Ⅱ.完形填空。（每小题1分，共10分）

阅读下面短文，从各题所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案，并将答案的对应标号在答题卡上涂黑。

Once there was a father and a son. They were ill-tempered(坏脾气的) and never gave way to others.

One day the father decided to _46___some friends to dinner in his house. He __47____ his son to buy some meat in town. When the son got _48____his father wanted, he turned back and walked towards the town gate. Just then a man was coming from the outside. The gate wasn’t __49___enough to let two men in and out at the same time. But __ 50 of them  would give way to the other. They___51___ straight face to face inside the gate hour after hour. But the father was worried. " What shall I do? My son hasn’t____52___ yet. I can’t wait any longer.” He wanted to know what the ___53____ with his son was. So he left his friends at home, and he himself went to the town to look for his son.

“You may first take the ___54_____ home for my friends. Let me stand here against him ____55____.” He said to his son when he knew what had happened.

46. A. speak  B. answer  C. say   D. ask

47. A. hoped  B. told   C. let   D. wished

48. A. why  B. where  C. what   D. which

49. A. long B. wide   C. high   D. narrow

50. A. either  B. all   C. both   D. neither

51. A. stood  B. went   C. lay   D. walked

52. A. gone  B. bought  C. returned  D. been

53. A. wrong  B. accident  C. thing  D. matter

54. A. meat  B. dinner  C. bread   D. money

55. A. politely  B. instead  C. safely  D. kindly

【主旨大意】：本文是一篇记叙文。父亲请朋友吃饭让儿子去买肉，当儿子买完出门时遇到了另一个人，他们谁都不肯让路，后来父亲找来，让儿子把肉送回家，自己替儿子继续站着对势的幽默故事。

46.D 【解析】speak“说”其后跟语言；answer“回答”，say“说”其后跟内容；ask“叫，请”其后跟to do不定式。根据句意：一天他的父亲决定请一些朋友在家吃饭。故选D。

47.B 【解析】hope“希望”，不能用hope sb to do sth这种形式；tell“告诉”，其后跟to do不定式，let“使，让”，其后跟动词原形；wished“希望”一般其后跟不能实现的愿望。故选B。

48.C【解析】why “为什么”，where “哪里”，what“什么”， which “哪一个”，根据句意：当他买到他父亲想要的东西。空格中的词作want的宾语。故选C。

49. B 【解析】long“长”；wide“宽”；high“高”，narrow“狭窄”。根据句意：这个门让两个人同时进来或者出去不足够宽。故选B。

50. D 【解析】either表示“或者”，all表示“（三者或者三者以上）都”，both表示“（两者）都”，neither 表示“（两者）不”，根据句中but表示转折关系，其前后的句意相反或者相对，可知此处句意：“两人都不让路”。故选D。 

51. A 【解析】stood 表示“站立”，went表示“去”，lay表示“躺”，walked 表示“走”。根据上文可知句意：他们面对面站了一个小时有一个小时。故选A。

52. C 【解析】gone 表示“去”，bought表示“买”，returned表示“回来”，been表示“去”。根据上文“父亲很着急”可知：“儿子还没有回来”。故选C。

53.D 【解析】What’s the matter with…?表示“……怎么了？”固定句型。

54.A 【解析】根据上文可知父亲让儿子去买肉。故选A。

54.B 【解析】politely 表示“礼貌的”，instead表示“代替”，safely表示“安全的”，kindly表示“和蔼的，可亲的”。根据句意：让我在这里代替你站着反对他。故选B。