8. 2008·湖南卷 完形填空

“This Friday we’ll have the yearly Egg Drop Challenge,”said our science teacher, Mr. Baker.“You can work alone or with a partner.”

My friend, Cassie, and I smiled at each other. We always worked on projects  36  .

The   37   of the Challenge was simple—to build a protective container to keep an egg from breaking when   38   the stadium wall.

I made my sandwich that afternoon while waiting for Cassie.  39   the butter cream gave me an idea.

“I have a brilliant design for our   40   container!”I said when Cassie arrived.“We can   41   the egg with some butter cream.”

“Why not put the egg in a basket with a parachute(降落伞)   42  ?”Cassie rolled her eyes.“The parachute is better than that stupid idea.”

I couldn’t believe it. Of course we’d had our little   43   in the past, but she’d never called any of my ideas “  44  ”before.

“Then I’ll build mine and you build yours!”   45   words had been out, our friendship was challenged.

When Friday finally arrived, I had to   46   Cassie’s Egg Force One looked pretty good.  47  ,my Egg-cellent Egg Cream didn’t look quite scientific. We kids carried our containers up three stadium steps and dropped them over the side wall. Those whose eggs broke were out; those whose eggs survived   48   three more steps and dropped them again. This would go on till the last egg broke.

After four rounds, only Cassie and I were   49  .I let go of my box. I heard someone say “ew” after seconds. Had my egg broken? I raced down the   50  .The sidewalk was dotted with egg shells(蛋壳) from those   51   drops. Finally I found my little Egg-cellent  Egg Gream.

“That looks like egg drop soup, Laura,”Cassie said. She was holding her Egg Force One. My   52   raced. Had she won? I looked at her basket.  53  .

“My egg bounced   54  ,”she explained, pointing to a broken shell.

“A tie(平局),”Mr.Baker said.

Cassie looked at me,and her glare   55  .I laughed. She smiled...

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on                              

down                        against

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39.A.Spreading        B.Boiling            C.Baking            D.Holding

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                   ant        ific

45.A.Since            B.While            C.But            D.And

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47.A.Therefore        B.Anyway        C.Otherwise        D.Besides

down                         around

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53.A.Lost            B.Dirty            C.Broken            D.Empty

                                 

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答案  36.C  37.B  38.D  39.A  40.D  41.A  42.C  43.B  44.B  45.A 

46.C  47.B  48.C  49.A  50.A  51.C  52.D  53.D  54.B  55.D