第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
As a young man, Al was a skilled artist．He had a wife and two fine sons．One night, his  oldest son developed a severe stomachache．Thinking it was only some   36   intestinal （肠内的）disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very seriously．But the boy   37   suddenly that night．
Knowing the death could have been   38    if he had only realized the seriousness of the situation, Al's emotional health became worse under the huge burden of his   39     To make matters worse his wile   40   him a short time later, leaving him alone with his six-year-old younger son．The hurt and pain of the two   41   were more than Al could handle, and he   42  to alcohol．In time Al became an alcoholic．
43___ the alcoholism progressed, Al began to lose everything he   44   — his home, his land, his art objects, everything．  45   Al died alone in a San Francisco motel room．
When I heard of Al's death, I thought that Al's life was a complete   46 ．
As time went by, I began to re-evaluate my earlier judgment．I knew Al's now   47   son, Ernie．He is one of the kindest, most caring, most loving men I have ever known．I watched Ernie with his children and saw the free   48   of love between them．I knew that kindness and caring had to come from somewhere．
I hadn't heard Ernie talk much about his  49__．One day I worked __50_ my courage to ask him．"I'm really _51__ by something," I said．"I know your father was  52  _ the only one to raise you．What on earth did he do that you became such a special person?"
Ernie sat quietly and _53__ for a few moments．Then he said, "From my earliest _54_ as a child until I left home at 18, Al came into my room every night, gave me a kiss and said, ' I love you, son．' "
Tears came to my eyes as I realized what a fool I had been to __55_ Al as a failure．He had not left any material possessions behind．But he had been a kind loving father, and he left behind one of the finest, most giving men I have ever known．
36．A．certain          B．common           C．rare          D．basic
37．A．died              B．choked            C．starved        D．worsened
38．A．cured            B．prevented          C．forbidden     D．saved
39．A．disease            B．debt              C．guilt        D．duty
40．A．left              B．scolded            C．quarreled      D．forgave
41．A．disasters           B．adventures         C．conflicts      D．situations
42．A．got                   B．drank             C．turned       D．sank
43．A．As               B．Though            C．Because      D．If
44．A．needed            B．shared             C．benefited      D．possessed
45．A．Eventually         B．Gradually          C．Therefore     D．Meanwhile
46．A．trouble            B．hardship          C．failure       D．waste
47．A．teen               B．aduh               C．aged          D．adolescent
48．A．win               B．fall                   C．space         D．flow
49．A．mother            B．brother           C．father         D．child
50．A．up              B．with              C．on            D．through
51．A．worried          B．puzzled         C．interested      D．attracted
52．A．especially          B．basically           C．merely       D．specially
53．A．argued            B．searched             C．analyzed        D．reflected
54．A．thoughts           B．ideas               C．minds        D．memories
55．A．treat              B．call                C．judge        D．Feel

How old was I? I can’t recall. Maybe I was only 10, about to turn 11, making it the first Christmas after my father left, and left me to fill that sad, shattered place in my mother’s heart. Whenever it was, it was the Christmas the magic changed: the year I stopped being a wide-eyed child and tried eagerly to play Father Christmas myself. It was the Christmas of the coat.
Mom first saw the coat at Tobias, one of the nicer women’s stores in our town’s little mall. It was a deep forest green. A long, heavy, wool dress coat with side pockets. Mom pulled it out from the rack（架） and held it up. “Long enough,”she murmured and slipped it on.
“I need a new coat,” Mom smiled before the three-way mirror. She made any clothing look good, and this coat hugged her just right. She glanced at the price tag, then hung the coat back on the rack, pausing once more to feel the smooth brush of wool.
Eighty-seven dollars. But I didn’t think twice. As we moved on through the mall, I found some excuse to come back and ask one of the Tobias ladies to hold the coat.
At last I had the coat. The store ladies wrapped it in their biggest box with bright blue paper and a thick silver ribbon. I don’t remember how I got it home, but I can still feel the bursting excitement and pride that filled me each time I glimpsed at the beautifully wrapped gift hiding under my sweater. I would occasionally dig it out just to hold the box, to imagine the big space it would take up under our tree. Here it was ─ joy, peace, and love ─ all wrapped up, waiting for Mom’s loving gratitude.
36. That the writer’s mother felt the coat before they left the store showed that ____.
A. the coat was of good quality                 B. the coat was too expensive
C. she liked the coat very much                D. she’d get it in the end
37. The writer tried to act as Father Christmas in order to ____.
A. show he grew up                                               B. show he missed his father
C. bring his mother a surprise                            D. enjoy himself
38. The writer hid the coat under his sweater in order to ____.
A. imagine the space taken up under the Christmas tree
B. feel the strong feeling to his mother on Christmas
C. give his mother a big surprise on Christmas Day
D. keep the new coat tidy and orderly in the box
39. What can be the best title of this passage?
A. A Merry Christmas                                  B. Christmas of the Coat
C. A Deep Green Coat                                 D. Mother’s Merry Christmas

Going on a trip into ______ space must be quite ______ exciting experience.

完型填空二(每空一词) ：
Yesterday was my best friend Li Ming’s birthday. When school was over, I went to the bookshop. I bought a book __28__  ‘Exploring Space’ and had it nicely wrapped for him. __29__ he had wanted to buy this book for weeks, I knew that he would be very pleased with my ___30__.  When I got to the party, LiMing greeted me with a big smile. I noticed that there were piles of presents on the floor, __31__ I was sure that mine would be his favorite. I gave the present to Li Ming and whispered __32__  his ears. ‘You will love it’. He couldn’t wait to unwrap it. ___33__ the smile on his face disappeared and I saw some big red characters on the cover of the book that ___34__ ,‘Caring for your baby’! I __35__ have picked up the wrong book in the shop!

Batteries can power anything from small sensors to large systems. While scientists are finding ways to make them smaller but even more powerful, problems can arise when these batteries are much larger and heavier than the devices themselves. University of Missouri(MU) researchers are developing a nuclear energy source that is smaller, lighter and more efficient.
“To provide enough power, we need certain methods with high energy density(密度)”，said Jae Kwon, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at MU. “The radioisotope(放射性同位素) battery can provide power density that is much higher than chemical batteries.”
Kwon and his research team have been working on building a small nuclear battery, presently the size and thickness of a penny, intended to power various micro/nanoelectromechanreal systems (M/NEMS). Although nuclear batteries can cause concerns, Kwon said they are safe.
“People hear the word ‘nuclear’ and think of something very dangerous,” he said, “However, nuclear power sources have already been safely powering a variety of devices, such as pace-makers, space satellites and underwater systems.”
His new idea is not only in the battery’s size, but also in its semiconductor(半导体). Kwon’s battery uses a liquid semiconductor rather than a solid semiconductor.
“The key part of using a radioactive battery is that when you harvest the energy, part of the radiation energy can damage the lattice structure(晶体结构) of the solid semiconductor,” Kwon said, “By using a liquid semiconductor, we believe we can minimize that problem.”
Together with J. David Robertson, chemistry professor and associate director of the MU Research Reactor, Kwon is working to build and test the battery. In the future, they hope to increase the battery’s power, shrink its size and try with various other materials. Kwon said that battery could be thinner than the thickness of human hair.
【小题1】Which of the following is true of Jae Kwon?