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英语 1.（2012海淀第二学期期末练习） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Education from My Father My memories of my father are slim because he was so sick in the last years of his life. But there are ___36__that I am often reminded of and which may have had some bearing on my love of ___37__. When I was small I was somewhat ___38__of lightning and thunder. My father explained it. The explanation was in __39___that a child could understand but was basically correct. I gained a better __40___later, but I didn’t have to unlearn anything. What he said was that there was electricity in the clouds ___41__it travelled to the ground like a spark. When it travelled __42___the air it made the air so hot that it ___43__. Then there was nothing where the air had been and the air all around rushed into ___44__the space. He clapped his hands together very loud,　 __45___to be the air rushing in, and said that makes the thunder. When I hear thunder, I can still hear that __46___. He explained why if it was cloudy in the winter the night was warmer than if it was __47___. It was one of those nights when the sky was full of stars: no moon, no town lights. But there were more stars than you could ___48__and they had color too. He said that if there were no clouds, we had no blankets and were __49___ to the universe. Our warmth was going to ___50__the whole universe. When there were clouds, they were like blankets and we were not exposed to the universe. I __51___feel on the edge of space on a very clear night. I am sure there were many other lessons that I ___52__but no longer remember.What I did __53___, in general, was that there were explanations and that the more I understood them, the more comfortable the world was to live in. I was not taught that there were __54___but that there was understanding if you looked for it. This may be why I have always been ___55__in science. 36. A. others B. few C. some D. all 37. A. science B. nature C. weather D. universe 38. A. sure B. fond C