第一节

第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

　阅读下面短文，从短文后面各题所给的四个选项(A、 B、C 和 D)中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Shirley Allen loved to sing and play the piano. She studied music in college and her __1_ was to become a concert pianist or blues singer. Everything__2_ when she was 20 years old. She became sick with what doctors__3_ was typhoid fever(伤寒)and she almost died. Doctors gave her medicine to help her get well, but the medicine__4_ her to become__5_ deaf. She could no longer hear the music which she had always__6__.

　　Shirley would never give up playing the piano, __7_ she did decide to change__8__. She transferred to Gallaudet University and studied English. In 196 Shirley graduated from Gallaudet and looked for__9_. She wanted to be__10_ and work full time .

　　For three years, Shirley worked as a clerk in Washington, D.C. __11_, in 1967 she was asked to work at Gallaudet University as a dorm supervisor(宿舍监管员). Shirley supervised young women who__12_ in the university during the school year. She also taught English. Somehow she found time to__13_ graduate school at Howard University in Washington, D.C. In 1972, Shirley received her M.A.degree.

　　Always__14_ a new challenge, in 1973 Shirley became a professor at National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), which__15_ deaf and hard-of-hearing students technical and professional training.

　　This__16_ woman became the first black deaf female in the world to receive her Ph.D. She made__17_ in 1992, when she received the highest __18_ in education from the University of Rochester in New York.

　　Dr. Shirley Jeanne Allen has traveled many roads and__19_ many rainbows searching for her dream. With courage and__20__, she never gave up.

1. A. job B. dream C. duty D. interest

2. A. disappeared B. stopped C. changed D. ended

3. A. thought B. agreed C. found D. said

4.A. allowed B. enabled C. encouraged D. caused

5.A. almost B. totally C. actually D. gradually

6.A. loved B. played C. performed D. remembered

7.A. and B. but C. so D. even if

8.A. attitude B. interest C. life D. career

9.A. information B. help C. a job D. an assistant

10.A. free B. happy C. confident D. independent

11.A. However B. Therefore C. Besides D. Then