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54. A. sad B. solemn C. happy D. funeral 【解析】选C。这里选择happy，以便和上句中提到的slow和solemn相对应。 55. A. whistled B. sung C. presented D. showed 【解析】选C。whistle意为“吹口哨”，sing意为“唱”，present意为“表演”，show意为“展示”，只有present才能和improvising相搭配。 Ⅳ. 阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) (A) [2011北海高一检测] When Phyllis Naylor met a sick dog on a woodland path, she had no idea that this would inspire an award-winning book. A shy, sick animal came out at them from the deep woods with round, sad eyes. He eventually followed them home, and Phyllis nursed the dog back to health. Shiloh wheeled his way into Phyllis’s heart and into the pages of her famous book by the same name. Phyllis Reynolds was born in 1933, in Indiana, and she grew up during the Great Depression(经济大萧条). Naylor’s family was poor, but they had a wealth of good books! Her parents read to her until she was in her teens, and her father did an especially good job of making books come to life. He would imitate the voices of the characters in Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer to make reading an exciting pastime for his children. Each day, she rushed home from school to see if there was any paper in the trash(废物). Her family had a rule that the kids had to use old paper for writing or drawing. Phyllis would staple(分类) the sheets together and paste a strip of colored paper over the staples so it looked like a book. She wrote her story on the top of the page and drew a picture on the bottom. Then, she pasted half an old envelope on the cover and put an index card inside, just like a library book. She said she was “the author, illustrator, printer, and librarian, all in one. ” At 16 she started writing stories and poems for a church paper and soon she began selling stories to popular magazines. She was married at 18, but the marriage ended because of her husband’s mental illness. Phyllis later used her experience with her husband to write an adult n