英语专升本完形填空

完形填空

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选取项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选取项。

(1)

Anna lived on the side of a valley. One summer, there was a very big 1 , and a lot of houses down below Anna’s were washed away. Anna’s house was 2 enough to escape the flood, so when the water had 3 and the other houses were 4 there with no roof and no walls and all covered with mud (泥)，her house was just all right.

Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children, 5 Anna took in one of the families that had lost 6 in the flood and she 7 her home with them until it was 8 for them to rebuild their house.

Anna’s friends were 9 when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give 10 so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to 11 “Well,”Anna 12 her friends, “at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself very 13 , because her husband had been killed in the 14 and she had a lot of children, 15 I have now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘we won’t be able to have much for Christmas this year, so I’m going to 16 only one present for all of us. Now I’m go and get it.’ She came back with a 17 who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. ‘Here’s our 18 .’ she said to her children.

The children were 19 and happy to get such a present. They 20 the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. Such was that Christmas present.”

1. A. earthquake B. accident C. flood D. fire

2. A. low B. high C. big D. small

3. A. reduced B. come C. appeared D. disappeared

4. A. rising B. flowing C. falling D. standing

5. A. so B. but C. for D. since

6. A. nothing B. everything C. anything D. something

7. A. gave B. found C. shared D. built

8. A. possible B. necessary C. important D. valuable

9. A. worried B. disappointed C. puzzled D. impressed

10. A. them B. herself C. him D. us

11. A. support B. supply C. grow D. educate

12. A. explained to B. asked for C. talked with D. argued with

13. A. sad B. poor C. rich D. happy

14. A. war B. storm C. rain D. flood

15. A. because B. as C. which D. that

16. A. take B. send C. buy D. make

17. A. boy B. girl C. student D. teacher

18. A. child B. daughter C. sister D. present

19. A. worried B. excited C. anxious D. sorry

20. A. disliked B. introduced C. welcomed D. fought

(2)

Carol’s husband was killed in a car accident last year.

Jim, only 52, was 1 home from work. The other driver was a teenager who had 2 a lot. Jim died at once. The teenager was in the 3 for less than three hours.

It was Carol’s fiftieth birthday, and Jim had two plane tickets to Hawaii in his pocked. He was going to 4 her, however, he was killed by a drunken driver.

“How have you 5 this?” I asked Carol, a year late.

6 welled up (涌出) in her eyes. I thought I had said the

7 thing, but she said, “It’s all right. I want to

8 you. The day I married Jim, I promised (承诺) I would never let him leave the house in the morning

9 telling him I loved him. He made the same 10 . it got to be a joke between us, and as we grew older it got to be a(n) 11 promise to keep.

“I remember running down the driveway, saying ‘I love you’just before he drove out of my 12 , or driving all the way to his office just to put a(n) 13 saying ‘I love you’ on his car. It was a funny 14 .

We made a lot of 15 trying to say ‘I love you’ before noon every day of our married life.

“The morning Jim 16 , he left a birthday card in the kitchen and then left 17 . I heard the engine starting. Oh, no, I thought. I 18 out quickly and knocked on the car window 19 he rolled it down (摇下来).

“Here on my fiftieth birthday I, Carol Garret, want you, Mr James E. Garret to 20 that ‘I love you!’

“That’s how I’ve survived, knowing that the last words I said to Jim were, ‘I love you!’”

1. A. walking B. arriving C. driving D. riding

2. A. drunk B. eaten C. talked D. done

3. A. school B. hospital C. office D. prison

4. A. surprise B. interest C. move D. frighten

5. A. learned B. survived C. controlled D. explained

6. A. Excitement B. Happiness C. Joy D. Tears

7. A. sad B. extra C. wrong D. right

8. A. tell B. bother C. interrupt D. believe

9. A. with B. from C. after D. without

10. A. view B. choice C. promise D. mistake

11. A. hard B. easy C. silly D. meaningless

12. A. reach B. sight C. house D. office

13. A. announcement B. note C. advertisement D. picture

14. A. gamer B. activity C. challenge D. test

15. A. argument B. stories C. memories D. trouble

16. A. married B. left C. returned D. died

17. A. hurriedly B. quietly C. angrily D. happily

18. A. walked B. ran C. watched D. looked

19. A. but B. when C. though D. until

20. A. say B. prove C. know D. remember