北京大学附属中学河南分校2013-2014学年高二10月月考（英语）
第二部分 英语知识运用(共两节,满分45分)
第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
On Sunday morning, January 29, the call woke me up. It was the president of ABC News. “Lee, Bob has been __36__ in Iraq,” he said, choosing his words __37__. “He’s alive but he may have taken shrapnel (炮弹碎片) to the brain.”
When I saw Bob in the hospital, nothing could have __38__ me. He was unconscious. His __39__ was swollen to the size of a rugby ball and a piece of his skull was missing. All sorts of __40__ were coming out of his body. His left eye looked like a dead fish. I tried to __41__ myself that he didn’t look that bad, that this was the __42__ and that he’d only get better from here.
There were many months of treatment __43__. Every morning I would head over to the hospital and check on Bob. In the __44__ that a mother uses with her baby I would __45__ to him. I let him know about the kids. I told him stories about us and some of our best __46__ together. I brought music and had home movies for Bob to hear.
One day when I pushed open the door as usual, I __47__. Bob was sitting up in bed, a huge smile on his face. He saw me and __48__ his hands in the air. “Hey, sweetie,” he said, “where have you been?” I tried to speak but no words came out. This was so much more than I’d wanted and prayed for, __49__ I couldn’t really believe it. My husband was __50__ and he was calling me. Half of me wanted to shout in __51__ and gratitude and half of me wanted to __52__ everything, how I’d been there day after day for months. I __53__ to him.
Bob was __54__. He had the best medical treatment possible and the finest doctors. But the most important thing __55__ to be the love that held us close.
