第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36---55各题后的 A B C D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。A gift

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36---55各题后的 A B C D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A gift left to her
Early in the morning, I was taken in a nylon bag into a truck. I felt horrible as well as     36    What would she do with me? She was almost mad after the    37    of her husband.
A few minutes later, I heard the truck    38    its engine and move fast. I kept making sounds to show my protest, but failed to make any    39     Finally she put me down in a __40    place. Maybe she didn’t want me to die from lack of air; she untied the bag.
I     41     out and looked up, only to see many strange faces and fingers pointing at me.
It turned out that my owner meant to    42     me. I saw my owner on the truck, which was going farther and farther. So I cast my head     43    the direction of the truck. The days we spent together was like a movie playing in front of my eyes as I ran after the truck. I saw my male owner, who suffered liver cancer; look at me with his sad eyes. I saw myself    44    my owner everywhere; I saw him lie in his dying bed, she all    45    .
I ran as fast as I could. And the    46    I saw her wave to me, my eyes became wet. I wouldn’t blame her for treating me like this for she was such a (n)     47     lady. She seemed even somewhat     48     at his leaving her alone, trying many ways to     49    the pains of losing him. She     50     his pictures and clothes, and she redecorated the whole house. Now I was the only     51     thing to remind her of him.     52     later, I am pretty sure that she would realize how mad she was to do this…
The truck finally stopped when I was almost     53    . She ran up to me and hugged me     54    . I heard her     55    : “I know you are a present he left to me.”
36. A. puzzled           B. excited          C. delighted             D. frightened
37. A. separation           B. absence       C. departure           D. death
38. A. run                        B. begin            C. start                    D. operate
39. A. sense                  B. trouble                 C. effort                      D. difference
40. A. usual                  B. strange              C. familiar               D. dark
41. A. walked        B. rushed           C. ran                      D. struggled
42. A. harm               B. desert            C. punish                      D. sell
43. A. into                    B. at                        C. in                            D. to
44. A. follow            B. bring            C. guide                        D. support
45. A. with tears            B. in tears                 C. out of breath        D. in silence
46. A. time                  B. direction       C. way                    D. moment
47. A. cruel                  B. unfriendly     C. unfavorable          D. unfortunate
48. A. calm                   B. depressed      C. angry                       D. sad
49. A. kill                        B. remove             C. bear                    D. prevent
50. A. kept                   B. burned                 C. sold                    D. hit
51. A. moving           B. walking         C. existing               D. blessing
52. A. But                    B. And                  C. Thus                   D. Then
53. A. worn out             B. knocked out    C. left out               D. made out
54. A. tightly            B. patiently        C. sadly               D. desperately
55. A. shout                  B. speak            C. whisper            D. talkADCDB   DBCAB   DDCBB   CAAAC