第二节完形填空（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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I am not one who is frightened easily, but I must admit that one night I saw a figure th at really struck terror into my heart.
I   36   it was a cold moon - lit night when I was walking home. It was the first night of my whole life that I had been outside   37   at such a late time. There were   38  few people on the road at night. Even during the day, the road was used by only some. On that night, it seemed even   39  . While I was walking, I could hear some   40   made by creatures that love the night world. I moved really fast towards home. It was   41   because I was hungry. More importantly, I was eager to get back home for warmth. All of a sudden, I   42   an old lady in a short distance away. Her   43   was covered with a white cloth. She was   44   to me, I think.
I was a bit   45  . I wanted to know   46   she was there at that time of the late night. I stopped walking for a while. As I   47   there, stories about ghosts (鬼) began to come to my mind one after   48  . I was soon   49   fear and started to run as fast as I could. When I reached home I could   50   speak.
The next day, however, I   51   that place again to make sure that the woman was not a ghost but indeed a real person. But I could find no footprints there   52   a banana plant. I realized then that it was the banana plant with its leaves moving in the gentle wind that   53   like a woman waving her hand. I had indeed made a fool of myself; but after the   54   night’s experience, this   55   was small relief to me.
36．A．realized       B．recognized       C．remembered     D．reminded
37．A．alone        B．asleep          C．awake          D．lonely
38．A．never              B．often         C．seldom        D．rarely
39．A．busier          B．noisier         C．quieter         D．wider
40．A．noises          B．quarrels       C．songs         D．voices
41．A．completely       B．mainly         C．obviously     D．partly
42．A．made sense of  B．caught sight of C．got ahead of     D．took hold of
43．A．waist         B．leg           C．head         D．hand
44．A．smiling        B．waiting        C．whispering       D．waving
45．A．mysterious       B．cautious       C．conscious     D．curious
46．A．why         B．when         C．what         D．how
47．A．lay           B．sat            C．stood         D．walked
48．A．another        B．other         C．others          D．the other
49．A．addicted to       B．filled with     C．far from      D．short of
50．A．clearly         B．easily              C．hardly         D．loudly
51．A．traveled       B．visited         C．appreciated      D．went
52．A．over         B．without        C．than         D．except
53．A．felt          B．looked         C．smelt         D ．sounded
54．A．previous      B．next         C．last           D．following
55．A．invention    B．achievement  C．contribution     D．discovery