第二部分：语言知识及运用（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-30各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
The famous British inventor George Stephenson was born in 1781 and died in 1848. One of his most important ___21___ was the train. He made his first train when he was 44 years old. When he was experimenting with the __22___ engine on the train, he met with __23___ from the government, the newspapers and the gentlemen in the country. They said that the noise and the smoke would kill the cows, horses and sheep, that the engine would burst or that the hot coals from it would set fire to their houses. At that time, most people believed what they said.
