完型填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从下列各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上涂黑。
The other day I was talking to a stranger on the bus; he told me that he had a good 36 in Chicago and he wondered if, by any chance, I 37 to know him . For a moment, I thought he might be 38 ,but I could tell from the expression on his face that he was not. He was 39 . I felt like saying that it was ridiculous to 40 that out of all the millions of people in Chicago I could possibly have ever bumped into his friend. But, 41 , I just smiled and reminded him that Chicago was a very 42 city. He nodded, and I thought he was going to be content to drop the subject and talk about something else. But I was wrong. He was silent for a few minutes, and then he 43 to tell me all about his friend.
His friend’s main 44 in life seemed to be tennis. He was an excellent tennis player , and he 45 had his own tennis court. There were a lot of people with swimming 46 , yet there were only two people with private tennis court; his friend in Chicago was one of them. I told him that I knew several 47 like that, including my brother, who was doctor in California. He 48 that maybe there were more private courts in the country, than he 49 but he did not know of any others. Then he asked me 50 my brother lived in California. When I said Sacramento, he said that was a coincidence 51 his Chicago friend spent the summer in Sacramento last year and he lived next door to a 52 who had a tennis court in his backyard. I said I felt that really was a coincidence because my next-door neighbour had gone to Sacramento last summer and had 53 the house next to my brother’s house. For a moment, we stared at each other, but we did not say anything.
“Would your friend’s name happen to be Roland Kirkwood?” I asked finally. He 54 and said, “Yes. Would your brother’s name happen to be Dr Rey Hunter?” It was my 55 to laugh. “Yes,” I replied.
1..A. brother B. teacher C. neighbour D.friend
2.A. managed B. happened C. tried D.wanted
3.A. expecting B.lying C.joking D.talking
4.A.funny B.serious C.careful D.disappointed
5.A.think B.find C.realize D.see
6.A.indeed B.actually C.instead D.exactly
7.A.famous B.interesting C.noisy D.big
8.A.began B.stopped C.refused D.failed
9.A.problem B.interest C.choice D.work
10.A.just B.ever C.even D.surely
11.A.suit B.habit C.pools D.river
12.A.people B.players C.strangers D.friends
13.A.advised B.argued C.admitted D.announced
14.A.recognized B.realized C.visited D.found
15.A.how B.whether C.when D.where
16.A.because B.if C.then D.though
17.A.doctor B.friend C.neighbour D.player
18.A.hired B.visited C.designed D.sold
19.A.smiled B.laughed C.cried D.nodded
20.A.chance B.pleasure C.time D.turn
Scientists have created the world's smallest "snowman",_____ about a fifth of the width of a human hair.
A.measures B.measuring C.measured D.to measure
—Late again! Where _____?
—Sony, I in the heavy traffic, or I would have been here earlier.
A.were you; have got stuck B.have you been; have got stuck
C.were you; got stuck D.have you been; got stuck
—Do you know why the teacher asks for me?
—He wants you to _____ your absence last night.
A.account for B.call for C.send for D.reach for
—What does the sign over there read?
—"No person smoke or carry a lighted cigarette, cigar or pipe in this area."
A.shall B.may C.must D.will
—Is that Dec.21,2012 is the end of the world true?
—Definitely not, but ______ must be paid to global climate change.
A.contact B.care C.attention D.influence