二、完形填空（共15题，每小题1分）
通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出一个最佳选项。
At a day care centre in Texas, Jessica McClure was playing outside. Jessica’s mother,  21.____    worked at the day care centre, was watching her. Suddenly Jessica   22.____  and disappeared. Jessica’s mother cried and ran to her.
The well in the yard was only eight inches across, and a rock always   23.____  it. But children had moved the rock.   24.____  Jessica fell, she fell right into the well.
Jessica’s mother ran to a phone and called 911 for   25.____ . Men from the fire department arrived. They   26.____  that Jessica was about 20 feet down in the well. Then they told Jessica’s parents their   27.____ . “We can’t go down into the well” they said, “It’s so small. ” So we are going to dig a hole   28.____  well. We’ll dig down about 20 feet. Then we’ll dig a tunnel(通道) across to Jessica. When we reach her, we’ll bring her through the tunnel. Then we’ll bring her up through our   29.____ .”
The men began to dig the hole on a Wednesday morning. Two days later, on Friday morning, they were   30.____  digging. And Jessica McClure was still in the well.
All over the world people waited for news of Jessica. They read about her in newspapers and watched her rescue(营救）on TV. Everyone   31.____  the little girl in the well.
At 8:00 p.m. On Friday, the men   32.____  reached Jessica and brought her up from the well. Then doctors rushed her to the hospital. Jessica was badly injured but she was still   33.____ .A doctor at the hospital said, “Jessica is lucky she is very   34.____ .She’s not going to remember this very well.”
Maybe Jessica will not remember her days in the well. But her parents, her rescuers, and many other people around the world will not forget   35.____ .
After Jessica’s rescue, one of the rescuers made a metal cover for the well. On the cover he wrote, “To Jessica, with love from all of us.”