09届高考英语完形填空与阅读理解训练（五）
完形填空
When I was younger, I thought that boys and grown men shouldn’t cry. Tears were a sign of being weak, which a man isn’t   36  to be.
However, just last June, I   37  that courage isn’t all about trying to keep all the pain inside and trying to hide the   38  .
My 18 – year – old sister had eloped (私奔) and then I saw how   39  my father’s heart was. We were used to seeing him as a (an)  40  father.
For three days he wouldn’t talk. He would just sit quietly outside our house in the   41  . On the fourth night, I sat beside him and asked him to tell me what he felt about   42  .
It had been years since I laid my hand on my father’s shoulder as we have drifted (疏远) further and further apart while I was   43  . That night though, I sensed my father trying to   44
  his pain and I wanted him to be able to let it out. We had all cried over what happened except him.
The simple   45  and my words, “Dad, it’s not your fault. broke my father’s   46  . In the darkness, he began to cry. I   47  his shoulders shaking as he whispered, “  48  did I go wrong? All I ever wanted was for my children to grow up   49  . Why couldn’t your sister wait?”
I understood then why he   50  to be in the dark,  51  being there, he had hoped not to spare his   52  a father’s pain. His tears,  53  we hadn’t seen them before that night, were there all the same.
I saw his   54  , that night when my father cried with my hand on his shoulder, and   55  his pain.
36．A．supposed    B．likely    C．suitable    D．glad
37．A．believed    B．wondered    C．discovered    D．caredpouring
38．A．secrets    B．tears    C．opinions    D．qualities
39．A．weak    B．sweet    C．warm    D．simple
40．A．hard – working    B．easy – going    C．kind – hearted    D．strong - willed
41．A．room    B．dark    C．garden    D．eye
42．A．something    B．nothing    C．anything    D．everything
43．A．running away    B．giving in    C．growing up    D．turning round
44．A．forget    B．control    C．reduce    D．prove
45．A．touch    B．idea    C．thought    D．feeling
46．A．heart    B．mind    C．dam    D．memory
47．A．noticed    B．felt    C．heard    D．imagined
48．A．How    B．What    C．When    D．Where
49．A．quickly    B．naturally    C．happily    D．right
50．A．preferred    B．managed    C．used    D．agreed
51．A．For    B．On    C．By    D．Of
52．A．family    B．children    C．function    D．experience
53．A．if    B．because    C．until    D．though
54．A．condition    B．pain    C．courage    D．trouble
55．A．remembered    B．understood    C．touched    D．respected
Key: 36—40 ACBAD  41—45 BDCBA    46—50 CBDDA    51—55 CADCB
阅读理解
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Ever thought you'd get to experience the smell of ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra's hair, or the scent (气味) of the sun? Visitors to the Reg Vardy Gallery will soon be able to do just that.
The gallery, at Sunderland University, England, is holding a new exhibition, If There Ever Was. It focuses on scent rather than sight.
The innovative (创新的) idea is the brainchild of curator (馆长) Robert Blackson. His inspiration came from reading the book Fast Food Nation. The book discussed the use of artificial chemicals to flavor things such as milkshakes, making them smell and taste like strawberries, when they're not actually made from them.
A smell can often conjure up (召唤) memories such as school dinners or a childhood holiday by the sea, but the smells on display, will allow visitors to experience smells their noses won't have been able to pick out before.
"There's a whole variety of different smells, including some extinct (灭绝) flowers," explains Blackson. "Some have been gone for hundreds of years."
One extraordinary fragrance is the aftermath (灾难的后果) of the first atomic bomb, dropped on Japan on August 6, 1945.
There is also the smell of Cleopatra's hair, based on incense (熏香) that was popular among ancient Egyptians.
The Soviet Mir space station, which burnt up in the atmosphere in 2001, smells of charred (烧焦的) material (the space station caught fire).
Among the stranger smells is the "surface of the sun".
"It is hard to sum up. It is an atmospheric smell, like walking into a room when the sun has been pouring in," says Blackson. "It gives a freshness, a sun kissed feel with a bit of metal. If you can say something smells hot, this is it."
A team of 11, including perfume (香水) designers, have been working on recreating the smells for the exhibition. James Wong, a botanist at Botanic Gardens Conservation International, UK, helped in the recreation of the smells of four extinct flowering plants.
He did this by closely linking the extinct flowers with the smells of existing ones. With the help of historical reports of how the extinct flowers smelled, he was able to remix the aromas (芳香).