第二节、完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面的短文，然后从文章后面所给的各个选项中选出一个最佳答案，
使文章内容通顺、正确。
Some years ago, an American policeman found a woman lying near a lonely road．She did not appear to have 16 , but she was trembling and clearly in a state of shock, so he rushed her to the __17 __hospital．She began to tell the doctor on duty a story which was 18__ in all respects．She had been __ 19 along a country road __ 20 she had been stopped by a flying saucer 21 in front of her．She had been forced to leave the car and 22_ the flying saucer by creatures which looked like human beings and which could easily make themselves 23_ although they could not __ 24__ They could read her thoughts and she could read 25 They tested her politely and allowed her to 26 after carrying out a number of tests on her．As she otherwise seemed to be __ 27 , the doctor decided that she was probably suffering from the side effects of some medicine．The woman insisted on being 28 to go home, but when she gave her address, it was in a town over a thousand miles from the _ 29 The police then started to make inquiries(打听)and soon ___30_ that there was already a __ 31_ going on for the woman． 32 _ husband badly reported that she had 33 ．Her car had been found with the driver's door open and the engine running． 34__ the car, the surface of the road had been completely destroyed, not by an explosion or anything of that kind, but 35 a large, round, white, hot object had burnt through it.
16．A．a rest B．an accident C．a test D．an idea
17．A．most famous B．most expensive C．best D．nearest
18．A．funny B．sad C．moving D．astonishing
19．A．driving B．walking C．running D．wandering
20．A．as B．since C．when D．if
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21．A．rising B．flying C．running D．landing
22．A．enter B．visit C．watch D．seeA strange thing happened to me last Sunday. It was such a beautiful day ________ I drove to go for a look in the country.
On the way back home, my ________ stopped. It was out of gas on a ________ road far from a town! I decided to walk until I found someone ________ could sell some gas. I had walked almost a mile ________ I finally found a house near the ________ . I was glad to see it because it was getting dark.
I knocked at the door and a little old lady with long white hair ________ . She said, “I’ve been ________ for you here for a long time. Come in. ________is almost ready.”
“But I only came for some gas,” I answered. I couldn’t ________ what she was talking about.
“Oh, Alfred! Gas? You ________tea,” said she.
I quickly ________ that my car was out of________, but she didn’t seem to listen to me. She just kept ________ me Alfred and talking about how long it had been ________ she had seen me. She was acting very strangely and I was anxious to leave. As soon as she went to get tea, I went out of the house as fast as I ________ .
________, there was another house down the road and I was able to buy the gas I needed. When I told the man about my ________, he said, “Oh, that’s Miss Emily. She lives by herself in that big house. She’s strange, but she wouldn’t ________ anybody. She is still waiting for the man she was going to marry thirty years ago. The day before their wedding he left home and ________ came back because of the war.”
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请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I’m Glad I got Sick
Twenty-seven years ago I got sick. The reason I can remember the date so well is that being sick is what ________ me to choose my future wife. She was just a good friend, but because she ________ to my apartment, brought me medicine, and made me breakfast, I thought for the first time “what a super wife she will ________ for someone.”
I took her out to eat for helping me ________ the flu. After that we became even better friends, but still ________ thought of marriage. A few months later I was going to ________ a new job in the Atlanta area, so Cathy helped me ________ boxes to get ready to leave. We ________ a great time that day and had lunch together. Near the end of that day I ________ a few tears in Cathy’s eyes, so I asked what was ________ .
She said, “I don’t know if I can live ________ you, you are my best friend.” I said, “I know, I’ve been thinking the ________ thing.” That day we decided to get married and we have been married ever since. We have had our ________ times, as many others have had, but we are still best friends!
________I get to the family unit in my Health class and we talk about________ …I always tell this story. My students seem to love it because they learn that ________ , sharing and caring about others is all that really ________ in life, and that looks, money and other things are not important.
38 the way, my wife is 12 years younger than me, and she is beautiful. We have 2 beautiful children, but we still have dates on ________ weekend.
Cathy is the greatest thing that has ever ________ me! She is a fantastic mother, and the best wife a coach could ever have. Thank God I got sick 27 years ago!
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阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843,and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age of five with her family. While ________ her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had a(n) ________ in medicine. At 18 she married and ________ a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a ________.Her husband supported her decision.
________ ,Canadian medical schools did not ________ women students at the time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States to study ________ at the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia. It took her five years to ________ her medical degree.
Upon graduation, Charlotte ________to Montreal and set up a private ________ .Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and there she was once again a ________ doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps. Charlotte ________ herself operating on damaged limbs and setting ________ bones, in addition to delivering all the babies in the area.
But Charlotte had been practising without a licence. She had ________ a doctor’s licence in both Montreal and Winnipeg, but was ________.The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons, an all-male board, wanted her to ________ her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to ________ her patients to spend time studying what she already knew. So in 1887,she applied to the Manitoba Legislature to ________ a licence to her but they, too, refused. Charlotte ________ to practise without a licence until 1912.She died four years later at the age of 73.
In 1993,77 years after her ________a medical licence was issued to Charlotte. This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honor “this courageous and pioneering woman.”
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When we are unfamiliar with something, we may feel nervous and fearful． The help of others is a good to help us pull through write for a big newspaper, and I wanted to a story about parachute jumping（跳伞）． To make it a realistic as well as exciting , I decided that I had to make a jump myself ．Unluckily, I’m not good at any , let alone（更不用说）parachute jumping．
My friend Mr． Smith was willing to give me a ． He took me to a ground school． The first day’s included several hours of instruction but not my first drop from a(n) For this, I had to wait until the following ．
The next morning, I was taken to the airfield． , a heavy parachute was put on my back． Then I was to make my way to a small plane which had just stopped slowly on the runway． Once on board, the plane was soon ． I began to feel nervous． As we reached one thousand meters, Harry, my teacher, hooked（钩）a 13 from my parachute to a steel ring inside the plane． The line was to pull my parachute after I jumped．
“Get , Henry,” Harry said． I moved carefully to the door．I wanted to , “NO, no, no!” But no word came．
“Jump!” Harry called ． “Jump!”
Away from the plane, and down, down I fell, arms stretched． It worked All at once I was very happy． Then I felt a quick ． My big parachute had opened! It was the best I ever had． I looked down． There were rivers, trees, fields and houses． I heard the soft sound of the air． This was ．
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Many of my friends have experienced of a four-day step: on the first day, they meet each other and their mobile numbers; on the second day, he sends her a short saying how he has madly, passionately and hopelessly fallen in love with her; and on the third day, he her out to see a movie, then he holds her hand in ; so on the fourth day, they become a common couple among the thousands of young on campus．
Since I am not the president of university, I don’t want to say that there should be a/an on public display of affection． But I just feel whether it is the best way to our love in publiC． Well, unfortunately, I haven’t __ my Mr． Right now． To tell the truth, I really feel of those young lovers． But deep in my heart, I more than once how I should meet my Mr． Right, and how we should display our love in publiC． My imagination was like this: That would be a rainy Sunday afternoon, and I was in the library． Suddenly, my hands stop at a book called A Beautiful Mind, and at the same time, another boy out his hand for the same book． “Excuse me．” he saiD． Then I my eyes, and I saw a handsome tall boy, just like Beckham, with a high nose and a blushing smile looking at my face． Oh, I was drunk with the beautiful feelings — I really found him． We’ve found our in reading books, and from then on, we should go to the bookstores in our city whenever we were ． And the best scene in my mind to show our love in public is we lie on the grass land on my campus, and I read a part of Jane Eyre to him, and he reads a part of Oliver Twist to me． Don’t you think it is a romantic for the young lovers to show their love to each other?
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