题目内容
第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分, 满分30分)
Last week I was invited to a doctor’s
meeting at the Ruth Hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn’t long to live, but he came up to me and placed his right foot close to mine on the floor.
“Frank!” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t 36 , as I knew, but all the time pressing his foot against mine.
My 37 raced back more than thirty years ---to the 38 days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The place was air-raid shelter, in which I and about one hundred other people 39 every night. Two of the 40 were Mrs West and her son Frank.
41 wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to 42 each other very well. Frank West 43 me because he wasn’t 44 not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had less of a mind than a baby he has. His“ 45 ”considered of rough sounds---sounds of pleasure or anger---and 46 more. Mrs West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, 47 she had to be of course, because Frank 48 on her entirely. He needed all the 49 of a baby.
One night a policeman came and told Mrs West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She lost everything she owned.
50 that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the 51 ones. So before we 52 that morning, I stood 53 Frank and 54 my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his 55 to me was always the same.
36.A.answer B.speak C.smile D.laugh
37.A.minds B.memories C.thoughts D.brains
38.A.better B.dark C.younger D.high
39.A.slept B.worked C.studied D.lived
40.A.customers B.regulars C.visitors D.mornbers
41.A.Discussion B.Solving C.Sharing D.Suffering
42.A.learn from B.talk to C.help D.know
43.A.needed B.recognized C.interested D.encouraged
44.A.normal B.common C.unusual D.quick
45.A.word B.speech C.sentence D.language
46.A.not B.no C.something D.nothing
47.A.though B.yet C.as D.so
48.A.fed B.kept C.lived D.depended
49.A.attention B.control C.treatment D.management
50.A.While B.Until C.Unless D.When
51.A.lost B.unlucky C.angry D.unpopular
52.A.separated B.went C.reunited D.Returned
53.A.beside B.against C.at D.on
54.A.push B.tried C.showed D.measured
55.A.speaking B.greeting C.meeting D.Acting
36---55 ABBAB CDCAB BCDAD BAADB