Passage 2 ?(湖北省宜昌市一中2009屆高三5月仿真模擬考試) 完形填空

Where the heart is?

In three days I will leave China behind for a few weeks and head back to Australia to spend time with my family and friends. This will be a very ? 31 ? trip for me as, for the first time ever, I will not be ? 32 ? to my hometown. You see, my parents sold their house in my hometown and moved about 500 kilometers away.

As it ? 33 ?me I would be returning to a whole new place, I was ? 34 ? with two questions: Do I still have a hometown? Where is my home? I needed to do some research.

After reading A Story from the Chinese Diaspora, I learned I was not alone in feeling ? 35 ? about where I call home. In the story, a Chinese American girl ? 36 ? with finding her identity and ? 37 ?? her past with her present. I realized the place we live now and the place we lived then, have a great ? 38 ? over who we are, where we long to be and where we feel ? 39 ? and safety.

Back to My Motherland ? 40 ? of a woman who left her motherland years ago and started a new life in America--the place she now calls home. But, ? 41 ? some people move on from their hometown and ? 42 ? a new life somewhere else, others have a strong ? 43 ? to the city that they grew up in. In Hometown Boy we learn of a man who clings(堅持) to his ? 44 ??and continues to make his hometown a ? 45 ?? of his life for now and for the future. He makes it his ? 46 ?? to give back to the community that has given so much to him and his family.

As I ? 47 ?? the days until I head back to my motherland and ? 48 ? where exactly my home is, I am ? 49 ? to decide where my heart is. And quite ? 50 ?, my heart is wherever I am.

31. A. strange B. serious C. unique D. curious

32. A. removing B. returning C. referring D. relating

33. A. struck B. clarified C. occurred D. impressed

34. A. satisfied B. charged C. appointed D. presented

35. A. confused B. convinced C. depressed D. excited

36. A. sticks B. starts C. struggles D. supplies

37. A. consulting B. connecting C. confirming D. contenting

38. A. difference B. advantage C. impression D. influence

39. A. comfort B. tension C. unrest D. stress

40. A. talks B. shows C. tells D. learns

41. A. why B. how C. where D. while

42. A. build B. trend C. survive D. expand

43. A. attachment B. commitment C. devotion D. ambition

44. A. bases B. roots C. rules D. tasks

45. A. soul B. sign C. role D. part

46. A. duty B. urge C. conduct D. purpose

47. A. account for B. appeal to C. centre upon D. count down

48. A. consider B. remind C. foresee D. expect

49. A. directed B. annoyed C. sacred D. forced

50. A. simply B. gently C. merely D. awfully

答案 ?31.C ? 32.B ?33.A ?34.D ?35.A ?36.C ?37.B ?38.D ?39.A ?40.C ?41.D ?42.A ?43.A ?44.B ?45.D ?46.A ?47.D ?48.A ?49.D ?50.A