完形填空（共20小题，每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选取出适合填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
When my son unexpectedly volunteered for the Marines, I was busy writing my novels and giving little thought to the men and women in the army.
My son, John Schaeffer, recently came home
_36__ from the Middle East. He slowly appeared from a broken car; John _
37__ all night from a base near Washington, _
38__ he had landed the day before. He did not want me to
39___ him there. “I’ll need time to myself,” my son said _
40__ calling from Kuwait on the way home.
I gave my wife a head start. Mother_
41__ son, “I was so worried”, Genie said. She pulled away to look up again and again to _
42___ he was really there.
My wife gave me a great gift: _
43__ alone with my boy. John was tired and lay
_44__ on his bed. I lay down next to him and was grasping his hand the whole time. I just wanted to be certain that the nightmares I’d had about John being killed were _
45__ .
I kept holding my son, the way I _
46__ when he was two and came into our bed after a _
47__ dream. I asked John if he’d rather sleep than talk, and he said there would be time for
48___ later.
With the
49___ over, under and around me came incredible tiredness. I slept with his voice dying away. It was the first good _
50__ I’d had in months. I woke and John was asleep next to me. Sitting by his bed watching him breathe, I found myself praying and _
51__ for all the fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, husbands and wives of those who were not coming home. For the first time in my life, I was weeping for _
52___.
Before my son went to war I would never have shed tears for them .My son
_53__ me. He taught me that our men and women in uniform are not the
_54__”. They are our sons, daughters, brothers and sisters. Sometimes shedding ears for strangers is a holy
_55___. Sometimes it’s all we can do.
小题1:
| A．angry | B．excited | C．frightened | D．alive |
小题2:
| A．drove | B．was driving | C．had driven | D．would have driven |
| 小题3: | | A．where | B．when | C．which | D．who |
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小题4:
| A．meet | B．congratulate | C．permit | D．accept |
| 小题5: | | A．once | B．when | C．unless | D．since |
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| 小题6: | | A．abolished | B．patted | C．rated | D．embraced |
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| 小题7: | | A．make sure | B．set down | C．get across | D．make sense |
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| 小题8: | | A．period | B．chance | C．time | D．moment |
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| 小题9: | | A．hesitated | B．stretched | C．supporting | D．spreading |
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| 小题10: | | A．facts | B．truth | C．proofs | D．lies |
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| 小题11: | | A．used to | B．ought to | C．should | D．must |
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| 小题12: | | A．happy | B．cheerful | C．scary | D．sleep |
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| 小题13: | | A．advice | B．discussion | C．talk | D．sleep |
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小题14:
| A．chat | B．worries | C．meeting | D．curiosity |
| 小题15: | | A．conversation | B．observation | C．sleep | D．independence |
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小题16:
| A．crying | B．marching | C．screaming | D．regretting |
小题17:
| A．friends | B．neighbors | C．strangers | D．soldiers |
| 小题18: | | A．persuaded | B．changed | C．frightened | D．arrested |
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| 小题19: | | A．another | B．other | C．others | D．one |
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小题20:
| A．function | B．adventure | C．shame | D．duty |
42___ he was really there.
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