第三節:完形填空(共20 小題;每小題1.5分,滿分30分)
閱讀下面短文,從短文后所給各題的四個選項(A、B、C和D) 中,選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項,并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
On a warm Monday, Jenny Neilson bought a sandwich and parked her car under some trees. Rolling down the windows to ___41___ in fresh air, she settled back to enjoy her lunch. Suddenly she ___42___ a big bald(禿頂的) man running through the parking lot. Before she came to ___43___ what would happen, the man was there, shouting through her window, “Get out!”Neilson ___44___.
Pulling open her door, the man seized her ___45___ the neck and hair, and threw her out of the car onto the ground. She screamed, ___46___ her purse and the keys.
Two reporters of the local newspaper, Robert Bruce and Jeff Jackson, just outside their office building on a ___47___, heard the screams and began running.
When they ___48___ Neilson’s car, the attacker had jumped into the driver’s seat and was ___49___ searching for the keys. Bruce opened the door, and he and Jackson dragged the man out. The attacker ___50___ back. But even in his cornered panic, he was no ___51___ for the two athletic men.
Reggie Miller, a worker of the local newspaper, heard the screams, too. He rushed back to the office to ___52___ the police, and then ran back with some plastic ropes—used to tie up newspapers.
With his arms ___53___ tight behind him, the prisoner looked up and said ___54___, “I hope you guys feel good about yourselves—you just caught one of the most wanted men.” They ___55___ him and waited for the police.
Later, Bruce and Jackson were shocked to learn the man was the ___56___ carjacker (劫車者) and suspected murderer, whose ___57___— but with a full head of hair—had been recently printed in their own newspaper.
Neilson considers herself lucky ___58___ she suffered injuries. She believes the story might have had a ___59___ ending if those good people had not come to her aid. “Unfortunately,” she said, “many people would ___60___ have done what they did, and that’ the real truth.”
41. A. bring B. let
C. gather D. send
42. A. recognized B. watched
C. noticed D. met
43. A. realize B. understand
C. imagine D. conclude
44. A. escaped B. struggled
C. refused D. obeyed
45. A. by B. around
C. with D. on
46. A. burying B. forgetting
C. offering D. grabbing
47. A. trip B. visit
C. break D. holiday
48. A. started B. stopped
C. entered D. reached
49. A. carefully B. madly
C. disappointedly D. patiently
50. A. fought B. turned
C. jumped D. shouted
51. A. match B. target
C. equal D. companion
52. A. remind B. phone
C. invite D. beg
53. A. rolled B. folded
C. bent D. tied
54. A. angrily B. kindly
C. coldly D. warmly
55. A. caught B. thanked
C. comforted D. ignored
56. A. ordinary B. professional
C. honest D. outstanding
57. A. picture B. background
C. character D. story
58. A. and B. but
C. though D. when
59. A. ridiculous B. similar
C. strange D. different
60. A. sometimes B. never
C. often D. forever