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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】

試題分析：

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

2.D。make成為。根據(jù)本句句意“使我們成為人類”，可知答案應選D。

3.A。從But also in our nature來看是對上文的轉折，并且文章最后一段倒數(shù)第二句也是暗示。

4.B。從前面的unite可以看出是divide。

5..C。根據(jù)本句句意可知是因為我媽媽的皮膚太黑以致于達拉斯的餐廳拒絕為她服務。也可從“I noticed for the first time how dark my mother was”一句判斷答案。

6..B。turn down “拒絕”, turn out“結果是，生產(chǎn)”, turn over“翻閱，發(fā)動，移交”, turn back“往回走，阻擋”。

7..A。從came from Germany in the mid-1800s可知應該是我父親的祖先在十九世紀中葉從德國移民到美國。

8..A。silly傻的，幼稚的，foolish 愚蠢的, 根據(jù)句意是當時我從來沒有注意到我父母不同的膚色，這很傻，很幼稚。所以答案選A。

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

10..D。walk down the street是慣用法，意思為“沿街散步”。

11..D。participate in參加。enter為及物動詞，后面不加介詞。

12..C。根據(jù)句意我看到他們手拉手一起搖擺，所以選C。

13.C。before在……之前。

14..B。夫婦，常用couple。根據(jù)句意“當我看到一對不同膚色的夫婦逛街的時候”可知答案。

15.D。still仍然有。這個國家當時仍然在有的地方禁止不同膚色的人通婚。

16..D。ban表示法律禁止，從下句也可看出

17..B。however表轉折。從was not against可知與上文是轉折關系

18.B。定語從句，表所有。我祖父的父親曾經(jīng)是一位激進分子。

19.C。tall在這里與short對比。

20.C。根據(jù)句意：我們有許許多多的差異，我們都是獨一無二的，可知答案。

考點：考查情感類完型

點評：本文屬于情感類閱讀，從祖先是移民多遭受的區(qū)別對待以及相關的思考可知我們雖然有很多的差異，但是每個人都是獨一無二的。整個完形填空大題，設空科學合理，考生不難從中領會大意，從而下手會比較順利，從選項中可以看出，本大題主要還是考查了詞匯的辨析與運用，但更加注重綜合語言能力的運用，需要根據(jù)故事情節(jié)，了解詞匯用法的同時，結合語境，做出準確的判斷。