二、完形填空 （2分/题，共分30分）

A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had ___21___ a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom, and ___22___ his father well ___23___ it, he told him that was all he wanted.

On the morning of his graduation day his father called him into his own study and told him how ___24___ he was to have such a fine son. He handed his son a beautiful gift box. ___25___ but slightly disappointed, the young man ___26___ the box and found a lovely book. ___27___, he raised his voice at his father and said. “ With all your money you give me a book?” and rushed out of the house, leaving the book in the study.

He did not contact his father for a whole year until one day he saw in the street an old man who looked like his father. He __28___ he had to go back home and see his father.

When he arrived at his father’s house, he was told that his father had been in hospital for a week. The moment he was about to ___29___ the hospital, he saw on the desk the still new book, just as he had left it one year ago. He opened it and began to ___30___ the pages. Suddenly, a car key ___31___ from an envelope taped behind the book. It had a tag (标签) with the dealer’s name, the ___32___ dealer who had the sports car he had ___33___. On the tag was the ___34___ of his graduation, and the __35____ PAID IN FULL.

21    A. absorbed    B. attended     C. admired     D. analyzed

22    A. accomplishing   B. guiding      C. swallowing D. knowing

23    A. afford B. offer   C. announce    D. affect

24    A. encouraged B. inspired      C. proud  D. astonished

25    A. Nervous     B. Cautious     C. Severe       D. Curious

26    A. assessed     B. opened       C. delivered    D. clarified

27    A. Angrily      B. Eagerly      C. Enthusiastically  D. Anxiously

28    A. acquired     B. realized      C. recognized  D. required

29    A. link to       B. stick to       C. aim at D. leave for

30    A. polish B. read    C. approve      D. Count

31    A. attract B. rejected      C. improved   D. dropped

32    A. senior B. same   C. splendid     D. separate

33    A. remained    B. desired       C. reminded    D. represented

34    A. picture       B. place   C. date    D. sign

35    A. words B. information       C. message     D. card        

"Just sign here, sir," the deliveryman said as he handed Oscar Reyna a package.
The package consisted of a long, narrow box 21 wrapped in brown paper. 22 the box, Oscar saw an umbrella inside — a very old one with a beautifully carved wooden handle. 23 he had not seen it in more than 20 years, he recognized it 24 .
Oscar was 16 when he first saw the 25 umbrella. He had gone to a concert with his grandparents. As they were leaving, h noticed an umbrella on an empty seat, impressed by its 26 , Oscar felt a strong desire to find its 27 .
Oscar 28 the manager to look in the record of advance ticket sales. Just as he thought, a name matched the seat 29 Oscar had found the umbrella. The name was Mrs. Katie O'Brien.
Oscar talked his grandparents into going by Mrs. O'Brien's 30 on their way home. He rang the bell, the door opened, and an elderly woman appeared. "May I   31  you?" she asked.
"I'd like to return it if it's yours," Oscar said, 32 the umbrella as if presenting a 33 that had long been wished for.
"Why, yes! It's mine," replied Mrs. O'Brien with a 34 smile and shining eyes. "It was given to me by my father years ago. Thank you so much for returning it. May I offer you a reward for your __35_ ?"
"No, ma'am," he said, "My grandmother says that a good deed is its own reward. "
"Well, that's 36 what my father used to say. What is your name, young man?"
Years later Oscar was staring at the finely carved handle of the umbrella as he remembered Mrs. O'Brien. It was in perfect condition, considering how 37 it was. Why had it arrived here today?
As if 38 , a note fell from the paper. It reads: Mrs. O'Brien wanted to 39 this umbrella as a present for a kind, 40. gesture long ago.

Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed the boy ahead of him had tripped(绊倒) and dropped all his books. Mark  21  and helped the boy pick up the scattered articles. Then as they walked along together, Mark discovered the boy’s name was Bill, that he loved video games, baseball and history,  22   he was having lots of trouble with his other subjects. He also learned that he had just  23  with his girlfriend.

They arrived at Bill’s home first and Mark was  24  in for a Coke and to watch some television. The afternoon passed pleasantly. They then became good friends and later entered the same senior high school where they had brief contacts over the years. Finally the long awaited senior year came and three weeks  25  graduation, Bill asked Mark if they could talk. Bill  26  him of the day years ago when they had first met. “Did you ever wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day?” asked Bill. “You see, I cleaned out my locker because I didn’t want to leave a  27  for anyone else. I had stored away some of my mother’s sleeping 28  .But after we spent some time together talking and laughing, I  29  that if I had killed myself, I would have  30  that time and so many others that might follow. So you see, Mark, when you picked up those books that day, you picked up my life as well.”

21. A. sat down    B. lay down      C. knelt down    D. slowed down  

22. A. and         B. but           C. but hat       D. and that

23. A. fallen in love               B. broken up     C. got along well  D. done away

24. A. invited     B. allowed       C. stopped       D. interested

25. A. after       B. from          C. before        D. since

26. A. asked       B. informed      C. remembered    D. reminded

27. A. note        B. message       C. sign          D. mess

28. A. medicine    B. pilled        C. bags          D. clothes

29. A. wondered    B. doubted       C. realized      D. forgot

30. A. missed      B. lost          C. seized        D. spent

Liu Xiang, a 21-year-old Chinese athlete, got the gold medal of the fascinating men's 110m hurdles(跨栏) before a crowd of 70 000 at the Olympic Stadium in the 28th Olympics in Athens late Friday local time. He clocked an excellent 12.91 seconds to equal the world record set by Britain's Collin Jackson in 1993.?

It is the first gold Chinese men's athlete has ever won from the track and field in the Olympics history. China has won over 100 gold medals from the summer Olympic Games since 1984 but its male athletes only got one medal from Olympics' most popular sport.

The Shanghai native, with his father a truck driver and mother an out-of-work housewife, loved sports when he was very little. Liu was selected to the Junior Sports School of Putuo District of Shanghai to practice jumping as a fourth grader in the primary school. But after a bone test showing that he will not be able to become a tall man, Liu was asked to give up sports one year later, although he had won the national champion at that level.

In 1998 when he attracted coach Sun Haiping's attention as a 15-year-old jumper. Sun was a well-known hurdle coach and he believed a star was born at the first sight of Liu. He visited Liu's parents several times and finally persuaded them to let Liu transfer to the 110m hurdles.?

After only three years, Liu launched his career in style in the IAAF Grand Prix in Lausanne in 2001 by breaking the world youth and Asian record with a time of 13.12.

But the first warning he sent to the world was his bronze-winning feat(战绩)at the world indoor championships in Birmingham, England, last year.?

In 2004, Liu won the silver in the world indoor championships in Budapest in March. Two months later, he proved the winner in a race against American great Allen Johnson in the IAAF Grand Prix in Osaka, Japan, where he clocked a new Asian record and world's season best time of 13.06 seconds.

He went on to win two Johnson-absent races in Lille, France, on June 26 and Zagreb, Croatia, three days later. He put up an exciting show at the Golden Gala meet in Rome on July 3,when he and Johnson clocked an identical time of 13.11.Race officials had to examine a photo finish to declare Johnson the winner. Liu did a better job of clearing the hurdles than Johnson, but Johnson's stronger start ended up making the difference. The race boosted(提高) Liu's optimism for the Olympics, although Johnson bettered his season best time by 0.01 second in Lausanne, Switzerland, on July 6.

The world has put the Olympics a Johnson-Liu duel but surprisingly Johnson crashed out of the Games after falling at the ninth hurdle at round 2.Johnson's early exit paved the way for Liu's win. He finally took the gold medal and put a Chinese man's name on the record book.?

(China daily. com. cn/Xinhua) Updated:2004-08-28 02:57

According to Paragraph One, which of the following is TRUE?

A. Liu Xiang is the fastest of the four mentioned athletes.

B. Liu Xiang has set a new world record in the event of the men's 110m hurdles.

C. Both Liu Xiang and Jackson have got a gold medal at the Olympics.?

D. In the Olympics history, Liu Xiang is as fast as Britain's Collin Jackson.

Before the 28th Olympics in Athens, _______.

A. no Chinese athlete got a gold medal from the track and field at the Olympics

B. there was already a Chinese male medallist in the track and field at the Olympics

C. Terrence Trammell got a gold medal from the men's hurdles at the Sydney Olympics

D. Zhu Jianhua got a bronze medal from the men's hurdles in the 1984 Los Angeles Games

In the last paragraph, the underlined word “duel” most probably means “_______”.?

A. contest       B. friendship   C. Partner       D. company?

.From the passage, we can conclude that _______.?

A. Liu Xiang had no gift for jumping when he was a little boy?

B. Liu Xiang set a new world youth record when he was 17 years old?

C. Liu Xiang has succeeded because of his coach Sun?

D. Johnson might have won the gold medal if he had not dropped out??

William Butler Yeats, a most famous Irish writer, was born in Dublin on June 13, 1865. His childhood lacked the harmony (和睦) that was typical of a happy family. Later, Yeats shocked his family by saying that he remembered “little of childhood but its pain”. In fact, he inherited (继承) excellent taste in art from his family—both his father and his brother were painters. But he finally settled on literature, particularly drama (戏剧) and poetry.
Yeats had strong faith in coming of new artistic movements. He set himself the fresh task in founding an Irish national theatre in the late 1890s. His early theatrical experiments, however, were not received favorably at the beginning. He didn’t lose heart, and finally enjoyed success in his poetical drama.
Compared with his dramatic works, Yeats’s poems attract much admiring notice. The subject matter includes love, nature, history, time and aging. Though Yeats generally relied on very traditional forms, he brought modern sensibility to them. As his literary life progressed, his poetry grew finer and richer, which led him to worldwide recognition.
He had not enjoyed a major public life since winning the Nobel Price in 1923. Yet, he continued writing almost to the end of his life. Had Yeats stopped writing at age 40, he would who probably now be valued as a minor poet, for there is no other example in literary history of a poet Auden wrote, among others, the following liners:
Earth, receive an honored guest:
William Yeats is laid to rest.
Let the Irish vessel (船) lie
Emptied of its poetry.
【小题1】Which of the following can describe Yeats’s family?