湖北自考综合英语(一)试题(6)

　　IV．完形填空。将答案写在答题纸相应的位置上。(本大题共20小题，每小题0.5分，共 10分)

　　A．从下列单词中选择适当的词填空，每个词只能用一次。

　　clerk in looking news on spent

　　started took were which without won

　　Bill Grant was a famous American newspaper editor. He worked for the same newspaper from 1926 through 1968. He 51 as a clerk but by 1948 he had become the editor, 52 was the position he held until he retired.

　　Bill wrote his first story for the newspaper 53 the day the New York Stock Market crashed in 1929. Two of the newspaper’s writers 54 thirty miles away from town 55 into an airplane crash and the other was in San Francisco investigating Chinatown. When the 56 of the stock market crash came into the office Bill immediately sat down and write up the story. The editor liked it so much that he used the story 57 making any change in it. After that the editor decided that Bill should be a writer, not a 58.

　　After this first story Bill became especially interested in financial news, though he wrote stories on just about everything. In 1945 he 59 five months in Europe and wrote stories about the end of World War II.

　　One of Bill’s greatest moments came in 1946. A story he had written about the war 60 the National Newspaperman’s Award. Bill took the prize but gave all the credit to his editor.

　　B．根据课文内容在每个空白处填入一个恰当的词。

　　Two men walked slowly, one after another, through the shallow water of a stream. 61 they could see were stones and earth. The 62 ran cold over their feet. They had blanket packs 63 their backs. Suddenly, the man who followed 64 over a stone. He hurt his foot badly and called: “Hey, Bill, I’ve hurt my foot.” Bill 65 straight on without looking back. The man was 66 in the empty land, but he was not lost. He knew the way to their camp, where he would find food and bullets. He struggled to his 67 and limped on. Bill would be waiting for him there, and 68 they would go south to the Hudson Bay Company. He had not eaten for days. Often he 69 to pick some small berries and put them into his 70. The berries were tasteless, and did not satisfy, but he knew he must eat them.