第二节完形填空（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（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

       I am not one who is frightened easily, but I must admit that one night I saw a figure th at really struck terror into my heart.

I   36   it was a cold moon - lit night when I was walking home. It was the first night of my whole life that I had been outside   37   at such a late time. There were   38  few people on the road at night. Even during the day, the road was used by only some. On that night, it seemed even   39  . While I was walking, I could hear some   40   made by creatures that love the night world. I moved really fast towards home. It was   41   because I was hungry. More importantly, I was eager to get back home for warmth. All of a sudden, I   42   an old lady in a short distance away. Her   43   was covered with a white cloth. She was   44   to me, I think.

I was a bit   45  . I wanted to know   46   she was there at that time of the late night. I stopped walking for a while. As I   47   there, stories about ghosts (鬼) began to come to my mind one after   48  . I was soon   49   fear and started to run as fast as I could. When I reached home I could   50   speak.

The next day, however, I   51   that place again to make sure that the woman was not a ghost but indeed a real person. But I could find no footprints there   52   a banana plant. I realized then that it was the banana plant with its leaves moving in the gentle wind that   53   like a woman waving her hand. I had indeed made a fool of myself; but after the   54   night’s experience, this   55   was small relief to me.

36．A．realized        B．recognized       C．remembered     D．reminded

37．A．alone         B．asleep           C．awake           D．lonely

38．A．never               B．often         C．seldom         D．rarely

39．A．busier           B．noisier          C．quieter          D．wider

40．A．noises           B．quarrels        C．songs         D．voices

41．A．completely       B．mainly          C．obviously      D．partly

42．A．made sense of  B．caught sight of C．got ahead of     D．took hold of

43．A．waist         B．leg            C．head          D．hand

44．A．smiling         B．waiting         C．whispering       D．waving

45．A．mysterious       B．cautious        C．conscious      D．curious

46．A．why          B．when         C．what          D．how

47．A．lay            B．sat             C．stood         D．walked

48．A．another         B．other         C．others           D．the other

49．A．addicted to       B．filled with     C．far from       D．short of

50．A．clearly          B．easily               C．hardly          D．loudly

51．A．traveled        B．visited          C．appreciated      D．went

52．A．over          B．without         C．than          D．except

53．A．felt           B．looked          C．smelt         D ．sounded

54．A．previous       B．next          C．last            D．following

55．A．invention      B．achievement   C．contribution     D．discovery

I am always eager to do experiments, especially chemistry ones. It's   21   to work with test tubes and beakers , even though sometimes my efforts end in failure. Experiments were fun for me   22   a recent accident.

     The accident happened when I was heating a big test tube with an alcohol burner , chatting to my partner. All of a sudden, the tube cracked. Even though I jumped from my seat when I heard the crack, the hair on my forehead was burnt as I was leaning too close to the test tube.

        23   I had no time to be sad about my hair: the liquid in the test tube poured onto the table and caught fire. I'd never  24   anything so bad! My mind went blank for a moment. Then I quickly covered the fire with a damp cloth to put it out.

     The teacher told me that the test tube broke in half at the bottom because we didn't dry it properly before 25  it.

      We calmed down and did the experiment, again. But our hearts were still   26   rapidly even after we walked out of the lab.

      But my bad luck didn't end there! Since all our   27   was focused on the flames while we were in the lab, I didn't see the liquid falling onto my trousers.

      During the following class, I felt a pain in my leg. Soon it became more and m6re painful and I touched the area with my fingers,   28   to make things better. But to my great   29  , the material of my trousers turned into powder! "Vitriol ! ! ! The terrible word came into my mind. I rushed out right away to wash and examine my poor skin.   30  , it was not a serious injury.

      After changing my trousers I thought it's very important to have a serious attitude in chemistry class. Doing scientific experiments as a learner is no laughing matter.

21. A. exciting    B. moving                     C. dangerous       D. difficult

22. A. but                B. except        C. besides               D. until

23. A. Because            B. Instead               C. But                    D. Or

24. A. felt                B. heard                       C. experienced     D. imagined

25. A. boiling        B. holding                 C. heating                 D. cooking

26. A. striking              B. beating                 C. knocking        D. hitting

27. A. effort               B. sense           C. attention          D. spirit

28. A. failing               B  imanaging             C. trying           D. planning

29. A. disappointment  B. joy              C. surprise       D. comfort

30. A. Luckily      B. Obviously               C. Unexpectedly           D. Generally

About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college in New York, I was working as a practice student at my University's Museum of Natural History. One day while I was working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in wheelchair.

As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was seated on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and the trunk of the human body. She was wearing a little white dress with the patterns of red roses and yellow dots.

As the couple wheeled her up to me I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink(眨眼示意). As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the most beautiful, largest smile I have ever seen

All of a sudden her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of what life is all about. I immediately felt full of hope and confidence. She took me, a poor, unhappy college student, into her world, a world of smiles, love and warmth.               

That was ten years ago, but I still remember it clearly as if it happened just yesterday. I'm a successful business person now and whenever I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.

What was the writer a decade ago?

A. A worker working in a university.

B. A teacher teaching in a college.

C. A clerk working in a museum.

D. A university student who had not yet taken a degree.

What does the underlined world “handicap” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A. Life difficulty.    B. Troublesome problem.

C. Failure in work.   D. Physical disability. 

How did the writer probably feel before meeting the disabled girl?

A. She felt full of hope.

B. She was filled with confidence.

C. She felt unhappy because of poverty.

D. She felt life was beautiful.

Which of the following title suits this passage best?

A. A Disabled Girl.

B. A Disabled Girl’s Smile.

C. Full of Hope.

D. Full of Confidence.

第二节：语法填空(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

仔细阅读下面的短文，短文中有10个空格。请按照每小题括号内的具体要求完成语法填空和词形变化。（每格填1~2个单词）

Several days before July 28, 1976, many strange things happened in Tangshan. They were signs for the earthquake.   31   (副词), people in the city of Tangshan thought   32    of these. At 3:42 am that day, the earth began to shake,     33    destroyed the city. Steam（蒸汽）   34     (burst) from holes in the ground. It gave   35     smelly gas. Many buildings fell into bricks all of a sudden like pieces of dominos. Many people,   36    (include) workers and doctors, came to rescue those     37    (trap) under the ruins. Later that afternoon,    38    (限定词) big earthquake struck Tangshan. More people were killed or injured and more buildings fell down. Soldiers were called in to help the rescue workers.  Teams     39    (organize) to dig out those under the ruins and bury the dead.  40     number of the miners who were rescued from coal mines reached almost 10,000. With the help from all over the country, Tangshan began to recover slowly.