第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意；然后从36—55各小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
You may go to karaoke or disco clubs with your friends during the summer holidays. But be careful. In these 36 places you may see people selling small, colorful pills. Make sure you don’t try them.
The seller 37 say they are safe and can help you enjoy yourself or 38 from sadness. They may even offer you a free 39 , and tell you that everybody is using 40 .
But you must be alert to the 41 that these drugs could destroy your life.
When you put them into your body, often 42 swallowing, breathing in or injecting, drugs find their way into your brain.
Drugs may either speed up 43 slow down your senses. Their effects are different depending on body size, shape, and chemistry. 44 it can make you feel good at first, a drug can do a lot of 45 to your body and brain.
One of the most popular drugs in nightclubs is the so-called head-shaking or ecstasy pill. The drug hits users with a fast high speed, 46 them feel powerful and full of 47 . Heart rate, breathing and blood pressure 48 risking damage to your nerve system(神经系统). Marijuana(大麻) is a 49 used illegal drug. It is called the gateway drug, because using it sometimes 50 harder drugs. It is mostly smoked in a cigarette.
There is 51 risk related to taking drugs that must be 52 . Sharing a needle to inject a drug puts a user at a very 53 risk of being affected with HIV.
Drugs may appear in many different 54 , some with cool names, but taking them could
55 your health forever.
36．A．boring B．exciting C．noisy D．surprising
37．A．may B．must C．should D．can
38．A．keep B．stay C．escape D．stop
39．A．drink B．try C．cigarette D．taste
40．A．it B．him C．her D．them
41．A．fact B．problem C．trouble D．reality
42．A．with B．for C．by D．in
43．A．and B．so C．but D．or
44．A．Although B．Because C．If D．Despite
45．A．hurt B．injury C．damage D．harm
46．A．driving B．having C．making D．keeping
47．A．food B．energy C．hope D．interest
48．A．develop B．grow C．rise D．increase
49．A．deeply B．widely C．strongly D．highly
50．A．prevents B．causes C．leads to D．aims at
51．A．the other B．other C．others D．another
52．A．avoided B．taken C．missed D．interrupted
53．A．big B．high C．large D．wide
54．A．tastes B．smells C．colours D．forms
55．A．kill B．break C．endanger D．ruin
．After his journey from abroad, Richard Johns returned home, __________.
A．exhausting B．exhausted C．being exhausted D．having exhausted
I’m surprised to see you smoking. You ________, I remember.
A．are not used to B．were not used to C．didn’t use to D．used not
．As far as we are concerned, education is about learning and the more you learn, ______.
A．the more for life are you equipped B．the more equipped for life you are
C．the more life you are equipped for D．the more life for you are equipped
．On the contrary, I think it is Truman, ________ you, ________ to blame.
A．more than; are B．less than; who are
C．rather than; that is D．rather than; is
The children talked so loudly at dinner table that I had to struggle ______.
A．to be heard B．to have heard C．hearing D．being heard
