二、 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

　　请阅读下面两篇短文，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。

A

　　I like to feed pigeons on my balcony. Whatever happens, the birds always greet the mornings in the same way. Watching them is   16    for me.

　　The other day, one of the pigeons got himself stuck in my balcony railings(栏杆). I thought he was  17   . It made me so sad. When I went outside, he started to struggle. My heart was filled with joy; he was not dead but   18   from the effort of trying to    19   himself . I gently placed my hand under him and   20   him up to set him free. He flew up to the roof and watched as I put the usual seeds out. After his   21    experience, he came back down to my balcony and ate his breakfast with the rest of the birds.

　　I could not resist   22   the lesson that this situation brought me. Life is full of   23   ; some are very real, like the railings holding the pigeon back, and some are   24    but we struggle against them till we are exhausted. Sometimes the answer is with a friend. All it   25   is a little lift, a little guidance in the right direction and away we go, free again to soar just like the pigeon.

　　The biggest lesson is how the pigeon   26    from the situation. He didn’t sit on the roof looking down at the evil balcony that had tried to   27   him; he didn’t relive the frightening situation over and over again. Down he came to eat his breakfast and live the life he was meant to live.

16．A．puzzling    B．tiring         C．relaxing         D．disgusting

17．A．painful     B．brave          C．clever           D．dead

18．A．exhausted   B．discouraged    C．disappointed      D．unconscious

19．A．hurt        B．express        C．free             D．feed 

20．A．gave        B．lifted          C．took             D．turned

21．A．wonderful  B．unforgettable   C．terrible        D．similar

22．A．sharing     B．giving          C．teaching         D．forgetting

23．A．laughters    B．worries      C．obstacles    D．opportunities

24．A．great      B．imagined        C．difficult         D．serious

25．A．means     B．brings          C．reflects          D．takes  

26．A．left        B．recovered       C．learned          D．got

27．A．kill        B．trap            C．scare            D．seize   

B

　　Considering the advances in robot technology during the upcoming years, Moravec says that robots must pass through four    28    of development before they rule the planet.

　　First robot technology must achieve the ability to    29    as general-purpose tools with software running at one million instructions per second (MIPS). Those robots will have the    30    of reptiles(爬行动物).Next, this happening into 2020, robots will have acquired brains capable of   31    300 million MIPS, which will give them the intelligence of smart mice. A hundred billion MIPS will be    32   sometime after 2030. By then robots will be provided by their    33    (humankind) with monkey-like brains.    34    , at the dawn of 2040, robots will    35    human intelligence and they will quickly surpass humans and challenge people for supremacy(至高无上) of the planet.

28．A．stations　　 B．generations　　C．results　　　D．experiments

29．A．serve 　　　B．stay　　　C．settle　　　D．appear

30．A．weight　　B．memory　　　　C．intelligence　　　D．sense

31．A．recording　　B．improving　　　C．dividing　　　D．processing

32．A．followed　　B．reached　　　C．corrected　　　　D．loaded

33．A．neighbor　　B．parent　　　C．creator　　　D．enemy

34．A．Finally　　　B．Luckily　　　C．Suddenly　　　D．Regularly　

35．A．collect　　　B．change　　C．discover　　D．equal
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