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第二节(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
    Since the day of its birth, the United Nations has been the subject of much debate.    16     Others think that it is too weak. We can better understand this debate if we learn more about the U.N. and its history. 
    The U.N. was started for two reasons. First, when the idea was born, people all over the world were tired of war. They felt that there must be peaceful answers to the world’s problems.   17     
    The second reason was that modern science had developed new bombs and airplanes.   18   National borders were beginning to lose their meaning. Science would develop even more dangerous weapons in the future. Only an international organization would be able to control modern science. 
    Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. President at the time, believed that the Allies (联盟) should plan for peace before the war ended. On December 1, 1943, Roosevelt, Britain’s Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin from Soviet Union agreed to start an organization for world peace.    19    
    During the next year and a half, the idea of such an organization was debated around the world. Then came the big day. On April 11, 1945, the first international meeting of the United Nations took place in San Francisco. The goal of the meeting was to write the U.N. Charter (宪章). All of the fifty-one nations at the meeting had their own ideas to offer for the Charter.    20    Every nation present voted for the Charter. No one voted against it. 
A. After a long debate, a final Charter was agreed upon.
B. The U.N. Charter is a beautiful piece of writing.
C. They asked all countries, large and small, to join the organization.
D. Even the smallest country on earth can have its voice heard. 
E. They also felt that only an international organization could keep world peace.
F. These weapons made it almost impossible for a country to defend itself.
G. Some people attack the organization because they think it is too powerful.
第二部分：英语知识运用（共四节，满分45分）
第一节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）                 
阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A policeman was walking along the street. In the doorway of a shop, a man was standing in the  21  light, with an unlighted cigar in his mouth. The policeman  22  and then walked up to the man.
“I’m just waiting for a friend here,” the man said “It’s a(n)  23  made twenty years ago.” The man struck a  24  and lighted his cigar. The light  25  a pale face with a little white scar (疤) near his right eye. “Twenty years ago tonight, when I said goodbye to Jimmy Wells, my best friend to  26  for the West to make my fortune, we  27  we would meet here again exactly twenty years  28  that date and time.” “I hope your friend will come around soon.” said the policeman,  29 .
Twenty minutes later, a(n) tall man hurried across the street. He went directly to the waiting man. “Is that you, Bob?” he asked. “Jimmy Wells?” 30  the man with excitement. “You have  31 , Jimmy. I never thought you were so tall.”
When they both looked at each other  32 , the man said suddenly “You’re not Jimmy Wells. Twenty years is a long time,  33  not long enough to change a man’s  34 .” “It sometimes changes a good man into a  35  one,” said the tall man. “You are under  36  now. Well, here is a note from your friend.” His hand was steady when he began to read, but it  37  a little by the time he had finished. It reads: “Bob: I was at the appointed place  38 . When you lighted your cigar I saw it was the face of the man  39  by Chicago police.  40  I couldn’t catch myself, so I went around and got a plain clothes man to do the job.”  
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