第二部分：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。
Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches(沟渠) along the highway I travel daily to work. There is one particular blue flower that has always __21_____ my eyes. I’ve noticed that it blooms (produces flowers) only in the morning hours. The afternoon sun is too warm for it.
This spring, I’ve __22_____ thought that those lovely blue flowers from the ditch would look great in that bed alongside other wildflowers. Every day I drove past the flowers __23_____, “I’ll stop on my way home and dig them. Gee, I don’t want to get my good ___24_____ dirty”. Whatever the reason was, I never stopped to dig them. My husband even gave me a folding shovel one year for my trunk to be used for that __25_____ purpose.
One day on my way home from work, I was saddened to see that the highway_26_____ had mowed the ditches and the pretty blue flowers were gone. I thought to myself, “Way to go, you waited too long. You __27_____ have done it when you first saw them blooming this spring.”
A week ago we were shocked and saddened to __28____ that my oldest sister-in-low has a terminal brain tumor. She is 20 years older than my husband and unfortunately, because of age and distance, we haven’t been as __29___ as we all would have liked. I couldn’t help but see the connection between the pretty blue flowers and the __30_____ between my husband’s sister and us. I do believe that God has given us some time left to plant some wonderful memories that will bloom every year for us.
21.  A. reached            B. caught               C. moved                     D. touched
22.  A. often               B. seldom                     C. hardly               D. never
23.  A. thinking           B. speaking                   C. worrying                  D. wondering
24.  A. hands               B. clothes                     C. car                           D. highway
25.  A. particular         B. especial                    C. important                 D. stranger
26.  A. office                     B. department        C. branch                     D. institute
27.  A. should                    B. could                       C. might                D. would
28.  A. realize                    B. understand         C. learn                        D. receive
29.  A. near                 B. close                        C. tight                        D. deep
30.  A. friendship        B. feeling                     C. relationship              D. concern