完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项。
Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we ____36___ realize that those challenges are the very things that ____37___ us and make us who we are, it is the same with the challenges that come with ____38____.
When we are faced with a challenge, we usually have two ____39____. We can try to beat it off, or we can decide that the thing ____40____ the challenge isn’t worth the ____41____ and call it quits. Although there are certainly ____42____ when calling it quits is the right thing to do, in most _____43____ all that is needed is ____44____ and communication.
When we are committed to something, it means that no matter how ____45____ or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to ____46____ it and work it through instead of running away from it. Communication is making a ____47____ for discussion and talking about how you feel as opposed to just saying what the other person did wrong. ____48____ you can say to a friend, “I got my feelings hurt,” ____49____ “You hurt my feelings,” you are going to be able to solve the problem much faster.
In dealing with many challenges that friendship will bring to you, try to see them for ___50___ they are: small hurdles you need to jump or __51____ on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is _____52____ to get over, and hurt only ___53___ to make us stronger. It’s all part of growing up, it _____54____ to everyone, and some day you will _____55____ all of this and say, “Hard as it was, it made me who I am today. And that is a good thing.”
36．A．seem to             B．come to             C．hope to              D．try to
37．A．design                B．promote            C．direct                  D．shape
38．A．confidence        B．pressure            C．friendship          D．difficulty
39．A．opportunities   B．expectations    C．choices               D．aspects
40．A．demanding        B．deserving          C．predicting          D．presenting
41．A．comment                    B．loss                     C．trouble               D．expense
42．A．spans                  B．times                  C．dates                  D．ages
43．A．cases                  B．fields                   C．parts                   D．occasions
44．A．assessment      B．commitment    C．encouragement D．adjustment
45．A．doubtful             B．shameful           C．harmful              D．painful
46．A．keep                    B．control                         C．face                              D．catch
47．A．space                  B．plan                              C．topic                             D．room
48．A．If                          B．As                                 C．While                           D．Unless
49．A．other than         B．rather than                C．or rather                     D．or else
50．A．what                   B．who                              C．where                          D．which
51．A．pass by               B．come across              C．get through                D．run over
52．A．unnecessary     B．necessary                   C．impossible                  D．possible
53．A．serves                B．means                         C．aims                             D．attempts
54．A．opens                 B．appeals                       C．goes                             D．happens
55．A．look down on    B．look back on               C．look forward to         D．look up to