二.完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第36至第55小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but    36   could he get what he wanted. There were enough princesses, but it was    37    to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it    38    be. So he came home again and was sad,  39   he would have liked very much to have a real princess.

One evening a terrible storm    40   ; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was    41    at the city gate, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess    42    out there in front of the gate. But, good gracious! what    43    the rain and the wind had    44    her look. The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels.    45    she said that she was a real princess.

“Well, we'll soon find that out.”    46    the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and    47    a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses（床垫）and put    48   on the pea, and then twenty eiderdownbeds（鸭绒被）on top of the    49   .

On this the princess had to lie all night. In the morning she was asked    50   she had slept. Ks5u"Oh, very badly!" said she. "I have    51    closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard,    52    I am black and blue all over my body. It's horrible!"

Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had     53   the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.

Nobody but a real princess could be as    54   as that.

So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess. And the pea was put in the museum,    55   it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.

36. A. nowhere      B. everywhere        C. anywhere          D. somewhere

37. A. easy            B. simple               C. abstract             D. difficult

38. A. could          B. should              C. would               D. might

39. A. which          B. when                C. for                    D. then

40. A. came on     B. came around    C. came across      D. came out

41. A. listened              B. heard                C. told                  D. seen

42. A. looking              B. sitting               C. standing            D. wandering

43. A. a scene        B. a girl                C. a princess          D. a sight

44. A. caused         B. led                    C. got                   D. made

45. A. And            B. So                  C. And yet             D. Not yet

46. A. said             B. thought             C. shouted             D. whispered

47. A. laid             B. lain                   C. lay                    D. lied

48. A. them           B. it                      C. her                   D. that

49. A. beds            B. bedstead            C. beddings           D. mattresses

50. A. if                B. whether             C. how                  D. when

51. A. nearly         B. scarcely             C. almost               D. merely

52. A. in order that B. in case                     C. only if                     D. so that

53. A. felt                 B. touched             C. smelt                D. tasted

54. A. careful        B. sensitive            C. active                D. thoughtful

55. A. which         B. though                     C. where               D. that