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B. signaled
C. sighed
D. sighted
完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20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的最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
I was 9 years old when I found out my father was 36 .It was 1994, but I can remember my mother’s words as if it 37 yesterday: “Kerrel, I don’t want you to take food 38 your father, because he has AIDS.Be very careful when you are around him.”
AIDS wasn’t 39 we talked about in my country when I was growing up.From then on, I knew that this would be a family 40 .My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone.For a while, he could take care of himself.But when I was 12, his condition worsened.My father’s 41 children lived far away, so it 42 to me to look after him.We couldn’t afford all the necessary medication for him, and 43 Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn’t 44 buy food for dinner.I would sit 45 feeling completely 46 , the teacher’s words muffled(压低)as I tried to figure out 47 I was going to manage.
I didn’t share my burden with anyone.I had seen how people reacted to AIDS.Kids __48__ classmates who had parents with the disease.And even adults could be cruel.When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table even though he was __49__ weak to feed himself.I had known that he was going to die, __50__ after so many years of keeping his condition a secret, I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days.Sad and __51__, I __52__ a woman at the non-profit National AIDS Support.That day, she __53__ me on the phone for hours.I was so lucky to find someone who cared.She saved my life.
I was 15 when my father died.He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me.He didn’t want to call attention to __54__.I __55__.
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Large companies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large. The same problem, on a smaller__1__, faces practically every company trying to __2__ new products and create new jobs. There can be little prospect of raising the sort of sums needed from friends and people we know. While banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are generally __3__ to provide money on a permanent basis for long-term projects. So companies turn to public, inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in the business in __4__ for a share in future profits. This they do by __5__ stocks and shares in the business through the Stock Exchange. By doing so they can put into circulation the savings of __6__ and organizations, both at home and overseas.
When the saver needs his money back, he does not have to go to the company with whom he originally placed it. __7__, he sells his shares through a stockbroker to some other saver who is seeking to __8__ his money.
Many of the __9__ needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by the government or by local authorities. Without hospitals, electricity, telephones, railways, this country could not __10__. All these require __11__ spending on new equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money than is raised through taxes alone. The government, local authorities, and nationalized industries __12__ frequently need to borrow money to finance major capital spending, and they, too, come to the Stock Exchange.
There is __13__ a man or woman in this country whose job or whose standard of living does not __14__ the ability of his or her employers to raise money to finance new development. In one way or another this new money must come from the savings of the country. The Stock Exchange __15_ to provide a channel through which these savings can reach those who need finance.
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