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，从短文后所给的四个选项（A、B、C和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。
Reginald Andrews had been out of work for more than a year．This   36   father of five children had deeply known his   37   of family heartaches．A few years earlier, his sister Kedra had been shot in the   38   by a young man who robbed the place where she was working．The young man was caught, but Kedra   39   her sight．As a result of his sister’s   40  , Mr．Andrews cared about blind people.
On December 20, 2001, Mr．Andrews was waiting for a train in New York City．The train pulled into the station and stopped．Andrews was getting ready to get   41   the train when something   42   happened．An old blind man, who had   43   the space between two carriages for a door while   44   his way with a stick, suddenly fell   45   the train．Seeing this, Andrews quickly jumped down to the tracks and   46   the blind man to safety．He   47   all the people on the spot with his courage．The news rapidly   48   all over the country．Messages began to pour in．Some people   49   sent money and food to Andrews.
Andrews had been at the station   50   he was returning from a job talk．He probably would have been hired, and the public praise made it a   51   thing.
Andrews, however, received   52   attention from the public after about a week of newspaper stories and active   53   to his family．Although most people supposed that the story had come to a happy end, it didn’t quite happen that way．Andrews   54   start his new job, but the factory moved to New Jersey．Andrews didn’t have any way to get to work, so he had to leave．It wasn’t long before he was   55   to job hunting again．Few newspapers, however, would tell their readers what happened to Mr．Andrews after he became a hero.
36．A．homeless  B．careless     C．friendless  D．jobless
37．A．truth B．share C．danger      D．delay
38．A．arm   B．leg    C．face   D．stomach
39．A．lost   B．hurt   C．kept  D．destroyed
40．A．age   B．death C．problems  D．shortcoming
41．A．on     B．to      C．off    D．up
42．A．disappointed    B．important  C．funny       D．unexpected
43．A．chosen     B．reached     C．mistaken   D．forgotten
44．A．forcing     B．feeling      C．leading     D．touching
45．A．into B．from C．under       D．off
46．A．threw       B．pushed      C．drove       D．pulled
47．A．shocked    B．frightened C．impressed D．left
48．A．grew B．brought    C．carried      D．spread
49．A．yet    B．even  C．still   D．ever
50．A．though     B．before      C．because     D．till
51．A．sure  B．correct      C．popular     D．necessary
52．A．close B．little  C．much D．enough
53．A．help  B．ideas C．reading     D．reports
54．A．might       B．could C．would       D．did
55．A．ready       B．about C．back  D．worried