Ⅱ 语言知识及应用 (共两节。满分35分)
第一节完形填空 (共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Being probably the most complex female character in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ophelia deserves special attention because she is treated as a substitute for Stowe’s intended audience. Ophelia 21 what Mrs Stowe, the author, considered a widespread Northern problem: the white person who opposes slavery but feels 22 prejudice and hatred in the presence of a black slave. Ophelia hates slavery, but she considers it almost 23 for blacks, against whom she harbors a deep-seated prejudice. And she doesn’t want them to touch her. Stowe stresses that much of Ophelia’s prejudice 24 from unfamiliarity and ignorance rather than from actual 25 . Because Ophelia has seldom spent time along with 26 , she finds them uncomfortably alien (不相容) to her.
But Ophelia seems to be one of the only characters in the novel whose character 27 as the story progresses. Once St. Clare puts Topsy in her care, Ophelia is forced to be in 28 with a slave. At first she begins to teach Topsy 29 out of duty. But Stowe suggests that duty alone will not root out slavery and that those against slavery must act out of love. Eva’s death leads to Ophelia’s change, and she comes to love Topsy as an actual human being and not just a slave. She 30 her racial prejudice and offers herself as a model to Stowe’s Northern readers.
21. A. reflects B. supposes C. suspects D. provides
22. A. various B. arbitrary C. racial D. awful
23. A. impossible B. necessary C. unfair D. important
24. A. suffers B. differs C. releases D. results
25. A. practice B. performance C. experience D. application
26. A. slaves B. readers C. Stowe D. characters
27. A. increases B. disappears C. refreshes D. develops
28. A. trouble B. danger C. contact D. comparison
29. A. hardly B. merely C. specially D. properly
30. A. hides B. overcomes C. reserves D. prohibits