第三节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项 (A. B. C和 D)中,选出可以填入空白的最佳选项。
My hearing is getting worse every day and I fear by the time I'm twenty-one I will be fully deaf.It scares me very much.
Being deaf affects me  21  you might think. I've met some people who have    22    at me because I have "ignored" them. But in     23     fact. I didn't hear them. In school I ofien get told off   (责骂 )  for
24      too loud, when in reality I don't realize it because I can't hear myself well.It makes me feel really  25  . I also can't participate in a lot of   26   ,like canoeing or cross-country, because it's windy outside and this may affect my ears. I hate having to use these
27     and I often feel like     28     really gets me , so sometimes I feel a little bit lonely.
I get questions all the time,    29    "Why are you deaf?" and "What's that thing in your ear?"Even my friends don't 1OO% understand. Today, one of them said to me. “So what's going to happen when you go   30     deaf?” It really got to me. What will happen when I go fully deaf? Will I have
a     31      life? I don't think l will.
Looking back    32    my childhood, I would say it was pretty much non-existent. It was full of hospital  _33     and operations for grommets (devices that let the ear breathe) - and to make it   34   I had eye problems as well! I ain the only one in my whole family who has any medical 35
When I was a child. 1   36   to wear my hearing aids. This wasn't because they made my ears sweaty  (出汗的)  like the doctors thought.
37  because I was ashamed of them. Funnily enough, it was a big computer store that helped me overcome this because a woman behind the   38  had her hair cut short to  39  her hearing aids. She helped me  40  my
self-confidence and now I realize it's okay that I wear them.
21.A no more than  B.  more than  C. no less than  D. less than
22.A shouted       B. glanced     C. laughed       D. looked
23.A false         B. ideal       C. real          D. actual
24.A telling       B. saying      C. speaking      D. working
25.A experienced   B. excited     C. ashamed       D. astonished
26.A jobs          B. activities  C. travels       D. situations
27.A expressions   B. comments    C. remarks       D. excuses
28.A everybody     B. nobody      C. somebody      D. everyone
29.A like          B. as          C. as for        D. for
30.A totally       B. perfectly   C. exactly       D. largely
31.A common        B. usual       C. normal        D. formal
32.A of            B. with        C. in            D. on
33.A arguments     B. agreements  C. statements    D. appointments
34.A more          B. less        C. worse         D. better
35.A troubles      B. problems    C. questions     D. illnesses
36.A refused       B. decided     C. failed        D. chose
37.A and           B. but         C. yet           D. but also
38.A screen        B. time        C. account       D. counter
39.A show in       B.  show out   C show off       D. show up
40.A hold up       B. build up    C. break up      D. bring up