第二部分语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16~30各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Mrs. Jones was very interested in singing. She had a good 16 , except that some of her high notes tended to sound like a gate, which someone had forgotten to 17 . Mrs. Jones was very aware of this 18 , and took every 19 she could find to practise these high 20 . As she lived in a small house where she could not practise without 21 the rest of the family, she usually went for long walks along the country roads whenever she had time, and practised her high notes there. Every time she heard a 22 or a person coming along the 23 , she stopped and 24 until she could no longer be heard before she started practising again, because she was a 25 person, and because she was sensitive about those high notes.
One afternoon, however, a fast, open car came up behind her so 26 and so fast that she did not hear it until it was only a few yards from her. She was singing some of her highest and most 27 notes at the time, and as the car passed her, she saw an anxious 28 suddenly come over its driver’s face. He put his brakes on violently, and as soon as the car stopped, he jumped out and began to 29 all his tires carefully.
Mrs. Jones did not dare to tell him what the noise he had heard had really been, so he got back into his car and drove off as 30 as he had been when he stopped.
16. A. voice B. noise C. sound D. note
17. A. close B. open C. repair D. oil
18. A. strength B. sickness C. weakness D. advantage
19. A. time B. chance C. person D. place
20. A. notes B. songs C. signs D. sounds
