第二节 完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分 20分)
One evening, sitting at the window sewing, my mother called me, “Come here,” she said. “ 36 .” She held my head against her 37 , and after a puzzled moment I felt a 38 foot drumming on my cheek. “You see?” she said, “It’s alive. You can 39 it, can’t you ?” I accepted it, as I accepted everything, without 40 . It was as good a place for the baby to be as any other and I never 41 about why it got in nor how it would finally get out.
A baby would come? I 42 noticed. That there were soon to be 43 of us would not make any difference to me. I had my place, star-like in my small universe. 44 , certainly not a baby, could 45 that.
I was 46 , however. I soon found that things had 47 a great deal. I had never been the 48 . Now I was no longer the youngest. I was simply the one in the 49 . My sister had certain 50 because she was the oldest, and my brother was the baby, the son, the much 51 boy. More than that, he had all sorts of things that never came to me.
As he grew, it became 52 that my brother had been the center of everything. People smiled when they saw him. He made them happy 53 by being there. And he had the sort of childish beauty that always turns heads and draws a second 54 . He was so charming that he was immediately loveable. Later he also turned out to be 55 , although perhaps not quite as clever as I was.
36．A．Look B．See C．Listen D．Stop
37．A．stomach B．back C．side D．shoulder
38．A．strong B．hard C．soft D．tiny
39．A．believe B．feel C．notice D．touch
40．A．surprise B．delay C．trouble D．effort
41．A．worried B．argued C．regretted D．doubted
42．A．hardly B．certainly C．possibly D．willingly
43．A．two B．three C．four D．five
44．A．Anything B．Something C．Nothing D．Everything
45．A．improve B．threaten C．compare D．prevent
46．A．curious B．careless C．wrong D．anxious
47．A．improved B．changed C．increased D．disturbed
48．A．oldest B．youngest C．cleverest D．dearest
49．A．family B．house C．middle D．trouble
50．A．manners B．knowledge C．opinions D．rights
51．A．admired B．blamed C．hated D．loved
52．A．strange B．obvious C．serious D．special
53．A．usually B．curiously C．gradually D．simply
54．A．look B．smile C．care D．comfort
55．A．ordinary B．perfect C．clever D．similar
35. He tried his best to solve the problem, ____difficult it was.
A. however B. no matter C. whatever D. although
34. It is pretty well understood ____controls the flow of carbon dioxide in and out the atmosphere today.
A. that B. how C. when D. what
33. It was __________back home after the experiment.
A. not until midnight did he go B. until midnight that he didn’t go
C. not until midnight that he went D. until midnight when he didn’t go
32. The schools themselves admit that not all children will be successful in the jobs_____they are being trained.
A. in that B. for that C. in which D. for which
31. That was really a splendid evening. It’s years _______ I enjoyed myself so much.
A. before B. since C. that D. when
30. It now occurs to me that you are the man______ the world news on television.
A. reporting B. having reported C. reported D. to report
29. The lady stood in the sitting room as if ______ a visit ______a friend.
A. expecting…from B. expected… from C. expected…to D. expecting…at
28. A parent who does not spend time with their child could miss out on the fact that the child has the problem, _______it can go untreated and get worse.
A. meant B. meaning C. means D. meaned
27. With two more professional hands _____ you with the work later on, scarcely will you have trouble _______ your task ahead of time.
A. helping…completing B. help…to complete
C. will help…completed D. to help…completing