Part ][ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each

blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully

before making your choices. 应ch choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding

letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the

words in the bank more than once.

During the summer, when I was a visiting poet at a residency out of state, an angry, confused woman

wandered into my class and said: "I have three guns and I want to use them." We all 26 . It wasn't

clear if she had the guns, but we each know that, when we teach in America, we are already in danger.

I was dizzy with fear. The woman, who later turned out to be a schizophrenic (精神分裂症患者）

without 27 to her medications, was, by some force, wrestled out and 28 away, then put in a

hospital for observation, in a step that was actually safer for everyone than any one of us pressing charges.

My class went on; we talked about poems. But despite the fact that the rest of our days on campus passed

29 , I was rattled. I couldn't shake the sense that in this country we always live at 30 risk.

A few months later, crisis 31 again. While my husband was locking his bike to drop off our

3-year-old daughter for her preschool-aged day camp, a different woman approached. Swiftly and for no

32 reason, she bent down, picked up our daughter, and began to carry her down the street. It was so

fast and confusing that my daughter 33 cried. My husband, in a burst of speed, chased the woman and

reclaimed our daughter. The woman, clearly confused, retreated into the public library. A 34 of

homeless people who generally know the other homeless in the area said they did not recognize the

woman. The woman was so clearly unwell that when she was taken into custody she was incoherent.

Heartbreakingly, she called our daughter by the name of someone else's child. Each part of the episode

was hauntmg as it was 35

A) access I) network

B) apparent J) overriding

C) barely K) peacefully

D) dedication L) pre1>umably

E) escorted M) stifled

F) froze N) struck

G) incredible 0) terrifying

H) indignant