Question

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，选出可填人空白处的最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When I was eight, I had to cross a crime-filled neighborhood to school. Nobody got involved when there was a ____，not even if a killing was happening directly across from our ____ ： “What’s that, Mom? Someone is screaming!”“Turn off the light! Stay ____! Keep your voice down!” Mom would ____.

Usually, I would see other girls that I knew, and I would catch up and we would____ together.

Along this route was an old grey house with a ____. It never caught my attention ____ a kind and lovely elderly lady ____us with a musical voice and a smile. “Look in my apple tree!” she said. “Do you see the Cedar Waxwings?” Well, I had never known what the ____ was called. My friends and I would, ____，look for the old lady to see if she was____ . She had taken this little yard and made it a small paradise of flower beds ： so ____that she probably had lived there for many years. She enjoyed our frequent visits and told us all kinds of things about birds and nature. We ____to love her.

But one day, we didn’t____ her. Though we looked, there was never a ____ of her： her garden began to look ____ and the greyness of the house seemed to take over the colorful When I was eight I had to cross a crime-filledmood. One of us ____to open the gate and knocked at the door, but the dear old woman would never greet us again. It was to be my first experience with death, though I didn’t know it then, a death to my childhood ____.

Every time I ____a bird，especially a Cedar Waxwing, I think of her. Every time I face a hardship, I remember her grace and dignity. Her____ in the old house made it beautiful.

1.A. gathering B. celebration C. murder D. crime

2.A. school B. house C. neighborhood D. town

3.A. awake B. low C. asleep D. active

4.A. reply B. shout C. announce D. whisper

5.A. walk B. play C.fight D. study

6.A. view B. pond C.yard D. mystery

7.A. until B. when C. because D. where

8.A. begged B. treated C. ordered D. greeted

9.A. fruit B. tree C. bird D.flower

10.A. once a year B. every school day C. occasionally D. rarely

11.A. gardening B. smiling C.reading D. watchlng

12.A. old-fashioned B.established C.tidy D. large

13.A. agreed B. expected C. tried D. grew

14.A. visit B. miss C. see D. love

15.A. sign B.story C. memory D.photo

16.A. fresh B. wild C. dirty D.green

17.A. promised B. planned C.threatened D.dared

18.A. pleasure B. innocence C. independence D. friendship

19.A. admire B.draw C. keep D. catch

20.A. death B. Labor C. presence D. Interest

Answer 1