第二节 完型填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

It was 20 years ago. I was driving home with my 4-year-old son. Traffic was light. I was singing quietly along   36   the song playing on the radio. I  37  at the intersection(交叉路口) and looked both ways. The road was   38  . I slowly started to make a right turn when suddenly a car rounded the curve at high speed and came 39   at me. I stomped (猛踩) on the brakes of my car killing the engine in the process. The speeder zoomed (疾驰) past my dead car  40  me by inches without even slowing down.

41   I knew it, a stream of rude words was flying from my lips,   42  after the car and its driver. I then saw my son who was staring up at me   43 . With a red face and a(an)   44  smile I started the car, pulled back onto the road, and headed home.

Later that evening I was reading a book when I heard certain  45  words coming from my son’s bedroom. He was replaying the   46   over and over in his mind. Too      47   I realized the   48   of those words that had flown from my lips in that moment of  49 . It took a lot of talks about good language and bad language with my son to undo (消除)the   50  of that incident.

That  51  , however, did teach me just how strong words  52   be. It helped me to decide to stop swearing (咒骂) in my own life and to start using words uplifting and    inspire instead. I slowly realized that language is a   53  from God and should be used to make our world better but not worse. I learned   54  that a few loving words can help a hurting heart, strengthen a   55   spirit, and lighten a heavy load. I pray then that all of your words today are full of love, joy, happiness, and light.

36. A. through       B. by           C. to         D. over

37. A. pushed up       B. forced up      C. put up       D. pulled up

38. A. clean            B. clear          C. light        D. busy

39. A. straight          B. hard           C. far           D. high

40. A. leaving          B. knocking       C. missing       D. approaching

41. A. Before           B. When        C. After         D. Until

42. A. seeking          B. chasing       C. hunting       D. looking

43. A. awfully          B. bravely         C. typically      D. innocently

44. A. embarrassed      B. pleased       C. surprised      D. worried

45. A. acute            B. accurate         C. unpleasant    D. marvelous

46. A. music           B. story         C. language      D. incident

47. A. sorry            B. badly         C. late          D. soon

48. A. power          B. strength        C. nature        D. potential

49. A. regret           B. anger         C. worry         D. fear

50. A. process          B. lesson        C. image        D. damage

51. A. accident         B. mistake       C. crash           D. phenomenon

52. A. should         B. need          C. can            D. would

53. A. talent           B. evidence       C. donation    D. gift

54. A. too             B. otherwise       C. or           D. however

55. A. challenging      B. struggling       C. rising         D. caring