第二节：完形填空（共20小题：每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A, B, C, 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。
Hundreds of people, adults and children, come and go every day from the Kingsley School in Evanston, and police say that right now none of them has been eliminated(排除) as a(n) 21 suspect. 22 ,police have the weapon and detectives are trying to find out to whom it last 23 .
Investigators say that 24 Tuesday morning a few minutes before lunch a second grader found the weapon in a toilet in a first floor laboratory. It is a five-shot, 38 caliber(口径) revolver that was fully loaded. 25 the 7-year-old girl reported her discovery immediately.
“We’ve taken 26 . We’ve called the police. It’s being 27 . And we are concerned,” said Evanston School’s spokesperson Jan Roy.
Wednesday school officials sent students home with a 28 addressed to their parents about the 29 .
“At this point I don’t have enough answers and I would really like to get 30 ,” said Emily Gregrich, one of the parents.
31 parents who waited for their kids Thursday afternoon still had not 32 about the gun.
The principal conducted two assemblies(集会) to put to rest rumors 33 the 475 children who 34 the school. For 35 , the police investigation is focused on interviewing adults, teachers and nonprofessional staff members who were in the building the 24-hour period 36 the weapon was found.
“Where they were, what was going on, did they see anybody, you know, anybody in the school, anything unusual 37 , and we hope to 38 information through those interviews,” said Dep. Chief Joe Bellino of the Evanston Police Department.
Thursday afternoon the school district announced 39 to improve its efforts to communicate with 40 . It will make a phone tree Thursday night, and we are told the principal has invited parents who need more information about this to meet him here at the school Friday morning.
21．A．possible B．unknown C．strange D．unusual
22．A．However B．Later C．Meanwhile D．Still
23．A．given B．offered C．devoted D．belonged
24．A．after B．before C．early D．late
25．A．Suddenly B．Fortunately C．Quickly D．Soon
26．A．advice B．measures C．notice D．notes
27．A．investigated B．discussed C．questioned D．removed
28．A．book B．speech C．letter D．record
29．A．incident B．accident C．discovery D．gun
30．A．angry B．shocked C．less D．more
31．A．Some B．Many C．Any D．Other
32．A．heard B．read C．talked D．told
33．A．in B．among C．between D．within
34．A．attend B．love C．escape D．protect
35．A．all B．certain C．now D．example
36．A．when B．while C．before D．after
37．A．goes on B．went on C．were going on D．going on
38．A．search B．develop C．prove D．check
39．A．news B．plans C．instructions D．introductions
40．A．parents B．teachers C．adults D．Students