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，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I’ve spent most of my career as a traveling salesman, and so I know that __36__ is an occupational disease. But one year, my __37__ gave me the cure for my homesickness.

It had black bright eyes, a red bow tie and orange feet--- a stuffed penguin that __38__ about five inches tall. Attached to its left wing __39__ a little sign with the hand-painted declaration “ I Love My Dad!”. I immediately __40__ the penguin on my table.

On my next trip, I put the __41__ in my suitcase. That night when I called home, my daughter Jeanine was __42__ because the penguin had disappeared. “ Honey, he’s here with me,” I explained, “ I brought him __43__”.

__44__, the penguin came with me--- as necessary as my briefcase. And we __45__ along the way. In Albuquerque, I checked into a __46__, dropped my bag and ran to a meeting. When I returned, the maid had __47__ the bed and stood the penguin on the pillow.

One night, I discovered the penguin __48__, and after a mad phone call, I learned I’d __49__ it in my previous hotel room, __50__ it had been rescued by a maid. I __51__ a hundred miles to get it, and when I arrived at midnight, the penguin was waiting at the front desk. In the hotel lobby (大厅), other tired business travelers were __52__ at the reunion of my penguin and me --- I think with a touch of __53__.

Jeanine is in college now, and I don’t travel __54__. The penguin sits on my table, a reminder that love is a wonderful traveling companion. All those years on __55__, it was the one thing I never left home without.

36. A. cold B. hunger C. loneliness D. fever

37. A. boy B. daughter C. friend D. mother

38. A. stood B. lay C. jumped D. climbed

39. A. wrote B. turned C. was D. had

40. A. threw B. lost C. gave D. placed

41. A. bear B. penguin C. dog D. rabbit

42. A. upset B. happy C. glad D. excited

43. A. up B. off C. along D. down

44. A. From now on B. In the future C. In future D. From then on

45. A. had friends B. had friend C. made friends D. made friend

46. A. school B. hotel C. shop D. supermarket

47. A. given B. turned C. made D. carried

48. A. sleeping B. going C. living D. missing

49. A. forget B. left C. ordered D. sent

50. A. there B. when C. where D. how

51. A. ran B. walked C. hurried D. drove

52. A. surprised B. frightened C. looked D. laughed

53. A. anger B. envy C. sadness D. illness

54. A. as many B. as seldom C. so little D. as much

55. A. the hotel B. the meeting C. the road D. the house