第二节  完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

One afternoon in January in 1998, Susan Sharp, 43, and her 8-year-old son David, were walking across an icy square, when Susan's cane(手杖) slipped on the ice. Her face  21   first into the mud. David  22   her mother's side, “Are you all right, Mom”  23  , Susan pulled herself up, “I'm okay, Honey,” she said.

Susan was falling more  24  since she had trouble walking. Every inch of ice was a  25   danger for her. “I wish I could do something,” the boy thought. David, too, was having  26   of his own. The boy had a speech problem, so at school he talked  27  .

 One day, David's teacher announced a  28   homework. "Each of you is going to come up with an  29  ," she said. This was for "INVENT AMERICA", a national competition to encourage creativity in children.

 An idea  30   David one evening. If only his mother's cane didn't slip on the ice. “What if I  31   your cane to a nail coming out of the bottom” he asked his mother.

 “  32   the sharp end would scratch(划破) floors,” Susan said.

 “No, Mom, I  33   make it like a ball-point pen. You take your hand off the button and the  34   returns back up.” Hours later the cane was finished. David and his father  35   as Susan used it to walk 50 feet about the  36  . Happily Susan cried out, “It  37   !”

 In July 1999, David was  38   national winner for the "INVENT AMERICA". David began to make public appearance. Thus he was forced to communicate  39  .Today, David is nearly free of his speech problem, and his  40   is becoming well accepted.

21. A. dropped     B. touched    C. lay         D. fell

22. A. rushed to    B. stood by   C. looked at        D. ran around

23. A. Firmly      B. Easily     C. Shakily       D. Quickly

24. A. frequently   B. slowly     C. freely         D. heavily

25. A. hiding        B. possible    C. certainly       D. waiting

26. A. method     B. trouble    C. disease        D. hope

27. A. little      B. few      C. much         D. more

28. A. useful     B. strange      C. special        D. common

29. A. invention    B. appearance  C. experience      D. experiment

30. A. reminded    B. encouraged  C. hit          D. occurred

31. A. fastened     B. fixed       C. stuck         D. tied

32. A. So        B. And       C. But         D. For

33. A. would   B. might      C. did          D. need

34. A. pen       B. hand     C. nail          D. cane

35. A. helped      B. supported    C. noticed       D. watched

36. A. ice        B. street      C. yard        D. square

37. A. helps      B. operates    C. succeeds      D. works

38. A. praised      B. received     C. won        D. declared

39. A. more slowly  B. more clearly   C. more carefully    D. faster

40. A. cane      B. speech     C. mother       D. story

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