高考英语二轮复习活页综合提升练(二十二).pdfVIP

活页综合提升练(二十二) 完形填空+阅读理解 (限时35 分钟) Ⅰ.完形填空 This was my grandmother’s first Christmas without grandfather,and before he passed away we had promised grandfather that we would make this her best Christmas ever.When my parents and I 1 at her house,we found she had waited up all night for us.The house did seem a little 2 without grandfather. Grandfather had always said that the Christmas 3 was the most important decoration of all.So we immediately set to work on the beautiful artificial tree that was stored in grandfather’ s closet (壁橱).Through our efforts,we finally stepped back to 4 our handiwork.It looked beautiful. 5 something was missing. “Where’s your star?” I asked. The star was my grandmother’s favorite part of the tree. “Why,it 6 be here somewhere,” she said,starting to sort through the boxes again. “Your grandfather always 7 everything so carefully when he took the tree down.” As we emptied the boxes and 8 no star,my grandmother’s eyes filled with tears.Grandfather had given it to grandmother some fifty years ago on their first Christmas together.It brought them great happiness.Now,on her first Christmas without him,the star was 9 ,too. “Don’t worry,Grandmother,” I 10 her. “We’ll find it for you.” My mother and I formed a search 11 . “Let’s start in on the closet where the ornaments (装饰品) were,” Mother said. “Maybe the star just fell out of the box.” That sounded 12 ,so I began to search the closet.I thought I tried every 13 ,but no star.I could see grandmother was 14 ,although she tried not to show it. “What’s in this wrapped box?” Mother suddenly called out. “It was at the bottom of grandfather’s closet.” Grandmother took the box in 15 and opened it.Her face 16 when she unfolded the paper and