第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

The night was dark, though sometimes the moving clouds allowed a star or two to be seen in the sky. The poor men held on to any bit of wood they could find. They called to the Marie (圣母玛丽亚) for  36 , but she was far  37  the reach of the human voice. At one o’clock in the morning, the water was getting  38 , and a strong  39  had begun to blow. Suddenly  40  were seen in the distance; another ship! The shouts of the swimmers were heard on board, and willing hands pulled them out of the water. The  41  of the ship that had so  42   arrived on the scene in time to save their lives was Ellen. What had brought her to the exact spot through the  43  and the pathless sea? Her captain had known  44  about the wreck (沉船) and had indeed attempted to sail away from it. But let him speak for himself.

“I was forced by the wind,” he said long afterwards, “to  45  my course (航道). Just as I did it, a small  46  flew across the ship once or twice and then  47  at my face. I took  48  of this until exactly the same thing happened at a   49  time, which caused me to think it rather  50 , while I was thus  51  it, the same bird for the third time, made its appearance and flew  52  in the same way as before. I was then  53  to change my course back to the original (原来的) one. I had not gone far  54  I heard strange noises; and when I tried to   55  where they came from, I found I was in the middle of people who had been shipwrecked (船只失事). I immediately did my best to save them.”

36. A. food       B. help       C. rest           D. stop

37. A. between    B. out        C. beyond          D. in

38. A. colder       B. deeper    C. saltier          D. warmer

39. A. smoke      B. wave      C. sand           D. wind

40. A. people     B. lights      C. ships          D. houses

41. A. name       B. owner     C. captain        D. person

42. A. slowly      B. early       C. immediately      D. fortunately

43. A. light        B. wind     C. darkness       D. water

44. A. everything   B. nothing    C. something     D. anything

45. A. continue    B. turn      C. change        D. sail

46. A. light       B. fish       C. plane         D. bird

47. A. flew       B. stopped    C. stayed         D. looked

48. A. no care     B. good care C. no notice       D. some notice

49. A. good       B. second    C. third          D. long

50. A. interesting   B. funny     C. common        D. unusual

51. A. searching   B. expecting   C. considering     D. hearing

52. A. back       B. about           C. up           D. down

53. A. decided     B. advised   C. persuaded      D. invited

54. A. when      B. while           C. as            D. after

55. A. listen to     B. search for C. make sure      D. look out

阅读下面短文，从短文后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，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

From the time each of my children started school, I packed their lunches. And in each lunch, I  21  a note. Often written on a napkin (餐巾), it might be a thank-you for a  22  moment, a reminder of something we were happily expecting, or a bit of _23  for the coming test or sporting event.

In early grade school they_ 24  their notes. But as children grow older they becomes self-conscious(有自我意识的), and _25  he reached high school, my older son, Marc, informed me he no longer  26  my daily notes. Telling him that he no longer needed to  27  them but I still needed to write them, I  28  until the day he graduated.

Six years after high school graduation, Marc called and asked if he could move  29  for a couple of months. He had spent those years well, graduating from college,   30  two internship (实习) in Washington, D.C., and   31 , becoming a technical assistant in Sacramento.  32  short vacation visits, however, he had lived away from home. With his younger sister leaving for college, I was   33   happy to have Marc back. Since I was  34  making lunch for his younger brother, I    35  one for Marc, too. Imagine my   36  when I got a call from my 24-year-old son,   37  his lunch.

“Did I do something   38  ? Don’t you love me  39  ,Mom?” were just a few of the questions he threw at me as I 40  asked him what was wrong.

“My note, Mom,” he answered. “Where’s my note?”

21. A. carried         B. found            C. included      D. held

22. A. difficult        B. special           C. comfortable    D. separate

23. A. congratulation   B. improvement       C. explanation     D. encouragement

24. A. loved           B. answered         C. wrote         D. examined

25. A. lately          B. by the way       C. by the time     D. gradually

26. A. received        B. understood       C. enjoyed        D. collected

27. A. copy           B. read             C. take           D. send

28. A. held up         B. gave up         C. followed        D. continued

29. A. out            B. home             C. to college       D. to Sacramento

30. A. organizing      B. planning         C. comparing       D. completing

31. A. hopefully       B. finally          C. particularly     D. certainly

32. A. Because of      B. Instead of       C. Except for       D. As for

33. A. especially       B. immediately     C. equally        D. generally

34. A. once            B. again            C. still           D. even

35. A. packed         B. fetched          C. bought          D. filled

36. A. fear            B. surprise         C. anger        D. disappointment

37. A. waiting for     B. worrying about  C. caring for         D. asking about

38. A. wrong          B. funny            C. strange          D. smart

39. A. any more       B. enough           C. once more        D. better

40. A. interestingly    B. bitterly        C. politely        D. laughingly

How can we explain the popularity of neckties? For years, fashion historians have predicted that men would  45  wearing ties because they seemed to have little or no function. It may be that men to them because  ties As long as world and business. leaders continue to wear ties, the young businessmen will  46   them and ties will remain popular.  47  , neckties do have a different kind of appeal. Neckties cover the buttons of the shirt and emphasize the length of a man’s body. They also 48 color and adornment (装饰)to men’s clothing, which is often plain and serious.

       Today, there are tens of thousands’ of designs of ties  49  . There are, ties for special  50  he. am for Valentine’s Day, fireworks for the Fourth of July, and Santa Claus for Christmas. There are ties that tell you about a man’s 51  pictures of tennis rackets, motorcycles, airplanes, fishing rods, or musical instruments, to name a few. There are even ties  for different occupations such as accountants, firefighter/s, and police officers. And 52  ties are becoming ever more popular. You can get ties covered with colorful frogs and bottles of beer.  53 you enjoy rock music, you can even find a tie in the shape of a guitar!

       Funny or formal, wide or narrow, it’s  54  that ties are going to be around for a long time.

A．feat       B．mind C．forget      D．stop

A．help      B．trust  C．follow     D．admire

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

A．add B．change      C．expose     D．deliver

A．valuable B．available C．alternative D．collective

A．places    B．ceremonies      C．occasions  D．people

A．holidays B．images      C．possessions       D．hobbies

A．formal B．funny      C．plain        D．traditional

A．If   B．Because   C．Unless      D．Though

Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach(菠菜) to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.

Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.

People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.

Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid(叶酸).

It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.   

1.A good title for this reading passage is______.

2.Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?

3.A research group told people that spinach______.

4.Folic acid is ______.

On seeing the funny scene，the audience ________.

A．burst into tears       B．burst into laughter

C．burst into cheers    D．burst out crying