第二节 完形填空(共20小题,每小题1.5分,满分30分)

I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was  36   and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be   37   but a failure.”

After five years of   38   jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best   39   that could have happened to me. I   40   I wanted to do something positive (积极地) with my life because I wanted to prove to   41   that what people said about me was   42 . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s   43   it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.”  So I tried hard with my   44   and went to college. My first novel (小说)  45   while I was at college.

After college I taught during the   46   in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a    47   in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of   48   that job to write full time   49   I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself —   50   was a working--class boy who’d   51   school early, now teaching at the university.

My writing career (职业) took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and   52 , have been on TV, and met lots of film stars.   53   what does it mean? I   54   wish all the people that have put me down had  55  : “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

36. A. bright                       B. useless                               C. simple                             D. hopeful

37. A. anything                  B. something                      C. everything                    D. nothing

38. A. low                           B. poor                                 C. good                               D. useful

39 A. support                             B. happiness                       C. surprise                         D. thing

40. A. admitted                 B. decided                        C. planned                         D. told

41. A. me                           B. them                                C. her                                   D. it

42. A. wrong                    B. right                               C. stupid                          D. faulty

43. A. see            B. know                      C. understand                 D. face

44. A. experiment     B. practice                    C. writing                      D. composition

45. A. came on        B. came in                    C. came out                    D. came back

46. A. day             B. night                       C. month                     D. year

47. A. graduation      B. pass                      C. degree                    D. success

48. A. giving in          B. giving back                    C. giving out                   D. giving up

49. A. while          B. if                                  C. when                       D. or

50. A. there          B. here                                C. it                          D. that

51. A. left            B. attended                  C. changed                   D. graduated

52. A. tired            B. calm                       C. nervous .                   D. famous

53. A. And             B. But                       C. However                   D. Well

54. A. just             B. exactly                   C. so                         D. very

55. A. praised           B. said                       C. answered                   D. advised

Can trees talk? Yes, but not in words. Scientists have reason to believe that trees do communicate (交际) with each other. Not long ago, researchers learned some surprising things. First a willow tree attacked in the woods by caterpillars (毛虫) changed the chemistry of its leaves and made them taste so terrible that they got tired of the leaves and stopped eating them. Then even more astonishing, the tree sent out a special smell---a signal (信号) causing its neighbors to change the chemistry of their own leaves and make them less tasty.

Communication, of course, doesn’t need to be in words. We can talk to each other by smiling, raising our shoulders and moving our hands. We know that birds and animals use a whole vocabulary of songs, sounds, and movements. Bees dance their signals, flying in certain patterns that tell other bees where to find nectar (花蜜) for honey. So why shouldn’t trees have ways of sending message?

55.It can be concluded from the passage that caterpillars do not feed on leaves that ______.

  A.are lying on the ground       B have an unpleasant taste

  C.bees don’t like              D have an unfamiliar shape

56.The willow tree described in the passage protected itself by ______.

A.changing its leaf chemistry      

B.communicating with birds and bees

C.growing more branches   

D.shaking caterpillars off

57.According to this passage, bees communicate by ______.

  A.touching one another           B.making special movement

  C.smelling one another            D.making unusual sound

58.The author believes that the incident described in the passage ______.

  A.cannot be taken seriously       B.should no longer be permitted

  C.seems completely reasonable    D.must be checked more thoroughly 

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