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，从短文后所给各题的四个选项中，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。
It was summer and I had gotten one of the few jobs a 14-year-old can find—working at Burger King，a fast－food restaurant．It 31 wasn’t a good job，but it meant money， 32 was something I needed.
One day，I was working behind the front counter，taking 33 .The customers were coming and going，and the woman who 34 didn’t seem any different from most others. She ordered her meal and I told her the total. As she searched 35 her purse to find some change，the woman soon 36 that she was about a dollar short. “I’m 37 to say this, but I guess I won’t be able to make my purchase 38，”she said sadly.
That’s when I had the idea of 39 the difference for her. She refused at first，but after I 40, she agreed. She thanked me and moved to the end of the counter to 41 her order. I continued with my work and thought 42 more of it.
About an hour later 43 had slowed down and I was waiting for my next customer. Then I glanced over towards the 44 and saw the same woman whom I’d helped with the money entering again．I 45 recognized her.
She walked straight up to me and said，“I want to thank you again for what you did. You see，I’m a diabetic(糖尿病患者),and 46 I need to eat something right away．That’s 47 I came in earlier．If you hadn’t helped me as you did，I might have fainted(晕倒). Thank you．”
She 48 me two dollars, twice I’d given her.
49 the woman walk away, I realized that God had used me to help me. In the end, I was 50 not only with money but also with the satisfaction of knowing that I’d helped someone out of a tight spot.
31．A．firstly B．badly C．certainly D．finally
32．A．which B．what C．that D．it
33．A．menus B．orders C．water D．food
34．A．reached B．moved C．left D．approached
35．A．through B．over C．about D．across
36．A．recognized B．knew C．admitted D．said
37．A．glad B．disappointed C．sorry D．surprised
38．A．in all B．at all C．above all D．after all
39．A．costing B．spending C．paying D．taking
40．A．supported B．insisted C．stuck D．watched
41．A．pick up B．put up C．pick out D．put out
42．A．none B．anything C．nothing D．something
43．A．customers B．orders C．service D．business
44．A．entrance B．restaurant C．counter D．window
45．A．suddenly B．immediately C．surely D．completely
46．A．seldom B．always C．never D．sometimes
47．A．when B．where C．why D．how
48．A．threw B．handed C．showed D．put
49．A．Watching B．Looking C．Observing D．Noticing
50．A．awarded B．honored C．returned D．rewarded
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。
After giving a talk at a high school, I was asked to pay a visit to a special student. An__________had kept the boy home, but he had expressed an interest in meeting me. I was told it would mean a great ____________ to him, so I agreed.
During the ninemile drive to his home, I found out something about Matthew. He had muscular dystrophy(肌肉萎缩症). When he was born, the doctor told his parents that he would not live to five, and then they were told he would not___________it to ten. Now he was thirteen. He wanted to meet me___________I was a goldmedal power lifter, and I knew about____________obstacles and struggling to achieve my dreams.
I spent over an hour talking to Matthew. Never once did he ___________ or ask, “Why__________？” He spoke about winning and succeeding and achieving his dreams.____________， he knew what he was talking about. He didn't mention that his classmates had___________him because he was different. He just talked about his___________for the future, and how one day he wanted to lift weights with me.
When we had finished talking, I went to my briefcase and___________out the first gold medal I had won and put it around his___________. I told him he was more of a ___________ and knew more about success and conquering difficulties than I ever would. He looked at it for a moment, then took it__________and handed it back to me. He said, “You are a champion. You____________ that medal. Someday when I get to the Olympics and win my own medal, I will show it to you.” Last summer I received a ________ from Matthew's parents telling me that Matthew had___________away. They wanted me to have a letter he had written to me a few days before:
Dear Dick，
My mum said I should send you a thankyou letter for the picture you sent me. I also want to let you know that the doctors tell me that I don't have a__________time to live any more, but I still smile as much as I can.
I told you someday that I would go to the Olympics and win a gold medal, but I know now I will never get to do that.__________， I know I'm a champion, and God knows that too. When I get to Heaven, God will give me my____________and when you get there, I will show it to you. Thank you for loving me.
Your friend，
Matthew
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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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完形填空
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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