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。
Cats have no emotions . At least, that's what my husband once claimed. I   36   that my two cats experience emotions. They feel anger, fear, and   37  . He agreed with me, but   38   his opinion that cats don't feel love.  39  , my tuxedo cat, Sebastian, would teach him otherwise.
When my next-door neighbor moved in, he had a she cat named Juliet. She was an indoor lady, always watching   40   through the window.
Then one day when I   41   my cat to the backyard for his playtime, Sebastian   42   Juliet gazing at him behind the window. It soon became   43   that they were attracted by each other. So every day there after, whenever I let Sebastian out, he would rush   44__to the backyard next-door and they would sit gazing   45   at each other through the screen, she inside, and he outside. Even my husband watched   46  , and he would murmur, "But cats can't feel love... can they?"
Five months later, my neighbor had to   47   because of work. My heart sank. I wondered how Sebastian would   48   to Juliet's leaving.
For months after Juliet moved away and the new neighbor moved in, I often   49   Sebastian sitting by Juliet's window, looking into the apartment   50   his lady. The new neighbor didn't mind having the "Peeping Sebastian" after I   51   his reason for being there.
Sebastian   52   the small area outside that window as his territory.  Other male cats were allowed in the   53  , but not near Juliet's window, which he guarded until his   54  .
Even now, when my husband and I walk through the backyard and see that window, he   55   me of the lesson Sebastian taught him... that cats do indeed fall in love.
36. A. argued                B. quarreled                  C. suggested                 D. discussed
37. A. energy                B. power                  C. strength                    D. happiness
38. A. referred to          B. prepared for             C. stuck to                    D. approved of
39. A. Therefore           B. However                  C. Besides                    D. Meanwhile
40. A. the environment  B. the sky                     C. her owner                 D. her boyfriend
41. A. forbade               B. prevented                 C. accompanied             D. left
42. A. called attention to       B. caught sight of       C. took charge of          D. paid a visit to
43. A. ambitious            B. doubtful                   C. skeptical                   D. obvious
44. A. secretly               B. straight                    C. quietly                            D. worriedly
45. A. lovingly              B. angrily                        C. hungrily                   D. greedily
46. A. in trouble            B. in sorrow                C. in amazement           D. in horror
47. A. settle                  B. travel                       C. apologize                 D. move
48. A. react                   B. reply                        C. reduce                      D. replace
49. A. took                   B. caught                      C. met                          D. sensed
50. A. in place of          B. on the basis of          C. in search of                     D. on account of
51. A. explained            B. requested                  C. blamed                     D. asked
52. A. discovered          B. reformed                  C. preserved                 D. marked
53. A. street                  B. backyard                  C. window                    D. village
54. A. birthday                     B. departure                  C. death                       D. arrival
55. A. reminds                     B. informs                    C. tells                         D. accuses