Question

第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出可以填入空白的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

It was getting dark and snow was coming down. Joe was driving home. He’d been unemployed since the factory  36  . Most of his friends had left, but he stayed on.  37  , he was born here.

Suddenly he saw a lady standing on the side of the road and  38  . She was worried. No one had stopped to  39  for the last hour. Joe knew  40   she felt and said, “My name is Joe and I’m here to help you.” All she had was a flat tyre,  41  for an old lady, that was bad enough. Joe changed the  42  , but he got dirty and his hands hurt. She wanted to pay Joe and said any  43  would have been all right. Joe never thought twice about the money and there were many people who had  44  him a hand in the past. He had lived his life that way. He told her that if she really wanted to pay him  45  , the next time if she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person the assistance that he  46  .

Later the lady went in a  47  decorated restaurant to eat in a hurry. The cashier(出纳员) was like the telephone of an out-of-work actor----it didn’t  48  much. However, the waitress, who was nearly eight months pregnant(怀孕的), brought a clean towel to her with a  49  smile. The old lady 50  Joe. After the waitress brought the change from a 100-dollar bill, she found the lady 51   and something written on a napkin, “ 52  once helped me out, the way I’m helping you.   53   you really want to pay him back, don’t let the chain of love  54  with you.”

That  55   the waitress gave her sleeping husband a soft kiss and whispered, “ Everything’s going to be all right, Joe.” 

36    A  opened     B  invited      C  refused     D  closed

37    A  In all     B  After all  C  For all      D  At all

38    A  pulled in   B  pulled out C  pulled up        D  pulled down

39    A  leave     B  stay      C  ask       D  help

40    A  how           B  what     C  when     D  that

41    A  however   B  but       C  and      D  so

42    A  car       B  seat      C  tyre      D  type

43    A  amount     B  money      C  time     D  change

44    A  got       B  won     C  given     D  awarded

45    A  off           B  out       C  down     D  back

46    A  asked          B  needed      C  gave     D  hoped

47    A  poorly     B  well     C  widely      D  narrowly

48    A  read     B  ring      C  cost      D  send

49    A  excited     B  satisfied    C  sweet     D  cold

50    A  thanked    B  thought     C  praised     D  remembered

51    A  gone     B  disappear  C  left       D  lost

52    A  Anyone    B  Everyone  C  Someone  D  Anybody

53    A  After     B  As        C  Though     D  If

54    A  keep     B  end      C  last       D  continue

55    A  day      B  night     C  morning   D  week

Answer

36—40 DBCDA  41—45 BCACD  46—50 BABCD  51—55ACDBB

【解析】略