II. 完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从文后所给各题的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Once upon a time, there was a boy who would go into the forest and gather food and herbal medicines (草药) with some of his fellows every spring. However, one year, a tiger  16  in the forest and no one dared go into the forest again. One day, the boy’s father became 17 , and the family couldn’t afford the  18  that the father needed. The boy decided to try and find some herbal medicines as well as some food in the forest.
It was a perfect sunny day. At first, it was quiet and  19  happened. But later, when the boy bent down to reach one more mushroom, he was suddenly pushed to the ground. A large shadow 20   him. He rolled over and looked  21  in shock as the tiger said in a deep voice. “You are my  22  . Say good-bye to this world.”  23  his sick father, the boy knew he couldn’t die. He quickly calmed down and put a(n)  24  into his mouth, and chewed and swallowed. Then he said, “25  you can kill and eat me, but I  26  you to know that these mushrooms are  27  poisonous. You can eat me,  28  you will die too. My family will  29 me and find you. They will  30 your stomach and eat your meat. Your fine  31 will carpet the floor of a rich man’s house and your tiger bones will get a good  32  in the medicine shops. My family will have enough for a year or more and I will be given a good funeral（葬礼）and long 33  .
The tiger hesitated. He saw the frightful mushrooms in the basket and  34  his appetite (胃口). He slowly walked away. The boy saved his own life with his quick  35 .
16. A. broke out           B. woke up         C. showed up        D. set out
17. A. hungry            B. ill              C. angry            D. mad
18. A. love                 B. medicine         C. care              D. doctors
19. A. anything            B. everything       C. nothing          D. something
20. A. covered            B. followed           C. caught         D. pushed
21. A. down             B. out                 C. around           D. up
22. A. energy           B. power              C. enemy         D. supper
23. A. Looking after    B. Thinking of       C. Bringing back     D. Believing in
24. A. stone          B. leaf                 C. mushroom       D. apple
25. A. Of course        B. No way             C. In the beginning   D. In any case
26. A. choose            B. wish                C. persuade         D. order
27. A. expensive          B. delicious           C. deadly           D. magic
28. A. as             B. so                C. but                D. because
29. A. look for            B. call for           C. take care of        D. get rid of
30. A. feed               B. open             C. sell                  D. kick
31. A. head             B. tail               C. paws              D. skin
32. A. price              B. seller              C. reward             D. doctor
33. A. understood       B. encouraged       C. needed               D. remembered
34. A. lost            B. increased           C. regained            D. forgot
35. A. skill            B. warning          C. thinking            D. word