you. Go 8 .”
Surprisingly we all did it. Still no one smiled. I faced an older woman, her head wrapped in a red scarf(围巾).I saw her 9 every day. Our eyes met We waited for the next 10 from the driver. “Now repeat after me. Good morning neighbor!”
Our voice were 11 .For many of us, these were the 12 words we had
spoken that day. But we said them together, like 13 ,to the strangers beside us. We couldn’t help 14 .There was the feeling of relief(解脱), that we were not being held up(抢劫). But more, there was the sense of ice being 15 . “Good morning ,neighbor.” It was not so 16 after all. Some of us
repeated it, others shook hands ,many laughed. The bus driver said nothing more. He didn’t 17 to. Not a single newspaper went back up. I heard laughter, a warm sound I had never heard before in 18 .
When I reached my stop, I said 19 to my seatmate, and then jumped off the bus. That day was 20 off better than most.
1. A. unwritten B. strict C. bus D. city
2. A. As B. Because C. When D. Although
3. A. read B. sit C. talk D. hide
4. A. ways B. methods C. respect D. distance
5. A. message B. warning C. suggestion D. voice
6. A. Attention B. Minding C. Help D. Listen
7. A. papers B. passengers C. driver D. tears
8. A. on B. round C. ahead D. down
9. A. still B. nearly C. even D. hardly
10. A. turn B. talk C. order D. remark
11. A. loud B. neat C. slow D. weak
12. A. first B. last C. best D. only
13. A. passengers B. citizens C. patients D. schoolchildren
14. A. shouting B. crying C. smiling D. wondering
15. A. formed B. heated C. broken D.
frozen 16. A. sad B. hard C. ordinary D. shy
17. A. need B. want C. like D. begin
18. A. my life B. Bus No.151 C. public D. other words
19. A. good morning B. good-bye C. hello D. thanks
20. A. starting B. seeing C. taking D. turning
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In the 19th century, Charles Dickens, the English novelist, wrote
excitedly of a carriage, pulled along by a team of horses, that could 1 more than twenty miles of road 2 sixty minutes. To us in the twenty-first century, in which man is able to move and
communicate so rapidly, the 3 of the
carriage seems nothing at all. Planes fly many hundreds of miles in an hour. And even without 4 ,we can, by wireless or telephone,
communicate within 5 with people on the other side of the 6 .
The benefits of the these increased speeds are countless. Businessmen say travelling from Europe to America can 7 much time, for the journey that would once have taken wee
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