阅读下面短文,从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Do you love chocolate chip cookies? Then thank Ruth Graves Wakefield for her mistakes in the kitchen.
Wakefield owned a restaurant. She prepared the recipes (食谱) and cooked for her 1 every day. One day in 1930, Wakefield had a 2 — she was short of baker's chocolate for her cookies. Surely, her customers would be 3. To avoid that, Wakefield had to 4 find something that could serve as baker's chocolate. She 5 a piece of chocolate into smaller pieces and 6 them into the batter (面糊) for cookies. She thought the chocolate would melt (熔化) like baker's chocolate during the baking.
However, that didn't 7. When Wakefield took the cookies out of the oven, the chocolate only melted a little. But surprisingly, the 8 cookies tasted not bad. The customers were 9 about their taste, too.
Like that, the chocolate chip cookies were invented. And they 10 later. Not only the customers at Wakefield's restaurant but also the people all over her country showed their love for them.
1. A. family B. team C. relatives D. customers
2. A. tradition B. problem C. pattern D. plan
3. A. bored B. upset C. silent D. excited
4. A. mostly B. probably C. quickly D. simply
5. A. divided B. led C. took D. carried
6. A. mixed B. turned C. ran D. cut
7. A. win B. stop C. matter D. happen
8. A. magic B. normal C. usual D. accidental
9. A. nervous B. hopeful C. happy D. worried
10. A. got lost B. got popular C. went bad D. went wrong

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

【分析】做完形填空需先通读全文把握主旨（本文讲述巧克力曲奇的发明过程），再逐空结合上下文线索、词汇含义、语境逻辑逐一筛选选项，最后验证答案是否符合文意。
【解析】1. 第1空：根据后文“her customers”可知，Wakefield为顾客做饭，故选D。2. 第2空：后文提到她缺烘焙巧克力，这是一个问题，故选B。3. 第3空：若缺少所需食材，顾客会感到不安，故选B。4. 第4空：为避免顾客不满，她需快速寻找替代品，故选C。5. 第5空：divide...into是固定搭配，意为“把……分成”，此处指把巧克力分成小块，故选A。6. 第6空：mix...into意为“把……混入”，符合将巧克力块加入面糊的语境，故选A。7. 第7空：她预想巧克力会熔化，但该情况未发生，故选D。8. 第8空：巧克力曲奇是意外发明的，accidental意为“意外的”，故选D。9. 第9空：顾客对曲奇的味道很满意，happy符合语境，故选C。10. 第10空：后文提到全国人民都喜爱这种曲奇，说明它后来变得流行，故选B。
【答案】1.D 2.B 3.B 4.C 5.A 6.A 7.D 8.D 9.C 10.B
【知识点】完形填空解题技巧、词汇辨析、语境理解
【点评】本文是关于巧克力曲奇发明的记叙文，考查学生对上下文语境的理解及常用词汇的辨析能力，难度适中。
【难度系数】0.6

阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或填入括号内单词的正确形式。
Thanks to inventions, our lives are made better. But sometimes, inventions can make our lives 11. (bad). This can happen when an invention isn't used according to the
12. (inventor) plan. For example, Alfred Nobel, a Swedish 13. (science), invented a strong explosive in 1867. It 14. (call) dynamite (炸药) and it 15. (complete) changed the world of engineering. After 16. (it) invention, many bridges, tunnels and other structures were built much 17. (fast) and more safely with the help of dynamite. However, dynamite was 18. used in wars. This made Nobel upset. Before his 19. (die), Nobel decided to use the money from his famous invention to make the world 20. better place.
A special fund was started in Nobel's name, and it 21. (run) for over a century. Every year, these prizes honor people who use their knowledge and 22. (creative) to help others, just as Nobel 23. (hope). Today, the Nobel Prize is one of the most 24. (respect) awards in the world, and it 25. (remind) us that every invention should be used for good, not for harm.

11. worse
12. inventor's
13. scientist
14. was called
15. completely
16. its
17. faster
18. also
19. death
20. a
21. has run
22. creativity
23. hoped
24. respected
25. reminds

【分析】
本题为英语语法填空题，围绕诺贝尔与诺贝尔奖的主题展开，需结合语境、词性变化及语法规则完成填空。解题时先通读全文理解大意，再逐个分析每个空：11题由前文“发明让生活更好”的转折，需用bad的比较级；12题表示“发明者的计划”，用名词所有格；13题诺贝尔是科学家，填对应名词；14题炸药被命名，用一般过去时被动语态；15题修饰动词用副词；16题修饰名词用形容词性物主代词；17题与more safely并列用比较级；18题表“也”填also；19题before后接名词；20题表“一个”用不定冠词；21题结合时间状语用现在完成时；22题与knowledge并列用名词；23题诺贝尔过去的希望用一般过去时；24题修饰名词用形容词；25题一般现在时主谓一致。
【解析】
11. worse：由“make our lives better”的转折，此处用bad的比较级表示“更糟”；
12. inventor's：修饰名词plan，用名词所有格表示“发明者的”；
13. scientist：Alfred Nobel是瑞典科学家，填对应名词；
14. was called：炸药被命名为dynamite，一般过去时被动语态，主语it为单数，故用was called；
15. completely：修饰动词changed，用副词形式；
16. its：修饰名词invention，用形容词性物主代词；
17. faster：与more safely并列，用fast的比较级；
18. also：表“也”，符合语境；
19. death：before后接名词，构成“在某人去世前”；
20. a：表“一个更好的地方”，不定冠词a用于辅音音素开头的单词前；
21. has run：时间状语for over a century提示用现在完成时，主语it为单数，故用has run；
22. creativity：与knowledge并列，用名词形式；
23. hoped：诺贝尔过去的希望，用一般过去时；
24. respected：修饰名词awards，用形容词形式；
25. reminds：一般现在时，主语it为单数，谓语动词用第三人称单数形式。
【答案】
11. worse；12. inventor's；13. scientist；14. was called；15. completely；16. its；17. faster；18. also；19. death；20. a；21. has run；22. creativity；23. hoped；24. respected；25. reminds
【知识点】
形容词比较级、动词时态语态、词性转换
【点评】
本题考察英语基础语法与词汇变形，结合语境分析每个空的正确形式即可完成，难度适中，侧重对核心语法规则的运用。
【难度系数】
0.6