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，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
There are great doctors and perhaps it is enough to say that Dr Charles Mayo was one．  36 ，it is not enough for me．
Charles Mayo was not a  37  of mine in the sense that he would  38  by for dinner or remember my daughter’s graduation．We were not that  39 ，for he lived in Minnesota and I lived in California．He was a friend in the sense that he  40  more like a friend than a doctor when he was being a doctor．
I got very close to him just once．More  41 ，he got very close to me．I was flying my own plane to Washington and I felt a serious  42  in my back．It turned around，  43 for a clinic nearby and got in  44  with Dr Jan，my doctor．Jan at once said I had appendicitis (阑尾炎) and I told him he was the  45  doctor I had ever met．“I have no fever and any other symptoms of it．How can I  46 have appendicitis?”
“If you want to  47  better as quickly as possible，we’ll have Charles Mayo look at you．”It took Charles Mayo about thirty seconds to  48  to Jan’s request．
Charles was washing his hands when I was  49 into the operation room．I said，my
50  shaking，“You have done this before，haven’t you?”
“Of course，”he said．“Twice．”
Among all his interests he was craziest about being a doctor．He faced  51  often enough to know that while it is final in a sense，it is not  52  final at all．He enjoyed  53 too much not to know that it has a meaning beyond here and now．
54  he died on July 29，1968，at the age of seventy，following an accident，he lived on in the  55 of his books．I am glad he wrote them，giving people the feeling that we still have him．
36．A．Therefore         B．Actually               C．However              D．Besides
37．A．friend               B．teacher                 C．doctor                  D．workmate
38．A．come                B．pass                     C．drop                    D．stand
39．A．fast                  B．friendly                C．far                       D．close
40．A．seemed             B．looked                 C．found                   D．became
41．A．luckily             B．happily                C．exactly                 D．usually
42．A．trouble             B．pain                     C．worry                  D．problem
43．A．hurrying           B．running                C．waiting                D．heading
44．A．telephone          B．reach                   C．touch                   D．related
45．A．funniest            B．best                     C．worst                   D．oldest
46．A．possibly            B．necessarily            C．suddenly              D．fearfully
47．A．do                    B．think                    C．examine               D．feel
48．A．stick                 B．get                       C．come                   D．agree
49．A．driven              B．wheeled                      C．forced                  D．led
50．A．hand                B．head                    C．voice                   D．leg
51．A．patients            B．death                   C．dangers                D．diseases
52．A．only                 B．nearly                  C．yet                       D．really
53．A．himself             B．life                      C．working               D．everything
54．A．When               B．After                   C．Although              D．As
55．A．pages               B．papers                  C．articles                 D．Subjects