【高分特训】2016高考英语-完形填空集训（一）
【全国优秀高中英语名师】
甘肃庆阳 刘克炜
【高分特训】第二部分 英语知识运用 (共两节，满分45分)
第一节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Passage 1
Once there was a girl called Arachne who was very proud of her skill at weaving. Many people came to see her 21 her threads in red, blue, green or yellow that made her 22 pictures glow with life. “The goddess Athene 23 have given you such a gift,” they said. But Arachne tossed her head. “No,” she replied 24 “I’ve taught myself everything I know. ” 25 those words, the goddess Athene decided to teach her a lesson. First she 26 herself as an old woman and 27 Arachne’s door. When she opened it, the goddess warned her, “You shouldn’t compare yourself with the great Athene. You should be more 28 .” At that Arachne grew very angry. “ Let her come here and have a 29 with me. Then we’ll see who’s better at weaving! ” 30 Athene threw off her disguise and the contest began.
All day the two contestants wove bright 31 into marvellous pictures. Arachne’s was definitely 32 in skill and design. At that Athene grew 33 angry that she hit Archne. At once the girl became smaller and smaller. Her head disappeared and her body became 34 . Her human arms and legs disappeared to be replaced with twice as many thinner insect-like 35 . As Arachne ran to hide, Athene laughed 36 “You may live, Arachne, but you will do your weaving 37 from now on. ” Hearing those words, Archne began to 38 a thread and to weave a pattern in the air. She had become the first 39 . Since then she has continued to recreate her lost 40 beautiful masterpiece in her webs, and all other spiders have
