第二节 完形填空（共30小题；A篇每小题1分，B篇每小题1.5分，满分40分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选进步网出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

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　　There was a pet store and the owner had a parrot. One day a ___11___ walked in and the parrot said to the man, “Hey you!” The man said, “What!?” The parrot said, “Your__12__ is really ugly.” The man got very __13__ and went to the store owner and said, “Your bird just__14__ my wife. It said she was ugly.”来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

　　The owner stormed over, __15__the bird, took it into the “black room,” shook it a bit, __16__ out a few feathers, and said, “Don’t ever, ever say anything to __17__ my customers again. You got that!!!”

　　With that__18__ he took the bird and put it back into its cage. The old bird shook out its__19__ and relaxed in its cage. A couple of weeks__20__and in walked this guy【超鲁汇；初中人教8年级下册Unit8；初中外研2年级上册Module7】 and his wife agai进步网n. The parrot said, “Hey you” The guy said, “What!?” The parrot answered, “You know that.”来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

　　11. A. group   B. team   C. couple D. crowd

　　12. A. wife     B. sister   C. mother       D. daughter

　　13. A. curious B. nervous      C. guilty  D. angry

　　14. A. greeted B. puzzled      C. offended    D. scared

　　15. A. hugged B. seized C. trained       D. rescued

　　16. A. sent      B. handed       C. pulled D. dug

　　17. A. touch   B. amuse C. cheat   D. embarrass

　　18. A. warning       B. comment    C. suggestion  D. request

　　19. A. eyes     B. feathers      C. fur      D. skin

　　20. A. lasted   B. arrived       C. appeared    D. passed

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　　Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843, and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age of five with her family. While__21__ her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had a(n)__22__ in medicine. At 18 she married and __23__ a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a __24__. Her husband supported her decision.

　　__25__, Canadian medical schools did not __26__ women students at that time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States to study __27__ at the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia. It took her five years to __28__ her medical degree.来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

　　Upon graduation, Charlotte__29__to Montreal and set up a private __30__. Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and there she was once again a __31__ doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber【超标本, 超鲁汇】 and railway camps. Charlotte__32__ herself operating on damaged limbs【超鲁汇；高中人教9册Unit3】 and setting __33__ bones, in addition to delivering all the babies in the area.

　　But Charlotte had been practising without a licence. She had __34__ a doctor’s licence in both Montreal and Winnipeg, but was __35__. The Manitoba College of Physician and Surgeons, an all-male board, wanted her to __36__ her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to __37__ her patients to spend time studying what she already knew. So in 1887, she appealed to the Manitoba Legislature to __38__ a licence to her but they, too, refused. Charlotte__39__to practise without a licence until 1912. She died four years at the age of 73.来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

　　In 1993, 77 years after her __40__, a medical licence was issued to Charlotte. This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honor “this courageous and pi进步网oneering woman.”

　　21. A. raising  B. teaching     C. nursing      D. missing

　　22. A. habit    B. interest       C. opinion      D. voice

　　23. A. invented      B. selected      C. offered       D. started

　　24. A. doctor  B. musician    C. lawyer       D. physicist

　　25. A. Besides B. Unfortunately    C. Otherwise   D. Eventually

　　26. A. hire      B. entertain     C. trust    D. accept

　　27. A. history B. physics       C. medicine    D. law

　　28. A. improve      B. save    C. design D. earn

　　29. A. returned      B. escaped      C. spread D. wandered

　　30. A. school  B. museum     C. clinic  D. lab

　　31. A. busy     B. wealthy      C. greedy       D. lucky来源进步网www.szjjedu.com

　　32. A. helped  B. found  C. troubled     D. imagined

　　33. A. harmful       B. tired   C. broken       D. weak

　　34. A. put away     B. taken over  C. turned in    D. applied for

　　35. A. punished      B. refused       C. blamed       D. fired

　　36. A. display B. change       C. preview      D. complete

　　37. A. leave    B. charge C. test     D. cure

　　38. A. sell      B. donate C. issue   D. show

　　39. A. continued    B. promised    C. pretended   D. dreamed

　　40. A. birth    B. death  C. wedding     D. graduation