题目内容
完形填空(共20小题,每小题 1.5 分,满分 30 分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选取出适合填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
When my son unexpectedly volunteered for the Marines, I was busy writing my novels and giving little thought to the men and women in the army.
My son, John Schaeffer, recently came home _36__ from the Middle East. He slowly appeared from a broken car; John _37__ all night from a base near Washington, _38__ he had landed the day before. He did not want me to 39___ him there. “I’ll need time to myself,” my son said _40__ calling from Kuwait on the way home.
I gave my wife a head start. Mother_41__ son, “I was so worried”, Genie said. She pulled away to look up again and again to _42___ he was really there.
My wife gave me a great gift: _43__ alone with my boy. John was tired and lay _44__ on his bed. I lay down next to him and was grasping his hand the whole time. I just wanted to be certain that the nightmares I’d had about John being killed were _45__ .
I kept holding my son, the way I _46__ when he was two and came into our bed after a _47__ dream. I asked John if he’d rather sleep than talk, and he said there would be time for 48___ later.
With the 49___ over, under and around me came incredible tiredness. I slept with his voice dying away. It was the first good _50__ I’d had in months. I woke and John was asleep next to me. Sitting by his bed watching him breathe, I found myself praying and _51__ for all the fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, husbands and wives of those who were not coming home. For the first time in my life, I was weeping for _52___.
Before my son went to war I would never have shed tears for them .My son _53__ me. He taught me that our men and women in uniform are not the _54__”. They are our sons, daughters, brothers and sisters. Sometimes shedding ears for strangers is a holy _55___. Sometimes it’s all we can do.
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A.angry | B.excited | C.frightened | D.alive |
A.drove | B.was driving | C.had driven | D.would have driven |
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A.meet | B.congratulate | C.permit | D.accept |
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A.chat | B.worries | C.meeting | D.curiosity |
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A.crying | B.marching | C.screaming | D.regretting |
A.friends | B.neighbors | C.strangers | D.soldiers |
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A.function | B.adventure | C.shame | D.duty |
【小题1】 D【小题1】C【小题1】A【小题1】A【小题1】B
【小题1】D【小题1】A【小题1】C【小题1】B【小题1】D
【小题1】A【小题1】C【小题1】D【小题1】B【小题1】C
【小题1】 A【小题1】C【小题1】B【小题1】C【小题1】D
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