40．E　考查学生上下文顺承关系的理解能力。根据本句上下文可知，此处阐述的是有关使用筷子的礼仪，可知答案为E。

　　第三部分　英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

　　第一节　完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

　　阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

　　(2016·潍坊市高三期中考试试题)

　　The day before Mother's Day this year，police received a call from Doris，a heavy－hearted wife.Her husband Melvyn，who suffers Alzheimer's disease，had gone __41__ from the Little Rock，Arkansas home.

　　Police found Melvyn two blocks from their home，unable to tell officers where he __42__.However，as to where he was going，he wasn't __43__： he was buying his __44__ flowers for Mother's Day，as he had every year since she gave birth to their first child.

　　Melvyn's condition has been slowly __45__ since he was diagnosed with the disease three years ago.His wife has become her husband's carer，watching __46__ as the cruel disease __47__ her husband's memories and personality away from him.

　　Officers intended to take the elderly man straight home—but Melvyn was having __48__ of that.“He was pretty __49__.”Officer Troy told CBS，“he wasn't going home __50__ he got those flowers.”So the officers decided to lend him a __51__，secretly stopping in at a local supermarket and helping him __52__ a bunch of beautiful cream－colored roses.“I didn't have a __53__；we had to get those flowers，”Officer Troy says.The __54__ officers even secretly slipped the cashier some extra cash when Melvyn couldn't __55__ the bill.

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