第二节  完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41~60各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

An old man lay in a hospital bed, heavily sedated (给……服镇静剂) to ease the pain from his heart attack. The nurse arrived and said, “Your   41    is here,” repeating the words several times before the  42    conscious man opened his eyes. His son was a    43   who had come back from service to   44   to his beloved father.

The elderly man   45   out to touch his son’s hand and squeezed it gently. All through the   46     , the young soldier sat in the dimly lit ward offering words of   47   to his dying dad, who said   48   , but kept hold of his child weakly.   49   of the noise of the oxygen tank and the moans of the other patients, the marine remained    50   by the old man’s side.

Several times in the course of that long night, the nurse returned and suggested that the marine leave to   51   for a while. But each time he would   52  .

As dawn approached the elderly man   53  . His loving son rested the old man’s lifeless hand on the bed and left to find the   54  . The young man waited while the nurse carried his father’s body away and when she returned, offering words of   55  , the Marine interrupted her.

 “Who was that man?” he asked.

    56   , the nurse replied, “He was your father.”

  “No, he wasn’t,” the young man said. “I’ve   57   seen him before in my life.”

  “Then why didn’t you say something?”

 “When I arrived the ward, I knew right away there had been a(n)   58   , ” the young man explained. “But I also knew that man needed his son, and he wasn’t here. I could tell he was too   59     to know who sat beside him but he needed someone there, so I just decided to    60    .”

41. A. son    B. brother     C. cousin    D. friend

42. A. simply  B. actually C. barely D. totally

43. A. director  B. marine C. policeman D. manager

44. A. talk  B. stick C. attend D. adjust

45. A. reached  B. moved C. walked D. picked

46. A. morning  B. noon C. afternoon D. night

47. A. respect  B. encouragement C. truth D. wisdom

48. A. something B. everything C. nothing D. much

49. A. Unaware  B. Afraid C. Free D. Sick

50. A. calm  B. still C. seriously D. loyally

51. A. walk  B. rest C. chat D. exercise

52. A. refuse  B. hesitate C. explain D. think

53. A. awoke  B. screamed C. died D. fainted

54. A. friend  B. nurse C. relative D. ambulance

55. A. anger  B. love C. admiration D. sympathy

56. A. Surprised  B. Curious C. Upset D. Annoyed

57. A. ever  B. never C. seldom D. once

58. A. story  B. fault C. mistake D. accident

59. A. sick  B. anxious C. careless D. disappointed

60. A. live  B. leave C. remain D. stay
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