2019高考英語完形填空精編·附詳解（八）

One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become depressed unless things went a certain way. ___1___ was “having the cookie.” If you had the cookie, things were good. If you didn’t have the cookie, life wasn’t ___2___ a damn(詛咒). Unfortunately, the cookie kept ___3___. Some of the time it was money, sometimes power, sometimes sex. At ___4___ times, it was the new car, the ___5___ contract, the most prestigious(有威望的) address. A year and a half after his diagnosis(診斷) of cancer he sits ___6___ his head ruefully. “It’s like I ___7___ learning how to live after I was a kid. When I give my son a cookie, he is ___8___. If I take the cookie away or it ___9___, he is unhappy. But he is two and a half and I am forty-three. It’s taken me this long to ___10___ that the cookie will never make me happy for long. The minute you have the cookie it starts to crumble(碎裂) or you start to ___11___ it crumbling or about someone trying to take it away from you. You know, you have to ___12___ a lot of things to take care of the cookie, to keep it from crumbling and be ___13___ that no one takes it away from you. You may not even get a chance to eat it ___14___ you are so busy just trying not to lose it. Having the cookie is not what life is about.” (www.yygrammar.com)

My patient ___15___ and says cancer has changed him. For the first time he is happy. No matter if his ___16___ is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf. “Two years ago, cancer asked me, ‘Okay, what’s important? What is ___17___ important?’ Well, life is important. Life. Life, ___18___ you can have it, life with the cookie, life without the cookie. Happiness does not have ___19___ to do with the cookie; it has to do with being alive. Before, who made the time?” He ___20___ thoughtfully. “Damn, I guess life is the cookie.”

1. A. Weakness       B. Sadness              C. Happiness           D. Tiredness

2. A. worth               B. waste                  C. cost                     D. afford

3. A. staying             B. saying                 C. living                   D. changing

4. A. another            B. others                 C. other                   D. the other

5. A. most                B. biggest                C. lowest                 D. deepest

6. A. pressing          B. shocking             C. nodding              D. shaking

7. A. stopped           B. admitted              C. wished                D. enjoyed

8. A. surprise           B. happy                  C. disappointed       D. angry

9. A. blends             B. hits                      C. breaks                 D. knocks

10. A. explain           B. understand          C. research             D. discover

11. A. care about     B. bring about          C. think about          D. worry about

12. A. give up          B. build up               C. clear up               D. keep up

13. A. complete       B. true                     C. sure                    D. suitable

14. A. so                  B. until                     C. if                         D. because

15. A. cries              B. replies                 C. laughs                 D. quarrels

16. A. business        B. happiness           C. study                   D. analyse

17. A. almost            B. pretty                  C. really                   D. usually

18. A. any more       B. any way               C. any old                D. any one

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

20. A. troubles         B. pauses                C. disturbs               D. introduce

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