完形填空（每空1分，共20分） When I woke next morning

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完形填空（每空1分，共20分）

When I woke next morning, I was dying of _1__. I seemed to have a hole instead of a _2__.  I dressed quickly and hurried down to the dinning-room. It was a big room with six tall windows and the ugliest wallpaper I had ever seen! _3_, I had been told the hotel was not beautiful but that you were better __4_ there than in any other hotel; and that was _5__ I wanted just then.

The waiter came hurrying up. Before I came downstairs I had prepared __6__ carefully for what I must __7__. I had looked three times in my dictionary to make sure __8__ “breakfast” really meant “breakfast”. I had tried to get the right __9_ and I had stood in the front of a mirror and twisted my mouth until it ached.

The waiter asked me _10__ I could not understand, but I spoke only my one prepared word “breakfast”. He looked at me in a   11  way. So I repeated it. Still he did not understand. It was  12  that English people didn’t understand their language. The waiter   13  his head and went away, but he came back in a minute and brought a tray with tea, bread and butter — enough to feed a small army — and went away. But I was hungry, and I left   14 . When the waiter came back I thought his face showed a little   15 , but you can never __16_. What a waiter’s face really shows! In another minute he brought _17__ tray with some bacon(熏肉) and some eggs. He   18  have misunderstood me, but I thought it was no use explaining to people who don’t understand their own language, so I just set to work on the bacon and eggs, wondering whether I could possibly clear that plate.

Well, I finished the bacon and eggs. I got up and made my way slowly to my room — at least five pound   19 . I never believed until then that any meal could   20  me, but on that day I met my Waterloo(滑铁卢).

1. A. hunger            B. cold                  C. anger                D. illness

2. A. stone       B. head                 C. breast                D. stomach

3. A. Therefore         B. Otherwise             C. So                   D. However

4. A. received           B. fed                  C. cared                D. eating

5. A. just              B. what                C. that                  D. why

6. A. English           B. meal                C. questions             D. myself

7. A. speak            B. answer               C. say                  D. explain

8. A. that              B. about                      C. of                   D. to

9. A. pronunciation     B. meaning             C. form                 D. spelling

10. A. whether         B. something           C. when                 D. what

11. A. surprised        B. friendly             C. puzzled               D. touched

12. A. unbelievable     B. true                C. thought               D. a pity

13. A waved           B. shook               C. bowed               D. patted

14. A. much           B.a little              C. nothing               D. empty

15. A. pleasure        B. surprise              C. pride                 D. satisfaction

16. A. tell            B. guess               C. design                D. express

17. A. other          B. another             C. more                 D. me

18. A. should          B. might              C. would                 D. must

19. A. lighter          B. heavier             C. weightier              D. more

20. A. hurt            B. fat                C. defeat                D. please