备考2022年高考英语二轮复习：完形填空（记叙文1）

During my stay at an orphanage (孤儿院)at the age of 9, a gentleman came and taught us how to do woodworking projects. I remember my first project—a small table. I was so 1of it that I looked upon it as if I had created a(an)2.It was absolutely beautiful and it had taken me six weeks to3it. I could hardly wait to give it to Mother Winters as a 4.She was the head mistress of our orphanage, who was always kind but 5 with us.

As the tables were not dry from the clear coating, the man told us to wait a few days before taking them to our dormitories. But I was just so6and happy that I couldn't wait I dashed out like a 7,carrying my table, smiling from ear to ear.

When I reached the dormitory I placed the little table beside my bed. I was8it when Mother Winters entered. She walked over to the table. Running her hand 9it, she noticed that it was still wet.

“Were you10 to bring this home?”she asked.

“No, ma'am,” I 11with my head down.

She ordered me to throw the table out and so I did. After she left, I immediately  opened the door to get it back. There was12stuck all over. I brushed and cried, but the dirt would not come off. I hid the table in my closet and never 13 it. However, a year later during a cleaning-up, it was discovered. Painfully, I had to give the table to Mother Henderson, my houseparent, thinking that she would14 it away.

Thirty years later at a reunion ,I 15that Mother Henderson was living nearby, so I drove up to see her. We talked cheerfully for long. As I was about to leave, she asked me to come down to her16to get something important. I followed her17into a dark corner. She picked something up.18she turned around, I could see that she was holding a little table. Mother Henderson kept the little table that I had given up for lost so long ago.

Today, I look at that table with bittersweet memories but full of19 to Mother Henderson, who kept the table for a young orphan who 20 it so much.

Celina Raddatz quit her job at a nursing home in 2014 to take care of her mother full-time who, 83, suffers from Alzheimer's.

Raddatz, 57, and one of her sisters, Rosalia Lizarraga, 61, had been1their mother together. But as the Alzheimer's2, the task became too stressful for Lizarraga. The full3fell on Raddatz, who was determined to perform a promise she and her siblings(兄弟姐妹)had made to their4as children.

"When my mother was5, she made us promise never to put her in a nursing home." Raddatz says. "But we never thought she would get6like this."

Raddatz was born in Mexico. Her mother, a widow(遗婉),7 two children as a food seller after they moved to America. "My mom was a very8woman," Raddatz says. When Raddatz was growing up, her mother quit her9so she could stay home and keep an eye on her children. "She would take us to school and bring us home. She wouldn't let us walk10to school."

Raddatz and her siblings first began to notice their mother11in 2005 after she had a bad fall while12as a housekeeper. In 2006, Raddatz's mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

"It's just13work. I need to care for her around the clock." But anyhow, she14her job at the nursing home and15her mother in with her. They also share a bedroom,16Raddatz can assist her mother when she wakes up throughout the17.

"It's a18responsibility because of the promise we made her when she was younger," Raddatz says. It used to19Raddatz to see families leave their relatives with this disease in a nursing home. Now she has a personal20for the emotional(情感上的)and physical sacrifices that caring for an elderly loved one takes.

Many years ago, I saw a homeless woman, who was wearing only thin clothes, coming in when I was working at a college. She started coughing as she sat down on a sofa in the student public room.1, she wasn't well. Without 2 too much about it, I went to the Student Affairs Office where I knew I could find 3 in the “Lost and Found” box. I gathered her up all clothes and made my way 4. A co-worker told me I should not help this person 5 it would only lead to her wanting 6 help. I ignored (忽视) her and carried on, in spite of the warnings.

Two weeks later a lovely elderly man came to my 7 and asked to speak with me in private. Curious, I gave him my full 8. He went on to tell me that he had overheard (无意听到) the 9 with the co-worker about helping the 10 woman. He wanted me to know that it was always okay to help people, and that was 11 he wanted to give me a check for $1000! I burst into tears, not only because I really 12 the money at the time, but also because I had never been 13 in such a way for helping someone! We became good 14 and, twenty years later, he called me up 15 and told me he wanted to help me 16 my first home! He gave me $120, 000 to buy my 17 house in my home town.

I asked him why he wanted to give me such a large 18. And he said it was because I was a “giver” and that I deserved it. I was able to 19 the perfect little home for me, all because one day I 20 a homeless woman without hesitation.

I was walking home from school one day and it happened to be a particularly cold and windy day. It was freezing and I was 1 enough to forget my hats and scarf. You can imagine my cheeks were rosy 2 and my hands were as numb as they can be.

All of a sudden, an old lady 3 up beside me and asked if I would like a ride 4. At first, I said it was OK and her5 smile melted(融化) away the thought that I should never talk to 6! We had an amazing chat and she was just 7 a good woman. She told me her8 and she dropped me off.

I didn't see her or talk to her for about a month and one night as I 9 her kind gesture, I decided to return the favor. So, I made a lot of 10 and walked down to her house with my friend. At first I was a bit 11 she wouldn't remember me or think that I was a bad man who poisoned cookies but luckily, I was 12 wrong. She was so happy, and she hugged me and kissed me and seemed so 13 that someone would do something like that!

When I got home, my mom told me that she 14 and told my mom on the phone that she 15 because she was so touched. She said she would never16 the kindness that was given to her! That filled me with such 17 ! There really is nothing else joyful like helping 18 and making someone's day 19!

Let us never forget the joy we get 20 giving others a hand!

After I had pictured it over and over again in my mind, the big day 1 arrived: my first day at senior high! I woke up early and rushed to my new  2.  The campus was still 3when I arrived, so I decided to 4 a bit. I was looking at the photos on the noticeboard when I 5 a voice behind me. "New here?"6 , I saw a white-haired man. "Yes," I replied. We chatted for a while 7I left for the classroom. When my English teacher stepped into the classroom, I was 8to see the same man I had met earlier.

"Good morning, everyone. Before we start, please 9yourself to the class. I'll go first," said the teacher. I tried to turn on my brain  10the engine just wouldn't start. I was organizing my words in my head when the girl next to me gave me a nudge (用肘轻推) "It's your 11 !''

With butterflies in my stomach, I 12deeply. "Hi, I'm Meng Hao." Everyone started  13. I looked at them in 14. "Nice to know we 15the same name," said my new teacher. Although I was embarrassed, his words made me a lot more  16. When we had all introduced ourselves, Mr. Meng said, "Well done, everyone! I know this isn't  17 for many of you. 18like this at senior high might sometimes put you under pressure. But it all depends on  19 you do. Keep calm and be prepared."

People say, "Well begun, half done." I guess this was a good 20 to my new school life.

When I was 12, I went on a 720-mile cycling trip with my brother and father. Before the trip. we prepared for the journey by having smaller1We were all2cyclists, even though my brother and I were so young. I can say I felt like I was born on a bike, despite3a mailbox the first time I rode one without training wheels. When setting out. I4for an adventure and wanted to see beautiful sights. But what I did not5was that trouble was around each corner.

One night, after perhaps a week into the6, it was raining lightly. We were getting to a campsite and cycling down a large hill with7to take a rest from8up a mountain with aching legs. Suddenly, my brother's front tire slipped and he9into the middle of the road. My father and I stopped, 10if he was okay.11, he was not hurt too much, but his leg was12the bike frame. From the top of the hill, we saw a light coming. Realizing a car was13my father and I looked on in14.

Instinctively, I rushed out in front of my brother in the middle of the road, and15my hands wildly. The car rushed forward, but turned16abruptly to the left to go around my brother and me. My brother was saved from being run over by the car.

My father says I was17brave then, but for some reason, I don't think I was18my life because it seemed like the only thing to do. And I believe that in time of danger we should do what we know is night rather than consider19carefully. If I had thought about what I was doing that night, my brother might have been20from this world.

The stage lights dimmed, and I took a quick look from behind the heavy black curtains into the audience. Blinded by the lights, I quickly 1. It seemed that a great number of eyes were looking at me. I took a deep 2 as the music of my dance began to play. I entered the stage and began my 3 , the graduation test of the classical Indian dance.

After a decade of learning this art form, I had 4 been considered ready to take on the most difficult act. The test is the most important 5 in a dancer's life as it pays respect to all the factors (因 素) in one's life that 6 the dance form: one's culture and family. The performance is undertaken only by the most focused and 7 students. It is a difficult process that requires much commitment (付出，投入). For more than six months, I spent two to three hours every day 8 these dances. Many times, I 9 myself to my physical and 10 limit, but still I would not 11 . I could not give up. There was always so much more to do and so much more to learn.

I 12 a lot about myself in those tiring hours. I learned that I was far too stubborn (固执) to give up, and I was too proud to prove myself 13 after I had set an unrealistic goal. Even with physical pain and mental 14 , I forced myself to meet my 15. Even when I was at the end of my 16 , there was always something driving me on, forcing me not to give up.

Fortunately, I17. What I had done 18 the success. It was in those hours 19 I learned what a dancer 20.

Ciudad Perdida, Colombia's "Lost City" is older than Machu Picchu(马丘比丘古城). There are no trains or buses allowing of 1 travels to reach its ruins. The chance of getting to this remote place is merely 2 on foot: a tiring hike lasting several days nonstop.

Despite this, I couldn't 3 the opportunity to visit Ciudad Perdida. Twelve other hikers and I went there in 4 with a licensed guide. The dirt path, which 5 through towering palms and dangling vines（藤蔓），proved 6 right from the start. It's suggested that hikers have good physical 7, as the journey is difficult. Horses helped to carry basic 8 like food to the cottages where we would sleep. Along the way we also met the 9. They have been left undisturbed for centuries and there's a deep 10 between them and the land.

The next morning, we were off early to 11 the heat, but high temperatures and muscle pain had already 12 by the time we reached the final stage — 1, 200 stone steps to 13. Finally, my eyes rested on the splendid scene that had 14 the hard journey to Ciudad Perdida, 15 lifting my painful body up the long flight of stairs.

I looked down and 16 at the beautiful site below. We were among a handful of other groups visiting, which seemed like 17 compared to other crowded tourist attractions. While the return trip included 18 the mental barrier of having already achieved our goal, the experience is the one I would do 19. It is the difficulty that makes the journey a more 20 one. Earned views are always better.

A US bus driver is being praised for the way she helped a passenger get some needed assistance（帮助）. In October, bus driver Natalie Barnes started talking with a passenger named Richard. He told her he had been 1 for a week, since there was a big fire in the place where he had been living and his house was 2. When he asked if he could 3 along for the night to stay out of the 4, she agreed. “At some point in our lives, everybody needs help,” Barnes said, “I want to do what I could to help Richard in some way.” At one point during her shift, she took a 5, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and offered to get her passenger something to eat. Richard was 6. “Now I don't know what to say but to say thank you,” he said to Barnes and promised to 7 her back somehow.

She refused, saying, “I want to help you.” But one act of kindness wasn't 8 for Barnes. During another break, she turned to a friend for help, who helped get Richard into temporary（临时的）9.

Barnes and Richard became 10 during that six-hour bus ride. Now he has her cellphone number, and they keep in 11.

Helping others comes second nature for Barnes, who has received lots of praise for 12 service since she worked in the MCTS two years ago. She 13 takes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on the bus to share with people in 14.

In fact, Barnes did what we all need to do to 15 homelessness: to look out for each other, to care for each other and to work together.

When Julie got back home from school that afternoon, she noticed a pigeon sitting very closely to the front door of her1. It seemed as if the pigeon hadn't moved at all. Julie moved 2 , noticing the pigeon had a wound on its left wing. Anxious that a dog or a cat would eat the 3animal, Julie ran upstairs to tell her mom about the bird.

"We have to help it!" Julie insisted. Whereas Julie's mom made a disgusted face, "I don't want to.

Pigeons usually have 4" she said. Julie began to cry. This made Julie's mom feel bad. She 5 , but she gave Julie some6that the pigeon had to stay in the kitchen in a storage bin.

Julie's mom didn't want to touch the7 bird.

While Julie tried to 8the bird bits of moist bread, Julie's mom looked online for local animal 9organizations. She felt silly trying to save an injured pigeon . Finally she found an organization that would 10 the bird, but not until the next morning. Julie stayed up all night 11_the bird.

The next morning Julia and her mother took the 12to the bird rescue organization. Many people on the train gave Julie and her mother13looks. Julie's mother just shrugged. When they 14 the site , the worker welcomed them warmly 15a big smile, "It's so kind of you to do this. This means 16to the pigeon!" 17goodbye to the worker, Julie looked so18_with a slight flush on her cheeks. On their way home, leaning on her mother' shoulder, Julie said softly, "Thank you, mom, for your support and19. " Julie's mom patted her  head, "I'm proud of you, sweetheart. You've taught me20: Every life deserves to be respected and loved. "