完形填空(Cloze test)(共20小题,计20分)
A)阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后根据空白处所给单词的首字母,写出各单词的完全形式,使短文语义完整。
Dear Frank,
You have been gone exactly(精确地)two weeks today,but it seems more like two years to me!
I am glad to h__________ (51) that you will be back soon.Are you coming directly(直接地)home,dear,or do you make some s__________ (52) on the way?I hope you will be home in time f__________ (53) Pasty's birthday next Sunday. She is expecting you to show movies to her little friends.
Pasty keeps asking every day w__________ (54) you will be back.She says you never finish that story you were telling her about the train that lost its“toot(嘟嘟声)”. She won't be happy until she knows exactly what h__________ (55) to the“toot”and why the little train got it back again!
Everything at home is fine e__________ (56) that we miss you very much!I have been busy with spring cleaning.Yesterday I had Cora come in to wash the kitchen walls,and she did a very g__________ (57) job of it.The kitchen looks as though it has been repaired.Cora helped me make some yellow curtains(窗帘)and they look very b__________ (58).
I went to see your mother yesterday,her medicine is gone,and she l__________ (59) very well.Your sister Jean looks wonderful.She has taken off about fifteen p__________ (60) since she began dieting(节食).
But now she is complaining(抱怨)that none of her clothes fit!
Yours,
Lyn
B)阅读下列短文,然后根据上下文填上适当的单词,使短文完整通顺。
One Sunday,Mark decided to go sailing(航行) in his boat with his friend Dan__________ (61) Dan happened to be away. Dan's brother John offered to go instead though he did not know__________ (62) about sailing. Mark aGREed and they set out to sea.
Soon they found themselves in__________ (63) thick fog. Mark was sure they would be hit__________ (64) a big ship. Fortunately he saw a large buoy(浮标) through the fog and decided to__________ (65) the boat to it for safety. As he was getting onto the buoy,__________ (66),he dropped the wet rope. The boat moved away in the fog carrying John,__________ (67) did not know how to use the radio. He drifted(漂流) about and was not seen until twelve hours later.
Mark spent the night on the buoy. In the early morning he fell
__________ (68). He was having a bad dream when a shout woke him up. A ship,the Good Hope,came up and he climbed onto__________ (69) and thanked the captain. The captain told him that John had been picked up by another ship and the ship's captain had sent out a message.“__________ (70)the message I would not have found you on the buoy,”he said.
参考答案：
A)51.hear 52.stops 53.for 54.when 55.happened 56.except 57.good
58.beautiful 59.looks 60.pounds
B)61.but 62.anything 63.a 64.by 65.tie 66.however 67.who 68.asleep
69.it 70.Without
