第二节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，共30分）
It was on a winter morning, near Oxford, Maryland, that I set the breakfast table beside the huge window, which __36__ the Tred Avon River．The snow decorated the shore in white．For a moment I stood quietly against the bookcase, appreciating what the night’s snow had __37__．
38    I leaned forward and peered （盯着看） close to the frosted window．“It really is!” I cried out loud．“There is a goose out there!” I __39__ to the bookcase and pulled out a pair of binoculars （望远镜）．Into their sights came the __40__ of a large Canada goose, very still, its wings folded tight to its sides, its __41__ frozen to the ice．
Then from the dark sides, I saw a line of swans．They crossed __42__ the west of the broad river, moving __43__ to the east．
As I __44__, the leader swung to the right, and then the white __45__ of birds become a white circle．It floated from the top of the sky downward．At last, as easy as feathers coming to earth, the circle __46__ the ice．The swans __47__ the frozen goose! Amazingly, those bills （啄） began to work on __48__．The long necks were lifted and curved down, __49__．It went on for a long time．At last, the goose was free and __50__ its big webbed （有蹼的） feet slowly．The goose __51__ its wings as far as they would go．The swans took off and __52__ their eastward journey, in perfect formation, to their secret destination．__53__ them, rising with incredible speed and joy, the goose moved into the sky．
I watched them __54__ they disappeared over the tips of the farthest trees．Only then did I realize that tears were running down my cheeks．
This is a true story．I do not try to interpret it here．I just often __55__ it in the bad moments, and tell myself, “If so for birds, why not for man?”
36．A．undertook B．overlooked       C．overshadowed  D．evaluated
37．A．destroyed  B．covered    C．painted     D．hidden
38．A．Finally     B．Unwillingly     C．Disappointedly D．Suddenly
39．A．rushed      B．returned    C．advanced  D．reached
40．A．figure       B．shadow     C．cry    D．baby
41．A．head  B．body C．feet   D．beak
42．A．along       B．from C．around      D．in
43．A．steadily    B．smoothly  C．in the snow      D．closely
44．A．watched    B．expected   C．predicted  D．feared
45．A．block       B．mass  C．dot    D．string
46．A．skated on  B．landed on  C．fell down to     D．broke into
47．A．threatened B．attacked    C．surrounded       D．killed
48．A．the ice      B．their feather     C．the river   D．the shore
49．A．one after another     B．side by side      C．now and then   D．again and again
50．A．washing    B．protecting C．moving     D．warming
51．A．enlarged   B．spread      C．lifted D．threw
52．A．started      B．carried on C．repeated    D．stopped
53．A．Behind     B．In front of       C．Along with      D．Including
54．A．after  B．although   C．unless       D．until
55．A．write about      B．keep  C．think of    D．retell

 _____ from the top of the tower, the south foot of the mountain is a sea of trees .    )

   A. Seen    B. Seeing C. Having seen     D. To see

_____ from the top of the tower, the east foot of the mountain is a sea of rape flowers.

A．Seen             B．Seeing            C．Having seen        D．To see

From the top of the tower, people can see at least ________ distance of 10 kilometers on ________ clear day.

A．a; the            B．不填； a          C．a; a              D．the; the

One day a mime(哑剧演员)is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd，a zookeeper drags him into his office．The zookeeper explains that the zoo's most popular attraction，a gorilla(大猩猩)，has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance（出席人数） at the zoo will fall off．He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla. The mime accepts．

  The next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes．He soon discovers he can sleep all he wants，play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime—the job he likes but loses．

    However, with days going by，he begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his．Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage，crawls across a partition(隔墙)，and dangles(悬挂)from the top to the lion’s cage. The lion gets angry at this. The scene is a fuel to the crowd．

    At the end of the day he is given a raise for being such a good attraction—Well，this continues for some time．The crowds grow larger，and the mime’s pay keeps going up.

　　Then one day when he is dangling over the lion he slips and falls．The mime is terrified. He starts screaming，  “Help me!”，but the lion is quick．The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, “Shut

up you fool! Do you want to get us both fired?”

The mime accepts the zookeeper’s offer because______________·

  A．he has been out of work

  B．he doesn’t like being a mime

  C．he likes performing at the zoo

  D．he is offered a higher pay there

How does the mime find the job dressing up as the gorilla?

  A．Hard and tiring．        B．Dangerous.

  C．Easy and funny．        D. Boring.

The mime’s first contact with the lion is to_________·

  A. find pleasure for himself          B. get the lion’s attention

  C．get his pay raised               D．win back his audience

The underlined words “a fuel” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by __________.

  A. frightening    B common   C．exciting   D. familiar