第二节  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36~55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we’ve become used to suddenly disappears. ___36___, for example, the neatly-dressed woman I ___37___ to see--or look at--on my way to work each morning.

For three years, no matter ___38___ the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 am. On ___39___days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Sometimes ___40___out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. ___41___, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I ___42___ all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how ___43___ I expected to see her each morning. You might say I ___44___ her.

“Did she have an accident? Something ___45___?” I thought to myself about her ___46___. Now that she was gone, I felt I had ___47___ her. I began to realize that part of our ___48___ life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar ___49___: the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who ___50___walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are ___51___markers in our lives. They add weight to our ___52___ of place and belonging.

Think about it. ___53___, while walking to work, we mark where we are by ___54___ a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though ___55___ person?

36. A. Make           B. Take                     C. Give                 D. Have

37. A. happened     B. wanted                 C. used                 D. tried

38. A. what           B. how                     C. which               D. when

39. A. sunny          B. rainy                     C. cloudy              D. snowy

40. A. took            B. brought                 C. carried              D. turned

41. A. Clearly         B. Particularly            C. Luckily             D. Especially

42. A. believed       B. expressed            C. remembered      D. wondered

43. A. long            B. often                    C. soon                 D. much

44. A. respected     B. missed                  C. praised              D. admired

45. A. better          B. worse                   C. more                 D. less

46. A. disappearance                              B. appearance

C. misfortune                                         D. fortune

47. A. forgotten     B. lost                       C. known              D. hurt

48. A. happy          B. enjoyable               C. frequent            D. daily

49. A. friends         B. strangers               C. tourists             D. guests

50. A. regularly      B. actually                 C. hardly               D. probably

51. A. common      B. pleasant                C. important          D. faithful

52. A. choice         B. knowledge            C. decision            D. sense

53. A. Because       B. If                         C. Although           D. However

54. A. keeping        B. changing               C. passing             D. mentioning

55. A. unnamed      B. unforgettable         C. unbelievable       D. unreal

 

第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

He was the baby with no name. Found and taken from the north Atlantic 6 days after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, his tiny body so moved the salvage(救援) workers that they called him “our baby”. In their home port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, people collected money for a headstone in front of the baby’s grave(墓), carved with the words: “To the memory of an unknown child. He has rested there ever since.

But history has a way of uncovering its secrets. On Nov. 5, this year, three members of a family from Finland arrived at Halifax and laid fresh flowers at the grave. “This is our baby, says Magda Schleifer, 68, a banker. She grew up hearing stories about a great-aunt named Maria Panula, 42, who had sailed on the Titanic for America to be reunited with her husband. According to the information Mrs. Schleifer had gathered, Panula gave up her seat on a lifeboat to search for her five children--including a 13-month-old boy named Eino from whom she had become separated during the final minutes of the crossing. “We thought they were all lost in the sea,” says Schleifer.

Now, using teeth and bone pieces taken from the baby’s grave, scientists have compared the DNA from the Unknown Child with those collected from members of five families who lost relatives on the Titanic and never recovered the bodies. The result of the test points only to one possible person: young Eino, now, the family sees: no need for a new grave. “He belongs to the people of Halifax, says Schleifer. “They’ve taken care of him for 90 years.”

Adapted from People, November 25, 2002

56. The baby travelled on the Titanic with his________.

A. mother              B. parents                 C. aunt                  D. relatives

57. What is probably the boy’s last name?

A. Schleifer         B. Eino                     C. Magda              D. Panula

58. Some members of the family went to Halifax and put flowers at the child’s grave on Nov. 5______.

A.  1912              B. 1954                     C. 2002                 D. 2004

59. This text is mainly about how _______.

A. the unknown baby’s body was taken from the north Atlantic

B. the unknown baby was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia

C. people found out who the unknown baby was

D. people took care of the unknown baby for 90 years