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，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Some years ago when I was in my first year in college, I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time. The moment was exciting. Salome’s 36 filled the room and brought the theater to life. I was so 37 that I decided to write an article about her.
I 38 Salome Bey, telling her I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meet her to talk her career. She 39 and told me to come to her studio next Tuesday. When I hung up, I was scared out of my mind. I 40 I was lying. I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a grocery list.
I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday. I sat there 41 , taking notes and asking questions that all began with, “Can you tell me…” I soon realized that 42
Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible. The 43 was almost unbearable. I struggled for days 44 draft after draft. Finally I put my manuscript (手稿) into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.
It didn’t take long. My manuscript 45 . How stupid of me! I thought. How could I 46 in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn’t 47 the rejection letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.
Five years later, I was moving to California. While 48 my apartment, I came across the unopened envelope. This time I opened it and read the editor’s letter in 49 :
Dear Ms Profit,
Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic. Yet we need some 50 materials. Please add those and return the article immediately. We would like to 51 your story soon.
Shocked, it took me a long time to 52 . Fear of rejection cost me dearly. I lost at least five hundred dollars and having my article appear in a major magazine. More importantly, I lost years of 53 writing. Today, I have become a full – time writer. Looking back on this 54 , I learned a very important lesson: You can’t
55 to doubt yourself.
36．A．joy B．voice C．speech D．smile
37．A．proud B．active C．satisfied D．moved
38．A．visited B．emailed C．phoned D．interviewed
39．A．agreed B．refused C．hesitated D．paused
40．A．replied B．discovered C．explained D．knew
41．A．seriously B．patiently C．nervously D．quietly
42．A．blaming B．fooling C．inviting D．urging
43．A．hardship B．failure C．comment D．pressure
44．A．with B．by C．on D．in
45．A．disappeared B．returned C．spread D．improved
46．A．compare B．struggle C．survive D．compete
47．A．ignore B．deliver C．face D．receive
48．A．decorating B．repairing C．cleaning D．leaving
49．A．disbelief B．anxiety C．horror D．trouble
50．A．subjective B．relevant C．private D．reliable
51．A．broadcast B．create C．publish D．assess
52．A．recover B．prepare C．escape D．concentrate
53．A．energetic B．endless C．typical D．enjoyable
54．A．experience B．success C．benefit D．accident
55．A．attempt B．afford C．expect D．pretend
Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other. These letters were all piled up in a basket, dirty and with dust. Deciding to read and sort them, I asked them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home. They .
As I carefully opened each letter, of them fragile with age, I discovered a new page unknown to me in this private chapter of my parents' lives.
My father used to in the army. So his letters were full of frontline of the things about the war. Each of my mother's letters was marked with her 1944 dark red lipstick kiss. I was to these letters like a magnet（磁铁）.
Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very and was hospitalized. This time, he was fighting a kind of war. As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the . He told me how much receiving those lipstick-kissed letters had to him when he had been so far from home.
It so happened that the next day would be February 14. From the letters I chose the card my father had sent Mother in 1944 and brought it to my father’s bedside.
At his bedside, I joked with him, saying , "Today is Valentine's Day, don’t you want to send Mother a present?" He became more when I handed him the old . He carefully opened it and took out the card, and when he it, his eyes were filled with tears.
My father, in a tight with emotion read the loving message he'd sent to my mother fifty-six years . And this time, he could read it to her in .
A．came B．hit C．drew D．fell
A．hidden B．covered C．buried D．filled
A．refused B．smiled C．shocked D．agreed
A．all B．none C．both D．neither
A．recently B．usually C．previously D．occasionally
A．work B．study C．serve D．report
A．accounts B．documents C．introductions D．occupations
A．devoted B．addicted C．thrown D．drawn
A．sad B．dead C．dangerous D．ill
A．typical B．traditional C．different D．familiar
A．wars B．illnesses C．letters D．hospitals
A．meant B．intended C．planned D．said
A．divided B．sorted C．separated D．updated
A．sadly B．angrily C．softly D．loudly
A．curious B．enthusiastic C．fantastic D．positive
A．card B．envelope C．basket D．lipstick
A．found B．wrote C．recognized D．missed
A．sound B．noise C．whisper D．voice
A．later B．earlier C．ago D．ahead
A．person B．private C．danger D．peace
I finished my last work of the week and could hardly wait to get home, take off my nursing shoes, and relax.
As I _ _ my car, I saw one of my _ _ standing by the bus stop. I thought it would only take a couple of extra minutes to give her a ride home, and _ _, it was too cold to be standing outside on the coldest _ _ in January. I didn’t know where she lived, but I was _ _ I would be able to find my way back.
We _ _ about our work as I drove and _ _ we knew it, we arrived at her house. I started driving back. _ _ looked familiar, but at first that didn’t _ _ me. But soon I _ _ something wrong. I recognized nothing. But I told myself to stay _ _.
I was _ _ neighborhoods, streets and even streetlights. I no longer knew where I was now. How could I be so stupid! I looked down at my _ _. It was now 2:30 a.m. My gas was slowly running out. I _ _ the car and turned off the engine. In total defeat, I put my head down on the wheel, _ _. Then I raised my head and saw a(n) _ _ down the road in front of me. I turned my headlights on. A car! I drove a little _ _, got out of my car and knocked on the window of that car. An elderly man _ _ rolled his window down.
I said that I didn’t know how to get back into town. In silence, he started driving. I ran back to my car and drove behind him. Finally I _ _ a familiar street. As I turned to head home, the car disappeared. Then I _ _ my driveway (车道) when the warning light for my gas tank (汽油箱) turned on.
Though so many years have passed, I still thank the old man from my deepest heart.
A．discovered B．approached C．parked D．searched
A．patients B．classmates C．students D．workmates
A．yet B．still C．but D．besides
A．night B．morning C．afternoon D．noon
A．afraid B．happy C．confident D．sorry
A．worried B．cared C．talked D．explored
A．before B．if C．as D．though
A．Everything B．Nothing C．Anything D．Something
A．attract B．delight C．bother D．enjoy
A．escaped B．existed C．imagined D．realized
A．quiet B．calm C．silent D．brave
A．across B．over C．within D．beyond
A．wheel B．engine C．watch D．seat
A．drove B．deserted C．washed D．stopped
A．helpless B．excited C．satisfied D．delighted
A．shadow B．truck C．lady D．animal
A．faster B．nervously C．closer D．back
A．unlikely B．slowly C．carefully D．equally
A．came B．mistook C．recognized D．missed
A．pulled into B．drove away C．ran across D．fount out
It was Thanksgiving morning. In the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together inside the storm door on the top step.
"Any old papers, lady?" asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say “no” ____looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin scandals (凉鞋),wet with heavy snow.
“Come in and I'11 you a cup of hot cocoa.”
They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet shoes left on the floor．I __ them cocoa and toast with jam the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget. The silence in the front door __ __me. I looked in. The girl__ the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat ," Lady ．．． are you rich?"
"Am I rich? Mercy, !" I looked at my shabby slipcover(家具套)．The girl put her cup back in its saucer（茶碟） .
“Your cups match your saucers．”
Her voice was ___ __with a need that no amount of food could supply．They left after that, holding their against the wind．They hadn't said thank you．
They didn’t to. They had done more than that. Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they __ __.
I tasted the potatoes and stirred(搅动)the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a __ over our heads, my man with a good steady job—these things matched, too．
I moved the chairs back from the fire and the living room．The muddy prints of small scandals were still on my floor. “ them be for a while,” I thought. Just I should begin to forget how I am.
A．when B．after C．while D．until
A．make B．provide C．do D．cook
A．signs B．signals C．marks D．symbols
A．showed B．served C．carried D．supplied
A．against B．from C．on D．in
A．beat B．struck C．got D．noticed
A．watched B．lifted C．held D．put
A．word B．method C．state D．voice
A．yes B．sure C．no D．always
A．suddenly B．carefully C．quickly D．anxiously
A．hungry B．satisfied C．pleased D．curious
A．books B．papers C．dishes D．drinks
A．dare B．plan C．want D．need
A．shone B．matched C．broke D．equaled
A．house B．ceiling C．roof D．curtain
A．washed B．rubbed C．wiped D．tidied
A．dry B．gone C．wet D．new
A．Made B．Let C．Got D．Kept
A．in case B．as if C．if only D．only if
A．nice B．free C．busy D．rich
Eighty-year-old retired tailor, James McKay, spent Saturday night in jail after thirty-year-old Keith Smith over the head his walking stick. McKay's wife, Laurence told us that while McKay is usually a person, he had been to this act of violence by getting wet just once too often.
Smith lives above the McKays and it appears that not only is he a keen gardener, he is also a collector. Unfortunately for him, the water he sent over his balcony every day ended up on the McKay's, or too often, on the McKays .
“For the last fortnight, since Smith moved into the flat above us, we have hardly dared to go to our ,” said Laurence. She added that it wasn't so much the water falling onto their balcony from Smith watering his plant bothered them, it was more the way he cleaned his fish tanks. “We'd be there happily reading our newspapers, when so much water would come from above that we'd be as wet as if we'd with our clothes on! Neither could we get rid of the of fish!”
And on Saturday evening it was just too . “It was James's birthday,” explained Laurence, “and I'd made him a birthday cake. The candles were a great sight as you can imagine, but James didn't get to blow them out.” , Smith emptied one of his larger tanks over his balcony and both the McKays and the cake were wet . Rarely had Laurence seen McKay move so fast. “I couldn't him. He was up there in a flash. It was the fastest I'd seen him move since 1964.”
Smith is not going to take things further with the police. He has also promised to change his from now on. And what of James McKay? he left the police station, a large crowd of supporters sang him, “Happy Birthday”. “ the most exciting birthday !” said the cheerful old man. “The best since my adolescence I'd say!”
A．hitting B．tapping C．pushing D．touching
A．by B．via C．through D．with
A．quiet B．peaceful C．sensitive D．stubborn
A．accustomed B．taken C．driven D．attracted
A．fish B．seed C．plant D．newspaper
A．himself B．itself C．themselves D．herself
A．bathroom B．kitchen C．bedroom D．balcony
A．which B．what C．that D．whether
A．sitting B．exercising C．sleeping D．eating
A．regularly B．unconsciously C．precisely D．suddenly
A．swum B．showered C．watered D．drowned
A．taste B．sense C．feeling D．smell
A．little B．soon C．late D．much
A．Beside B．Instead C．Otherwise D．Consequently
A．over B．across C．through D．down
A．stop B．blame C．ignore D．stand
A．views B．attitude C．ways D．mind
A．While B．Since C．Until D．As
A．Sincerely B．Impossibly C．Definitely D．Previously
A．before B．ever C．already D．since
A rich man was camping alone on a hill. One day it began to rain and the rain the tent wet. At last he had to make his way home.
As he passed a beautiful house he to look for rest. A lady in silk walked past him with her nose in the . Following her were her two pretty daughters. They stopped and glared at（盯着） him.
“ are you? We don't like tramps (流浪汉) going our home,” one of them shouted.
“Go away at once!” the other.
“But I’m no tramp,” said the man, “ I want is food and stay for the night.”
“How dare you come here? Go away at once,” the lady repeated. “We don’t like your around our house. Go, go!”
The man moved on and a small house. On entering it he saw a couple preparing their supper. Though the light was dim (昏暗) and the furniture was poor, had a warm, friendly atmosphere（气氛，氛围）.
“Can I have food and rest for the night?” he asked.
“Of course, friend,” said the woman, forward a little stool for him. “We’re going to our supper. Come and us. ”
The food was scarce（缺乏，缺少） but they it with the stranger. That night they let him sleep on their bed they themselves used the stable (马厩). Early the next morning, the man said good-bye to them. Their made a good impression in his .
When he arrived home he quickly ordered a lovely house to be for the couple in the woods.
A．made B．kept C．drove D．sent
A．forgot B．stopped C．managed D．asked
A．was B．wore C．put D．dressed
A．wind B．room C．sky D．air
A．How B．What C．Who D．Where
A．from B．over C．in D．around
A．answered B．spoke C．cried D．replied
A．Which B．What C．Both D．All
A．model B．kind C．men D．feet
A．arrived B．got C．reached D．stopped
A．it B．they C．he D．she
A．any B．some C．much D．good
A．handing B．pulling C．pushing D．bringing
A．prepare B．buy C．finish D．have
A．help B．join C．move D．see
A．added B．gave C．divided D．shared
A．while B．because C．when D．after
A．friendship B．kindness C．spirit D．poorness
A．look B．memory C．heart D．head
A．moved B．sent C．built D．found