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21-40各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things come to represent, in fact, what I call ___21___ and love.
I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming tool. But he did ___22___ the water. Any kind of ___23___ ride seemed to give him pleasure. ___24___ he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being ___25___ the water, moving through it, ___26___ it all around me. I was not a strong ___27___, or one who learned to swim early, for I had my ___28___. But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and ___29___ those summer days with my father, who ___30___ come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the ___31___ person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go ___32___ his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me ___33___ anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk ___34___ he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his ___35___. But my father always ___36___ and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s ___37___.” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get ___38___ an ice cream…
A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is ___39___.” And I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood” that determines our memories, but ___40___, in that childhood, look at us.
21. A. desire B. joy
C. anger D. worry
22. A. avoid B. refuse
C. praise D. love
23. A. boat B. bus
C. train D. bike
24. A. But B. Then
C. And D. Still
25. A. on B. off
C. by D. in
26. A. having B. leaving
C. making D. getting
27. A. swimmer B. rider
C. walker D. runner
28. A. hopes B. faiths
C. rights D. fears
29. A. spending B. saving
C. wasting D. ruining
30. A. should B. would
C. had to D. ought to
31. A. next B. only
C. other D. last
32. A. away from B. out of
C. by D. inside
33. A. put up B. break down
C. play with D. work out
34. A. the moment B. the first time
C. while D. before
35. A. fishing net B. office things
C. wooden chair D. lab equipment
36. A. stood up B. set out
C. showed up D. turned out
37. A. fine B. strange
C. terrible D. funny
38. A. the student B. the assistant
C. myself D. himself
39. A. memory B. wealth
C. experience D. practice
40. A. which B. who
C. what D. whose