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第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为31-40的相应位置上。

A man in a black coat opened fire Wednesday at a downtown Montreal College, killing a young woman   31   wounding at least 19 other people before police shot and killed him, witnesses and authorities said.

Police dismissed suggestions that terrorism played   32   role in the lunch-hour attack at Dawson College,    33  scores of panicked students   34   (flee) into the streets after the shooting began.  Some had colthes   35   (stain) with blood; others cried and held tightly to each other.  Witnesses said the   36   (attack) started firing outside the college before walking in the front door.  Much of the shooting was in the second-floor restaurant, where students dropped to the floor and lay   37   terror.  Police rushed to the scene, hiding behind a wall as   38   exchanged fire with the gunman.  The officers proceeded   39   (cautious) because many students were trapped around the gunman, who yelled, “Get back! Get back!” every time an officer tried to move   40   (close).

Eventually, the gunman fell to the ground after a number of gunfire.