完型填空（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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

   It’s Saturday morning. Tony’s sitting at the kitchen table,   36   with a piece of bread. He’s not even   37 . Is he ill? No, but he does have a   38  . He has nothing to do because the Internet is down. When he  39  up this morning, Tony was feeling  40 . He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend  41 . It would be a weekend like any other --- a great weekend. But that was  42   he turned on his computer and  43  he was unable to go online. Having no Internet changes everything.

Every weekend, Tony   44  goes online to email friends, read the  45   to keep up with what’s happening in the world and  46   a few online chess games with his cousin Helen to finish the weekend off. The perfect weekend --- online!

Just as Tony is  47  how he can possibly have a normal weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the  48  . “Cheer up, Tony. Don’t   49   the Internet any more, OK?” Tony makes no   50  but sighs (叹气). “Go and play chess with Helen!” Tony’s mum  51 .

“Oh, yes! Helen lives just around the  52  . We can meet and play chess face to face for a  53 . Maybe this weekend won’t be so bad,” Tony   54  , as he walks to the phone. There is  55   without the Internet after all.

1.A. cutting            B. playing          C. eating           D. thinking

2.A. hungry         B. generous         C. equal                D. confident

3.A. lifestyle          B. problem          C. pressure             D. tradition

4.A. dialled        B. rang             C. stood            D. woke

5.A. great          B. peaceful                 C. urgent           D. unusual

6.A. around         B. above            C. ahead                D. away

7.A. after              B. before               C. until                D. when

8.A. thought       B. guessed              C. surprised        D. found

9.A. usually       B. nearly               C. especially           D. already

10.A. disasters         B. news             C. reports        D. documents

11.A. admire       B. explore              C. play             D. involve

12.A. suffering         B. wondering        C. realizing       D. supposing

13.A. living-room  B. hall             C. kitchen              D. study

14.A. talk about        B. care about           C. think about     D. look about

15.A. answer        B. progress             C. movement          D. choice

16.A. requests          B. cries            C. solves                D. suggests

17.A. edge          B. distance             C. corner                D. end

18.A. challenge         B. champion         C. ceremony         D. change

19.A. promotes          B. smiles               C. reacts           D. continues

20.A. study        B. task                 C. weekend           D. life