四、阅读短文,选出正确答案
My father died when I was nine, and I remembered doing chores to help my mother. I hated changing the vacuum cleaner(真空吸尘器) bag and picking up the things the machine 1 to take in.
Twenty years later, I was doing chores at home with my wife and I had to empty the bag because I could not find a new one. I had always hated the way the machine worked and I decided to make a vacuum cleaner without 2.
Easier said than done, of course. I didn't 3 that I would spend the next five years perfecting my design, a process that resulted in 5, 127 different prototypes(设计原型). By the time I made my 15th prototype, my third child was born. By 2,627, my wife and I were really short of money. By 3,727, my wife was giving art lessons for some money. These were hard times, but each failure brought me closer to 4 the problem.
However, at first I 5 thought of going into a business with it. In the early
1980s, I started trying to get a license(许可证) for my technology. The reality was very different, though. The big vacuum makers made most of the money from bags. No one would license my idea, not because it was a(n) 6 one, but because it was bad for business.
The unfairness(不公平) gave me the 7 to keep going, but soon after, the companies that I had talked with started making machines 8 mine. I had to fight to protect the patents(专利) on my invention. My invention didn't go into production 9 a bank lent me 1 million pounds in 1993. Within two years, my invention—the Dyson vacuum cleaner—became a success in Britain.
Today, I still welcome risk and failure as part of the process. 10 beats the excitement of invention. Go out and brainstorm your ideas. Rules can't get in the way of you. In fact, the stranger and riskier your idea is, the better.
()1. A. missed B. failed C. managed
()2. A. printer B. bags C. signal
()3. A. lend B. weigh C. realize
()4. A. working on B. working out C. working in
()5. A. always B. ever C. never
()6. A. valuable B. artificial C. bad
()7. A. courage B. brain C. pride
()8. A. for B. as C. like
()9. A. until B. unless C. if
()10. A. Nothing B. Anything C. Everything

1.B 2.B 3.C 4.B 5.C 6.C 7.A 8.C 9.A 10.A

【分析】
本题为完形填空，围绕戴森吸尘器发明者的创业励志故事展开，需结合上下文语境、词汇词义辨析及固定搭配逐一解题。解题思路：先通读全文把握主旨（克服困难发明无袋吸尘器的过程），再逐题分析：1题选表示吸尘器“未能”吸入东西的动词；2题对应前文“讨厌换吸尘器袋子”的细节；3题选表“意识到”耗时久的动词；4题选与“解决问题”搭配的短语；5题选表“从未”的副词；6题结合转折逻辑选“坏的”；7题选表“勇气”的名词；8题选表“像”的介词；9题考查“直到…才”的固定结构；10题选表“没有什么”的代词。
【解析】
1. 考查动词辨析：miss（错过）、fail（未能）、manage（设法）。语境为吸尘器未能吸入的东西，fail to do sth.是固定用法，表“未能做某事”，故选B。
2. 考查名词辨析：printer（打印机）、bags（袋子）、signal（信号）。前文提到“讨厌换吸尘器袋子”，因此决定制作无袋吸尘器，故选B。
3. 考查动词辨析：lend（借）、weigh（称重）、realize（意识到）。语境为“没意识到要花5年完善设计”，故选C。
4. 考查短语辨析：work on（从事）、work out（解决）、work in（插入）。此处指“解决问题”，work out the problem是固定搭配，故选B。
5. 考查副词辨析：always（总是）、ever（曾经）、never（从未）。语境为“一开始从未想过将发明用于商业”，故选C。
6. 考查形容词辨析：valuable（有价值的）、artificial（人造的）、bad（坏的）。转折逻辑“不是因为主意坏，而是损害大公司生意”，故选C。
7. 考查名词辨析：courage（勇气）、brain（头脑）、pride（骄傲）。语境为“不公平给了继续的勇气”，故选A。
8. 考查介词辨析：for（为了）、as（作为）、like（像）。此处指“公司制作了像我的机器”，故选C。
9. 考查连词辨析：until（直到）、unless（除非）、if（如果）。固定结构not...until表“直到…才”，语境为“直到银行贷款才投入生产”，故选A。
10. 考查代词辨析：nothing（没什么）、anything（任何事）、everything（一切）。语境为“没什么比发明的兴奋感更好”，故选A。
【答案】
1.B 2.B 3.C 4.B 5.C 6.C 7.A 8.C 9.A 10.A
【知识点】
完形填空；词汇辨析；固定搭配
【点评】
本题以励志创业故事为载体，考查完形填空的核心能力，既注重基础词汇的掌握，也考查语篇逻辑理解能力，是典型的初中英语完形题型，需学生结合上下文细节与词义辨析解题。
【难度系数】
0.6