完形填空。
I was sure that I was to be killed. I became terribly nervous. I searched in my pockets to see if there were
any cigarettes, which had
1 their search. I found
2 and because of my shaking hands, I could
3 get it
to my lips. But I had no matches, they had taken those. I looked
4 the bars at my jailer (看守监狱的人). He
did not make eye contact with me. I
5 to him "Have you got a light?" He looked at me, shrugged and came
over to light my cigarette.
6 he came close and lit the match, his eyes inadvertently (无意中) locked with
mine. At that moment, I
7 . I don't know why I did that. Perhaps it was
8 , perhaps it was because, when
you get very close, one to another, it is very
9 not to smile. In any case, I smiled. In that instant, it was
10
a spark jumped across the gap between our two hearts, our two human souls. I know he didn't want to, but
my smile leaped through the bars and generated smile on his lips, too. He lit my cigarette but
11 , looking at me
directly in the eye and continuing to smile.
I
12 smiling at him, now aware of him as a (n)
13 and not just a jailer. And his looking at me seemed to
have a new
14 too. "Do you have kids?" he asked. "Yes, here, here." I took out my wallet and nervously
fumbled for the
15 of my family. He, too, took out the pictures of his family and began to talk about his plans
and hopes for them. My eyes filled with tears. I said that I feared that I'd never see my family again, never have
the chance to see them grow up. Tears came to his eyes, too.
16 without another word, he
17 my cell (牢房)
and silently led me out. Out of the jail, quietly and by back routes, out of the town. There, at the edge of town,
he released me. And without another word, he turned back toward the town.
"My life was
18 by a smile." Yes, the smile-the unaffected, unplanned,
19 connection between people. I
really believe that if that part of you and that part of me could
20 each other, we wouldn't be enemies. We
couldn't have hate or envy or fear.
( )1. A. lost ( )2. A. them ( )3. A. barely ( )4. A. on ( )5. A. gave out ( )6. A. As ( )7. A. cried ( )8. A. anger ( )9. A. easy ( )10. A. even though ( )11. A. went away ( )12. A. kept ( )13. A. stranger ( )14. A. dimension ( )15. A. cigarettes ( )16. A. Intentionally ( )17. A. unfolded ( )18. A. misled ( )19. A. surprising ( )20. A. like |
B. given B. it B. quickly B. through B. let out B. Before B. shook B. nervousness B. hard B. as well as B. dropped out B. stopped B. enemy B. suggestion B. bags B. Unconsciously B. unlocked B. destroyed B. natural B. expect |
C. escaped C. that C. possibly C. at C. called out C. After C. refused C. bitterness C. glad C. as though C. stayed far C. began C. opponent C. impression C. pictures C. Unwillingly C. uncontrolled C. saved C. different C. notice |
D. reached D. one D. likely D. up D. screamed out D. Until D. smiled D. sympathy D. embarrassed D. as long as D. stayed near D. forgot D. person D. concept D. wallet D. Suddenly D. undefended D. ignored D. frequent D. recognize |