2019高考英語完形填空精編·附詳解（七）

Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. ___1___ the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had “___2___ fathers,” because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling ___3___ and unimportant, she retreated(躲避) into books. ___4___ her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to ___5___.

In ___6___ school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros ___7___ her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father ___8___ her to go to college because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a ___9___. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her ___10___ the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university’s Writers’ Workshop, however, she felt ___11___—a Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so ___12___ helped Cisneros find her “Creative voice.”

“It was not until this moment when I considered myself ___13___ different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn’t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much ___14___ in my life, but it had ___15___ to do with it! That’s when I ___16___ I would write about something my classmates couldn’t write about.”

Cisneros ___17___ her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book tells about a young Mexican American girl ___18___ in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book ___19___ an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school through graduate school ___20___. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children’s book, and a short-story collection.(www.yygrammar.com)

1. A. Like                 B. As                        C. With                    D. For

2. A. five                  B. six                       C. seven                  D. eight

3. A. confident         B. shy                      C. admired               D. ashamed

4. A. Despite            B. Besides               C. Although             D. Except

5. A. consist             B. involve                C. anticipate            D. participate

6. A. high                 B. elementary          C. graduate             D. middle

7. A. increase          B. advance              C. improved             D. promote

8. A. enlightened     B. encouraged         C. made                   D. inquire

9. A. teacher            B. program              C. work                    D. husband

10. A. take               B. attend                  C. build                    D. join

11. A. calm               B. concerned           C. lonely                  D. faint

12. A. different        B. poor                    C. difficult                D. creative

13. A. mainly            B. truly                     C. principally            D. chiefly

14. A. reliance         B. imbalance            C. alliance                D. finance

15. A. something     B. anything              C. nothing               D. everything

16. A. remembered  B. managed             C. decided               D. asked

17. A. published      B. punished             C. delivered             D. spread

18. A. coming up     B. taking up             C. growing up          D. keeping up

19. A. won               B. beat                     C. attracted              D. accept

20. A. rank               B. range                  C. degree                D. level

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