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)
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
It was on a winter past midnight of 1971 when I was driving our big V8 station wagon back to our hometown. Next to me, my husband was 36 asleep and snoring (打鼾) loudly.
It was true that he worked sixty or more hours per week, and then in the evenings he worked as my dance 37 . We had to travel away from home for the dance classes on four, or _38 five nights per week, and then he 39 have to be up and about again by six of the following dawn to get to his 40 job.
We had agreed that I should drive home on those late nights so he could at least get some _41 sleep. But I worked hard, too, and I would also be up at six of the following morning to get our half-dozen kids 42 for school. As well, I would then have to 43 the dance lessons for that evening.
On that long cold night I was fighting to stay 44 , but sticking to "the master's rule" of not playing my 45 . He needed his sleep, he said. I 46 down the window, yet the bitter-cold wind did little to revive (振奋) me. I was already driving about ten miles 47 the speed limit, 48 , we were still forty-five minutes away from home.
I studied the road up ahead and 49 in the near view mirror. There was not a car 50 a black night ahead and behind me. There were no Officers of the Law to be seen, and so I 51 the speed by another ten miles per hour. I had no great need for a speeding ticket, but I wanted to get home as quickly as I could.
"Get into the other lane!" sounded a loud and 52 voice.
I swiftly changed lanes, and as I did, a car without headlights pulled from the side of the road. I screamed at the top of my lungs, "I 53 that car by mere inches! The fool! Where did he come from?" The car that would have caused our death was now just a blur of an image (模糊的图像) in my rear view mirror. Instantly I knew where he had come from. He had rushed onto the road from that little roadside bar I 54 each week, and probably so drank and 'legless', he would never find out how 55 he came to killing himself and us.
36. A. slow B. fast C quick D. well
37. A. trainer B. coacher C partner D. student
38. A. still B. already C. yet D. even
39. A. would B. could C. should D. might
40. A. normal B. usual C regular D. common
41. A. extra B. enough C. another D. other
42. A. timely B. ready C late D. early
43. A. teach B. prepare for C. prepare D. have
44. A. alive B. asleep C. active D. awake
45. A. radio B. DVD C. TV D. piano
46. A. pulled B. took C. wound D. pushed
47. A below B. above C. over D. beneath
48. A. furthermore B. therefore C. however D. besides
49. A. noticed B. watched C. glanced D. observed
50. A. in sight B. in ease C. in result D. in fact
51. A. decreased B. declined C. increased D. reduced
52. A. urgent B. calm C. angry D. anxious
53. A. caught B. missed C. avoided D. escaped
54. A. passed B. served C. provided D. found
55. A. high B. straight C. hard D. close
36 - 40 BCDAC 41- 45 ABCDA 46 - 50 CBCCA 51 - 55 CABAD
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