第一部分：知识运用(共两节，30分)
第一节 完形填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分，共15分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I was in seventh grade, I was a volunteer at a local hospital in my town. Most of the ____1____ I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie. He never had any visitors and nobody seemed to care about his____2____.
I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, helping with anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine, ____3____he responded with only an occasional squeeze of my hand. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma (昏迷).
I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was no longer there. I didn’t have the____4____to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear that they might tell me he had died.
Several____5____later, when I was a senior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face. When I____6____who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was____7____! I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie. He____8____yes. I explained how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever____9____.
He began to tell me how, as he lay there comatose (昏迷的), he could hear me talking to him and could feel me holding his hand the whole time. Mr. Gillespie_____10_____believed that it was my voice and touch that had kept him alive.
Although I haven’t seen him since, he fills my heart with joy every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and death.
1. A. money B. energy C. time D. effort
2. A. interest B. requirement C. condition D. thought
3. A. so B. though C. since D. as if
4. A. right B. chance C. courage D. time
5. A. days B. weeks C. months D. years
6. A. realized B. wondered C. heard D. asked
7. A. great B. alive C. successful D. lucky
8. A. replied B. doubted C. explained D. questioned
9. A. dreamed B. shown C. wanted D. received
10. A. hardly B. rightly C. firmly D. wrongly
【答案】1. C 2. C 3. B 4. C 5. D 6. A 7. B 8. A 9. D 10. C
