完形填空（每空1分，共20分）When I woke next morning, I was dying of _ 1

完形填空（每空1分，共20分）
When I woke next morning, I was dying of _ 1 __. I seemed to have a hole instead of a _ 2 __. I dressed quickly and hurried down to the dinning-room. It was a big room with six tall windows and the ugliest wallpaper I had ever seen! _ 3 _, I had been told the hotel was not beautiful but that you were better __ 4 _ there than in any other hotel; and that was _ 5 __ I wanted just then.
The waiter came hurrying up. Before I came downstairs I had prepared __ 6 __ carefully for what I must _ _7 __. I had looked three times in my dictionary to make sure __ 8_ _ “breakfast” really meant “breakfast”. I had tried to get the right __ 9 _ and I had stood in the front of a mirror and twisted my mouth until it ached.
The waiter asked me _10__ I could not understand, but I spoke only my one prepared word “breakfast”. He looked at me in a 11 way. So I repeated it. Still he did not understand. It was 12 that English people didn’t understand their language. The waiter 13 his head and went away, but he came back in a minute and brought a tray with tea, bread and butter — enough to feed a small army — and went away. But I was hungry, and I left 14 . When the waiter came back I thought his face showed a little 15 , but you can never __ 16 _. What a waiter’s face really shows! In another minute he brought _ 17 __ tray with some bacon(熏肉) and some eggs. He 18 have misunderstood me, but I thought it was no use explaining to people who don’t understand their own language, so I just set to work on the bacon and eggs, wondering whether I could possibly clear that plate.
Well, I finished the bacon and eggs. I got up and made my way slowly to my room — at least five pound 19 . I never believed until then that any meal could 20 me, but on that day I met my Waterloo(滑铁卢).
1. A. hunger B. cold C. anger D. illness
2. A. stone B. head C. breast D. stomach
3. A. Therefore B. Otherwise C. So D. However
4. A. received B. fed C. cared D. eating
5. A. just B. what C. that D. why
6. A. English B. meal C. questions D. myself
7. A. speak B. answer C. say D. explain
8. A. that B. about C. of D. to
9. A. pronunciation B. meaning C. form D. spelling
10. A. whether B. something C. when D. what
11. A. surprised B. friendly C. puzzled D. touched
12. A. unbelievable B. true C. thought D. a pity
13. A waved B. shook C. bowed D. patted
14. A. much B.a little C. nothing D. empty
15. A. pleasure B. surprise C. pride D. satisfaction
16. A. tell B. guess C. design D. express
17. A. other B. another C. more D. me
18. A. should B. might C. would D. must
19. A. lighter B. heavier C. weightier D. more
20. A. hurt B. fat C. defeat D. please