考研研英语一完型填空满分为10分,总共有20题,每个小题是0.5分。要求考生在一篇240~280词的文章中留出20个空白,要求考生从每题给出的4个选项中选出最佳答案,使补全后的文章意思通顺、前后连贯、结构完整。下面是为大家分享的完型填空模拟题,一起来练习下吧。
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and markA, B, Cor D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)
People often say that “failure is the mother of success.”This cliche might have some 1____to it,but it does not tell us how to 2____turn a loss into a win, says Emmanuel Manalo,a professor of educational psychology at Kyoto University in Japan.3____,he says,“we know we shouldn't give up when we fail- -but in reality, we do.”
Manalo and his co-authors conducted a study focused on 4____one fundamental,everyday form of failure: not 5____a task. They asked 131 undergraduates to write an essay about their school experiences. Half of the students received 6___for structuring their writing, and half were 7___to their own devices;8___,however, were stopped prior to finishing. Afterward the researchers found that those in the structured group were more motivated to complete their essays, compared with those who lacked guidance-9____the latter were closer to being done.10____how to finish , 11 ____,was more important than being close to finishing.
The researchers called this finding“the Hemingway effect,"12____the author's self-reported 13____to stop writing only 14____he knew what would happen next in the story-so as to avoid writer's block when he returned to the page.Manalo believes that learning how to fail 15____can help people 16____becoming permanent failures at many tasks,such as completing a dissertation,learning a language or inventing a new technology.
Demystifying failure and teaching students not to.17____it make goals more attainable,says Stephanie Couch,executive director of the Lemelson-MIT Program, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing and supporting inventors. Couch 18____ that we“should really be thinking of failure_ 19 part of a process of iterating 20____success.
1.[A] problem [B] relation [C] truth [D] use
2.[A] particularly [B] actually [C] easily [D] hardly
3.[A] Even so [B] After all [C] As a result [D] On the contrary
4.[A] embracing [B] experiencing [C] recalling [D] overcoming
5.[A] completing [B] performing[C] giving up[D] putting off
6.[A] results [B] pretests[C] instructions[D] rewards
7.[A] devoted [B]left[C] used[D] limited
8.[A] all [B]half [C]none [D]most
9.[A] even if [B]asif [C]if only [D]only if
10.[A] Discussing [B]Knowing [C]Considering [D]Asking
11.[A] in other words [B]on the other hand [C]moreover [D]however
12.[A] for [B] in [C]by [D] like
13.[A] failure [B] reluctance [C] tendency [D]freedom
14.[A] until [B] when [C] that [D] all
15.[A] occasionally [B] theoretically [C] regularly [D] temporarily
16.[A] avoid [B] accept [C] practice [D] delay
17.[A] repeat [B] take [C] fear [D] ignore
18.[A] expects [B]adds [C]finds [D]admits
19.[A] about [B]through [C]with [D]as
20.[A] from [B]toward [C]against [D]of