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，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Most people hate rock music.  36  I am not by nature an unpersonable or biased (有偏见的)person, two personal  37  of rock music during the past two weeks have  38  me that it has become a  39  for those of us with enough common sense to see its potential dangers to  40  . My first experience was the  41 that if I spoke to my teenage son when he was listening to rock music through headphones, he replied in an  42  loud voice, as if there was something wrong with his  43  . The second occurred when I went with him to a “  44  ” and saw for myself what these affairs are like.
45 I went to that concert, I had always taken the “live-and-let-live”  46  that rock music was simply not my taste but that other people had every  47  to enjoy it if it was theirs. But what I saw and heard made me believe that we are  48  something very powerful to take possession of the younger generation. In the first place, I noticed a collective madness, brought about by the  49  level. But secondly, and far more  50  , I observed that after a time everyone was  51  by the noise. By the end I was in the middle of a faceless  52  who clapped and stamped and jumped around like  53  . I seriously believe that in time to come our  54 younger generation would thank us if we managed to put a  55  to it now.
36. A. If                       B. While               C. When                D. Even
37. A. happenings          B. hearings            C. experiences        D. affairs
38. A. persuaded           B. treated                     C. punished           D. encouraged
39. A. job                            B. problem            C. pleasure            D. duty
40. A. let them out        B. pick them up     C. find them out     D. point them out
41. A. satisfaction          B. realization         C. excitement         D. disappointment
42. A. unnaturally         B. unfairly             C. unfortunately     D. unexpectedly
43. A. hearing               B. mind                 C. voice                D. thought
44. A. lecture                B. party                 C. concert              D. ball
45. A. Since                  B. Until                 C. After                 D. As
46. A. attitude               B. decision            C. chance                 D. opinion
47. A. position                 B. reason               C. right                 D. time
48. A. inviting                 B. leading              C. allowing            D. preventing
49. A. dance                 B. music                C. sound                D. noise
50. A. safely                 B. obviously          C. naturally           D. dangerously
51. A. carried along          B. carried out         C. taken on        D. brought up
52. A. team                   B. crowd               C. group                D. people
53. A. artists                 B. dancers             C. monkeys           D. sportsmen
54. A. modern               B. former                     C. lovely               D. present
55. A. measure                 B. stop                  C. praise                D. start

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，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Most people hate rock music.  36  I am not by nature an unpersonable or biased (有偏见的)person, two personal  37  of rock music during the past two weeks have  38  me that it has become a  39  for those of us with enough common sense to see its potential dangers to  40  . My first experience was the  41 that if I spoke to my teenage son when he was listening to rock music through headphones, he replied in an  42  loud voice, as if there was something wrong with his  43  . The second occurred when I went with him to a “  44  ” and saw for myself what these affairs are like.

  45 I went to that concert, I had always taken the “live-and-let-live”  46  that rock music was simply not my taste but that other people had every  47  to enjoy it if it was theirs. But what I saw and heard made me believe that we are  48  something very powerful to take possession of the younger generation. In the first place, I noticed a collective madness, brought about by the  49  level. But secondly, and far more  50  , I observed that after a time everyone was  51  by the noise. By the end I was in the middle of a faceless  52  who clapped and stamped and jumped around like  53  . I seriously believe that in time to come our  54 younger generation would thank us if we managed to put a  55  to it now.

36. A. If                       B. While               C. When                D. Even

37. A. happenings          B. hearings            C. experiences        D. affairs

38. A. persuaded           B. treated                     C. punished           D. encouraged

39. A. job                            B. problem            C. pleasure            D. duty

40. A. let them out        B. pick them up     C. find them out     D. point them out

41. A. satisfaction          B. realization         C. excitement         D. disappointment

42. A. unnaturally         B. unfairly             C. unfortunately     D. unexpectedly

43. A. hearing               B. mind                 C. voice                D. thought

44. A. lecture                B. party                 C. concert              D. ball

45. A. Since                  B. Until                 C. After                 D. As

46. A. attitude               B. decision            C. chance                  D. opinion

47. A. position                  B. reason               C. right                 D. time

48. A. inviting                  B. leading              C. allowing            D. preventing

49. A. dance                 B. music                C. sound                D. noise

50. A. safely                 B. obviously          C. naturally           D. dangerously

51. A. carried along           B. carried out         C. taken on         D. brought up

52. A. team                   B. crowd               C. group                D. people

53. A. artists                 B. dancers             C. monkeys           D. sportsmen

54. A. modern               B. former                     C. lovely               D. present

55. A. measure                  B. stop                  C. praise                D. start