高起点英语真题模考

三、完形填空(共15小题;每题2分，共30分)

通读下面的短文，掌握其大意。然后，从每小题的四个选择项中选出可填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

In nearly every town or city centre in the UK, on most days of the week you can find one or more people standing in the street selling a magazine ___21__ The Big Issue. These people are all ___22__,but they are not begging for money. _23____, they are selling the magazine as a means(手段)of __24___ a small but respectable living.

The Big Issue magazine was __25___ in 1991 by Jon Bird and Gordon Roddick after they __26___ that there were many homeless people who were _27____ on the streets of London. On a previous(之前的)__28__ to New York, one of them had seen homeless people selling a newspaper known as Street News ___20__ they decided to set up something __30___ in the British capital.

Nowadays, The Big Issue has ___31__ all over the UK and there are even different versions (版本)of the magazine in different parts of the ___32__.Thesellers buy each magazine from the organizationfor seventy pence and then sell it to a __33___ for one pound fifty. By working with The Big Issue, many people have been __34___ to escape from homelessness, and _35____ many of them have moved on to new jobs and new lives.

24.【题干】_____.

【选项】

A.changing

B.enjoying

C.making

D.improving

【答案】C

【解析】本题考查动词词义的选择。根据句子意思要表达他们卖杂志挣钱，making a small but respectable living，挣钱虽很少但是可以体面地生活，所以选C更符合题意。A改变;B享受，喜爱;C赚(钱)，做事;D改善。