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Early one morning, I witnessed romance at one the least-expected places in the world—a room in a rest home. At the time, my father 36 a room with three other gentlemen.
Before my daddy lived in the rest home, an elderly 37 was sent there. Since there wasn’t a double room 38 , they were forced to separate the couple. The gentleman, Mr.West, was 39 in the bed beside Daddy. His wife, Mrs.West, shared a room with several other ladies down the hall.
When I went to see Daddy that morning, I 40 Mr.West. Three employees were working with him. He hadn’t eaten a bite of food 41 he was sent several days earlier. I could 42 by the expression on the nurses’ faces that they were worried about him. Mr.West 43 to open his mouth for any of them.
“Go and get Mrs.West, ” the nurse told her helper. “Maybe Mr.West will eat 44 her. ”
In a few minutes a kind-looking lady was 45 into the room. Her smile was contagious（传染的）and Mr.West smiled 46 . I felt as though I was intruding（侵入）on a 47 moment, but I couldn’t take my eyes off the couple. The love between them was obvious, as Mrs.West patted Mr.West’s hand.
With a soft voice, Mrs.West tried to 48 Mr.West to eat. To everyone’s surprise, Mr.West 49 his mouth and began to enjoy the 50 and his wife’s company. While the nurses fed him, he stared at his sweetheart with a smile on his face. Mrs.West began singing a song for him. The 51 on his once solemn（严肃的）face became even brighter.
Tears 52 my eyes. The nurse then 53 the curtain around the couple to give them some quality time alone. I discovered that 54 doesn’t only exist when we’re young and in love. Romance 55 a lifetime and grows stronger with age.
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【小题1】C
【小题2】B
【小题3】C
【小题4】C
【小题5】D
【小题6】C
【小题7】B
【小题8】C
【小题9】B
【小题10】C
【小题11】A
【小题12】D
【小题13】A
【小题14】B
【小题15】C
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【小题18】A
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解析试题分析：本文通过作者所见的the Wast夫妻，诠释了什么才是真正的浪漫。
【小题1】C解析：share...with... 与…共享…，结合语境只有share最合适。
【小题2】B解析：通过下文可知是一对夫妇被送到了疗养院。
【小题3】C解析：词义辨析：available可用的，accessible可以靠近的，acceptable可以接受的。
【小题4】C解析：place有“安置”的意思。
【小题5】D解析：that morning我去看爸爸是正好遇见了Mr West。
【小题6】C解析：考查连词的用法及区别，since自从…。
【小题7】B解析：tell辨别，识别，看出，常与can，could，be able to连用。
【小题8】C解析：通过下文可知，Mr West刚开始是拒绝吃饭的，Mrs West来了他才高兴并且吃饭。
【小题9】B解析：for因为，为了…。
【小题10】C解析：通过第二段的elderly得知这对夫妇年龄很大了，所以用wheel更符合实际。
【小题11】A解析：Mr West看见自己的妻子对他笑所以他也爽朗（brightly）地笑了。
【小题12】D\B解析：private个人的，私的，与public相对。
【小题13】A解析：convince sb. to do... 说服某人做…。
【小题14】D解析：根据上下文知，Mr West开始张开嘴吃饭。
【小题15】C解析：根据上文He hadn’t eaten a bite of food...可知.
【小题16】D解析：脸上的“表情”，而不是其他。
【小题17】C解析：主语是眼泪所以用fill，如果主语是眼睛本题就可以选C了。
【小题18】A解析：护士拉上窗帘。drag指用力拖、拉。
【小题19】B解析：文章第一段和最后一句话都提到了romance，这也是整篇文章的主题。
【小题20】C解析：last持续，延续。remain强调“保持”。
考点：考查夹叙夹议类短文
点评：本文的描写很有特点，在文章第开头和结尾都突出了主题。所以考生对首段应该给与足够的重视，因为往往它就是文章的中心，它体现的观点往往决定了全文的观点，所以多花一点时间看首段是永远是值得的。同时考生在选择答案时要根据上下文的复现或同现以及这些词之间的有机联系来确定答案。由于完形填空的文章是一个意义相关联的语篇，围绕一个话题论述，因此在行文中词语的重复、替代、复现和同现现象是不可避免的。根据这个原则，某一个空格所对应的答案很可能就是在上下文中复现或同现的相关词：原词、同义词、近义词、反义词等。
At Blossom End Railroad Station, 22-year-old Stanley Vine sat, waiting for his new employer. The surrounding green fields were so unlike the muddy landscape of war-torn France. After four horrible years as an army private fighting in Europe, Stanley had returned to England in February 1946. Armed now with some savings and with no prospects for a job in England, he answered a newspaper ad for farm help in Canada. Two months later he was on his way.
When the old car rumbled (发着辘辘声) toward the tiny station, Stanley rose to his feet, trying to make the most of his five foot and four inches frame. The farmer, Alphonse Lapine, shook his head and complained, “You’re a skinny thing.” On the way to his dairy farm, Alphonse explained that he had a wife and seven kids. “Money is tight. You’ll get room and board. You’ll get up at dawn for milking, and then help me around the farm until evening milking time again. Ten dollars a week. Sundays off.” Stanley nodded. He had never been on a farm before, but he took the job.
From the beginning Stanley was treated horribly by the whole family. They made fun of the way he dressed and talked. He could do nothing right. The humourless farmer frequently lost his temper, criticizing Stanley for the slightest mistake. The oldest son, 13-year-old Armand, constantly played tricks on him. But the kind-hearted Stanley never responded.
Stanley never became part of the Lapine family. After work, they ignored him. He spend his nights alone in a tiny bedroom. However, each evening before retiring, he lovingly cared for the farmer’s horses, eagerly awaiting him at the field gate. He called them his gentle giants. On Saturday nights he hitch-hiked into the nearest town and wandered the streets or enjoyed a restaurant meal before returning to the farm.
Early one November morning Alphonse Lapine discovered that Stanley had disappeared, after only six months as his farmhand. The railway station master, when questioned later that week, said he had not seen him. In fact no one in the community ever heard of him again. That is, until one evening, almost 20 years later, when Armand, opened an American sports magazine and came across a shocking headline, “Millionaire jockey (赛马骑师), Stanley Vine, ex-British soldier and 5-time horse riding champion, began life in North America as a farmhand in Canada.”
【小题1】Stanley Vine decided to go to Canada because ___________.
| A．he wanted to escape from war-torn France |
| B．he wanted to serve in the Canadian army |
| C．he couldn’t find a job in England |
| D．he loved working as a farmhand |
| A．Stanley joined the French army when he was 18 years old. |
| B．On the farm Stanley had to milk the cows 14 times a week. |
| C．The Lapine family were very rich but cruel to Stanley. |
| D．Stanely read about the job offer in a newspaper. |
| A．Hitch-hiking to different towns. |
| B．Caring for the farmer’s horses. |
| C．Wandering around the farm alone. |
| D．Preparing meals on the farm. |
| A．He didn’t know Stanley had been a British soldier. |
| B．He had no idea Stanley had always been a wealthy man. |
| C．He didn’t know his father paid Stanley so little money. |
| D．He didn’t expect Stanley to become such a success. |