三、完形填空(共15分，每小题1分)
One day last summer, my friend Rahim Khan called from Pakistan. He asked me to come and see him. Standing in the kitchen with the
36 to my ear, I knew it wasn't just Rahim Khan on the line. It was my past of wrongdoings. After I
37 up, I went for a walk along Spreckels Lake on the northern edge of Golden Gate Park. The early-afternoon sun shone on the
38 where dozens of miniature boats sailed.
39 I saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky. 40 danced high above the trees on the west end of the park, flying side by side like a pair of eyes looking down on San Francisco, the city I now call 41 . And suddenly Hassan's voice whispered in my head, "For you, a thousand times over."
I sat on a park bench near a willow tree. I thought about something Rahim Khan said just before he hung up, "There is a way to be good again." I looked up at those twin 42 . I thought about Hassan. I thought of the life I had lived 43 the winter of 1975 came and changed everything. And that made me what I am 44 .
45 we were children, Hassan and I used to climb the poplar trees in the driveway of my father's house. We would sit across from each other on a pair of high branches. I can still see Hassan 46 in that tree, sunlight flickering (闪烁) through the leaves on his almost perfectly round face.
Sometimes, up
47 those trees, I talked Hassan into throwing walnuts at the neighbour. Hassan never wanted to,
48 if I asked, really asked, he wouldn't deny (拒绝) me. Hassan never denied me
49 . Hassan's father, Ali, used to catch us and get
50 . He would wave us down from the tree.
(
) 36. A. knife
B. phone
C. book
D. cup
(
) 37. A. got
B. put
C. hung
D. cheered
(
) 38. A. land
B. water
C. boat
D. tree
(
) 39. A. So
B. But
C. Until
D. Then
(
) 40. A. We
B. I
C. They
D. It
(
) 41. A. home
B. job
C. land
D. park
(
) 42. A. kites
B. girls
C. babies
D. birds
(
) 43. A. until
B. after
C. as
D. while
(
) 44. A. today
B. yesterday
C. tomorrow
D. tonight
(
) 45. A. What
B. When
C. Why
D. Who
(
) 46. A. up
B. down
C. behind
D. below
(
) 47. A. in
B. on
C. at
D. by
(
) 48. A. but
B. or
C. so
D. and
(
) 49. A. everything
B. something
C. nothing
D. anything
(
) 50. A. shy
B. mad
C. happy
D. cold
