中南神学院年本科插班英语入学试题.doc

中 南 神 学 院 2008年插班生入学考试·英语试题 第Ⅱ卷 成绩： 请在答题卡上答题，试卷上答题无效 Please write down your answer on the answer sheet Ⅰ.完形填空 Cloze (1*20) (From a newspaper) “… She was married to an officer in India long ago, and she had a life of physical adventure(冒险)as exciting as her poetry. Her husband could cross rivers using crocodiles（鳄鱼）as stepping stones. He died when she was only 39. Unwilling to exist without him, she took her life, leaving a young son in England.” I stared at the paper, ___ 1_ reading, and couldn’t help thinking. Crocodiles are ___2___ animals as a rule , but they can ___3__ like lightning when they want to. And they don’t mind hurrying 4___ they’re hungry. There used to be lots in Indian rivers, ___5__ on fish mostly; but what’s a little fish for a fifteen-foot crocodile? They ate people, fisherman or anyone else __6___ enough to get too near; women doing the ___7__ , or children playing at the water’s edge. A hungry crocodile’s mouth 8____ over a meal with a sound like a gunshot. A big fellow can __9___ in a man in two bites. That woman’s husband crossed rivers 10_____ from one crocodile’s back to the next. I believe it. It had to be done 11____ before the creature could see what was happening. It wasn’t 12____ a brave, active man; and no doubt he __13___ with practice. He could never look back 14_____ crossing. The wife used to watch him--- I felt 15____ of that. She lived for the adventure, the __ 16__ excitement of it all. Their real life was with tigers, snakes…… It’s no wonder she wrote __ _ 17_ poetry. Then he 18____. I imagined how she felt. Was there another man 19____ him in India, even in the world? She was still young, hardly a sitting-room widow（寡妇）. “I must go, too,” she said to herself. So she did what she felt she had to do. A 20 probably, to her head. But her young son, their son? Was her love for him nothing compared to her husband? Well, what do you think