第二节完形填空(共20小题；每小题1 5分，满分30分)
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In the United States more than 80 colleges now accept just only women. Most of them were founded in the 19th century. They were set up to 36 women the education they could not get anywhere else. At that time 37 of the universities and colleges 38 only men. In the past 20 years many young women have 39 to study at colleges that accept both men and women. As a 40 ，some women's colleges decided to accept men students, too. Others still refused to change. Now the women's colleges are 41 again.
The president of Trinity College in Washington D. C said by the end of the 1980s women had come to 42 that studying at the same colleges with men and women did not mean 43 had the same chance to 44 . The president of Smith College in Massachusette said “A women’s college 45 women to choose classes and activities 46 . For example, if a woman student wants to learn maths, she will be given the chance. So the percentage of students who like to study maths in a women’s college is 47 than that in a college with men and women. ”
Experts say men students in the United States 48 have enough courage to speak in class. 49 , women students can't. In a women’s college, women feel free to say 50 they want to. According to a report, women colleges also 51 leadership ability in many fields. At a women college, every 52 office is held by women. Recent studies 53 that this leadership continues after 54 . The studies also prove that it is easier for the American women who went to women’s college to 55 successful jobs later in life. Maybe that is why this kind of college is liked by people now.
36. A. make B. elect C. offer D. call
37. A. some B. most C. few D. none
38. A. liked B. accepted C. attracted D. helped
39. A. chosen B. failed C. regretted D. hated
40. A. goal B. model C. result D. level
41. A. separate B. troublesome C. special D. popular
42. A. forget B. realize C. expect D. remember
43. A. students B. presidents C. men D. women
44. A. work B. visit C. choose D. survive
45. A. permits B. forbits C. forces D. reminds
46. A. obviously B. freely C. exactly D. immediately
47. A. smaller B. more C. higher D. lower
48. A. usually B. never C. sometimes D. seldom
49. A. Finally B. Therefore C. However D. Besides
50. A. how B. what C. when D. where
51. A. bring down B. bring over C. bring round D. bring about
52. A. governing B. cleaning C. serving D. booking
53. A. mean B. show C. warn D. conclude
54. A. school B. work C. graduation D. death
55. A. hold B. gather C. lose D. require
My grandma is good at gardening. She could make anything bloom(开花). _ __ me. In my eyes, she was inspiring and __ __. For most of her life, she lived on a farm, where she brought up four children, and buried my grandpa.
I visited her on weekends. After the gardening work, I was __ __ to climb the mountain, singing songs and gathering flowers. Sometimes the plants scratched me. She would say, "Beauty has a ___. I hope it was worth it."
"Yes, ma' ma," I'd say. "_ __ was."
I loved gathering flowers on my own. But what I loved best was gathering them with her. Even then, as a child, I knew what I wanted most from my grandma was not her flowers, but her __ __. She's been gone for years, but sometimes, when I __ __down to pick a flower or pull a weed, I see her __ __, not mine.
I thought I'd grow up to be a gardener too. I told myself, someday my children had children, I'd be a gardening grandma. Then the grandbabies started showing up, and I discovered 1'd much rather run after them __ __ go digging. Actually I'm no gardener. I'm a __ __, not a planter. I differ from my grandma in lots of ways, but this: I will always carry __ __ me a heart she made from her own.
I needn’t plant a garden. My children are my flowers. They delight and complete me with a beauty that is worth any price. All I need to do is __ __ them with time, water them with love, and hope that someday, when they hold their first grandchild, they might see my hand.
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Some people think if you are happy, you are blind to reality. But when we research it, happiness actually every single business and educational outcome for the brain. Why do people have this social about happiness? Because we assumed you were average.
Many people think happiness is genetic. That’s only half the story. When we stop studying the average and begin positive outliers — people who are above average for a positive aspect like optimism or intelligence — a different picture appears. Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its limited resources as you process the world. If you scan for the first, your brain really has no resources left over to see the things you are grateful for or the meaning embedded (嵌入) in your work. But if you scan it the other way round, you start to acquire an advantage.
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On my way to work every day, I drive down a street lined with pine trees. One tree in particular my attention. It must have suffered some . Part of its trunk grew nearly parallel to the ground, and then in an effort to its own course of life, the trunk took a 90 degree turn to stand tall and stretch toward the sun.
Each day as I drove by, I saw this bent but determined tree and I would be . It was a reminder to me that I may not have had the best start in life, I could change in the parts of my life at any time.
I was planning to stop one day to get a perfect of my kindred-spirit (志趣相同的) tree. But that week I was busy. After that week, I still didn’t take any action. Every time I drove by the tree I would myself, “Tomorrow, I’ll stop tomorrow to take one.” Then one day, as I drove by “my” tree, I glanced over, and much to my , I found a sawed-off stump (树桩) where that tree had stood. I had my plan until “tomorrow” and tomorrow proved to be too .
What have you been putting off? What would you do today if you knew you would have the opportunity to do it again? Why not do those things that you have been putting off until tomorrow?
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第二部分：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
Last spring, I was fortunate to be chosen to participate in an exchange study program. In my application letter, I was careful to how much I wanted to see France; evidently, my excitement really came through in my words. Once I that I was going, all I could think about was the fun of foreign travel and making all sorts of new and friends. While traveling was inspiring and meeting people was , nothing about my term in France was what I .
The moment I arrived in Paris, I was by a nice French couple who would become my host parents. My entire experience was joyous and exciting I received some shocking news from my program coordinator（协调人）; there had been a death in my host parents' extended family. They had to travel outside France for several weeks. That afternoon, I had to out of one family's house and into another. The exchange coordinator told me I'd have a this time and asked whether I could share a bedroom with an English speaker. To avoid the temptation（诱惑） to my native language, I asked not to be with an English-speaking roommate. When I got to my new room, I myself to my new roommate Paolo, a Brazilian（巴西人）, the same age as I, whom I was surprised to find playing one of my favorite CDs! In just a few hours, we knew we'd be good friends for the rest of the .
I left France with many , so when people ask me what my favorite part of the trip was, they are always to hear me talk about my Brazilian friend Paolo and the scores of weekdays in class, weeknights on the town, and weekends France we enjoyed together. I love how people seem so different, but end up being so . The most valuable lesson I gained from studying in France wasn't just to respect the foreign people to respect all people, for your next best friend could be just a continent away. I would recommend an exchange program to anyone who wants to experience foreign cultures and gain meaningful .
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A boy was walking home from school when he saw a large, tempting apple on one of the branches of an apple tree hanging out over a tall fence. The boy wasn’t much of a fruit-eater, ___ a bar of chocolate if given the choice, ____ , as they say, the forbidden fruit can be tempting. Seeing the apple, the boy wanted it. The more he looked at it, the ____ he felt and the more he wanted that apple.
He stood on tiptoe, ___ as high as he could, but even at his tallest ___ he was unable to touch It. He began to ____ up and down, as high as he could, at the ___ of each jump stretching his arms to get the apple. Still it remained out of ____.
Not giving up, he thought , if only he had something to ____ on . His school bag wouldn’t give enough height and he didn’t want to ____the things inside, like his lunch box, pencil case, and Game boy. Looking ____ he hoped he might find an old box, a rock, or, ____ luck, even a ladder, but it was a tidy neighborhood and there was nothing he could use.
He had tried everything he could think to do. ____ seeing any other choices, he gave up and started to walk ___ . At first he felt angry and disappointed thinking about how hungry he had become from his ____, and how he really wanted that apple. The more he ____ like this, the more unhappy he became.
____, the boy of our story was a pretty smart guy, even if he couldn’t always get what he wanted .He started to say to himself. This isn’t ____, I don’t have the apple and I’m feeling miserable as well. There’s ____ more I can do to get the apple. That is unchangeable, but we are supposed to be able to ____ our feelings. If that’s the case, what can I do to feel better?
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