第二节完形填空（20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）A Washed DayIn the faint light of the attic（阁楼）, an old man, be

第二节完形填空（20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
A Washed Day
In the faint light of the attic（阁楼）, an old man, bent down and made his way to a pile of boxes . Brushing aside a lot of  36  , he began to lift out one old 37  after another.
He  38  opened the long buried treasures and soon was 39  in a sea of memories.
Setting  40  one of the dusty albums, he pulled from the box what to be a  41  from his grown son's childhood. He  42  not recall ever having seen it before,  43  that his son had ever kept a journal. Opening the  44  pages, he glanced over a short reading, and his  45  curved in an unconscious smile.  46  his eyes brightened as he read the words. It was the voice of the little boy who had grown up far too fast in this  47  house, and whose voice had grown fainter and fainter over the  48 . The words of a  six-year-old  49  the old man back to a time  50  totally forgotten.
Reminded that he had kept a daily journal of his  51 activities over the years, he closed his son's journal. Opening a glass cabinet door, he reached in and  52  an old business journal. Then he sat down at his desk and  53  the two journals beside each other. As he opened his journal, the old man's eyes fell upon several words that  54 .  In his own neat handwriting were these words:
55 the whole day fishing with Jimmy. Didn't catch a thing. With a deep sigh and a shaking hand, he took Jimmy's journal and found the boy's entry for the same day: Went fishing with my dad. Best day of my life.
36.A. sweat       B. water         C. dust       D. rain
37.A. diary        B. album         C. book      D. dictionaries
38.A. carefully       B. carelessly      C. casually      D. anxiously
39.A. surprised      B. disappointed      C. interested   D. lost
40.A. aside        B. up             C. off         D. out
41.A. photograph   B. letter          C. journal          D. card
42.A. could       B. would         C. should     D. might
43.A. and              B. so              C. but        D. or
44.A. colored     B. yellowed       C. turned     D. touched
45.A. nose         B. eyes           C. ears       D. lips
46.A. Thus        B. Then          C. Even      D. However
47.A. very         B. just            C. poor      D. big
48.A. hours       B. weeks         C. months       D. years
49.A. forced      B. carried              C. left        D. made
50.A. seldom     B. hardly         C. almost     D. never
51.A. politics     B. business        C. science       D. holiday
52.A. pulled up      B. Pulled off      C. pulled out   D. pulled over
53.A. placed      B. threw         C. hid        D. read
54.A. picked out    B. stood out       C. worked out D. took out
55.A. Spend      B. Enjoyed        C. Spared         D. Wasted36---55     CBADA   CADBD   CADBC   BCABD