第二节 完形填空(共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分)
A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling.
Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for
incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up
shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to 36 , but he came up to me and
placed his right foot close mine on the floor.
“Frank！” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t 37 , as I knew, but all the time 38 his foot against mine.
My 39 raced back more than thirty years to
the 40 days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The 41 was an air-raid shelter, in which I
and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs.
West and her son Frank.
42 wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got
to 43 each other very well. Frank
West 44 me because he wasn’t 45
, not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he
had 46 of a mind than a baby
has. His “ 47 ” consisted of rough sounds-sounds of pleasure or anger and 48 more. Mrs. West, then
about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because
Frank 49 on her
entirely. He needed all the
50 of a baby.
One night a policeman came and
told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She 51 nearly everything she
owned.
When that sort of thing happened,
the rest of us helped the 52 ones. So before we
53 that morning, I stood beside
Frank and 54 my right foot against his. They were
about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter
for frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot
against mine. After that, his
55 to me was
always the same.
36. A. work B.
stay C.
live D.
expect
37. A. answer B.
speak C.
smile D.
laugh
38. A. covering B.
moving C.
fighting D.
pressing
39. A. minds B.
memories C.
thoughts D.
brains
40. A. better B.
dark C.
younger D.
old
41. A. cave
B.
place C.
sight D.
scene
42. A.
Discussing B. Solving C.
Sharing D.
Suffering
43. A. learn from B. talk to C.
help D.
know
44. A. needed B.
recognized C.
interested D.
encouraged
45. A. normal B. common C.
unusual D.
quick
46. A.
more B.
worse C.
fewer D.
less
47. A. word
B.
speech C.
sentence D.
language
48. A. not
B.
no C.
something D.
nothing
49. A. fed
B.
kept C.
lived D.
depended
50. A. attention B. control C.
treatment D.
management
51. A. lost
B.
needed C.
destroyed D.
left
52. A. troublesome B. unlucky C.
angry D.
unpopular
53. A. separated B. went C.
reunited D.
returned
54. A. pushed B. tried C.
showed D.
measured
55. A.
nodding B. greeting C.
meeting D.
acting