完型填空题考点：

常见词/短语的含义和用法；来源：考试大

近义词/反义词的含义和用法辨析；

形近词/短语的含义和用法辨析；来源：考试大

上下文用词/文章中心词/短语结构；来源：考试大

涉及句子之间逻辑关系（逻辑连词/副词），句子之间内容上的呼应（代词）；从句与主句逻辑关系（从句连词）；表述修饰和被修饰成分之间的逻辑关系（介词）；

2004年考题：
B： unpopular subjects?来源：考试大
A： The greatest mystery of whales来源：考试大

但是文章后的问题发生了较大改变，B级和C级的完型部分的考察主要趋向于对常见的动词名词使用及搭配特点的考察，而A级中还涉及到了介词的习惯搭配及使用，连词，代词，副词的语法功能及其使用的考察。

完型填空例题解析：来源：考试大

难度B/C级来源：考试大

Captain Cook Arrow Legend

It was a great legend while it lasted，but DNA testing has __1__ ended a two-century-old story of the Hawaiian arrow carved from the bone of British explorer Captain James Cook__2__ died in the Sandwich Islands’in 1779．来源：考试大

“There is __3__ Cook in the Australian Museum，”museum collection manager Jude Philip said not long ago in announcing the DNA evidence that the arrow was not made of Cook’S bone．But that will not stop the museum from continuing to display the arrow in its__4__，“Uncovered：Treasures of the Australian Museum,” which__5__include a feather cape presented to Cook by Hawaiian King Kalani’opu’u in 1778．来源：考试大
   
Cook was one of Britain’s great explorers and is credited with__6__ the“Great South Land，”__7__ Australia, in 1 770．He was clubbed to death in the Sandwich Islands，now Hawaii
   
The 1egend of Cook’s arrow began in 1 824 __8__ Hawaiian King Kamehameha on his deathbed gave the arrow to William Adams，a London surgeon and relative of Cook’s wife，saying it was made of Cook’s bone after the fatal__9 __ with islanders．
   
In the 1890s the arrow was given to the Australian Museum and the legend continued __10__ it came face=to-face with science．
   
DNA testing by laboratories in Australia and New Zealand revealed the arrow was not made of Cook’s bone but was more  __11__  made of animal bone。said Philp．
   
However, Cook’s fans __ 1 2 __ to give up hope that one Cook legend will prove true and that part of his remains will still be uncovered．as they say there is evidence not a11 of Cook’s body was __1 3 __ at sea in 1 779．“On this occasion technology has won，”said Cliff Thornton，president of the Captain Cook Society, in a  __14__ from Britain．“But I am __15__ that one of these days…one of the Cook legends will prove to be true and it will happen one day．”来源：考试大
 
词汇：来源：考试大
DNA n．脱氧核糖核酸来源：考试大
Hawaiian  adj．夏威夷的
Uncovered adj．被发掘的来源：考试大
cape n．斗篷来源：考试大
credit v．把……归功于来源：考试大
club v．用棍棒打来源：考试大
 
1. A. finally            B.    firstly     C. lately            D. usually
2. A. whose             B.    who         C.  which            D. what
3. A. some              B.    none        C.    neither         D. no
4. A. cinema            B.    exhibition   C.  shop            D. market
5. A. must              B.    did         C.  has to            D. does
6. A. discovering     B.    visiting    C.    traveling        D. using
7. A. then              B.    now         C.  past            D. previously
8. A. how               B.    where       C.  when            D. that
9. A. conversation        B.    fight       C.  meal            D. dance
10. A. however            B.    until       C.  after            D. whenever
11. A.    helpfully        B.    usefully    C.    likely          D. readily
12. A.    refuse          B.    return      C.    regain          D. reply
13. A.    collected        B.    washed      C.    stored          D. buried
14. A.    statement        B.    suggestion   C.    proposal        D. guess
15. A.  safe            B.    weak        C.  sure            D. lucky