Question

1 

My mother is a geneticist, and from her I learned that despite our differences in size, shape and color, we humans are 99.9 percent the same. It is in our   36   to see differences: skin, hair and eye color, height, language. But also in our nature, way down in the DNA that   37   us human, we are almost the   38  .

I believe there is more that unites us than   39   us.

My mother came to the US from India. She is   40   enough that she got her service  41  in a diner in 1960s Dallas. My father is a white boy from Indiana whose   42   came from Germany in the mid-1800s.

 It seems   43   to admit now, but I never   44   that my parents were different colors. One day, I watched my parents walk   45   the street of our church together. They were   46   in the service that day, and as they walked, I saw their hands   47   together in unison(一致地). I noticed for the first time how dark my mother was, and how white my father was. I knew them as my parents   48   I realized their skin color. I'm sorry to say that now when I see a mixed-race    49   walking down the street, I see the "mixed race" first and the "couple" second.

When my parents married in 1966, there were   50   places in this country that had laws  51   mixed marriage.   52  , my white grandfather,   53   father had been a typical racist, was not against their marriage.

Some of us are men, some are women. Some are young, some old. Some of us are short and others   54  . Some right-handed, some left-handed. We have lots of differences; we are all   55  . But deep down inside us, down in our DNA, we are 99.9 percent the same. And I believe we need to remember that.

1.A. feature                                B. character                    C. nature                       D. quality

2.A. gets                                 B. lets                                     C. has                           D. makes

3.A. same                               B. different                     C. familiar                    D. similar

4.A. differs                           B. divides                             C. departs            D. splits

5.A. yellow                          B. white                      C. dark                      D. brown

6.A. turned out                B. turned down             C. turned over               D. turned back

7.A. ancestors                       B. parents                             C. family                     D. origin

8.A. silly                                  B. wise                         C. stupid                    D. foolish

9.A. noticed                         B. looked                             C. watched                  D. observed

10.A. in                                           B. up                                    C. out                          D. down

11.A. entering                        B. running                            C. attending                D. participating

12.A. rocking                       B. shaking                           C. swinging    D. waving

13.A. unless                        B. after                               C. before                    D. until

14.A. marriage                              B. couple                             C. double                  D. twins

15.A. always                              B. also                              C. almost                  D. still

16.A. allowing                      B. preventing                         C. encouraging   D. banning

17.A. Therefore                     B. However                           C. But                           D. Otherwise

18.A. which                         B. whose                             C. that                      D. what

19.A. long                     B. high               C. tall           D. kind

20.A. similar                        B. familiar                C. unique                   D. same

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C

2.D

3.A

4.B

5.C

6.B

7.A

8.A

9.A

10.D

11.D

12.C

13.C

14.B

15.D

16.D

17.B

18.B

19.C

20.C

【解析】

试题分析：

1..C。nature“本性，本质”，并且下句But also in our nature也是暗示。

2.D。make成为。根据本句句意“使我们成为人类”，可知答案应选D。

3.A。从But also in our nature来看是对上文的转折，并且文章最后一段倒数第二句也是暗示。

4.B。从前面的unite可以看出是divide。

5..C。根据本句句意可知是因为我妈妈的皮肤太黑以致于达拉斯的餐厅拒绝为她服务。也可从“I noticed for the first time how dark my mother was”一句判断答案。

6..B。turn down “拒绝”, turn out“结果是，生产”, turn over“翻阅，发动，移交”, turn back“往回走，阻挡”。

7..A。从came from Germany in the mid-1800s可知应该是我父亲的祖先在十九世纪中叶从德国移民到美国。

8..A。silly傻的，幼稚的，foolish 愚蠢的, 根据句意是当时我从来没有注意到我父母不同的肤色，这很傻，很幼稚。所以答案选A。

9..A。notice注意到。watch和observe的意思是观察，不合句意。

10..D。walk down the street是惯用法，意思为“沿街散步”。

11..D。participate in参加。enter为及物动词，后面不加介词。

12..C。根据句意我看到他们手拉手一起摇摆，所以选C。

13.C。before在……之前。

14..B。夫妇，常用couple。根据句意“当我看到一对不同肤色的夫妇逛街的时候”可知答案。

15.D。still仍然有。这个国家当时仍然在有的地方禁止不同肤色的人通婚。

16..D。ban表示法律禁止，从下句也可看出

17..B。however表转折。从was not against可知与上文是转折关系

18.B。定语从句，表所有。我祖父的父亲曾经是一位激进分子。

19.C。tall在这里与short对比。

20.C。根据句意：我们有许许多多的差异，我们都是独一无二的，可知答案。

考点：考查情感类完型

点评：本文属于情感类阅读，从祖先是移民多遭受的区别对待以及相关的思考可知我们虽然有很多的差异，但是每个人都是独一无二的。整个完形填空大题，设空科学合理，考生不难从中领会大意，从而下手会比较顺利，从选项中可以看出，本大题主要还是考查了词汇的辨析与运用，但更加注重综合语言能力的运用，需要根据故事情节，了解词汇用法的同时，结合语境，做出准确的判断。