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第三节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从16-35各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项并在答题卡上将其涂黑。

Cats have no emotions . At least, that's what my husband once claimed. I   21   that my two cats experience emotions. They feel anger, fear, and   22  . He agreed with me, but   23  his opinion that cats don't feel love.  24  , my tuxedo cat, Sebastian, would teach him otherwise.

When my next-door neighbour moved in, he had a she cat named Juliet. She was an indoor lady, always watching   25   through the window.

Then one day when I   26   my cat to the backyard for his playtime, Sebastian   27   Juliet gazing at him behind the window. It soon became   28  that they were attracted by each other. So every day thereafter, whenever I let Sebastian out, he would rush   29__to the backyard next-door and they would sit gazing   30   at each other through the screen, she inside, and he outside. Even my husband watched   31 , and he would murmur, "But cats can't feel love... can they?"

Five months later, my neighbour had to   32   because of work. My heart sank. I wondered how Sebastian would   33   to Juliet's leaving.

For months after Juliet moved away and the new neighbour moved in, I often   34   Sebastian sitting by Juliet's window, looking into the apartment   35   his lady. The new neighbour didn't mind having the "Peeping Sebastian" after I   36  his reason for being there.

Sebastian   37   the small area outside that window as his territory.  Other male cats were allowed in the   38  , but not near Juliet's window, which he guarded until his   39 .

Even now, when my husband and I walk through the backyard and see that window, he   40   me of the lesson Sebastian taught him... that cats do indeed fall in love.

21. A. argued                B. quarreled                  C. suggested                 D. discussed

22. A. energy                B. power                  C. strength                    D. happiness

23. A. referred to          B. prepared for                C. stuck to                    D. approved of

24. A. Therefore           B. However                  C. Besides                    D. Meanwhile

25. A. the environment  B. the sky                        C. her owner                 D. her boyfriend

26. A. forbade               B. prevented                 C. accompanied             D. left

27. A. called attention to       B. caught sight of       C. took charge of          D. paid a visit to

28. A. ambitious            B. doubtful                   C. skeptical                   D. obvious

29. A. secretly               B. straight                    C. quietly                            D. worriedly

30. A. lovingly                 B. angrily                            C. hungrily                   D. greedily

31. A. in trouble            B. in sorrow                 C. in amazement           D. in horror

32. A. settle                  B. travel                       C. apologize                 D. move

33. A. react                   B. reply                        C. reduce                      D. replace

34 A. took                    B. caught                      C. met                          D. sensed

35. A. in place of          B. on the basis of          C. in search of                     D. on account of

36. A. explained            B. requested                  C. blamed                     D. asked

37. A. discovered          B. reformed                  C. preserved                 D. marked

38. A. street                  B. backyard                  C. window                    D. village

39. A. birthday                     B. departure                  C. death                       D. arrival

40. A. reminds                     B. informs                    C. tells                         D. Accuses

Answer

21---25ADCBA    26---30CBDBA    31---35  CDABC 36-40 ADBCA

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