III. Cloze (20 points)
I’d meant to go to Miros that day. I’d packed my bag and was ready. The motor-boat__36__ in on time. The sky was cloudy, but the wind wasn’t too strong for the two-hour __37__. I stood at my window, staring at the boat. Then I lost __38__ of her, an old light-house partly blocked my view of the harbour. A dozen passengers were __39__ their way there. I was about to join them---when a man’s face __40__ at the light-house window.
This was strange, because the light-house had been empty, unused and __41__ for thirty years. It was stranger still---because I’d seen that __42__ before. I couldn’t place it but it was, or had once been, familiar to me. I opened my window and __43__ across.
“I know we’ve met before, but I can’t remember where.”
I __44__ him to open his if he could and answer me. He did neither. The face behind the glass __45__ motionless. Seeing him more clearly now, I knew he was not looking at me. He seemed to be looking upwards, __46__ the clouds. How well I’d known that face, sometime, somewhere!
I __47__ again. “We met years ago. Was it in Athens in the 1950s? I used to live in Plaka.”
He didn’t reply nor give any __48__ that he’d heard. I went back further, to __49__ I was in the navy.” Perhaps we met at sea during the war,” and that thought at once __50__ him to mind. Commander Leftis! He was Commander Leftis of course! How could I have forgotten? I’d saved his life once. But surely he…
The motor-boat __51__ her bell. I turned my eyes. The wind had risen, but she was pulling. __52__. Laughing, I called, “Now I’ve missed her, and it’s your __53__, Commander!’
As the boat drew away, the face at the window faded. __54__ minute it was there, looking up. I could see the whites of the eyes. The __55__ it was gone.
Well, I didn’t rush to the light-house. I knew that Leftis was dead. He died at sea in 1963 or ’64. But there’s one other thing I ought to tell you: the motor-boat never reached Miros. It was lost in a storm, with all the passengers.
36．A．reached B．arrived C．went D．came
37．A．voyage B．crossing C．travel D．boating
38．A．sight B．way C．patience D．chances
39．A．searching B．finding C．making D．hurrying
40．A．placed B．existed C．occurred D．appeared
41．A．locked B．opened C．rebuilt D．chained
42．A．man B．face C．window D．light-house
43．A．jumped B．ran C．shouted D．screamed
44．A．expected B．hoped C．believed D．asked
45．A．became B．remained C．seemed D．grew
46．A．through B．after C．for D．at
47．A．persuaded B．repeated C．tried D．continued
48．A．suggestion B．answer C．sign D．action
49．A．when B．which C．where D．how
50．A．kept B．brought C．caused D．changed
51．A．beat B．rang C．turned on D．put on
52．A．up B．down C．in D．out
53．A．problem B．question C．duty D．fault
54．A．Each B．Every C．One D．Some
55．A．next B．rest C．other D．last
