2024年4月7日发(作者：刁霜)
2014高考英语二轮复习完型填空提分题特训：说明文
1
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36－55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D) 中，选出最佳选项。
Canadian smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM), which makes the BlackBerry, says it’s back. The company
is 36to reclaim a market it once dominated by 37 two new devices. The last few years have been a painful time for
the company as customers deserted its platform in 38 of newer and more 39devices. This may be the company’s
last chance to 40a vital player in an increasingly crowded marketplace.
Two brand new devices are perhaps a fresh 41for a company that has seen its global market share 42from 20
percent three years ago to just over 3 percent today.
For BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins, it’s another chance to remake a faded 43. “We have 44been on a journey of
transformation, not only a journey to transform our business and our brand, 45one that I truly 46 transforms
mobile communications into true mobile computing,” he said.
The company promises the same 47 level of network security the BlackBerry is known for, 48a fast new
browser and a more intuitive operating system. The Z10 49much like the touch-screen phones popularized by its
competitors (竞争者), but the Q10 maintains the “qwerty” keyboard that has become BlackBerry’s trademark.
Besides the technical and cosmetic (外观上的) updates, Heins says the company will no longer be called RIM or
Research In Motion.
“Our customers use a BlackBerry, our 50work for BlackBerry and our shareholders are owners of BlackBerry. From
today on, we are BlackBerry 51in the world,” he said.
Shareholders will be watching if customers 52 the new devices. The company’s stock has dropped as much as 90
percent in the last four years as it lost 53to competitors. But company shares have doubled in the last four months
as anticipation (预期) 54 for the new models.
Analysts say the new devices could make or 55a company, which many people praise for starting the technological
revolution in smart-phones.
36. A. refusing
37. A. introducing
38. A. favor
39. A. popular
40. A. replace
41. A. record
42. A. lose
43. A. brand
44. A. specially
B. trying
B. reviewing
B. charge
B. expensive
B. react
B. dilemma
B. increase
B. trade
B. definitely
C. urging
C. rejecting
C. honor
C. complicated
C. remain
C. end
C. rise
C. technique
C. doubtfully
D. pretending
D. discovering
D. defense
D. familiar
D. reset
D. start
D. fall
D. phone
D. essentially
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45. A. and
46. A. agree
47. A. high
48. A. except for
49. A. sounds
50. A. employees
51. A. however
52. A. adapt
53. A. land
54. A. dropped
55. A. desert
B. or
B. believe
B. average
B. regardless of
B. smells
B. consumers
B. whenever
B. adjust
B. ground
B. changed
B. abandon
C. but
C. suspect
C. backward
C. apart from
C. looks
C. relatives
C. nowhere
C. adopt
C. soil
C. remained
C. break
D. so
D. deny
D. normal
D. along with
D. finds
D. competitors
D. everywhere
D. advocate
D. earth
D. grew
D. deny
2
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。
What I Want for You and Every Child in America
Dear Malia and Sasha,
I know that you’ve both had a lot of 61 these last two years on the campaign trail, going to picnics and parades
and state fairs, eating all sorts of junk food your mother and I probably shouldn’t have let you have. But I also
know that it hasn’t always been easy for you and Mom, and that as excited as you both are about that new puppy,
it doesn’t 62 for all the time we’ve been apart. I know 63 I’ve missed these past two years, and today I
want to tell you a little more about why I decided to take our family on this journey.
When I was a young man, I thought life was all about me—about how I’d 64 my way in the world, become
successful, and get the things I want. But then the two of you came into my 65 with all your curiosity and
mischief and those smiles that never 66 to fill my heart and light up my day.
I want all our children to go to schools 67 of their potential—schools that challenge them, inspire them, and
instill in them a sense of 68 about the world around them. I want them to have the chance to go to college
69 their parents aren’t rich. And I want them to get good jobs: jobs that pay well and give them benefits like
health care, jobs that let them spend time with their own 70 and retire with dignity.
I want us to 71 the boundaries of discovery so that you’ll live to see new technologies and inventions that
improve our lives and make our planet cleaner and safer. And I want us to push our own human boundaries to
reach 72 the divides of race and region, gender and religion that 73 us from seeing the best in each other.
That was the 74 your grandmother tried to teach me when I was your age, reading me the opening lines of the
Declaration of Independence and telling me about the men and women who marched for 75 because they
believed those words put to paper two centuries ago should mean 76 .
She helped me understand that America is great not because it is perfect but because it can always be made
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2024年4月7日发(作者：刁霜)
2014高考英语二轮复习完型填空提分题特训：说明文
1
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36－55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D) 中，选出最佳选项。
Canadian smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM), which makes the BlackBerry, says it’s back. The company
is 36to reclaim a market it once dominated by 37 two new devices. The last few years have been a painful time for
the company as customers deserted its platform in 38 of newer and more 39devices. This may be the company’s
last chance to 40a vital player in an increasingly crowded marketplace.
Two brand new devices are perhaps a fresh 41for a company that has seen its global market share 42from 20
percent three years ago to just over 3 percent today.
For BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins, it’s another chance to remake a faded 43. “We have 44been on a journey of
transformation, not only a journey to transform our business and our brand, 45one that I truly 46 transforms
mobile communications into true mobile computing,” he said.
The company promises the same 47 level of network security the BlackBerry is known for, 48a fast new
browser and a more intuitive operating system. The Z10 49much like the touch-screen phones popularized by its
competitors (竞争者), but the Q10 maintains the “qwerty” keyboard that has become BlackBerry’s trademark.
Besides the technical and cosmetic (外观上的) updates, Heins says the company will no longer be called RIM or
Research In Motion.
“Our customers use a BlackBerry, our 50work for BlackBerry and our shareholders are owners of BlackBerry. From
today on, we are BlackBerry 51in the world,” he said.
Shareholders will be watching if customers 52 the new devices. The company’s stock has dropped as much as 90
percent in the last four years as it lost 53to competitors. But company shares have doubled in the last four months
as anticipation (预期) 54 for the new models.
Analysts say the new devices could make or 55a company, which many people praise for starting the technological
revolution in smart-phones.
36. A. refusing
37. A. introducing
38. A. favor
39. A. popular
40. A. replace
41. A. record
42. A. lose
43. A. brand
44. A. specially
B. trying
B. reviewing
B. charge
B. expensive
B. react
B. dilemma
B. increase
B. trade
B. definitely
C. urging
C. rejecting
C. honor
C. complicated
C. remain
C. end
C. rise
C. technique
C. doubtfully
D. pretending
D. discovering
D. defense
D. familiar
D. reset
D. start
D. fall
D. phone
D. essentially
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45. A. and
46. A. agree
47. A. high
48. A. except for
49. A. sounds
50. A. employees
51. A. however
52. A. adapt
53. A. land
54. A. dropped
55. A. desert
B. or
B. believe
B. average
B. regardless of
B. smells
B. consumers
B. whenever
B. adjust
B. ground
B. changed
B. abandon
C. but
C. suspect
C. backward
C. apart from
C. looks
C. relatives
C. nowhere
C. adopt
C. soil
C. remained
C. break
D. so
D. deny
D. normal
D. along with
D. finds
D. competitors
D. everywhere
D. advocate
D. earth
D. grew
D. deny
2
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。
What I Want for You and Every Child in America
Dear Malia and Sasha,
I know that you’ve both had a lot of 61 these last two years on the campaign trail, going to picnics and parades
and state fairs, eating all sorts of junk food your mother and I probably shouldn’t have let you have. But I also
know that it hasn’t always been easy for you and Mom, and that as excited as you both are about that new puppy,
it doesn’t 62 for all the time we’ve been apart. I know 63 I’ve missed these past two years, and today I
want to tell you a little more about why I decided to take our family on this journey.
When I was a young man, I thought life was all about me—about how I’d 64 my way in the world, become
successful, and get the things I want. But then the two of you came into my 65 with all your curiosity and
mischief and those smiles that never 66 to fill my heart and light up my day.
I want all our children to go to schools 67 of their potential—schools that challenge them, inspire them, and
instill in them a sense of 68 about the world around them. I want them to have the chance to go to college
69 their parents aren’t rich. And I want them to get good jobs: jobs that pay well and give them benefits like
health care, jobs that let them spend time with their own 70 and retire with dignity.
I want us to 71 the boundaries of discovery so that you’ll live to see new technologies and inventions that
improve our lives and make our planet cleaner and safer. And I want us to push our own human boundaries to
reach 72 the divides of race and region, gender and religion that 73 us from seeing the best in each other.
That was the 74 your grandmother tried to teach me when I was your age, reading me the opening lines of the
Declaration of Independence and telling me about the men and women who marched for 75 because they
believed those words put to paper two centuries ago should mean 76 .
She helped me understand that America is great not because it is perfect but because it can always be made
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