完形填空

    For me, two of the loveliest words in English are “Life persists”.

    I 1 them years ago as a college student, sitting in the library, 2 working on a paper. Out of nowhere,

those words 3 came off the page in a quote: “In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of 4 truth persists, in the

midst of darkness light persists.”

    Suddenly I wasn’t unhappy and impatient any more. Then I 5 my granddad. I loved to talk with him. And I was 6to hear what he’d think of it. He had poor hearing, so I had to7 it a few times, but once he8it, he laughed. “All I can say to that is totally 9,”he said on the phone. I told him how glad I was, after a long winter, to finally see spring and 10to find that quote. “Why is that?” he asked. "Well, spring is a sure11 that life persists. And it just makes me 12.”

    He laughed again, and then in his 13 voice, he recited for me his 14“spring time” words: “The desert shall rejoice(高兴), and 15 as the rose does…Even with joy and singing.”

    Many years later, 16my husband and I drove across a desert with many wildflowers and blooming cactuses(仙人掌), I could 17 hear my granddad laughing: “The desert shall rejoice."

    Life persists, and so do we, in the silence of18and the blooming of cactuses; and in the dead of19and the green of spring. Spring 20 us that we’re alive forever.

绿色开花植物的器官有（       ）

船夫的驾驶技术特别好。行船的速度极快，来往船只很多，他____，毫不____。不管怎么拥挤，他总能左拐右拐地____过去。遇到极窄的地方，他总能____地穿过，而且速度非常____，还能作____。两边的建筑____地往后倒退，我们的眼睛忙极了，不知看哪一处好。

依次填入下列句子横线处的词语，最恰当的一项是（  ）。

①灿烂的阳光当空，呼吸___________的山中气息。

②原来的红海上________出一堆堆墨蓝色云霞。

③我丢下了肉就逃，把她狠狠地_________了一声。