完形练习2
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第 1 页 共 5 页 （1） A daughter told her father about her life and said things were so hard for her. It seemed that, as one 35 was gone, a new one appeared. Her father, a cook, took 36 to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil（沸腾）. In one pot he 37 carrots, in the second he put some eggs, and in the last he put some coffee. He let them just boil, 38 saying a word. The daughter waited, 39 what he was doing. Twenty minutes later he turned off the fire. He fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. Then he poured the coffee out and placed it in a cup. Turning to her he asked, “Dear, what do you see?” “Carrots, eggs and coffee,” She replied. He brought her closer and asked her to 40 the carrots. She did and found that they were soft. Then he asked her to take an egg and 41 it. After pulling off the shell （外壳）, she saw the hardboiled egg. Finally he asked her to drink the coffee. She smiled. As she tasted it, “What do you mean, Father?” He explained that each of them had 42 the same trouble, boiling water, but each reacted（回应） differently. The carrot went in strong and hard 43 after being in boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been easy to break. But after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The coffee was 44 , however. After it was in the boiling water, it 45 the water. “ 46 are you?” he asked his daughter. “When trouble knocks on your door, what do you do? Are you a carrot, an egg, or just coffee?”
35. A. question B. accident C. problem D. business 36. A. her B. him C. them D. it 37. A. threw B. placed C. took D. dropped 38. A. for B. by C. with D. without 39. A. knowing B. thinking C. wondering D. asking 40. A. smell B. accept C. count D. feel 41. A. open B. break C. cut D. play 42. A. faced B. called C. decided D. chosen 43. A. because B. though C. or D. but 44. A. useful B. different C. delicious D. expensive 45. A. became B. kept C. changed D. made 46. A. Which B. What C. Where D. Who
（2） In many seaside towns there are telescopes (望远镜) on the sea-front so that people who want to look at the view or at ships on the sea can do so more easily. You have to put a __35__ in before you can use the telescope. And after a few minutes you have to put in another one if you want to __36__ using it. One day Mr. Brown was on holiday in a seaside town which had __37__ like this, and he was walking along the sea-front when he saw two men looking __38__ one. The first one was looking, and then the other. And they were taking turns to put in another coin from time to time. Mr. Brown was rather __39__ to see them using the telescope, because he thought that they would have had __40__ of looking at the sea while they were on their __41__. Then he thought that they might perhaps be looking for their own ship on the sea, but that seemed impossible to 第 2 页 共 5 页 him. How could they not know where their ship was? Then Mr. Brown suddenly __42__ that they were not looking at the sea at all. The telescope was pointing at the beach, and they were looking along it __43__ and carefully. Mr. Brown wondered __44__ they had lost someone or something. Suddenly the two men __45__ the telescope and rushed off quickly, so Mr. Brown stopped wondering and continued his walk. It was not until an hour later that he found out what the two men had been searching for with the telescope. He met them __46__, each with a little child on his arm. 35. A. stone B. coin C. note D. book 36. A. translate B. suppose C. prevent D. continue 37. A. signs B. bridges C. towers D. telescopes 38. A. out B. at C. through D. after 39. A. possible B. surprised C. nervous D. mentioned 40. A. more B. little C. much D. enough 41. A. ship B. train C. bus D. plane 42. A. introduced B. included C. realized D. doubled 43. A. slowly B. helpfully C. crazily D. hardly 44. A. when B. which C. whether D. what 45. A. left B. counted C. followed D. broke 46. A. back B. again C. still D. ever （3）
Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact 1 she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished 2 a driving offence (犯规，犯法). Then one day she nearly 3 her record. A police car 4 her, and the policemen in it saw her 5 a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed 6 that she would be punished. 7 Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was 8 old to drive a car, and that the 9 why she had not stopped at the red 10 was most probably that her eyes had become weak 11 old age, so that she had simply not seen it. When the judge had finished what he was 12, Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was 13 and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she 14 a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt. When she had 15 done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed 16 the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your 17. I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight.”
