第三节完形填空(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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I ran into a stranger as he passed by, and I at once apologized to him. We were both very 21 , the
stranger and I. Then we went 22 our way after saying good-bye.
But at home a 23 story is told. Later that day, when I 24 supper in the kitchen, my daughter suddenly stood behind me very 25 . When I turned back, I 26 knocked her down. “Don’t be in my
27 !” I shouted angrily. She walked away with her little heart 28 . On the kitchen floor later, I found some flowers by the door.
That night, while I lay 29 in bed, a voice in my deep heart said, “While 30 with a stranger, you are so polite, but with the children you love, you are so easily 31 . Why are there some flowers by the door? Those are the flowers she brought for you. She 32 them herself, pink, yellow and your favorite blue. She stood quietly in order to give you a 33 , and you never saw the 34 in her eyes.”
By this time, I felt very 35 and now my tears began to fall. I quietly went and knelt (跪下) by her
36 , “Wake up, little girl, wake up,” I said, “Are these the flowers you picked for me?” She smiled, “Yes, because I knew you’d like them, especially the 37 .” I said, “Daughter, I’m sorry for the way I acted today; I 38 have shouted at you that way.”
She said, “Oh, Mom, that’s okay. I love you 39 .” I hugged her and said, “Daughter, I love you too, and I do like the flowers.”
Through this 40 , I realize what FAMILY means:
FAMILY="(F)ATHER" (A)ND (M)OTHER, (I) (L)OVE (Y)OU
21. A. rude B. polite C. educated D. happy
22. A. in B. to C. on D. for
23. A. different B. funny C. moving D. terrible
24. A. had B. ate C. prepared D. took
25. A. quickly B. quietly C. noisily D. seriously
26. A. nearly B. hardly C. already D. even
27. A. kitchen B. room C. place D. way
28. A. beaten B. missing C. broken D. hit
29. A. alive B. asleep C. awake D. afraid
30. A. doing B. dealing C. working D. driving
31. A. worried B. nervous C. excited D. disappointed
32. A. grew B. picked C. bought D. planted
33. A. gift B. flower C. kiss D. surprise
34. A. expression B. tears C. happiness D. joy
35. A. small(渺小) B. proud C. weak D. hurt
36. A. table B. desk C. bed D. knees
37. A. pink B. blue C. yellow D. green
38. A. couldn’t B. mustn’t C. shouldn’t D. needn’t
39. A. however B. truly C. though D. anyway
40. A. accident B. experience C. question D. problem
完型填空
I grew up in a community called Estepona. I was 16 when one morning, Dad told me I could drive him into a ________ village called Mijas, on condition that I took the car in to be________ at a nearby garage(修理站). I readily accepted. I drove Dad into Mijas, and ________to pick him up at 4 pm, then dropped off the car at the ________ . With several hours to spare, I went to a theater.________,when the last movie finished, it was six. I was two hours late!
I knew Dad would be angry if he ________I'd been watching movies. So I decided not to tell him the truth. When I ________ there I apologized for being late, and told him I'd ________ as quickly as I could, but that the car had needed some major repairs. I'll never forget the ________ he gave me.
"I’m disappointed you ________ you have to lie to me, Jason." Dad looked at me again. "When you didn't ________ , I called the garage to ask if there were any ________ , and they told me you hadn't yet picked up the car." I felt ________ as I weakly told him the real reason. A ________ passed through Dad as he listened attentively. "I'm angry with ________ . I realize I've failed as a father. I'm going to walk home now and think seriously about ________ I've gone wrong all these years." "But Dad, it's 18 miles!" My protests and apologies were________ . Dad walked home that day. I drove behind him,________ him all the way, but he walked silently.
Seeing Dad in so much ________and emotional pain was my most painful experience. However, it was ________ the most successful lesson. I have never lied since.
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完形填空
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。
During my P.E. class I met a girl, who was in a grade younger than me. She was always ____ on the playground and I wondered why she had ____ to talk to. I was sort of quiet girl myself, too, but I still had a few ____. Over the whole year I would say “Hi” to her ____ sometimes she came to me and we ____ whatever sports we liked most.
Whenever she came over I made it my ____ to make her laugh. I paid most of my ____ to her and not to my other friends because I saw them playing together ____ over there. Then, the ____ day of school year came around, I walked with her on the playground by ourselves. I asked her why she was so quiet. She told me her father left her ____ and her. Her mother was always crying at home. ____ this, I said nothing for a while. Then what I could do was ____ her to forget unhappiness and believe tomorrow is ____. One day I told her I was leaving for high school. Hearing this she asked me not to ____ her. She told me that she had no other friends and I was her only one. Then, she told me that she would ____me if I was in the high school. I ____ that I would go back to see her twice a week. Hearing my promise, her face ____ with smiles.
People lose friends all the time but wise people know how to ____ the friendship. So don’t ruin the ____ as time passed by. Remember that you are ____ to have a good friend.
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An old man who lived in a small back street of my hometown had to tolerate the nuisance of boys playing football and making a lot of noise outside his house at night.
One evening when the boys were particularly ________ ，he went out to talk to them. He explained that he had just ________ and was happy when he could see or hear boys playing his ________ game—football. He would ________ give them $25 each week to play in the street at night. The boys got ________ ，for they could hardly believe ________ they were being paid to do something they ________ .
The first two weeks had passed，the boys came to the old man’s house each weekend，and went away ________ with their $25. The third week when they came back,________ ，the old man said he hadn’t had much money ________ himself and sent them away with only $15. The fourth week，the man said he had not yet received his ________ from the government and gave them only $10. The boys were very disappointed，but there was________much that they could do about it.
At the ________ of the fifth week，the boys came back and ________ at the old man’s door，waiting for their ________ . Slowly，the door opened and the old man appeared. He ________ that he could not afford to pay them $25 ________ he had promised，but said he would give them $5 each week without ________ .
This was really too much for the boys. “You expect us to play seven days a week for merely $5！”They yelled.“ ________ ！”
They ________ away and never played on the street again.
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完形填空
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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
On a warm Monday, Jenny Neilson bought a sandwich and parked her car under some trees. Rolling down the windows to in fresh air, she settled back to enjoy her lunch. Suddenly she________a big bald（秃顶的）man running through the parking lot. Before she came to what would happen, the man was there, shouting through her window, “Get out!”
Neilson .
Pulling open her door, the man seized her ________ the neck and hair, and threw her out of the car onto the ground. She screamed, ________ her purse and the keys.
Two reporters of the local newspaper, Robert Bruce and Jeff Jackson, just outside their office building on a________ , heard the screams and began running.
When they ________ Neilson’s car, the attacker had jumped into the driver’s seat and was ________ searching for the keys. Bruce opened the door, and he and Jackson dragged the man out. The attacker ________ back. But even in his cornered panic, he was no________for the two athletic men.
Reggie Miller, a worker of the local newspaper, heard the screams, too. He rushed back to the office to ________ the police, and then ran back with some plastic ropes—used to tie up newspapers.
With his arms________ tight behind him, the prisoner looked up and said ________ , “I hope you guys feel good about yourselves—you just caught one of the most wanted men.” They ________ him and waited for the police.
Later, Bruce and Jackson were shocked to learn the man was the ________ carjacker（劫车者）and suspected murderer, whose ________ —but with a full head of hair—had been recently printed in their own newspaper.
Neilson considers herself lucky ________ she suffered injuries. She believes the story might have had a________ ending if those good people had not come to her aid. “Unfortunately,” she said, “many people would________ have done what they did, and that’s the real truth.”
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完形填空
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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My father was a self-taught mandolin (曼陀铃) player. He was one of the best string ________ players in our town. He could not ________ music, but if he heard a tune a few times, he could play it.
Dad loved to play the mandolin for his ________ for he knew we enjoyed singing, and hearing him play. He was always there, ________ his time and efforts to making sure that his family had enough in their life. I had grown into a man and had children of my own ________ I realized how much he had sacrificed.
I joined the United States Air________ in January of 1962. Whenever I would come home ________ , I would ask Dad to play the mandolin. He could ________ your soul with the tones that came out of that old mandolin. He seemed to shine when he was playing. You could see his ________ in his ability to play so well for his family.
In 1950, our family moved to Maryland. While working at Todd Steel, he was ________ in an accident. On that particular day, Dad got the third index finger of his left hand ________ by the machine. ________ he didn’t lose enough of the finger where it would stop him picking up anything, it did ________ his ability to play the mandolin. After the accident, every time we asked him to play, he would make ________ for why he couldn’t play. Eventually, we could persuade him and he would say, “Okay. But I can’t hold down on the strings and play as well as before.” For the family it didn’t make any ________ .
In August of 1993, my father was discovered with lung cancer. He chose not to receive treatments so that he could live out the rest of his life ________ dignity. About a week before his death, we asked Dad if he would play the mandolin for us. He made excuses but said “okay”. He knew it would probably be the ________ time he would play for us. He tuned up the old mandolin and played a few ________ . When I looked around, there was not a ________ eye in the family. We saw before us a quiet man with an inner strength. Dad would never play the mandolin for us again. Dad was doing something he had done all his life, ________ . As sick as he was, he was still pleasing others. Dad surely could play that Mandolin!
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