Passage 7  (江西省南昌二中2009届高三5月模拟考试)  完形填空

Horror gripped(紧握)the heart of the World War I soldier as he saw his lifelong friend fall in battle. Caught in a  __36__ with continuous gunfire whizzing(飕飕地移动)  __37__ his head, the soldier asked his lieutenant(中尉), if he might __38__ into the “No Man’s Land” between the trenches to bring his __39__ comrade back.

“You  __40__ go”, said the Lieutenant. “but I don’t think it will be  __41__ it. Your friend is  __42__ dead and you may  __43__ your own life away.” The Lieutenant’s words didn’t matter, and the soldier went anyway. 

Miraculously (不可思议地) he __44__ to reach his friend, hoisted (扯起) him onto his  __45__ , and  __46__ him back to their company’s trench. As the two of them  __47__ in together to the bottom of the trench, the officer cheeked the  __48__ soldier, and then looked  __49__ at his friend．“I told you it wouldn’t be worthy of doing it,” he said．“Your friend is  __50__ , and you are mortally wounded.”

“It was worthy of doing it, though, sir,” the soldier said．

“How do you mean ‘worthy of doing it’?” responded the Lieutenant. “Your friend has already died!”

“Yes sir,” the private answered．“But it was worth it because when I got to him, he was still alive, and I had the  __51__ of hearing him say, ‘Jim, I  __52__ you’d come.’”

__53__ in life, whether a thing is worth doing or not really depends on how you look at it.

Take up all your  __54__   and do something your heart tells you to do so that you may not __55__ not doing it later in life. 

36．A．hole B．place C．trench D．room 

37．A．above B．over C．on D．to

38．A．go out B．leave out C．put out D．jump out

39．A．fall B．fallen C．falling D．to fall

40．A．should B．can C．shouldn’t D．can’t

41．A．worthy B．worth C．value D．workable

42．A．maybe B．surely C．must D．probably

43．A．put B．lose C．throw D．leave

44．A．managed B．tried C．went D．walked

45．A．head B．arm C．hands D．shoulder

46．A．took B．fetch C．brought D．drove

47．A．tumbled B．walked C．came D．went 

48．A．dead B．clever C．sick D．wounded

49．A．angrily B．surprisingly C．kindly D．happily

50．A．dying B．dead C．died D．death

51．A．surprise B．strange C．excitement D．satisfaction

52．A．had known B．have known C．know D．knew

53．A．Once upon a time B．Many a time C．At a time D．At one time

54．A．strength B．courage C．wisdom D．power

55．A．forget B．remember C．regret D．mean

答案  36.C   37.B  38.A  39.B  40.B  41.B  42.D  43.C  44.A  45.D  46.C  47.A  48.D  49.C  50.B  51.D  52.D  53.B  54.B  55.C