完形填空(共20小题,每小题 1.5 分,满分 30 分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选取出适合填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
When my son unexpectedly volunteered for the Marines, I was busy writing my novels and giving little thought to the men and women in the army.
My son, John Schaeffer, recently came home
_36__ from the Middle East. He slowly appeared from a broken car; John _
37__ all night from a base near Washington, _
38__ he had landed the day before. He did not want me to
39___ him there. “I’ll need time to myself,” my son said _
40__ calling from Kuwait on the way home.
I gave my wife a head start. Mother_
41__ son, “I was so worried”, Genie said. She pulled away to look up again and again to _
42___ he was really there.
My wife gave me a great gift: _
43__ alone with my boy. John was tired and lay
_44__ on his bed. I lay down next to him and was grasping his hand the whole time. I just wanted to be certain that the nightmares I’d had about John being killed were _
45__ .
I kept holding my son, the way I _
46__ when he was two and came into our bed after a _
47__ dream. I asked John if he’d rather sleep than talk, and he said there would be time for
48___ later.
With the
49___ over, under and around me came incredible tiredness. I slept with his voice dying away. It was the first good _
50__ I’d had in months. I woke and John was asleep next to me. Sitting by his bed watching him breathe, I found myself praying and _
51__ for all the fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, husbands and wives of those who were not coming home. For the first time in my life, I was weeping for _
52___.
Before my son went to war I would never have shed tears for them .My son
_53__ me. He taught me that our men and women in uniform are not the
_54__”. They are our sons, daughters, brothers and sisters. Sometimes shedding ears for strangers is a holy
_55___. Sometimes it’s all we can do.
小题1:
A.angry | B.excited | C.frightened | D.alive |
小题2:
A.drove | B.was driving | C.had driven | D.would have driven |
小题3: | A.where | B.when | C.which | D.who |
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小题4:
A.meet | B.congratulate | C.permit | D.accept |
小题5: | A.once | B.when | C.unless | D.since |
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小题6: | A.abolished | B.patted | C.rated | D.embraced |
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小题7: | A.make sure | B.set down | C.get across | D.make sense |
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小题8: | A.period | B.chance | C.time | D.moment |
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小题9: | A.hesitated | B.stretched | C.supporting | D.spreading |
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小题10: | A.facts | B.truth | C.proofs | D.lies |
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小题11: | A.used to | B.ought to | C.should | D.must |
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小题12: | A.happy | B.cheerful | C.scary | D.sleep |
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小题13: | A.advice | B.discussion | C.talk | D.sleep |
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小题14:
A.chat | B.worries | C.meeting | D.curiosity |
小题15: | A.conversation | B.observation | C.sleep | D.independence |
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小题16:
A.crying | B.marching | C.screaming | D.regretting |
小题17:
A.friends | B.neighbors | C.strangers | D.soldiers |
小题18: | A.persuaded | B.changed | C.frightened | D.arrested |
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小题19: | A.another | B.other | C.others | D.one |
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小题20:
A.function | B.adventure | C.shame | D.duty |