完形填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
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 about 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 :
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 mely. 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
A 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.
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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I believe that families are not only blood relatives, but sometimes people who show up and love you when no one else will.
In May 1977, I was living in a Howard Johnson’s motel off Interstate 10 in Houston. My dad and I a room with two double beds and a bathroom was too for a 15-year-old girl and her father. Dad’s second marriage was and my stepmother had us both out of the house the previous week. Dad had no what to do with me. And that’s when my other family .
Barbara and Roland Beach took me into their home their only daughter, Su, my best friend, asked them to. I with them for the next seven years.
Barb washed my skirts the same as Su’s. She I had lunch money, doctors’ appointments, help with homework and nightly hugs. Barbara and Roland attended every football game where Su and I were being cheerleaders. I could tell, for the Beaches there was no between Su and me; I was their daughter, too.
When Su and I college they kept my room the same for the entire four years I attended school. Recently, Barb presented me with an insurance policy they bought when I first moved in with them and had continued to pay on for 23 years.
The Beaches knew about me when they took me in – they had heard the whole story from Su. When I was seven, my mother died and from then on my father relied on other people to his kids. Before I went to live with the Beaches I had believed that life was entirely and that love was shaky and untrustworthy. I had believed that the only person who would take care of me was me.
the Beaches, I would have become a bitter, cynical (愤世嫉俗的) woman. They gave me a(n) ________ that allowed me to grow and change. They kept me from being paralyzed by my , and they gave me the confidence to open my heart.
I family. For me, it wasn’t the family that was there on the day I was , but the one that was there for me when I was living in a Howard Johnson’s on Interstate 10.
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完形填空
It was Christmas Eve 1881. I was 15 years old and feeling like the world was ________ for me because there hadn't been enough money to buy me the rifle that I’d wanted that year.
Pa came back in and there was ice in his beard. “Come on, Matt,” Pa said. “Dress warmly. It’s cold outside. We’re going to Widow Jensen’s. They are ________ wood.” Widow Jensen lived about two miles down the road. Her husband had died a year or so before and ________ her with three children, the oldest being eight.
I ________ went out with Pa and we ________ the sled high with wood. ________ we went to the store and Pa took down a big ham, some bacon, a sack of flour and some shoes, which were put into a smaller sack. We rode the two miles to Widow Jensen’s in ________ . I tried to think through what Pa was doing. I knew we didn’t have much money and Widow Jensen had ________ neighbors than us. It shouldn’t have been our ________ .
Widow Jensen opened the door and let us in. She had a blanket wrapped around her ________ . The children were wrapped in ________ and were sitting in front of the fireplace by a very small fire that ________ gave off any heat at all. “We brought you a few things , Ma’am，” Pa said and set down the sack of flour. I put the meat on the table. Then Pa handed her the sack that had the shoes in it.
She ________ and took the shoes out one pair at a time. I watched her carefully. She bit her lower lip to keep it from ________ and then tears filled her eyes and started running down her cheeks. She looked up at Pa like she wanted to say something, ________ it wouldn’t come out. “We brought a load of wood too, Ma’am,” Pa said. Then he turned to me and said，“Matt，go bring some in. ”
I wasn’t the ________ person when I went back out to bring in the wood. I choked and as much as I hate to ________ it, there were tears in my eyes too. In my mind I kept ________ those three kids huddled (蜷缩)around the fireplace and their mother standing there with tears running down her cheeks with so much ________ in her heart that she couldn’t speak. Just then the rifle seemed very ________ . Pa had given me the best Christmas of my life.
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 1～20 各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
From her lifeguard station at the shallow end of the swimming pool, Jessica noticed clouds gathering in the sky. By the time she took a break at 2:30, the wind was picking up and the sky was getting ________ . The pool manager ________ over the loudspeaker that the pool was closing
________ , due to a severe weather warning.
All of the ________ had left by 3:30 except for Jessica’s neighbor, eight-year-old Zack Hill. Zack’s mother had planned to ________ him up later, but the storm was approaching fast. Jessica decided that she would ________ Zack off on her way home.
The minute Jessica and Zack left the parking lot, it was ________ that this was no ________ storm. The rain hit just as Jessica turned onto her street, coming down in sheets and making it ________ to see clearly. Jessica said, “Zack, I’m going to take you to my house. We need to get inside right away, and your house is farther away than ________ .”
She pressed the garage-door opener, but nothing happened. The electricity was ________ . The front door was only a few feet away, ________ the wind was so strong that Jessica and Zack had to ________ their way out of the car and into the house.
Remembering everything she could from her ________ training, Jessica dragged Zack to the basement (地下室) . “We’ll be safe in here, Zack,” she said, trying to sound ________ . They had just gotten inside ________ everything went deadly quiet for a moment. Then they could hear the sound of glass breaking. A deafening roar, like the sound of a train, filled their ________ .
After a final crash, Jessica and Zack ________ drops of rain on their arms. They saw a flash of lightning through a crack in the ceiling. The sound of the storm grew ________ . Jessica began to breathe easier. She and Zack were safe, and what a ________ they would have to tell!
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