第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16-25的相应位置上。
The disappearance of the famous crime writer, Agatha Christie, was as mysterious as any of her exciting stories.
At about 11 o'clock on the evening of F day, December 3rd in 1926, Mrs. Christie got into her car and took a drive without saying _____16_____ she was going. She didn't return.
The next morning her car was found without _____17_____ driver at Newlands Corner, Surrey. People imagined that she might _____18_____ (kill) herself. _____19_____ as the days went by, it was suggested that she was murdered. The press and the public _____20_____ (natural) took great interest in the case, with at least one newspaper _____21_____ (offer) a reward to anyone who could find Mrs. Christie.
Agatha finally was found alive on Tuesday, December 14th, _____22_____ she was reunited with her husband at a hotel in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, _____23_____ was located around 50 kilometers away from her car. _____24_____ was said that, for ten days, the writer had been staying at the hotel under the name of "Mrs. Theresa Neele". Her husband said, "She has suffered _____25_____ the most complete loss of memory and I do not think she knows who she is."

第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16～25的相应位置上。
Anna pushed herself up from the bench and walked steadily with her walking sticks toward the office. As soon as she entered the room, she saw it. _____16______ blue umbrella was there, unopened, ____17______ a floor-to-ceiling window. _____18____（see） it so near, nearly within reach, Anna forgot herself and pointed to her possession.
“That is mine,” she said. “My son brought it to me from Paris and I want it back.”
The man had risen when she entered and he ___19_______(remain) standing. He turned to look at the umbrella ____20______ she pointed. “Yes. I know the umbrella is from Paris, ” he said, showing a mix of innocence and curiosity. “Actually, it ____21______(make) in Italy, but it’s sold in Paris. It’s not the one your son gave you. I bought it myself.”
Anna stared at him. Was he claiming that it was his own umbrella? She had run all the way to this office building from the shop _____22______ her umbrella was stolen.
“My son gave _____23_____ to me,” Anna countered. “ It means everything to me, because my son is ____24______(die).”
As soon as she said them, Anna knew she had made a mistake. She had opened herself up to a stranger. He had no business knowing the most important fact of her life, a grief she kept private. ___25_____could anyone understand what her son’s death meant to her?

第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16-25的相应位置上。
On December 19th , 2006, an airbus took off on time from the capital airport of Saudi Arabia. After about an hour’s 16.    (fly), something strange happened in the plane.
The passengers 17.     (enjoy) themselves when a small rat stole out from the bag of a young man ,which make the young woman nearby 18.      (alarm)with loud screaming. Then more and more rats came out of the bag. All the passengers became out of order, especially the women and the children. The steward（机长）managed to get in touch with 19.    control center on the ground. With the order from the ground, the plane 20.     (succeed)landed at the nearest airport.
As soon as the plane on the ground, all the passengers got off. Then seven specialists got on 21.   ______(catch)these small creatures. Many means had been tired but 22.    of them were good enough to catch the rats.
At last they tried to fill in the plane 23.      carbon-dioxide, 24.      poisoned all the eighty rats by the poisonous gas.
It 25.  __  (report)that the young man wanted to carry these rats to another city and sell them as pets but no one had expected that theses small creatures succeeded in escaping from the bag.

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

请阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的A, B, C，D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。

It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. The crops were  1.  .The rivers were long gone back into the  2.  .If we didn’t see some rain soon, we would lose everything. It was on this day that I learned the true  3.  of sharing and  4.  the only miracle I had seen with my own eyes.

I was in the kitchen making lunch when I saw my six-year-old son, Billy, walking toward the woods. Minutes after he  5.  into the woods, he came running out again, toward the house.

I went back to make sandwiches,  6.  that what he had been doing was completed. Moments later,  7.  ,he was once again toward the woods. This  8.  went on for an hour—walked  9.  to the woods, and ran back to the house.

  10.  I couldn’t take it any longer, so I went out of the house quietly and  11.  him on his journey. As I leaned into spy on him. I saw the most   12.  sight. Several large deer were in front of him. Billy walked right up to them. And I saw a tiny young deer lying on the ground  13.  suffering from dehydrateion (脱水) and heat exhaustion, lifting its head with  14.  effort to drink up the water in my beautiful boy’s  15.  .

When the water was  16.  ,Billy jumped up to run back to the house. I followed him back to a tap that we had  17.  .Billy opened it all the way up and a small trickle(细流) began to creep out. When he stood up and began to  18.  ,I was there in front of him. His little eyes were just filled with tears.

“I’m not  19.  ,”was all he said.

As the tears that rolled down his face began to hit the ground,they were suddenly  20.  by other drops…more drops…and more.

All I can say is that the rain that came that day saved our farm, just like one little boy saved deer.

21..A.dying           B.producing         C.harvesting    D.drying

22..A.sea         B.gas                C.earth        D.land

23..A.skill                  B.lesson           C.impression   D.opinion

24..A.found          B.expected           C.noticed     D.witnessed

25..A.disappeared   B.broke           C.turned              D. looked

26..A.admiring             B.thinking             C.imagining      D.desiring

27..A.consequently B.eventually         C.however        D.therefore

28..A.experience     B.activity         C.exercise        D.arrangement

29..A.hurriedly             B.secretly             C.worriedly      D.carefully

30..A.Immediately  B.Finally           C.Fortunately  D.Unexpectedly

31..A.stopped     B.caught          C.followed        D.urged

32..A.amusing     B.interesting       C.appealing      D.amazing

33..A.anxiously         B.disappointedly      C.naturally       D.obviously

34..A.no           B.brave            C.great        D.poor

35..A.hands         B.face               C.eyes          D.legs

36..A.gone          B.cool                 C.running          D.faded

37..A.put out      B.taken away         C.shut off              D.set up

38..A.stop       B.leave              C.smile         D.run

39..A.washing    B.drinking          C.throwing       D.polluting

40..A.melt               B.added             C.attached       D.joined