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，掌握其大意。然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

       When Alice started to cycle home from Jenny’s house, she wasn’t nervous. She was certainly not afraid of the dark.  36  , it was only a 15,ncnule ride home. But halfway there, she began to wish that he hadn’t been so   37  .

       As she rounded a sarp benu, it suddenly   38   cold－very cold. Alice’s breath became puffs of white cloud and her legs aso cale that it became hard to ride.

       With her liart beating fast, she struggled so hard to move   39   that the didn’t hear the car which suddenly appeared beside her. She stopped by the road. The big black car also   40  ,Slowly, the passenger-window began to slide down. Alice held her breath. In the soft light inside the car, something   41  . Then, the light brightened and Alice was staring at a sweet, grey-haired old lady. “Hello, dear,”said the old lady. “I need   42  . I’m afraid I’m lost. I need to find the nearest airport. I must be there in the next five minutes.”

       “Airport? You   43   are lost,”Alice said. “You need to go back five kilometers   44   you reach the”

T-junction.Turn left and  45  for about another 10 kilometers to the main highway.From there,just follow the  46  to the airport.But I’m afraid there’s no  47  you’ll get there in five minutes!”

       “Thank you very much,dearn eplied the old lady.“Don’t worry-I’ll  48  it time.”

       The  49  up and the started off.A little way ahead,it  50  and with hedlights filashing, it drove past Alice. But then, mething  51  happened.The car hegary changing flrst, its color  52  from black to silvey grew when, the wheels began disappearing, but the car    to move forward,  53  just above the grolld. As the car  54  into the dark sky, the big red tail-lights grew larger and larger and glowed more and more brightly.With a faint whistling  55  ,the car was gone in seconds,leaving Alice shaking her head in disbelief…

       36.A.However                     B.Besides              C.Therefore           D.Othrwise

       37.A.brave                   B.excited               C.eurious               D.grew

       38.A.fell                      B.around               C.forward              D.backward

       40.A.arrived                 B.aopped               C.stayed                D.started

       41.A.gathered               B.opped                C.stayed                D.started

       42.A.help                            B.exicult               C.rest                    D.water

       43.A.necess                  B.gas                    C.rest                    D.water

       44.A.if                         B.until                  C.unless                D.as

       45.A.drive                    B.walk                  C.follow                D.march

       46.A.address                 B.sigms                 C.notiees               D.guidance

       47.A.doubt                   B.room                 C.time                   D.way

       48.A.have it                  B.get it                  C.make it                     D.finishit

       49.A.door                     B.window              C.headlight            D.wheel

       50.A.passed                  B.rashed                C.turned                D.continued

       51.A.strange                 B.entive                C.imaginable         D.horrible

       52.A.developen             B.apend                 C.spread                D.ladea

       53.A.rollin                   B.floating              C.drawing             D.flashing

       54.A.pointed                 B.returned             C.broke                 D.rose

       55.A.tune                            B.voice                 C.sound                 D.tone

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，掌握其大意，然后从36-55题所给的四个选项（A，B，C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
My son Joey was born with club feet（天生特厚的畸形脚）. The doctors assured us that with treatment he would be able to walk  36 , but would never run very well. The first three years of his life were 37 in surgery（手术）. By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he had a 38 when you saw him walk.
The children in our neighborhood ran around as most children do during  39  , and Joey would jump right in，run and play, too. We   40  told him that he probably wouldn’t be able to  41  as well as the other children. So he didn’t know.
In seventh grade he  42  to go out for the cross country team. Every day he 43 with the team. He worked harder and ran 44  than any of the others — perhaps he sensed that the 45  that seemed to come naturally to so many others did not come naturally to him. 46  the entire team runs, only the top seven runners have the potential （潜能） to 47  points for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know.
He 48  to run four to five miles a day, every day — even the day he had a 103 degree fever. I was 49 , so I went to look for him after school. I found him 50 all alone. I asked him how he felt. "Okay," he said. He had two more51 to go. The sweat ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. 52 he looked straight ahead and kept running.
Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were 53 . Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. He was in  54  grade — the other six team members were all eighth?graders. We never told him he shouldn’t 55 to make the team. We never told him he couldn’t do it...so he didn’t know. He just did it.
36. A. quickly       B. slowly     C. normally    D. comfortably
37. A. spent         B. wasted     C. suffered   D. lost
38. A. pain          B. problem        C. treatment         D. surgery
39. A. holidays         B. day           C. fun           D. play
40. A. seldom       B. never          C. always            D. once
41. A. study         B. run     C. walk        D. behave
42. A. decided       B. preferred       C. refused    D. agreed
43. A. gathered       B. camped      C. trained        D. competed
44. A. more slowly B. less      C. faster           D. more
45. A. ability       B. strength     C. power    D. energy
46. A. Since         B. Because    C. After    D. Although
47. A. increase        B. score            C. hold           D. take
48. A. continued      B. stopped     C. liked       D. hoped
49. A. sad             B. surprised       C. angry        D. worried
50. A. running            B. resting       C. crying        D. sleeping
51. A. tests         B. miles    C. lessons        D. examinations
52. A. Otherwise     B. So         C. Yet               D. Thus
53. A. included       B. called           C. shown      D. found
54. A. sixth       B. eighth     C. seventh          D. fifth
55. A. manage      B. determine         C. expect       D. attempt

     When I was thirteen, my family moved from Boston to Tucson, Arizona.  36  the move, my father  37  us in the living-room on a freezing January night. My sisters and I sat around the fire, not   38  that the universe would suddenly change its course. "In May, we're  39  to Arizona."

     The words, so small, didn't seem  40  enough to hold my new life. But the world changed and I awoke on a train moving across the country. I watched the  41_  change from green trees to flat dusty plains to high mountains as I saw strange new plants that  42  mysteries(奥秘) yet to come. Finally, we arrived and  43  into our new home.

     44  my older sisters were sad at the loss of friends, I   45   explored(探索) our new surroundings.

     One afternoon, I was out exploring  46  and saw a new kind of cactus(仙人掌). I crouched (蹲) down for a closer look. "You'd better not  47  that."

     I turned around to see an old woman

     "Are you new to this neighborhood?" I explained that I was,  48 , new to the entire state.

     "My name is Ina Thorne. Have you got used to life in the  49 ? It must be quite a _50  after living in Boston."

     How could I explain how I  51  the desert? I couldn't seem to find the right words.

     "It's vastness," she offered. “That vastness  52  you stand on the mountains overlooking the desert -- you can  53  how little you are in comparison with the world.      54   , you feel that the possibilities are limitless.”

     That was it. That was the feeling I'd had ever since I'd first seen the mountains of my new home. Again, my  55  would change with just a few simple words.

     "Would you like to come to my home tomorrow? Someone should teach you which plant you should and shouldn't touch."

36. A. During              B. Until               C. Upon                      D. Before   

37. A. gathered            B. warned             C. organized          D. comforted 

38. A. hoping               B. admitting          C. realizing            D. believing  

39. A. going                 B. moving           C. driving                   D. flying    

40. A. good                  B. simple            C. big                         D. proper    

41. A. picture               B. ground             C. scene                D. area     

42. A. suggested                   B. solved            C. discovered         D. explained 

43. A. settled               B. walked            C. hurried              D. stepped

44. A. If                      B. After                      C. Once               D. While  

45. A. bitterly              B. easily                     C. proudly             D. eagerly   

46 A as well                 B. as usual            C. right away         D. on time 

47. A. move                 B. dig                          C. pull                  D. touch   

48. A. of course            B. in fact                     C. after all             D. at least  

49. A. desert                B. city                  C. state                  D. country 

50. A. luck                   B. doubt                C. shock                D. danger  

51. A. found                B. examined          C. watched            D. reached 

52. A. why                  B. when                C. how                         D. where   

53. A. prove                 B. guess                C. sense                 D. expect   

54. A. However            B. Otherwise         C. Therefore                D. Meanwhile

55. A. idea                   B. life                         C. home                      D. family

It was early spring. The sun was strong and warm. I went over the hillside fields behind my village,    36    buntings and linnets, the birds I loved most.

I turned along a bush between two fields where I had seen the birds before, but on this fine day almost the first birds that I saw were winter visitors. I was    37    not to see a bunting straightaway, but I went on, stopping occasionally to look at the black-thorn (黑刺李) flowers in the bush, and    38    I did hear a bunting singing. Or was it? Was I not perhaps turning a note of skylark (云雀) song into that of the song I was hoping to hear?

But the bunting’s song was pretty clear, and within a few minutes I was proved

   39   . The song was coming from the bush, and as I approached    40    I saw the brown bird resting in a small tree. It opened its mouth, and    41    once more. Then it flew off. It was the only one I saw that day, but at least I had found one of the birds I had

   42   .

It was not until I was on my way back home that I caught sight of some    43   . I saw five of them gathering on the ground when I was just coming back beside the

   44    where I had found the bunting. As I came nearer, they flew up, spreading their tails so that their white edges    45    to look like a white fan in the sky. Then, to my

   46   , some big pigeons suddenly came flying and joined the linnets.

A moment later they had all    47   — but I had fulfilled my hopes for the day.

A. looking at  B. looking for C. looking up  D. looking after

A. disappointed      B. dismissed   C. dissatisfied D. disturbed

A. directly      B. gradually   C. suddenly    D. immediately

A. proper       B. right C. useful        D. true

A. sadly  B. hurriedly   C. proudly     D. quietly

A. danced       B. ate      C. sang    D. shouted

A. observed   B. noticed       C. expected     D. described

A. linnets       B. skylarks     C. pigeons     D. buntings

A. bush B. road   C. grass   D. black-thorn

A. widened     B. enlarged     C. lengthened  D. expanded

A. knowledge        B. pleasure     C. amusement       D. honour

A. gathered     B. lost     C. missed       D. gone

When Alice started to cycle home from Jenny’s house, she wasn’t nervous. She was certainly not afraid of the dark. __21___, it was only a 15-minute ride home. But halfway there, she began to wish that she hadn’t been so ___22___.

As she rounded a sharp bend, it suddenly___23__ cold — very cold. Alice’s breath became puffs of white cloud and her legs were so cold that it became hard to ride.

With her heart beating fast, she struggled so hard to move __24__ that she didn’t hear the car which suddenly appeared beside her. She stopped by the road. The big black car also ___25___. Slowly, the passenger-window began to slide down. Alice held her breath. In the soft light inside the car, something _26__. Then, the light brightened and Alice was staring at a sweet, grey-haired old lady. “Hello, dear,” said the old lady. “I need ___27___. I’m afraid I’m lost. I need to find the nearest airport. I must be there in the next five minutes. ”

“Airport? You ___28___ are lost,” Alice said. “You need to go back five kilometers ___29___ you reach the T-junction. Turn left and ___20___ for about another 10 kilometers to the main highway. From there, just follow the ___31___ to the airport. But I’m afraid there’s no ___32__ you’ll get there in five minutes!”

“Thank you very much, dear,” replied the old lady. “Don’t worry — I’ll _33__ in time.”

The ___34___ moved up and the car started off. A little way ahead, it ___35___ and with headlights flashing, it drove past Alice. But then, something ___36___ happened. The car began changing. First, its color __37___from black to silvery-grey. Then, the wheels began disappearing, but the car continued to move forward, __38___ just above the ground. As the car ___39___ into the dark sky, the big red tail-lights grew larger and larger and glowed more and more brightly. With a faint whistling ___40___, the car was gone in seconds, leaving Alice shaking her head in disbelief…

1.

A. However        B. Besides        C. Therefore      D. Otherwise

2.

. A. brave        B. excited        C. curious        D. stubborn

3.

A. fell           B. seemed         C. proved         D. grew

4.

A. aside          B. around         C. forward        D. backward

5.

 A. arrived       B. stopped        C. stayed         D. started

6.

 A. gathered      B. existed        C. dropped        D. moved

7.

A. help           B. gas            C. rest           D. water

8.

A. necessarily    B. normally       C. basically      D. certainly

9.

 A. if            B. until          C. unless         D. as

10.

A. drive          B. walk           C. follow         D. march

11.

. A. address      B. signs          C. notices        D. guidance

12.

 A. doubt         B. room           C. time           D. way

13.

 A. have it       B. get it        C. make it     D. finish it

14.

 A. door          B. window         C. headlight      D. wheel

15.

. A. passed       B. rushed         C. turned         D. continued

16.

A. strange        B. sensitive      C. imaginable     D. horrible

17.

A. developed      B. appeared       C. spread         D. changed

18.

 A. rolling       B. floating       C. drawing        D. flashing

19.

A. pointed        B. returned       C. broke          D. rose

20.

 A. tune          B. voice          C. sound          D. tone