二、完形填空 ( 15 小题,每小题 1 分,共 15 分) Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Rulth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up 1 from his bed and moved towards me. I could 2 that he hadn’t long to live, but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor. “Frank!”I cried in 3 . He couldn’t 4 , as I know, but all the time 5 his foot against mine. My 6 raced back more than thirty years to the 7 days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The 8 was a shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank. Sharing wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to 9 each other very well. Frank West 10 me because he wasn’t 11 , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he was not as 12 as a baby . His “ 13 ”consisted of rough sounds—sounds of pleasure or anger and nothing more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong and 14 woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank 15 on her entirely. He needed all the attention of a baby. 1 . A. happily B. disappointedly C. shakily D. unwillingly 2 . A. imagine B. guess C. see D. expect 3 . A. amazement B. astonishment C. terror D. excitement 4 . A. answer B. speak C. smile D. laugh 5 . A. covering B. moving C. fighting D. pressing 6 . A. experience B. memories C. thoughts D. brains 7 . A. better B. younger C. dark D. old 8 . A. cave B. place C. house D. scene 9 . A. learn from B. talk to C. help D. know 10 . A. needed B. recognized C. interested D. encouraged 11 . A. normal B. common C. unusual D. quick 12 . A. foolish B. naughty C. bright D. lovely 13 . A. accent B. speech C. dialect D. language 14 . A. poor B. kind-hearted C. capable D. easy-going 15 . A. fed B. relied C. lived D. kept