Question

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从36~55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

When I was 14, my family went on our first trip to the United States. My uncle moved there several years ago to work in the    36    industry in California.

Although we flew several times before. this trip seemed really    37   because I had never been to America before. However, to our disappointment, the ride was    38    this time. People smoked and the air quality was very poor.

Moreover, it was    39    to see American money—it was very ugly and boring, all green and white, but what it could ___40   —freedom, Hollywood—was    41    . I didn’t see any movie stars in fur coats    42    their lovely dogs, either. I   43   , “Is this California？Where are the beaches, the sun and the blonde girls? ”   44    a land of dark-haired people, seeing blondes was    45    one of the extremely    46    parts of the trip. However, I was rather disappointed.    47    , the weather was really foggy, the city looked kind of old and the traffic was lerrible.

We droved north to Sonoma where my    48    had his house. The wine industry to a     49    can be both extremely boring and endless exciting. It was great to see my cousins and they    50    that they would take me out when the weather was nicer. We rode for miles and miles and played in the hills where no one could    51    us.

By the time we     52    to see the city of San Francisco all my bad thoughts had been    53   . I was having so much fun with my cousins that I wanted to move there.

I saw neither blonde girls nor   54    on that trip, but I met a lot of nice People and    55   that wherever you live it’s always a nice place if you like the people there. I hope I can travel back to California soon.

36．A．clothing              B．wine                      C．service                    D．travel

37．A．interesting                     B．fearful                    C．boring                    D．common

38．A．lovely                    B．smooth                   C．expensive                D．terrible

39．A．surprising               B．helpful                   C．disappointing          D．meaningful

40．A．impress                  B．change                    C．realize                    D．buy

41．A．frightening             B．moving                   C．exciting               D．depressing

42．A．walking                  B．marching                C．approaching            D．fighting

43．A．explained                B．complained             C．wondered                D．announced

44．A．Rounding up           B．Looking through      C．Resulting from        D．Coming from

45．A．impossibly              B．surely                     C．seriously                 D．fortunately

46．A．beneficial               B．wonderful               C．effective                 D．ordinary

47．A．After all               B．As a result          C．First of all              D．Worse still

48．A．uncle                      B．father                            C．brother                   D．friend

49．A．native                 B．child                      C．cousin                D．worker

50．A．imagined                B．promised                C．believed                  D．appealed

51．A．hate                       B．help                     C．bother                    D．miss

52．A．spread out               B．held back                C．turned up                D．got around

53．A．turned down           B．given away             C．washed away           D．put forward

54．A．beaches                  B．cities                     C．planes                     D．hills

55．A．appreciated             B．identified                C．realized                  D．imagined

Answer

36—40．BADCD   41—45．CACDB    46—50．BDABB        51—55．CDCAC        

【解析】略