第一节 完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21~30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My father believed that there was mysterious forces at work in the world. One day, when he was lecturing me on these tales, a neighbour woman suddenly entered, with two geese in hands. She smiled   21   and looked frightened.
“Yusef, I have a very    22    problem. These dead geese, they keep shrieking in such a sad voice…”.
My father turned pale. “But dead geese don’t shriek,” my mother cut in.
“You’ll hear for yourself,” replied the woman. And so it happened. It is impossible to   23    what I heard. My hands grew    24    and I wanted to run from the room.
Father was no less    25    than I was. He jumped away from the table. Just then, for the second and the third time, the shriek came again. “Well, I didn’t   26    it, did I?”
Suddenly my mother laughed. “Did you   27    the windpipes?” my mother asked.
“The windpipes? No…”.
Mother took hold of one of the geese, and pulled out the windpipe. She did the same with the other one. I was surprised by my mother’s    28    . “Now, try it again.” I was    29     to hear the geese shriek, but they were dead silent.
“There is always a(an)  30   . Dead geese don’t shriek,” said my mother. “Now go home and cook them for the meal. They won’t make a sound in your pot.”
21. A. nervously                   B. cheerfully                 C. jokingly                   D. surprisingly
22. A. simple                       B. sudden                     C. unusual                    D. interesting
23. A. remember                  B. understand                C. describe                   D. bear
24. A. hot                                   B. cold                         C. still                          D. hard
25. A. curious                      B. excited                     C. frightened                D. interested
26. A. mean                         B. notice                      C. design                      D. imagine
27. A. remove                      B. change                            C. break                       D. block
28. A. action                        B. courage                    C. strength                    D. speed
29. A. trying                        B. pretending                C. expecting                 D. preparing
30. A. fact                           B. truth                        C. method                    D. explanation