高三英语CLOZETEST专题训练一(附答案).pdf

高三英语CLOZE TEST 专题训练一 A “…She was married to an officer in India long ago and she had a life of physical adventure as exciting as her poetry. Her husband could cross rivers, using crocodiles(鳄鱼) as stepping stones. He died when she was only thirty-nine. Unwilling to exist without him, she took her life, leaving a son in England.” I stared at the paper, 36 reading, couldn ’t help thinking. Crocodiles are lazy animals as a rule, but they can 37 like lightning when they want to. And they don ’t mind hurrying 38 they ’re hungry. There used to be lots in Indian rivers, living on fish mostly; but what ’s a little fish 39 a fifteen-foot crocodile? They ate people, fisherman or anyone else delicious enough to get too near; women doing the 40 , or children playing at the water’s 41 . A hungry crocodile’s mouth 42 over a meal with a sound like a gunshot. A big fellow can 43 in a man in two bites. That woman ’s husband crossed rivers 44 from one crocodile ’s back to the next. I believe it. It had to be done 45 before the creature could see what was happening. It wasn ’t 46 a brave, active man; and no doubt he improved with practice. He could never look 47 while crossing. The wife used to watch him —I felt 48 of that. She lived 49 the adventure the 50 excitement of it all. Their real life was with tigers, snakes… It ’s no wonder she wrote 51 poetry. Then he 52 . I imagined how she felt. Was there another man 53 him in India, in the world? She was still young, hardly a sitting-room widow(寡妇).“I must 54 , too.”she said to herself. So she did what she felt she had to do. A 55 probably, to her head. But her young son, their son? Was her love