题文
完形填空。 Eighty-year-old retired tailor, James McKay, spent Saturday night in jail after 1 thirty-year-old KeithSmith over the head 2 his walking stick. McKay's wife, Laurence told us that while McKay is usually a
3 person, he had been 4 to this act of violence by getting wet just once too often.
Smith lives above the McKays and it appears that not only is he a keen gardener, he is also a 5 collector.
Unfortunately for him, the water he sent over his balcony every day ended up on the McKay's, or too often,
on the McKays 6 .
"For the last fortnight, since Smith moved into the flat above us, we have hardly dared to go to our 7 ,"
said Laurene. She added, that it wasn't so much the water falling onto their balcony from Smith watering his
plant 8 bothered them, it was more the way he cleaned his fish tanks. "We'd be 9 there happily reading
our newspapers, when 10 so much water would come from above that we'd be as wet as if we'd 11 with
our clothes on! Neither could we get rid of the 12 of fish!"
And on Saturday evening it was just too 13 . "It was James's birthday," explained Laurene, "and I'd made
him a birthday cake. The candles were a great sight as you can imagine, but James didn't get to blow them
out." 14 , Smith emptied one of his larger tanks over his balcony and both the McKays and the cake were wet
15 . Rarely had Laurene seen McKay move so fast. "I couldn't 16 him. He was up there in a flash. It was
the fastest I@^@^@d seen him move since 1964."
Smith is not going to take things further with the police. He has also promised to change his 17 from now
on. And what of James McKay? 18 he left the police station, a large crowd of supporters sang him, "Happy
Birthday 19 the most exciting birthday 20 !" said the cheerful old man. "The best since my adolescence I'd
say!" ( )1. A. hitting
( )2. A. by
( )3. A. quiet
( )4. A. accustomed
( )5. A. fish
( )6. A. themselves
( )7. A. bathroom
( )8. A. which
( )9. A. sitting
( )10. A. regularly
( )11. A. swum
( )12. A. taste
( )13. A. little
( )14. A. Otherwise
( )15. A. over
( )16. A. stop
( )17. A. views
( )18. A. While
( )19. A. Sincerely
( )20. A. before B. tapping
B. with
B. sensitive
B. driven
B. seed
B. itself
B. balcony
B. what
B. exercising
B. suddenly
B. watered
B. smell
B. soon
B. Besides
B. across
B. blame
B. attitude
B. Since
B. Impossibly
B. already C. pushing
C. through
C. stubborn
C. taken
C. plant
C. herself
C. bedroom
C. that
C. sleeping
C. precisely
C. showered
C. feeling
C. late
C. Instead
C. through
C. ignore
C. minds
C. Until
C. Previously
C. ever D. touching
D. via
D. peaceful
D. attracted
D. newspaper
D. himself
D. kitchen
D. whether
D. eating
D. unconsciously
D. drowned
D. sense
D. much
D. Consequently
D. down
D. stand
D. ways
D. As
D. Definitely
D. since 题型：未知难度：其他题型
答案
1-5: A B D B A 6-10: A B C A B 11-15: C B D C C 16-20: A D D D C解析
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考点
据考高分专家说，试题“完形填空。 Eighty-ye.....”主要考查你对 [故事类阅读 ]考点的理解。故事类阅读
故事类阅读概念：
这类文章一般描述的是某一件具体事情的发生发展或结局，有人物、时间、地点和事件。命题往往从故事的情节、人物或事件的之间的关系、作者的态度及意图、故事前因和后果的推测等方面着手，考查学生对细节的辨认能力以及推理判断能力。
故事类阅读应试技巧：
1、抓住文章的6个要素：
阅读时要学会从事情本身的发展去理解故事情节而不要只看事件在文中出现的先后顺序。因此，无论是顺叙还是倒叙，阅读此类文章时，必须要找到它结构中的5个W（when, where, who, why, what）和1个H（how），不过不是每篇都会完整地交待六个要素。毫无疑问，寻出这些元素是能够正确快速解题的一个先决条件。
2、注意作者的议论和抒情：
高考英语阅读理解故事类文章常伴随着作者思想情感的流露和表达，因此议论和抒情往往夹杂其中。行文时或按事情发生发展的先后时间进行或按事情发生发展的地点来转换，也可能按事情发展的阶段来布局。在引出话题，讲完一件事情后，作者往往会表达个人感悟或提出建议等。这些体现作者观点或思想的语句在阅读时可以划线，它们往往体现文章中心或者写作意图，属于必考点，所以要仔细体会。
3、结合前两点归纳文章中心，把握作者态度：
故事类文章是通过记叙一件事来表达中心思想的，它是文章的灵魂。归纳文章中心思想时，尤其要分析文章的结尾，因为很多文章卒章显志，用简短的议论、抒情揭示文章中心；文章中议论抒情的句子往往与中心密切相关；也有的文章需要在结合概括各段大意的基础上归纳中心。另外，叙述一件事必有其目的，或阐明某一观点，或赞美某种品德，或抨击某种陋习，这就要求我们在阅读时，通过对细节（第1点中的六要素）的理解，把握作者的态度。
4、有章有据进行解题判断：
分析文章，归纳主题，属于分析、概括、综合的表述能力的考查。切忌脱离文章，架空分析，一定让分析在文章中有依据。
