中石油2011年职称英语31至40课完形填空仿真测试题.doc

通用英语水平考试f, for, up, before, above, too, to, into, in, on, through, except, that, other, like, as They sailed well and the old man soaked his hands 1 the salt water and tried to keep his head clear. There were high cumulus clouds and enough cirrus 2 them so that the old man knew that the breeze would last all night. The old man looked at the fish constantly to make sure that it was true. It was an hour 3 the first shark hit him. The shark was not an accident. He had come 4 from deep down in the water as the dark cloud of blood had settled and dispersed in the mile deep sea. He had come up so fast and so absolutely without caution 5 he broke the surface of the blue water and was in the sun. Then he fell back 6 the sea and picked up the scent and started swimming 7 the course that the skiff and the fish had taken. Sometimes he lost the scent. But he would pick it 8 again, or have just a trace of it, and he swam fast and hard on the course. He was a very big make shark built to swim 9 fast as the fastest fish in the sea and everything about him was beautiful 10 his jaws. His back was as blue as a sword fishs and his belly was silver and his hide was smooth and handsome. He was built as a sword fish except 11 his huge jaws which were tight shut now as he swam fast, just under the surface with his high dorsal fin knifing 12 the water without wavering. Inside the closed double lip of his jaws all of his eight rows 13 teeth were slanted inwards. They were not the ordinary pyramid-shaped teeth of most sharks. They were shaped like a mans fingers when they are crisped 14 claws. They were nearly as long as the fingers of the old man and they had razor-sharp cutting edges 15 both sides. This was a fish built 16 feed on all the fishes in the sea. They were so fast and strong and well armed that they had no 17 enemy. Now he speeded up 18 he smelled the fresher scent and his blue d