题型： 完形填空题 难度： 简单
    第二节 完形填空 （共20小题：每小题1.5分，满分30分）
    请阅读西面短文，，掌握其大意，然后从36~55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。
    Introduction to letters to Sam
    Dear Reader,
    Please allow me to tell you something before you read this book. When my ????36???,Sam,was born , my heart was filled with joy . I had been sitting? in a wheelchair for 20 years before then ,and I have been ????37????ill many times . So I wondered if I would have the
    ???? 38??to tell Sam what I had ?????39 .
    For years I have been hosting a program on the ????40????and writing articles for a? magazine .? Being ????41 to move freely , I have learned to sit still and keep my? heart ???42??, exchanging thoughts with? thousands of listeners and ????43?. So when Sam was born .I
    ???? 44??to tell him about school and fridship , romance and work , love and everything else . That how I started to write these ????45????, I hope that Sam would ????46????them sooner or later .
    However , that expectation ????47??when? Sam showed aigns of autism (自闭症) at the age of two , He had actually stopped talking before the discovery of the signs . He ???48??to communicate with others , even the family members . That was ???49?for me but didn’t stop me writing on . I realized that I even ???50 ?now to tell him . I wanted him to ???51????what it means to be “diffenet” from others , and learn how to fight against the misfortune? he’ll ???52???
    as I myself .. his grandfather ,did ,I just ????53?if? I could write all that I wanted to say in the rest of my life .
    Now .?? 54???the book has been pubhshed . I have been given the chance , Every chapter in the book is a letter to Sam: some about my life .and all about what it means to be a ????55?.
    Daniel Gottlied
    36.A.son???? B. nephew? C.brother D.grandson
    37.A.seriously???? B*ntally?? C. slightly???????D.quictly
    38. A.ability?????? B.time??????? C*urage????????? D.reaponsibuty
    39. A.writen??????? B. sulfered?? C.observed???????? D.lost
    40. A. radio??????? B. television?? C.stage? D.bed
    41. A.ready???????? B.unable????? C.anxious????????? D.cager
    42. A.warm????????? B.broken????? C.closed?????????? D.open
    43. A*s???????? B.vistors???? C. readers???????? D.reportets
    44. A.boon????????? B.stopped???? C.forgot?????????? D.decided
    45.A.letters???????? B.emunls????? C.books??????????? D.diaries
    46. A.bad??????? B. read?????? C. collecd???????? D.keep
    47. A. decdoped???? B.disappeared C. changed???????? D.arrived
    48. A.ined????????? B.refused???? C. regreed???????? D.hoped
    49. A.exciting????? B.aeceptable C.strange?????? D.heartherathing
    50. A.less?????????B.eventhing? C.more???????????? D.nothing
    51. A. understand?? B.explam????? C.believe????????? D.question
    52. A.fear????????? B.face??????? C. know??????????? D.cause
    53. A.felt????????? B.guessed???? C.saw????????????? D.doubted
    54. A. as??????????B.once??????? C. thought???????? D.if
    55. A.teacher?????? B. child????? C. man???????????? D.witct
    答案
    36-40 DABCA
    41-50? BDCDA BCBDC
    46-55? BCBDC ABDAC
    解析
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