完形填空(五) 热门话题篇
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Ⅰ.[2019·黄冈改编]阅读下面短文,从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Zhang Peng is a Chinese driver in Xi'an. When he checked the online wallet of his WeChat app(微信应用软件), he saw that one of his 1 had paid 6,500 yuan for a 65-yuan pay. That meant the passenger paid about $950, 2 in fact, the passenger only needed to pay$9.50.
Zhang Peng guessed that the payment(支付) was a 3 . According to the time of the payment, he guessed that the four foreign travelers 4 it. He picked up the four travelers, from the train station and dropped them off at a nearby 5 .
When he 6 to call the four foreign passengers, Zhang Peng directly went to the hotel again where he had dropped them off. Then in the hotel he 7 what had happened to the waiter at the front desk.
Just at that time, the 8 who made the payment came downstairs. She was 9 to hear about her mistake. It was her first time to visit the Chinese city, and she said that it was also her first time to use the app's online payment function(在线付费功能) to 10 the ride.
She was 11 more surprised when Zhang Peng refused to get a reward(报酬) and returned her all her extra(额外的) money.
It is true that the traveler had a wonderful 12 of using WeChat. “I can't believe it,” the woman traveler said. “For some people, money is 13 only dream, and $950 is a lot of money. I felt very excited yesterday 14 the taxi driver came back to return the money in person. I am really 15 .”
( )1.A.friends B.passengers C.classmates D.partners
( )2.A.so B.and C.but D.or
( )3.A.mistake B.question C.fool D.praise
( )4.A.refused B.bought C.did D.accepted
( )5.A.station B.hotel C.hospital D.restaurant
( )6.A.succeeded B.forgot C.regretted D.failed
( )7.A.explained B.asked C.understood D.suggested
( )8.A.reporter B.traveler C.teacher D.waiter
( )9.A.interested B.glad C.angry D.surprised
( )10.A.look for B.look after C.care for D.pay for
( )11.A.very B.even C.quite D.too
( )12.A.trip B.examination C.experience D.vacation
( )13.A.his B.her C.their D.our
( )14.A.because B.unless C.although D.if
( )15.A.nervous B.proud C.worried D.thankful
Ⅱ.阅读下面短文,用方框中所给词的适当形式填空。
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People design handbags, clothes and shoes. Now some say, we could design babies! Sounds 16. , doesn't it? But the idea is actually possible, although it has also 17. a lot of debates(争论).
A “designer baby” means scientists can make changes to unborn babies' DNA. It usually happens in the very early stages of the embryo(胚胎). Scientists want to stop babies 18. being born with certain serious illness by making changes to their DNA and genes. They call it genetic engineering(遗传工程). During the 21st century, research on the technology progressed very 19. .
People soon learned that it was not only 20. genetic engineering could change, but also a baby's gender(性别) and physical appearance(外表). In 1996, an American couple, Monique and Scott Collins, decided
21. a doctor's research to help them choose the gender of their next baby. They wanted to have a baby girl. 22. story become famous. People started to realize how much doctors could do. For example, you could control baby's eye color, hair color and even things like 23. or how athletic your baby will be.
People argue that it is not ethical(道德的)to design our babies this way. But they also 24. that genetic engineering is helpful in the 25. field. There are many examples of how doctors have saved children from illness by using this technology.
