第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

    It is difficult for you to get up in the morning? Do you sometime oversleep? Are you often late for work or school? Yes? Then Hiroyuki Sugiyama of Japan has a(n)  36  bed for you. Hiroyuki’s bed will  37  you up in the morning! Here is how it  38  .

    The bed  39  an alarm clock. First, the alarm clock rings. You have a few minutes to wake up. Next, a tape recorder in the bed plays  40  music or other pleasant sounds. The tape recorder in Hiroyuki’s bed plays a recording of his girlfriend. She whispers in a sweet  41  , “Wake up, darling, please.” A few minutes later, a second recording  42  . The sound recording can be loud music or  43  sounds. Hiroyuki hears a recording of his boss  44  , “Wake up immediately,  45  you’ll be late!”

    If you don’t get up  46  the second recording, you  47  be sorry! A mechanical “foot” is in the bed. The mechanical foot kicks you in the head. Then the bed waits a few  48  minutes. What! You’re  49  in bed! Slowly the  50  of the bed rises higher and higher. The foot of the bed goes lower and lower.  51  , the bed is vertical (垂直的). You slide off the bed and onto the floor. You are out of bed and  52  .

    Hiroyuki made his bed because he wanted to  53  a contest. He works for Honda Motor Company. Once every two years Honda has a contest for its 200,000 employees—“All-Honda Idea Contest”. The employees think of new  54  . If their ideas win, the employees win  55  . Hiroyuki Sugiyama won one of the top prizes for his bed.

36. A. expensive      B. special        C. valuable       D. comfortable

37. A. get            B. catch          C. make           D. let

38. A. works          B. runs           C. happens        D. moves

39. A. is separated from                B. is made up of

    C. is connected to                  D. is made into

40. A. loud           B. classical      C. pop            D. soft

41. A. sound          B. voice          C. noise          D. way

42. A. sends          B. turns          C. plays          D. appears

43. A. pleasant       B. interesting    C. unpleasant     D. funny

44. A. shouts         B. calls          C. whispers       D. persuades

45. A. and            B. but            C. so             D. or

46. A. before         B. until          C. since          D. after

47. A. can            B. will           C. may            D. would

48. A. other          B. another        C. more           D. one

49. A. still          B. yet            C. already        D. even

50. A. end            B. middle         C. body           D. top

51. A. However        B. Finally        C. Therefore      D. Otherwise

52. A. angry          B. work           C. happy          D. awake

53. A. achieve        B. win            C. gain           D. defeat

54. A. ideas          B. thoughts       C. facts          D. ways

55. A. praises        B. contests       C. prizes         D. medals

III.   Reading comprehension: (40%)

A

For every five men in the Civil War who died in battle , two or three died of disease. Doctors of that time knew very little about causes of sickness or ways of preventing it. Thousands of men in poor health became soldiers. Many of them could not resist epidemic (瘟疫)diseases that went through the places where they lived .

Army life was hard. Soldiers got little fruit or vegetables. There was no milk unless they happened to find a cow. Neither their clothes nor their living places protected the troops from rain, snow, and cold . Sickness and disease were spread by insects , rats , and unclean drinking water . Often the men drank straight from muddy streams .

 Gunshot wounds were serious, as in any war, but they did not cause as many deaths as disease did.

1. Disease caused ___.                                                    

A.only a few deaths  B.fewer deaths than wounds did

C.more deaths than wounds did   D.both A and B

2.Men who were accepted as Civil War soldiers were ______.       

A.known to have already had some epidemic diseases

B.required to be in perfect health

C.able to resist epidemic disease easily   D.sometimes in poor health

3.Army life was hard for troops because ______          

A.the place where they lived didn't keep them safe from bad weather

B.they had no warm clothing

C.they seldom had good, healthful food   D.all of the above

4.Insects and rats were dangerous because they ______      

A.destroyed food  B.carried diseases

C.made the water unclean  D.tore the soldiers' clothes into pieces

5.The best title for this selection is ______.          

A.The Cause of Disease  B.The Greatest Danger in the Civil War

C.Insects, Rats, and Gunshot Wounds  D.The History of Epidemic Disease  

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