专项练习完形填空2.doc

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1・5分，满分30分）

My grandmother was an iron-willed woman, the feared head of the family. When I was five years old, she invited some friends to her apartment for a party. _36_ the guests was a neighborhood big shot who was doing well _37_. His wife was proud of their social status. They had a little girl about my age who was _38_ and very much used to getting her own way.

At one point during the party, I _39_ my way to the bathroom and closed the door behind me. A minute or two later, the little girl _40_ the bathroom door and grandly walked in. I was still sitting down. "Don't you know that little girls aren't _41_ to come into the bathroom when a little boy is using it!?” I shouted・ The _42_ I had heaped upon her shocked the little girl. Then she started to cry. She tearfully _43_ to her parents and my grandmothe匚Grandmother was waiting for me when I left the bathroom. I received the longest, sharpest _44_・ After her scolding was over and I had been _45_, the party continued ・

Twenty minutes later, all that changed ・Grandmother walked by the bathroom and noticed a flood of water _46_ out from under the dooc She _47_ the bathroom door and saw that the sink and tub were plugged up and that the _48_ were going at full blast （拧至U最人）・Everyone knew who did it. The guests quickly formed a _49— wall around me, but Grandmother was _50_ angry that she almost got to me anyway ・

My grandfather took me _51_ to the window・ He was a kind and gentle man, full of wisdom and patience・ _52_ did he raise his voice to anyone, and never did he _53_ his wife. He looked at me with much curiosity, _54_ angry or upset.

"Tell me," he asked, H why did you do it?"

"Well, she yelled at me _55_，” I said earnestly. n Now she's got something to yell about."

Grandfather didn't speak right away. He just sat there, looking at me and smiling・"Eric," he said at last, H you are my revenge.n

完形填空（共20小题，每小题L5分，满分30分）

If you have a watch, don*t repair it! I know it 36 . Once I had a beautiful

watch. And this watch 37 perfect time. But one night it happened that I forgot to 38 it up. Next morning I went to a watchmaker as I wanted my perfect watch to 39 by the exact time. The watchmaker examined my watch and said: "The regulator （校准器）is to be pushed up 40 your watch is four minutes 41

I tried to stop him, tried to 42 him understand that my watch kept perfect time, but he did not listen to me and pushed the regulator.

My beautiful watch began to gain time・ It 43 faster and faster day by day. By the end of the second month it 44 all the clocks and watches of the town far behind.

What did I have to do? To take it to another watchmaker to be regulated. I expected him to regulate the watch immediately 45 he asked me to come in a week's time. When at last I took my watch from him it began to 46 down. And I began to be late for trains, business appointments and even missed my dinners・

Now I went to 47 watchmaker. While I waited for him to repair my poor watch, he 48 it to pieces and said that he could finish this work 49 three or four days・ I could do nothing but 50 ・ That time my watch went for half a day and then stopped.

So I kept 51 my watch from one watchmaker to another for a considerable period of time.

And as a result of it the cleverest man in the world could not 52 the time by my watch. The thing was getting 53 ・ My watch had 54 two hundred dollars originally but I paid for repairs more than two hundred. At last I decided to buy 55 watch, which I did.

完形填空（共20小题，每小题L5分，满分30分）

In 1989 an 8.2 earthquake almost flattened America, killing over 30,000 people in less than four minutes. In the middle of complete damage and