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第三节：完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题四个选项（A,B,C,D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并将答案写在答题卡上。
At lunch time one day, a week before her mother’s birthday, Sally decided to have a quick sandwich and a cup of coffee instead of her usual ___21__ in the college hall, and then go ___22___ near her college to try to find her mother a nice present . When she had been looking for half an hour, she__23__across a shop that was selling umbrellas cheap and ___24__ that one of those would solve her problem, since her mother had lost hers the month before.
“Now which ___25___ shall I choose?” She thought. “Well, I think a black one would be the most useful really. You can carry that when you are wearing _26___ of any color, can’t you?” So having made up her __27__, she bought a lovely black umbrella and took it back to the college with her _28 her classes finished.
On her way back home in the train that evening, she felt hungry, because she had had such a small lunch, so she went __29__ to the buffet car for another sandwich and another cup of coffee. She had ___30__the black umbrella above her seat in the compartment, but when she got back, it was__31__! When she had left the compartment there had been no other passengers in it, but now there were three.
Sally burst into __32_when she saw that the umbrella was no longer there.the other passengers felt very sorry for her and asked what was the ___33___. When she explained that the black umbrella she had bought __34___her mother had disappeared, and she had to get out at the next __35__ , the three other passengers asked her for her mother’s __36__, in order to be able to send the umbrella on to her in case someone had __37_ it by mistake not on___38__, and brought it back after sally had got out of the train.
The next week, Sally heard ___39_ her mother, her letter said, “Thank you very much for your lovely presents, but why did you send me __40_black umbrellas?”
21. A. meal B. breakfast C. break D. rice
22. A. skating B. hunting C. shopping D. swimming
23. A. set B.went C. met D. came
24. A. hoped B.decided C. guessed D. wondered
25. A. size B.length C. design D. color
26. A.clothing B. clothes C. dresses D. trousers
27. A. mind B. decision C. heart D. judgement
28. A. before B.after C. until D. since
29. A. upstairs B.along C. again D. near
30. A. taken B. forgotten C. left D. found
31. A.gone B. missed C.lose D. disappeared
32. A. cries B.tears C.laughter D. anger
33. A.thing B.wrong C. present D. matter
34. A.for B. to C.by D. with
35. A. shop B. station C. stage D. port
36. A.number B. hobby C.address D. card
37. A. made B. discovered C. brought D. removed
38. A. purpose B. watch C. action D. idea
39. A. of B. from C.about D.over
40. A. two B.many C.three D. one