历届高考完形填空语篇荟萃(23)

(二十三)

What an exciting day it was for Jennifer and Valerie! They had been friends since Grade Three and had shared many of their high school experience. Now they were driving together to their final high school event. Today was graduation day at Lamar High school .Although they were close friends, they were different in many ways. Jennifer was a fairly¹ diligent² student while Valerie did just enough to get by and was mainly interested in a good social life.
"Isn't it great that we've all finished? "said Valerie." I'm really looking forward to having a good time this summer."
"Must be nice. "Jennifer replied," I'm afraid I'm going to have to work most of the summer to help pay for my college expenses."
Junnifer's parents had only a small income and she had made up her mind to have an occupation³ in which she could afford all the things her parents could not.
Valerie, on the other hand ,came from a fairly well－to－do family. She had little desire to work hard for what she had always taken for granted⁴.
"I really don't want to go to college for a while," she admitted.
"My uncle runs a restaurant in the Bahamas and he has proposed⁵ me to spend a year there as a waitress. That should give me plenty of time for the beach."
"It seems we'll really be going different ways now," thought Jennifer.
简析：记叙文文体，叙述Jennifer和Valerie虽是朋友，但中学毕业后两人将各奔前程。

1 fairly   

adv.公正地，正当地；相当；完全，简直

参考例句：

• I think I was quite fairly treated by the police.我认为警察对我非常公正。
• It fairly destroyed the machine.它将那部机器完全毁了。

2 diligent   

adj.勤勉的，勤奋的

参考例句：

• He is the more diligent of the two boys.他是这两个男孩中较用功的一个。
• She is diligent and keeps herself busy all the time.她真勤快，一会儿也不闲着。

3 occupation   

n.职业，工作；占领，占据；占用

参考例句：

• I haven't entered up your name and occupation yet.我尚未记下你的名字和职业。
• Reading is a useful occupation to us.阅读对我们是一种有益的消遣。

4 granted   

conj.假定，就算v.（退一步）承认( grant的过去式和过去分词 )；（尤指正式地或法律上）同意；准许；让渡

参考例句：

• The president granted a general amnesty for all political prisoners. 总统大赦了所有的政治犯。
• She feared she would not be granted re-entry into Britain. 她担心不会获准再次踏足英伦。

5 proposed   

被提议的

参考例句：

• There is widespread discontent among the staff at the proposed changes to pay and conditions. 员工对改变工资和工作环境的建议普遍不满。
• an outcry over the proposed change 对拟议的改革所发出的强烈抗议