第二节:完形填空(共20小题,每小题1分,共20分)
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It was my birthday last Thursday. I decided to _ 36 it by inviting a few friends out to
supper. I chose a restaurant in a 37 part of town. It is one of my favorite restaurants
because the food is good and the waiters are friendly. It is 38 _ ever crowded, because not many people know about it, so it is not usually _39_ to book (预定) a table. In any case, Thursday is not a busy evening 40 .
When we entered the restaurant, we were surprised to find it completely __ 41__ . I looked around but not _42 _ table was free. One of the waiters recognized me. He came across and explained the situation. “A party of tourists came in about half an hour ago.” he said. “It was like an invasion(侵略). Suddenly the place was full! We can hardly _ 43 ”.
The waiter then pointed to a table in the corner. “The people there are about to _ 44 .”
he said, “Just hold on and you'll _ _45_ a place there.” He was right. Fifteen minutes later,
the people 46 _ the corner table paid their 47 , got up and left. I led my friends acrossand we all sat down.
48 our table was almost out of sight. We tried to call the attention of the waiter
49 _ sent us there, but he, like all the other waiters, _ _50 _ the party of tourism. They ordered lots of food. At last, an hour later, the tourists were finishing their meal and looking very 51 with life. The waiter, now very tired, appeared at our table. I advised my friends aboutthe best dishes and finally the waiter went off with our _52 .
A few moments later he returned to our table. We could tell from his face that he had
__53__ for us. _54 a little sorry he told us that there was _55_ left. “All we can offer you” he said, “is an omelet (煎蛋卷) !”
36. A. remember B. celebrate C. memorize D. congratulate
37. A. quiet B. calm C. busy D. silent
38. A. hard B. often C. hardly D. always
39. A. necessary B. possible C. important D. certain
40. A. as before B. as a matter of fact
C. as usual D. as is known to all
41. A. empty B. full C. free D. quiet
42. A. all B. an empty C. a single D. a double
43. A. watch B. look after C. try D. manage
44. A. start B. leave C. end D. pay
45. A. find B. find out C. wait D. see
46. A. by B. beside C. at D. near
47. A money B. bill C. food D. drinks
48. A. Luckily B. Fortunately C. Generally D. Unluckily
49. A. whom B. which C. he D. who
50. A. were kept busy B. was busy with C. kept busy with D. were busy with
51. A. exciting B. tired C. pleased D. disappointed
52. A. dishes B. food C. order D. menu
53. A. good presents B. good news C. bad news D. bad presents
54. A. Looking B. Seeing C. Looked D. Found
55. A. no meat or fish B. no meat and fish C. meat and fish D. not meat or fish
I received a letter from a grandmother who told me about her four-year-old granddaughter Skylar. Ever since Skylar 31 of Disneyland from TV, she 32 her nickels and dimes (零钱) in a piggy bank in 33 of visiting there someday. Her parents 34 her with a trip when she was four, however, and didn't even 35 her to use her own money!
When Skylar returned. It was 36. She decided to buy presents with her 37. But she also learned from announcements on TV about a local 38 shelter called "The Road House". She 39 asked her mother what "homeless" meant and why those children 40 coats and warm clothes. She couldn't seem to get the homeless off her mind.
Her mother took her to the store to buy 41. Instead of buying for herself or her family, however, she 42 to purchase a warm coat, socks and gloves for a little girl in the 43 .She also wanted to buy a doll, but when she 44 she didn't have enough money, she left the doll 45 .
When Skylar got home, she chose one of her 46 dolls and put it into the box with the other items she bought that day. She could hardly wait for Christmas! Skylar was thinking about going to the shelter and giving her carefully 47 gifts to a homeless child. She was much filled with joy at 48 helping someone else.
"Perhaps it's good to have a beautiful mind, 49 an even greater gift is to have a beautiful heart," says Nobel Laureate John Hash. Young Skylar has a beautiful heart. It is one 50 , above all else, which makes beautiful people.
A.learned B.cared C.thought D.reminded
A.saved B.gathered C.took D.spent
A.honor B.favor C.hopes D.search
A.disappointed B.annoyed C.helped D.surprised
A.order B.require C.persuade D.force
A.Christmastime B.payday C.birthday D.school time
A.expenses B.earnings C.savings D.debts
A.poor B.homeless C.big D.famous
A.generally B.curiously C.strangely D.seriously
A.used B.took C.needed D.liked
A.presents B.dolls C.socks D.gloves
A.refused B.decided C.hesitated D.wished
A.shelter B.nursery C.house D.hospital
A.predicted B.promised C.explained D.discovered
A.out B.behind C.aside D.alone
A.expensive B.cheap C.favorite D.useless
A.collected B.bought C.selected D.demanded
A.deeply B.quickly C.truly D.exactly
A.but B.and C.if D.or
A.quality B.expensive C.sense D.expression
Large companies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large. The same problem, on a smaller__1__, faces practically every company trying to __2__ new products and create new jobs. There can be little prospect of raising the sort of sums needed from friends and people we know. While banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are generally __3__ to provide money on a permanent basis for long-term projects. So companies turn to public, inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in the business in __4__ for a share in future profits. This they do by __5__ stocks and shares in the business through the Stock Exchange. By doing so they can put into circulation the savings of __6__ and organizations, both at home and overseas.
When the saver needs his money back, he does not have to go to the company with whom he originally placed it. __7__, he sells his shares through a stockbroker to some other saver who is seeking to __8__ his money.
Many of the __9__ needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by the government or by local authorities. Without hospitals, electricity, telephones, railways, this country could not __10__. All these require __11__ spending on new equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money than is raised through taxes alone. The government, local authorities, and nationalized industries __12__ frequently need to borrow money to finance major capital spending, and they, too, come to the Stock Exchange.
There is __13__ a man or woman in this country whose job or whose standard of living does not __14__ the ability of his or her employers to raise money to finance new development. In one way or another this new money must come from the savings of the country. The Stock Exchange __15_ to provide a channel through which these savings can reach those who need finance.
A.level B.extent C.scale D.basis
A.programme B.provide C.develop D.prepare
A.unexpected B.unwilling C.unbelievable D.uncertain
A.search B.exchange C.value D.comfort
A.issuing B.allowing C.producing D.acquiring
A.immigrants B.investigators C.inheritors D.individuals
A.Indeed B.In fact C.In addition D.Instead
A.eliminate B.reflect C.invest D.profit
A.properties B.appliances C.foundations D.services
A.function B.experience C.share D.launch
A.invisible B.continuous C.limited D.economical
A.therefore B.however C.nevertheless D.otherwise
A.definitely B.almost C.hardly D.probably
A.turn down B.depend on C.take over D.put off
A.releases B.forces C.leaves D.exists
In the United States there was an unusual tale telling of the daughter of a mechanic (技工). One day while walking along the bank of a lake, the girl1 to see 20 eggs laid by a wild goose. After some time the girl 2 __the mother would not return to her eggs and she 3 to take them home. There she carefully 4 the eggs in the heat of a lamp. Several days 5 the eggs broke and the baby geese came into the 6 ___.
Geese are known to take the first living thing they see as their mother. 7 , to these young geese, the girl was their mother.
As they8 , the girl was able to 9 her birds to run across the grass, but she could not teach them to10. The girl became increasingly worried about this, both when 11 and in her dreams. Later, she had an 12 : She would pilot a plane to guide them in 13 . She asked her father for a plane and he assembled(组装)a small aircraft for her.
Caring about 14 safety, the father decided to pilot the plane himself. However, the birds did not 15 or follow him, and 16 slept in the grass.
One day, the girl 17 into the plane, started it and soon left the 18. Seeing their mother take to the air, the birds 19 flapped(拍打)their wings and 20 . She flew the plane freely in the sky, her young birds following.
A.managed B.attempted C.happened D.supposed
A.realized B.expected C.imagined D.admitted
A.helped B.decided C.afforded D.meant
A.placed B.protected C.treated D.examined
A.ago B.out C.later D.long
A.family B.lake C.home D.world
A.But B.Also C.Thus D.Still
A.increased B.improved C.rose D.grew
A.ask B.lead C.want D.allow
A.fly B.race C.swim D.sing
A.asleep B.away C.around D.awake
A.idea B.opinion C.explanation D.excuse
A.sky B.heaven C.flight D.plane
A.his B.her C.their D.its
A.respect B.remember C.recognize D.receive
A.so B.instead C.hardly D.too
A.climbed B.looked C.reached D.fell
A.house B.floor C.water D.ground
A.secretly B.disappointedly C.patiently D.eagerly
A.looked away B.set out C.went by D.turned back
Growing up, I remember my father as a silent, strict man—not the kind of person around whom one could laugh. As a teenager knowing little about life, I wanted a father who could the mysteries of the human journey. In college, when friends called home for , I would become for what I didn’t have.
Then one night after my move back home, I overheard my father on the telephone. There was some trouble. Later, he the problem with me. Obviously my knowledge of law helped him a lot. I talked through the problem with him, the motives of the people involved and offering several negotiation strategies.
He patiently before finally admitting, “I can’t think like that. I’m a man.”
My father is a scientist who has a good knowledge of the building blocks of nature. , human nature is a mystery to him. That night I realized he was simply not skilled at people. It’s not in his to understand human desires.
It was no one’s that my father showed no interest in human emotions while I placed great importance on them. We are sometimes born more sensitive, and dreamy than our and become more curious, and idealistic than them. I, who knew my father as an intelligent man, had never understood his intelligence didn’t cover all of my feelings.
I believe that coming home has me years of questions and confusion. I nowadays consider my parents as people who have other relationships than just being my parents, relationships that and define them.
Best of all, I nowadays regard my parents as : people who ask me for advice; people who need my and understanding. And I’ve come to see my past in a view. Knowing them makes me feel safe in where I come from and where I’m going.
A.think B.produce C.explain D.explore
A.money B.advice C.love D.agreement
A.unhappy B.unhelpful C.unknown D.unpopular
A.exchanged B.solved C.found D.shared
A.proving B.recording C.analyzing D.guessing
A.replied B.learned C.chatted D.listened
A.simple B.weak C.lazy D.blind
A.special B.lively C.brilliant D.humorous
A.Therefore B.However C.Indeed D.Anyhow
A.meeting with B.dealing with C.talking with D.fighting with
A.nature B.plan C.wish D.major
A.relief B.secret C.pity D.fault
A.relatives B.classmates C.parents D.families
A.Besides B.And C.However D.For
A.strong B.strange C.different D.unique
A.told B.gave C.added D.saved
A.raise B.protect C.shape D.enjoy
A.friends B.teachers C.travelers D.leaders
A.visit B.support C.wisdom D.knowledge
A.richer B.harder C.rougher D.clearer
Sometimes, people are required to fill in personal information when they register online, which may lead to some unexpected trouble. Recently, the BBC is reporting that a 17-year-old girl in Australia posted a(n) of her grandmother at home counting a large sum of cash that she hidden in the house. Just eight hours later, two armed men the girl’s house. They demanded to speak to her to find out where the grandmother’s house was, they could get the money they had seen. , the girl was not home at the time, so the robbers a small amount of cash from the mother and left.
Because the is still under investigation(调查), local police aren’t saying else about it. It’s not known yet whether the girl had used privacy setting on the Facebook profile page, and even whether the robbers the girl in the past.
Two other were at home then, a 58-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy, the girl’s father and brother. Luckily, no one was . The robbers left peacefully after that the girl was not home and that no one else there knew anything about the that had appeared in the photo.
Police in both Britain and Australia are using the case to citizens of the dangers of posting personal information on social networks and to suggest users of websites doing so. The police say it is that the girl posted a comment in the past that gave clues to the address, that the robbers knew the girl in another way. , they suggest, a posting by a friend on their site could have such information. To find it, the robbers would only have had to search for those posting on other pages that the girl’s name.
A.picture B.story C.blog D.video
A.kept B.made C.let D.got
A.knocked at B.looked at C.broke into D.ran into
A.even if B.so that C.as soon as D.in case
A.Usually B.Suddenly C.Fortunately D.Finally
A.spent B.left C.asked D.took
A.robber B.family C.case D.girl
A.few B.many C.little D.much
A.ignored B.knew C.remembered D.followed
A.members B.adults C.characters D.neighbors
A.escaped B.harmed C.killed D.buried
A.showing B.realizing C.discovering D.recognizing
A.cash B.grandmother C.house D.website
A.inform B.accuse C.rob D.warn
A.enjoy B.stop C.keep D.consider
A.possible B.important C.necessary D.strange
A.so B.or C.and D.but
A.Besides B.However C.Therefore D.Instead
A.taken up B.set up C.put away D.given away
A.included B.drew C.contained D.attracted