When the spaceship traveled above, __________ new-looking earth appeared before us, ______ earth that we had never seen before.

A. a; an    B. the; an      C. /; the  D. a; the

—Excuse me, but could you please tell me the way to the gas station around here?

—Sorry. There isn’t     gas station nearby, I'm afraid.

A. one    B. 不填    C. the    D. a

 

The viewers will have _____ second chance to watch Voice of China on _____ Channel 4 tonight.

A. a; the                           B. the; the                       C. the; /                           D. a; /

 

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One day in summer I stepped into a tiny coffee shop to drink a cup of black coffee. As I entered, I found a very old woman bent      a table near the door. Her back was so    twisted(弯曲) by some sadness that her face nearly    the table-top. I sat down facing her two tables away.

    "Poor woman," I thought. "What does she    life? Why does God let people live so  past their prime(黄金时期)?"

As I thought,      aged lady entered the shop and sat down with her. Soon the two of them were talking about      . They talked of how little the shop had     in 70 years... In minutes the two of them were      with laughter.

    I looked again at the     woman, then in the mirror on a nearby wall,     a picture of  myself.

    I was wearing a dirty shirt. She was well dressed in white, gold rings on her fingers.

    I was in      spirits. She was laughing, smiling.

    I was putting the      of my life together. She had millions of wonderful      to recall.

    She was       the day with a good friend. I was      worried about getting old. She was old but it wasn't    her.

    As I left the shop, I thought of my      questions about God letting people live past their prime. Why, that woman was more     and more sensitive than I was.       has not bent her spirit. But I am always filling my mind with something unpleasant.

  A. to                B. on           C. over                 D. toward

  A. heavily           B. badly            C. slightly             D. hardly

  A. struck            B. reached      C. stuck           D. touched

A. get out of          B. get off      C. get away with        D. get into

  A. hard              B. long             C. slowly          D. rapidly

  A. other             B. the very         C. another         D. a certain

  A. bright future    B. recent history   C. the present day      D. childhood days

 A. changed            B. improved         C. rebuilt              D. developed

  A. jumping          B. trembling        C. burning         D. running

  A. older                B. poor             C. first                D. younger

A. watching           B. taking       C. searching       D. catching

  A. high                 B. low          C. good            D. sad

A. dreams             B. pages            C. pieces          D. hopes

A. affairs           B. sufferings       C. incidents            D. memories

A. spending           B. enjoying         C. sharing         D. wasting

A. certainly         B. completely   C. naturally            D. secretly

A. hurting            B. choking      C. defeating            D. beating

A. funny         B. foolish      C. serious         D. curious

A. alive              B. strong       C. useful               D. powerful

A. Wealth             B. Life             C. Time             D. Age

The Wilsons lived in ________ A-shaped house in the mountain during _______ World War II.

A. a, the    B. an, the     C. an, /      D. a, /