大学生英语竞赛C类完形填空专项强化真题试卷7(题后含答案及解析)

大学生英语竞赛C类完形填空专项强化真题试卷7 (题后含答案及解析)

题型有：1.

According to recent surveys, 72% of all Americans believe that the United

States government is【C1】hi______information about UFOs. Almost 68% of people

think that the government has secret knowledge of extraterrestrial life. It is not【C2】______(surprise)that the government has come under more and more【C3】pr______

to declassify its UFO records and make them public. A variety of different groups

have been involved in these efforts. One group to become involved is called CFI,

the Coalition for Freedom of Information. John Podesta, who was White House Chief

of Staff during Bill Clinton’s【C4】______(president), is one of the many

high-powered people active in this group. CFI’s aim is not to prove the【C5】______(exist)of extraterrestrial life, but to make it easier for scientists in general to

study unexplained aerial phenomena. Podesta and his group have asked the Pentagon

to declassify its UFO records and therefore provide scientists【C6】______data that

will help in the study of UFOs. CFI has requested the release of information on

several UFO cases, starting with the Kecks-burg, Pennsylvania, incident. This

incident took【C7】______ in 1965 when a large acornshaped object, the size of a

small car, crashed in Pennsylvania. Some analysts say it could have been the

spacecraft Kosmos 96 that had been launched towards Venus by the Soviet Union, but

failed to escape Earth’s【C8】g______. Others say the object did not look anything like

spacecraft built on Earth in 1965. 【C9】Add______, the people of Kecksburg

want to know what happened. On that【C10】 af______, hundreds of eyewitnesses

watched a fiery streak of light descend from the sky towards Earth. Officials

explained that nothing was found or recovered and that maybe the fireball in the sky

was a meteor. But many witnesses say they saw a number of military personnel from

the Army and the Air Force search the woods, and later that evening, saw a large

military tractor-trailer coming from the area carrying a large object under a tarp.

1． 【C1】

正确答案：hiding

解析：(句意：根据最近的调查，美国有72％的市民认为美国政府隐藏关于飞碟的信息。此处为进行时，故要用hiding。)

2． 【C2】

正确答案：surprising

解析：(It is not surprised that表示“…并不让人感到惊奇”。)

3． 【C3】

正确答案：pressure

解析：(这里指美国政府承受越来越多的压力。)

4． 【C4】

正确答案：presidency

解析：(presidency总统的职位或任期。president总统。这里指在比尔·克林顿任职期间，故应该用presidency。)

5． 【C5】

正确答案：existence

解析：(空格前为定冠词the，空格后为介词of，故空格处需填入名词。existence为exist的名词形式。)

6． 【C6】

正确答案：with

解析：(provide sb．with sth．为固定搭配，意为“为某人提供…”。)

7． 【C7】

正确答案：place

解析：(take place为固定搭配，意为“发生”。)

8． 【C8】

正确答案：gravity

解析：(Earth’s gravity指“地球引力”。)

9． 【C9】

正确答案：Additionally

解析：(句意：除此之外，居住在凯克斯伯格的人们想要知道发生了什么。additionally此外；又。)

10． 【C10】

正确答案：afternoon

解析：(这里指事情发生的时间，即那天下午。)

The opium poppy is a bright flower, usually red or orange, that grows to a【C1】h______of about 75 -90 centimetres. In the wild, it usually grows in huge

clusters, sometimes covering an entire field. Humans have cultivated this flower for

thousands of years,【C2】b______for its beauty and for the powerful chemicals it

produces. It is not【C3】sur______that an ancient human eventually tasted opium,

the dried juice of the poppy. Many people【C4】______(mistake)believe that the juice

comes only from the seedpods, and only at a certain time of year. The juice does not

pool up the seedpod just before the seed ripen, but it flows【C5】thr______the rest of

the plant as well. The stem and seed capsules leak this milky juice easily if the plant is

knocked down or the stem is broken. The dried juice forms a brown crust that is easy

to see. Someone searching for food was probably【C6】hu______enough to risk tasting

the dried material. He or she was probably surprised by the result. The first

opium-eater has had a long sleep before being able to tell anyone else about the poppy.

Its【C7】sci______name, papa-ver somniferum, means “ sleep-bringing poppy “.【C8】______ (sleep)is one of the best-known side-effects of ingesting opium. Ancient

Greek art often showed Hypnos, the god of sleep, with poppies in his hands. The same

images were associated with Somnus, the Roman god of sleep. This【C9】______(connect)of poppies with sleep carried through to one of the most popular

books and movies of 20th-century America. In the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, a

girl named Dorothy and her friends are trying to find a wizard who can help them get

the things they need. An【C10】ev______witch tries to stop them. One of the witch’s

tricks is to put Dorothy and all her friends to sleepby leading them into a beautiful,

dangerous field of bright poppies.

11． 【C1】

正确答案：height

解析：(a height of…高度。)