Part Ⅱ Cloze The injection that the girl had been given was beginning to work. Her head 1 heavy, and she was very sleepy. Once she opened her eyes and saw two nurses. They were placing her on another bed. Then she had the feeling of moving down a long hall. Once 2 a while, she thought that she heard people talking around her. The last time she opened her eyes, she saw a large round lamp above her. Then everything was dark, and she 3 into a deep sleep. The doctor was 4 to begin. First he opened the chest 5 around the heart. Meanwhile, another doctor connected the special machine to her. Next, the first doctor used an electric shock to stop the girl's heart. Working very carefully, he repaired the passage that was 6 . Then, using another electric shock, he 7 the heart again. He closed her chest, and the operation was 8 . No additional blood had been needed. The 9 operation lasted ninety minutes. The girl was taken to another room. She would be watched until she was conscious. As she opened her eyes, the girl saw her mother's face. Her mother smiled. "It's all over," she said. "The doctor promised to make you better and he has succeeded. In a few weeks you'll be 10 home."
When my doctor told me the results of all the tests, I was sure my illness was fatal and certain that I was going to die. One of my first 11 was that I would be leaving behind me so much that was unfinished. I told my friends that the 12 on my tombstone should read: "Grade of Incomplete." That 13 my life, and I regretted my delays and excuses. I wished that I had more time to do it all over again the right way. But deep inside I felt such a wish was useless. I imagined no recourse but to spend my remaining months in a gradual state of 14 , too weak, too sick and too absorbed in my dying to do much else. I cried a lot and felt very sorry for myself. After the operation to remove the tumor, my surgeon told me that I was cured. At first, I didn't believe him. I thought he was humouring me, stringing me alone because he wanted me to be happy in my final months. 15 , though, I began to believe that he was telling me the truth and that I did indeed have a life ahead of me. Because I didn't want my 16 simply to become a bad memory, I started to change the way I ran my life. I finished the photography project that summer. Then I applied for matriculation at my local college in the fall. Within a year I had chosen 17 I'm still working on getting that degree. Most important of all, my children and I took that 18 we'd always talked about. We took another one in the winter, too. At the end of five years I realized that I had rebuilt my life's patterns. And now each day is more fulfilling than 19 That's something I couldn't say before the day that cancer 20 .
[解析] 考词语的搭配和形近词的辨析。四个选项只有C项inscription“碑文,墓志铭”与tombstone搭配。与后文“Grade of Incomplete”即碑文内容相对应。description描述。prescription药方。
13.
A.summed up
B.concluded
C.ended up
D.shortened
A B C D
A
[解析] 句意:墓志铭概括了我的一生,我为自己曾经的拖沓和借口感到后悔。前面讲墓志铭为Grade of Incomplete,可以说墓志铭的内容正是对作者以前人生的简要总结。A选项sum up“总结,概括”是正确答案。选项B和C均指“结束”,不与墓志铭搭配,故两项均不合适。D选项shorten“缩短”不合常理,墓志铭不会缩短人的一生。
14.
A.corrosion
B.permeation
C.intervention
D.deterioration
A B C D
D
[解析] 句意:我想不到任何求助对象,只是在一种逐渐颓废的状态下度过我生命的最后几个月;我极度虚弱,病得很严重,满脑子都是我要死去的想法,以至于什么事情都不想做。根据常识,一个人面临死亡而无能为力时,自暴自弃,自甘堕落是可以理解的做法。D选项deterioration“堕落,颓废,恶化”符合题意。corrosion“腐蚀,侵蚀”,permeation“渗入”和intervention“干涉,干预”与too weak,too sick and too absorbed in my dying to do much else表达的悲观情感不一致,为干扰项。
15.
A.Gradually
B.By and large
C.Incidentally
D.By accident
A B C D
A
[解析] 四个选项中,只有A选项gradually“逐渐地”表示时间,且在时间先后上与“At first”自然衔接起来,故选项A是正确答案。选项B中by and large“总的来说,大体而言”,C项incidentally“顺便提及地,偶然地”和D项by accident“偶然地”置于空格处不能表达时间上顺序,不合逻辑。
16.
A.experience of cancer
B.brush with death
C.regrets
D.hospitalization
A B C D
B
[解析] 句意:因为我不希望我的劫后余生仅仅成为一段痛苦的回忆,我开始改变生活方式。前面部分作者主要讨论了自己如何死里逃生,以及劫后余生的经历对其以后人生的积极影响。关键词为“a bad memory”,故B选项“与死神擦肩而过,遭遇死亡”为正确答案。A选项experience为中性词,无法与前面痛苦的回忆相呼应。regret“遗憾”与hospitalization“住院治疗”不符合语境。