完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

On the day before the bass（鲈鱼）season opened, he and his father were fishing early in the evening.

　　When his pole  1 he knew something huge was on the other end. His father watched with    2  as the boy skillfully worked the fish alongside the dock.  3 , he very cautiously lifted the   4  fish from the water. It was the largest one he had ever seen,   5  it was a bass.

　　The boy and his father looked at the handsome fish, gills（鱼鳃）playing back and forth in the moonlight. The father  6 a match and looked at his watch. It was 10 P.M.——two hours    7  the season opened. He looked at the fish, then at the boy. “You’ll have to put it back, son,” he said.

　　“Dad！”  8  the boy.

　　“There will be other fish,” said his father.

　　“Not as big as this one,” cried the boy again.

　　He looked around the lake. No other fishermen or boats were anywhere    9  in the moonlight. He looked again at his father.  10  no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time he caught the fish, the boy could  11 from his father’s voice that the decision was not changed. He slowly  12  the hook out of the lip of the huge bass and lowered it into the   13  water. The boy suspected that he would never again see such a great fish.

　　That was 34 years ago. Today, the boy is a successful architect in New York City. And he was   14 . He has never again caught such a magnificent fish as the one he caught that night long ago. But he does see that same fish—— again and again——every time he   15  a question of ethics(道德).

For his father taught him, ethics are simple 16 of right and wrong. It is only the  17  of ethics that is difficult. Do we do right when no one is looking？We would if we were taught to put the fish back when we were young. For we would have learned the   18 . The decision to do right lives fresh and fragrant in our   19 . It is a   20  we will proudly tell our friends and grandchildren.

1.                A．broke down     B．bent over       C．turned up     D．turned out

 

2.                A．desire          B．fear            C．admiration D．love

 

3.                A．In the beginning  B．Finally          C．Besides   D．All in all

 

4.                A．delighted       B．frustrated       C．frightened     D．exhausted

 

5.                A．but            B．however        C．and  D．while

 

6.                A．won           B．beat           C．struck    D．picked

 

7.                A．after           B．until           C．when D．before

 

8.                A．yelled          B．shouted         C．said  D．cried

 

9.                A．around         B．front           C．back D．right

 

10.               A．Ever since      B．Even though     C．In case    D．Now that

 

11.               A．say            B．speak          C．talk   D．tell

 

12.               A．worked         B．loosed         C．looked    D．attached

 

13.               A．shallow         B．black           C．low   D．white

 

14.               A．content        B．wrong          C．right  D．pleased

 

15.               A．come up with    B．gets on with     C．meets with D．catches us with

 

16.               A．matters        B．events         C．questions  D．things

 

17.               A．meaning        B．understanding   C．practice   D．point

 

18.               A．fact            B．truth           C．faith  D．incident

 

19.               A．mind          B．heart          C．memory   D．brain

 

20.               A．lesson          B．story           C．concept   D．standard

 

 

 There was once a farmer who lived near a road. It was not a busy road,but from time to time,cars passed the farm.

　　Near the farm gate, there was a large hole in the road. this hole was always full of water, and the drivers of the cars could not see how deep the hole was. They thought it was probably not deep.So when they drove into the hole, they could not drive out because it was so deep.

　　The farmer did not spend much time working on his farm. He spent most time watching the hole. Whenever a car drove into it, he would pull the car out with his tractor and he would charge the drivers for much more money than they had expected.

　　One day, a driver of a car said to him, "You must have made a lot of money pulling cars out of this hole night and day."

　　"Oh no," the farmer said, "I don’t pull cars out of the hole at night. At night I fill the hole with water."

1.Many cars went into the hole because the drivers_____.

A．were going too fast to stop their cars	B．did not see the hole ahead of them
C．did not know the hole was very deep	D．liked very much driving through water

2.The drivers were _____ to pay the farmer for pulling their cars out of the hole.

A．glad

B．forced

C．ready

D．anxious

3.Why did the farmer fill the hole with water at night?

A．He was busy working on the farm during the day.

B．He spent much time watching the hole by day.

C．Some cars had driven into the hole at night.

D．Nobody would be able to find the secret out.

4.What did the writer think of the farmer?

A．He was selfish(自私).	B．He was clever.
C．He was foolish.	D．He was kind.