吉林省吉林市第五十五中学2014-2015学年度高二下学期期中考试 英语试题（2015.05）
第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分, 满分30分）
阅读下面的短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Mr. Cronin has a clock shop in the center of the town. He tries his best to 21 it well. He often receives the customers(顾客) 22 and people like to buy 23 in his shop.
It was a cold day and 24 people would go out to do some _25_. Mr. Black, one of Mr. Cronin’s_26_, came to the shop. He knew the man was_27_ his miserliness (吝啬). But he tried to persuade (说服) him to buy a watch in his shop.
“You’d better buy a watch for 28 _, Mr. Black,” said Mr. Cronin. “It’ll be _29_ to you whenever.”
“No, no,” said Mr. Black. “I’ll _30_need any watches.”
“But how do you know when it’s time to _31_?”
“The people who live around me always _32_ their televisions at seven for the news. So I can hear the announcer(播音员) say, “ The time is seven o’clock.. Here is the news.”
“But you don’t know when to go to work.”
“That’s _33_,” Mr. Black said with a smile. “It takes me ten minutes to _34_ and shave（刮脸）. I have breakfast at twenty past seven. I get to the bus stop at twenty to eight and fifteen minutes later arrive at my office and _35_ working.”
“When do you _36_ your office, then?”
“There’s a _37_ near it, its siren(汽笛) can tell me the right time.”
“How do you know the time if you _38_ in the middle of the night?”
“I always put a stick by my bed”
“But a stick can’t tell you the time”
“You’re _39_. But I can use it to knock on your wall. You always _40_, “What are you knocking on my wall for at two in the night?”
21. A. watch B. build C. manage D repair
22. A. warmly B. luckily C. simply D. coldly
23. A. everything B. something C nothing D. anything
24. A. many B. few C. plenty of D. most
25. A. work B. shopping C. reading D. fishing
26. A workmates B. friends C. classmates D. neighbors
27. A. famous for B. good at C. proud of D. fond of
