Question

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper(志愿做护士助手的小姑娘) at a local hospital in my town. Most of the   41  I spent there was with Mr Gillespie. He never had any  42  , and nobody seemed to care about his   43 .

I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him,__44__anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine,  45 he responded with only an occasional squeeze(捏) of my hand. Mr Gillespie was in a coma(昏迷).

I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr Gillespie was  46  . I didn’t have the   47 to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear they might  48 me he had died.

Several   49 later, when I was a junior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face. When I   50  who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was  51 ! I built up the courage to ask him if his name was Mr Gillespie. With a(n)   52 look on his face, he replied yes. I   53 how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever   54 .

He began to tell me how,  55 he lay there comatose, he could hear me talking to him and could  56 me holding his hand the whole time. Mr Gillespie  57 believed that it was my voice and  58 that had kept him alive.

Although I haven’t  59 him since, he fills my heart with  60 every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and his death.

1.	A．money B．energy C．time D．effort

2.	A．visitors B．relatives C．patients D．problems

3.	A．interest B．requirement C．condition D．thought

4.	A．talking about B．looking for C．pointing out D．helping out

5.	A．so B．even though C．yet D．as if

6.	A．dead B．mad C．gone D．excited

7.	A．right B．chance C．courage D．time

8.	A．cheat B．tell C．remind D．warn

9.	A．days B．weeks C．months D．years

10.	A．realized B．wondered C．heard D．asked

11.	A．great B．alive C．successful D．lucky

12.	A．happy B．uncertain C．nervous D．proud

13.	A．apologized B．remembered C．explained D．told

14.	A．dreamed B．shown C．wanted D．received

15.	A．because B．if C．unless D．as

16.	A．notice B．feel C．imagine D．appreciate

17.	A．hardly B．rightly C．firmly D．wrongly

18.	A．humour B．worry C．touch D．treatment

19.	A．forgotten B．called C．missed D．seen

20.	A．joy B．regret C．respect D．honour

Answer

1.C

2.A

3.C

4.D

5.B

6.C

7.C

8.B

9.D

10.A

11.B

12.B

13.C

14.D

15.D

16.B

17.C

18.C

19.D

20.A

【解析】略