专题18 生活故事
（2022·全国·高考真题）Like many young people, Jessica wants to travel the globe. Unlike most of them, this 25-year-old is doing it ___1___ . She and her husband have spent the last two years traveling the world, stopping everywhere from Paris to Singapore. It might sound like one long, expensive ___2___ , but the couple has an unusual way to make their travel ___3___ .
They’re part of a new form of the ___4___ economy: an online group of house sitters. Throughout their no-cost stays in ___5___ homes, they feed pets and water plants in the homeowner’s ___6___ .
It’s not all sightseeing. The two travelers carefully ___7___ their trips, scheduling their days around the pets that are sometimes difficult to ___8___ . But house sitting also offers a level of ___9___ they can’t find in a hotel. “It’s like ____10____ at a friend’s house,” Jessica says.
The couple has a high ____11____ rate in getting accepted as house sitters and they always go beyond the homeowner’s ____12____ . For Jessica, that means ____13____ plenty of pictures of happy pets, keeping the house ____14____ and leaving a nice small gift before heading to the next house. “You want to make the homeowner feel that they made the right ____15____ ,” she says.
1．A．indoors B．online C．single-handed D．full-time
2．A．game B．service C．vacation D．procedure
3．A．safe B．busy C．helpful D．affordable
4．A．local B．private C．sharing D．agricultural
5．A．strangers’B．parents’C．co-workers’D．neighbors’
6．A．favor B．defense C．honor D．absence
7．A．plan B．explain C．compare D．complete
8．A．buy B．transport C．choose D．please
9．A．support B．comfort C．control D．attention
10．A．cooking B．staying C．waiting D．studying
11．A．success B．survival C．growth D．unemployment
12．A．budget B．abilities C．expectations D．understanding 13．A．admiring B．donating C．sending D．borrowing
14．A．clean B．open C．simple D．empty
15．A．guess B．decision C．response D．impression
（2022·全国·高考真题）You can tell a lot about a man by how he treats his dogs.
For many years, I enjoyed living with my dogs, Tilly and Chance. Their ___16___ was nearly enough to keep my loneliness at bay. Nearly. Last year, I started dating, but with ___17___. When I first dated Steve, I ___18___ he had a dog, Molly, and a cat, Flora. While I was ___19___ that he was an animal lover, I ___20___ that three dogs were perhaps too many, and my dogs might attack ___21___, the cat.
The next week we ___22___ our dogs together. It was a hot day. When we paused to catch our ___23___, Steve got down on one knee. Was he proposing (求婚)? I liked him too, but so ___24___? He poured water from a bottle into his hand and offered it to my dogs. ______25______, I began to fall for him.
We ______26______ to date, though neither of us brought up the future. And then in late November, Tilly had an operation on her ______27______. I took the dogs out four times a day, and I worried that Tilly ______28______ climbing the stairs could reopen the wound. Then Steve ______29______ his house. All worked ______30______. The three dogs formed a pack that, with coaching, ______31______ Flora’s space; Steve and I formed a good team ______32______ for Tilly. We made good housemates.
A year later, much to my ______33______, this man produced a little box with a ring and proposed to me. He did not kneel (跪) down, nor did I ______34______ him to. That’s only for giving ______35______ to the dogs that brought us together.
16．A．ownership B．membership C．companionship D．leadership 17．A．reservations B．expectations C．confidence D．prejudice
18．A．feared B．doubted C．hoped D．learned
19．A．unsatisfied B．amused C．terrified D．thrilled
20．A．predicted B．worried C．regretted D．insisted
21．A．Flora B．Chance C．Molly D．Tilly
22．A．tied B．walked C．bathed D．fed
23．A．breath B．balance C．attention D．imagination
24．A．calm B．sure C．soon D．real
25．A．By the way B．In that case C．By all means D．In that moment 26．A．continued B．decided C．intended D．pretended
27．A．eye B．tail C．ear D．leg
28．A．secretly B．constantly C．eventually D．unwillingly
29．A．left B．sold C．suggested D．searched
30．A．late B．hard C．fine D．free
31．A．emptied B．respected C．occupied D．discovered
32．A．looking B．caring C．waiting D．calling
33．A．delight B．credit C．interest D．disadvantage
34．A．beg B．trust C．need D．aid
35．A．toys B．awards C．food D．water
（2022·广西玉林·模拟预测）New Year’s Eve should be a time of celebration. However, for Jimmy Nicholos, the start of 2021 was especially ___36___.
Jimmy is a(n) ___37___ man in California who works part-time at Start Rescue Resale Store which ___38___ most of the money they earned to help START Rescue, a nonprofit that saves animals. As the owner of a service dog, this ___39___ is particularly close to Jimmy’s heart.
One day after work, he went out with his dog Boots. While ___40___ the street, he and Boots were ___41___ by a large group of people approaching from the other side. Jimmy couldn’t find Boots. ___42___, Jimmy did everything he could to get back his furry friend as soon as possible.
He wasn’t ___43___. The other employees at the store collectively offered $10,000 for Boots’ ___44___. “The START team sent out hundreds of flyers, and worked 24 hours a day to ____45____ Boots,” Jimmy said.
As time went on, Jimmy was provided with ways to ____46____ the news about his lost dog, including a moment to ____47____ at a press conference. “Having lost my family and having no home to go to, I’ve ____48____ him to be my baby,” he said. “What he brought me was ____49____.”
After about two weeks with no ____50____, Jimmy was approached by a local TV station. He talked with them about his situation. Mere several minutes after it aired, someone called, ____51____ they had his dog.
Soon after, Jimmy ____52____ with Boots in the Van Nuys Community Police Station. He was so ____53____ to everyone who had a part in ____54____ him. Jimmy said that without them, this happy ____55____ wouldn’t have happened.
36．A．late B．easy C．peaceful D．tough
37．A．homeless B．busy C．generous D．independent
38．A．receives B．appreciates C．donates D．cost
39．A．habit B．job C．confidence D．power
40．A．leaving B．touring C．crossing D．searching
41．A．protected B．forgotten C．blocked D．separated
42．A．Luckily B．Immediately C．Simply D．Temporarily
43．A．foolish B．relaxed C．alone D．ashamed
44．A．return B．health C．future D．life
45．A．look after B．hunt for C．care about D．stay with
46．A．spread B．keep C．exchange D．write
47．A．work B．question C．agree D．speak
48．A．proved B．allowed C．considered D．encouraged
49．A．sympathy B．comfort C．impression D．experience
50．A．news B．competition C．service D．opinion
51．A．apologizing B．adding C．commenting D．telling
52．A．talked B．reunited C．communicated D．played
53．A．cheerful B．careful C．thankful D．painful
54．A．repaying B．trusting C．changing D．helping备战高考
55．A．ending B．method C．fact D．chance
（2022·四川省内江市第六中学模拟预测）It was a busy morning, about 8 30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the hospital. I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for an appointment(约会) at 9: 30. The nurse had him take a ____56____ in the waiting area, ____57____ him it would be at least 40 minutes ____58____ someone would be able to see him. I saw him ____59____ his watch and decided, since I was ____60____ busy—my patient didn’t ____61____ at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound.
While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment. The gentleman said no and told me that he ____62____ to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his ____63____. He told me that she had been ____64____ for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be _____65_____ if he was a bit late. He replied that she _____66_____ knew who he was, and that she had not been able to _____67_____ him for five years now.
I was _____68_____, and asked him, “And you _____69_____ go every morning, even though she doesn’t know who you are?” He smiled and said. “She doesn’t know me but I know who she is” I had to hold back _____70_____ as he left.
Now I _____71_____ that in marriages, true love is _____72_____ of all that is. The happiest people don’t _____73_____ have the best of everything; they just _____74_____ the best of everything they have. _____75_____ isn’t about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
56．A．seat B．test C．breath D．trip
57．A．persuading B．promising C．telling D．understanding
58．A．if B．since C．before D．after
59．A．taking off B．fixing C．winding D．looking at
60．A．very B．not C．seldom D．also
61．A．show off B．turn up C．come on D．go away
62．A．agreed B．forgot C．needed D．happened
63．A．daughter B．sister C．mother D．wife
64．A．late B．well C．there D．around
65．A．worried B．doubtful C．lonely D．hungry
66．A．so far B．neither C．already D．no longer
67．A．answer B．expect C．believe D．recognize
68．A．moved B．surprised C．disappointed D．satisfied
69．A．only B．then C．still D．thus
70．A．tears B．curiosity C．words D．judgment
71．A．suggest B．realize C．hope D．prove
72．A．agreement B．expression C．exhibition D．acceptance 73．A．necessarily B．fluently C．naturally D．frequently
74．A．make B．learn C．favor D．try
75．A．Adventure B．Beauty C．Life D．Trust
（2022·山东·济南市历城第二中学模拟预测）Emma Jones’ three-year-old son, Eric, was sharing a hot dog on the deck overlooking her friend Sarah Roth’s swimming pool. One moment Jones was watching Eric play around with the other children at this____76____of moms and kids last July. The next moment he disappeared without a____77____. She turned to her friend Machel Rawlings and asked,“ Have you seen Eric?”
Rawlings stood, ____78____ the pool and suddenly screamed. Eric was found ____79____ face down in the deep end. What happened next was a ____80____ textbook response: As Rawlings dived in the pool, grasped the boy,____81____ him over and swam him to the end. Meanwhile, their host, Sarah Roth, dialed 911. At the pool’s____82____, Rawlings handed Eric up to his mother. His skin was blue and wasn’t breathing.
Rawlings who’d taken a CPR course just four months earlier, immediately began rescue breathing. Hanging up the phone, Roth, a former flight attendant who’d accumulated ____83____ experience before,____84____CPR from Rawlings. Three long minutes went by with Roth breathing into Eric’ s mouth and _____85_____chest compressions(按压) while Rawlings and Jones _____86_____his con
dition. Gradually his color _____87_____, and as the ambulance was arriving on the _____88_____, Rawlings looked at Roth.“ He’s breathing,” she said. The _____89_____with which the women acted saved Eric’s life. Emma Jones found any words seemed powerless. She said _____90_____,“ They did everything right.”
76．A．encounter B．union C．gathering D．game
77．A．trace B．symptom C．footprint D．signal
78．A．found B．examined C．fixed D．scanned
79．A．floating B．lying C．sinking D．diving
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