35. I’d like
to have visited the Palace
Museum, but something
unexpected _______ to my father.
A. had
happened B.
happened C.
has happened D.
happens
SECTION B
(18%)
Directions: For each blank in the
following passage there are four words or phrases marked A. B. C. and D. Fill
in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Since my
family were not going to be helpful, I decided I would look for one all by
myself and not tell them about it till I’d got one.
I had seen an agency (中介机构) advertised in a local newspaper. I
rushed out of the __36_ in
search of it. I was wildly excited, and as _37_
as if I were going on the stage. Finding the 38
quite easily, I ran breathlessly through a door which said “Enter
without knocking, if you please.”
The simple atmosphere of the office 39
me. The woman looked carefully at me for a while through her
glasses, and then questioned me in a low voice. I answered softly. All of a
sudden I started to feel rather
40 She wondered why I was looking for
this sort of job I felt even more helpless when she told me that it would be 41
to get a job without experience I wondered whether I ought to leave,
when the telephone on her desk rang. I heard her say:
“ 42 , I’ve got someone in the office
at this very moment who might 43 .” She
wrote down a
__44 , and held it out to
me, saying: “Ring up this lady. She wants a cook immediately. In fact, you would have
to start tomorrow by cooking a dinner for ten people.”
“Oh yes,” said I - 45
having cooked for more than four in my life. I 46
her again and again, and rushed out to the nearest telephone box. I
collected my thoughts, took a deep breath, and rang the number. I said
confidently that I was just what she was looking for.
I spent the next few hours 47
cook books.