2019高考英语完形填空精编·附详解（一）

I love charity(慈善) shops and so do lots of other people in Britain because you find quite a few of them on every ___1___ street. The charity shop is a British institution, ___2___ everything from clothes to electric goods, all at very good prices. You can get things you won’t find in the shops ___3___. The thing I like best about them is that your money is going to a good ___4___ and not into the pockets of profit-driven companies, and you are not damaging the planet, but finding a new home for ___5___ goods.

The first charity shop was ___6___ in 1947 by Oxfam. The famous charity’s ___7___ to aid postwar Greece had been so successful it had been ___8___ with donations(捐赠物). They decided to set up a shop to sell some of these donations to ___9___ money for that appeal. Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK. My favorite charity shop in my hometown is the ___10___ Cross shop, where I always find children’s books, all 10 or 20 pence ___11___.

Most of the people working in the charity shops are volunteers, there is often a manager who gets ___12___. Over 90% of the goods in the charity shops are donated by the ___13___. Every morning you see bags of unwanted items outside the front of shops, ___14___ although they don’t encourage this, rather ask people to ___15___ things in when the shop is open.

The shops have very low running costs: all go ___16___ to charity work. Charity shops raise more than ￡110 million a year, funding(资助) medical research, overseas aid, ___17___ sick and poor children, homeless and ___18___ people, and much more. What better place to spend your money? You get something special for a very good price and a good ___19___ sense. You provide funds to a good cause and tread ___20___ on the environment.

1. A. low                  B. short                   C. high                    D. long

2. A. selling              B. buying                 C. borrowing           D. lending

3. A. anywise           B. anymore              C. anyway                D. anyhow

4. A. place               B. space                  C. count                  D. cause

5. A. undoubted        B. unfinished           C. unfair                  D. unwanted

6. A. formed            B. set                       C. opened               D. built

7. A. appeal             B. appear                 C. demand               D. advice

8. A. floated             B. hid                       C. blew                    D. flooded

9. A. rise                  B. raise                    C. save                    D. spend

10. A. White             B. Black                   C. Red                     D. Green

11. A. every             B. each                    C. either                  D. other

12. A. paid               B. spent                   C. acquired              D. devoted

13. A. government   B. nation                  C. organization        D. public

14. A. since             B. although              C. or                        D. therefore

15. A. bring              B. take                     C. buy                     D. keep

16. A. wages            B. profits                 C. rewards               D. taxes

17. A. growing         B. advocating           C. providing             D. supporting

18. A. enabled         B. unable                 C. disabled              D. enjoyable

19. A. normal           B. moral                   C. minded                D. healthy

20. A. lightly             B. heavily                 C. slowly                  D. shortly

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