第二节 完形填空（共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When Alice started to cycle home from Jenny’s house, she wasn’t nervous. She was certainly not afraid of the dark.  36  , it was only a 15,ncnule ride home. But halfway there, she began to wish that he hadn’t been so   37  .
As she rounded a sarp benu, it suddenly   38   cold－very cold. Alice’s breath became puffs of white cloud and her legs aso cale that it became hard to ride.
With her liart beating fast, she struggled so hard to move   39   that the didn’t hear the car which suddenly appeared beside her. She stopped by the road. The big black car also   40  ,Slowly, the passenger-window began to slide down. Alice held her breath. In the soft light inside the car, something   41  . Then, the light brightened and Alice was staring at a sweet, grey-haired old lady. “Hello, dear,”said the old lady. “I need   42  . I’m afraid I’m lost. I need to find the nearest airport. I must be there in the next five minutes.”
“Airport? You   43   are lost,”Alice said. “You need to go back five kilometers   44   you reach the”
T-junction.Turn left and  45  for about another 10 kilometers to the main highway.From there,just follow the  46  to the airport.But I’m afraid there’s no  47  you’ll get there in five minutes!”
“Thank you very much,dearn eplied the old lady.“Don’t worry-I’ll  48  it time.”
The  49  up and the started off.A little way ahead,it  50  and with hedlights filashing, it drove past Alice. But then, mething  51  happened.The car hegary changing flrst, its color  52  from black to silvey grew when, the wheels began disappearing, but the car    to move forward,  53  just above the grolld. As the car  54  into the dark sky, the big red tail-lights grew larger and larger and glowed more and more brightly.With a faint whistling  55  ,the car was gone in seconds,leaving Alice shaking her head in disbelief…
36.A.However                     B.Besides              C.Therefore           D.Othrwise
37.A.brave                   B.excited               C.eurious               D.grew
38.A.fell                      B.around               C.forward              D.backward
40.A.arrived                 B.aopped               C.stayed                D.started
41.A.gathered               B.opped                C.stayed                D.started
42.A.help                            B.exicult               C.rest                    D.water
43.A.necess                  B.gas                    C.rest                    D.water
44.A.if                         B.until                  C.unless                D.as
45.A.drive                    B.walk                  C.follow                D.march
46.A.address                 B.sigms                 C.notiees               D.guidance
47.A.doubt                   B.room                 C.time                   D.way
48.A.have it                  B.get it                  C.make it                     D.finishit
49.A.door                     B.window              C.headlight            D.wheel
50.A.passed                  B.rashed                C.turned                D.continued
51.A.strange                 B.entive               C.imaginable         D.horrible
52.A.developen             B.apend                 C.spread                D.ladea
53.A.rollin                   B.floating              C.drawing             D.flashing
54.A.pointed                 B.returned             C.broke                 D.rose
55.A.tune                            B.voice                 C.sound                 D.tone