第二部分：語言知識(shí)及應(yīng)用（共兩節(jié)，滿分35分）
第一節(jié)：完形填空（共10小題；每小題2分，滿分20分）
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從16--25各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡相應(yīng)的16--25上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。
In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with
boundless blue skies. One day as I walked around the house with my sister
Kathy’s new parakeet （小鸚鵡）on my finger, I wanted to show Perky 16_____ the sky looked like.
Maybe he could make a little bird friend out there. I took him into the
backyard, and then, to my 17______, Perky flew off. The enormous（巨大的）, blue sky swallowed up my
sister’s blue treasure and suddenly he had gone, clipped wings and all.
Kathy managed to forgive me. With fake
optimism（樂觀）, she
even tried to reassure （安慰）me that Perky would find a new 18 ______. But I was far too
clever to 19______ that such a thing was possible.
Decades later, I watched my own 20_______
growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding
chairs with the parents of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families
went camping around Arizona together. We became the best of friends. One
evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed（宣稱） to 21______ the oldest
living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog. Then Barry, the father of the
other family, took the floor and 22 ________ that the Greatest Pet of All Time
was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.
"The best thing 23______ Sweetie
Pie," he said, "was the way we got him. One day, when I was about
eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just floated down and
landed on my finger."
When I was finally able to 24_______ , we
examined the amazing evidence（證據(jù)）. The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all
matched up. It seems our two families had been connected long before we ever
met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, "You were 25_______!
Perky lived!"
16. A. what B.
how C. which D. where
17. A.
joy B. horror
C. disappointment D. satisfaction
18. A. parent B. home C.
master D. life
19. A.
imagine B.
suppose C. doubt D. believe
20. A. birds B.
happiness C. worries D. children
21. A. catch B.
find C. buy D. have
22. A. announced B.
said C. told D. hoped
23. A. in
B. about C.
of D. on
24. A. think B.
speak C. interrupt D. explain
25. A. right B.
wrong C. silly D. mad
