Question

第二节  完形填空（共20小题：每小题1分，满分20分）

   Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his ---21--- was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Luckily, he survived and landed ---22--- to the ground with a parachute. He is now giving a lecture on ---23--- learned from that experience!

One day, when Plumb was sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up and said, "You're Plumb! You ---24--- a plane in Vietnam. You were ---25---!" 

    "How ---26--- did you know that?" asked Plumb.

"I ---27--- your parachute," the man replied. Plumb gasped in ---28---and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said, "I guess it ---29---!"

    Plumb assured him, "It sure ---30--- , or I wouldn't be here today."

    Plumb couldn't sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb says, "I kept wondering what he had looked like in a ---31--- uniform. I wonder how many times I might have ---32--- him and not even said 'Good morning ' or anything, because you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a ---33---." Plumb thought of the many hours the man had spent at a long wooden table of the ship, ---34---weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding the ---35---of someone he didn't know.

    Everyone has someone who provides ---36--- they need to make it through the day. He also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down -- he needed his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute and spiritual parachute ---37--- safety.

    Sometimes in the daily challenges, we ---38---what is really important. We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone ---39---something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason.   ---40--- you go through every day, recognize people who pack your parachutes.

21. A. solider  B. army   C. plane  D. parachute

22. A. safely   B. calmly       C. hardly D. carefully

23. A. classes  B. jokes   C. stories D. lessons

24. A. rode     B. flew    C. lost     D. damaged

25.A.shot down      B.flown away C. found out   D. learned from

26.A.on earth  B. after all      C. above all    D. in all

27.A.sold       B. bought       C. packed       D. found

28.A.astonishment  B. doubt  C. satisfaction D.disappointment

29.A.arrived   B. worked      C. changed     D. ruined

30.A. does      B. did     C. had done    D. has done

31.A.Navy      B. waiter C.servant D.pilot

32.A.hurt       B. encouraged C.seen     D.punished

33.A.waiter    B. sailor  C.captain D.passenger

34.A.carefully B. angrily       C.bitterly D.readily

35.A.money    B. fate     C.neck    D.health

36.A.when      B.that      C. what   D.where

37.A.reaching B. to reach      C. reached      D. reach

38.A.miss       B. hold    C. dismiss       D.remember

39.A.for  B. on      C. in       D. of

40.A.Until      B. As      C. Because      D. Though

Answer 1

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