英语阅读短文.pdfVIP

英语试题 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，从短文后各题的 A 、B、C、D 四个选项中，选取出适合填入空白处的最佳 选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。 Charles Plumb, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was a jet fighter( 战斗机 ) pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was 36 by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb was 37 and spent six years in prison in Vietnam. He survived and now 38 about lessons learned from that experience. One day, Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant when a man at another table came up and said, Youre Plumb! You 39 jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier ( 航空母舰 ) Kitty Hawk . You were 40 ! How in the world did you know that? asked Plumb. I 41 your parachute, the man replied. Plumb gasped （倒吸一口气） in surprise and 42 .The man pumped his hand and said, I guess it worked! Plumb assured him, It 43 did — if your chute hadnt worked, I wouldnt be here today. Plumb couldnt sleep that night ，thinking about that man. He says, I wondered how many times I might have passed him 44 the Kitty Hawk. I wondered how many times I might have seen him and not even said Good morning, how are you, or anything 45 , you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a 46 . Plumb thought of the many days the sailor had spent on a long wooden table in the bowels （深 处） of the ship 47 working on each chute, holding in his hands each time the 48 of someone he didnt know. Plumb asks his 49 , Whos packing your 50 ? Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it 51 the day. Plumb also says that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down-he needed his 52 parachute, his mental p