35. happened after that I had no idea at all,
for I was absent in Shanghai.
A.
Something B.
Nothing
C. It
D. What
第二节 完成填空
(30分)
It had been a pleasantly
warm day, without much wind, and with enough cloud to prevent the heat of the
sun becoming too great. Charles had spent a long time studying the 36 of the water in the boat, and had
discovered that, by evening, it had
37 very slightly.
This, it would seem, must mean that the boat was not 38 water, which was fortunate, because any attempt to empty it
out suggested greater 39 than he felt equal to. One other
immediate problem had 40 his thoughts for a few moments. This was
the problem of Harcourt. Charles realized that he 41 put poor Harcourt in the sea. It should be simple matter and
take no more than a few seconds. Charles arranged in his mind exactly 42 it could easily be done, but his body did
not react to(反应)the 43 of his mind. Charles told himself
that it was his badly burnt hands that were the trouble. And there was nothing
to be done about them except not 44 them.
But
then, suddenly, almost without knowing how he did it, Charles moved, stood up,
bent 45 the body of poor
Harcourt, lifted it and let it slip as
46 as possible into the
sea. Afterwards he stood in the stern(船尾)of the
boat for a long time, watching the color of the sea 47and the sky become increasingly farther off with the coming
of the night. In a curious way he felt strangely happy. The problem of his 48 had not yet begun to trouble
him.
After
a time Charles’s returning interest in 49showed
itself in the simple form of hunger. With some difficulty, 50 the water in the boat, he 51 its stores and found food and
water in air-tight tins. He also found neat package wrapped in green oiled
silk. He unwrapped it and found maps. Neat, beautifully designed and 52 , spotlessly new, they 53 his knees and he was 54 alone in a world of water. At
that moment these clean official maps, correct in every detail, were as 55
as the sound of a human voice, as cheering as a candle in darkness.