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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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Growing up for me was a challenge. I started out at primary school and was always asked by my teacher to sit at the 36 of the class because I was a fool.
I kept 37 things: I forgot nursery songs and spellings. I was the 38 of class jokes and I was all alone and 39 . I hated school, but my dad would hear none of it. He kept telling me I was a 40 , if I believed it.
A 41 around came one day when I remembered the 42 of the word “Cognoscenti”; a word all the other “ 43 students ” had forgotten how to spell 44 they spent their free time making fun of me. I wasn’t asked to spell, 45 I raised up my hand. So I stood up and went to the front of class, 46 23 pairs of eyes staring at me. My teacher grabbed her stick, ready to hit me if I’d 47_ . I wrote the letters, spelt the word and became an instant champion. Afterwards, I 48 and won, for my school, five Spelling Bee championships.
Secondary school had its own share of challenges. I was a tall kid and wasn’t good at any 49 , except looking. I loved basketball and tennis. 50 I held a bat(球拍), I was laughed at by my opponent. He 51 six straight sets(盘，局) without sweat and there I was, sweating like I’d run a marathon, whereas I hadn’t even 52 a single point. My dad’s 53 kept playing in my ears “Stanley, you’re a champion if you believe it.”
Believe it I did, because I wasn’t only good at tennis and basketball, I was an all-round athlete and 54 won both athletic and 55 scholarships to university.
36. A. front B. back C. side D. corner
37. A. forgetting B. leaving C. repeating D. using
38. A. cause B. inventor C. object D. course
39. A. rootless B. homeless C. careless D. friendless
40. A. champion B. fool C. character D. failure
41. A. moment B. possibility C. turn D. change
42. A. meaning B. spelling C. way D. form
43. A. polite B. dishonest C. bright D. absent-minded
44. A. once B. while C. when D. because
45. A. even though B. as though C. in case D. only if
46. A. for B. as C. with D. before
47. A. hesitated B. succeeded C. lied D. failed
48. A. presented B. represented C. requested D. proposed
49. A. exercise B. mathematics C. sport D. spelling
50. A. At first B. First of all C. The first time D. For the first time
51. A. won B. owned C. missed D. gained
52. A. reached B. seized C. caught D. scored
53. A. message B. information C. sentences D. words
54. A. even B. still C. almost D. nearly
55. A. economic B. historic C. academic D. financial
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
An artist in Oakland,California is using his skills to ________ the homeless．GregKloehn builds very smallshelters that mare life on the streets a little more ________．The structures offerthe homeless some safety and ________ from bad weather．Each little house alsohas ________ on the bottom so itgo wherever its ________ goes.
Greg Kloehn has ________atleast 20tinyhouses. Ona recent day，Mr.Kloehn stops at one to________ Oscar Young．Thetwomen ________ ．
“I like to help them．Sure．I mean it's________for me．，l like to make things，and do something that makesabig________on someone'slife．”
Insidehislittle shelterMr．Youndgets ________from cold nightsonthe streets．
“Well，it is________than living on the ground，to tell you the truth，because if it was________for Greg，I would be________on the ground．”
Mr．Kloehn also visits Sweet-Pea，another friend who________lives in one of the little homes the artist ________ .Shesays it．keeps her________ and protectsherbeaongings．
Sheila Williams says she has learned to live withless．“I’m living in one ofGreg’s houses，and I am________to thatman．”
TheKloehnhomeownershave ________wood andotherfound materialsforfuturebuildingefforts．
Don’t miss doing any good thing no matter how insignificant it looks．Although the roomsMr．Kloehn donated aren’t big，they make a big ________to them homeless people’s life．
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完形填空,阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
One day I was taking a bus. The driver didn't ________to start the bus soon because it was not yet ________ .A middle-aged woman got on. Tired and sad, she told her story ________, not to anyone particular. On her way to the station, half of her ________ was stolen. The other half was hidden under her blouse, so she ________ still had some left. A few minutes later, she stopped crying, but still looked ________.
When all the seats were taken, the driver started the engine. The conductor began to collect the fares. When she came to an old man in worn-out clothes, he ________ that he had spent all his money as he accidentally got on a wrong bus and now was trying to go home. On hearing this, she ordered the old man to ________ the bus. The old man was almost in tears as he________ her to let him take the bus home. The driver took the conductor's side and repeated the conductor's ________.
The woman was watching the incident. ________ the driver and the conductor raised their voices at the old man, she interfered.
“Stop ________ him! Can't you see he's only trying to get home?”
“He doesn't have any money!” the driver ________ .
“Well, that's no ________ to throw him off the bus.” She insisted.
Then she reached inside her blouse, took out her ________money, and handed it to the conductor. “Here's his fare and mine. Just stop giving him a ________ time.
All heads turned to the woman. “It's only money,” she shrugged.
She rode the rest of her way home ________ a happy smile, with the money she'd lost earlier ________.
On the road of life, the help of strangers can ________ our loads and lift our spirits. How much sweeter the ________ will be when we make it a little smoother for others!
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阅读下面短文，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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Number sense is not the ability to count. It is the ability to recognize a in number. Human beings are born with this ability. , experiments show that many animals are, too. For example, many birds have good number sense. If a nest has four eggs and you remove one, the bird will not . However, if you remove two, the bird leaves. This means that the bird knows the between two and three.
Another interesting experiment showed a bird's number sense. A man was trying to take a photo of a crow(乌鸦)that had a nest in a tower, but the crow always left when she saw him coming. The bird did not until the man left the tower. The man had an .He took another man with him to the tower. One man left and the other stayed, but they did not the bird. The crow stayed away until the second man left, too. The experiment was with three men and then with four men. But the crow did not return to the nest until all the men were .It was not until five men went into the tower and only four left that they were able to fool the crow.
How good is a human's number sense? It's not very good. For example, babies about fourteen months old almost always notice if something is taken away from a group. But when the number goes beyond three or four, the children are fooled.
It seems that number sense is something we have in common with many animals in this world, and that our human is not much better than a crow's.
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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My parents ran a small restaurant in Seattle. It was open twenty-four hours a day, six days a week. And my first real job, when I was six years old, was the diners’ shoes. My father had done it when he was young, so he taught me to do it well, telling me to to shine the shoes again if the customer wasn’t .
I was proud of working in the restaurant I was also working for the good of the family. But my father said that I had to meet certain standards to be part of the team. I to be on time, hard-working, and polite to the . I was paid for the work I did at the restaurant. One day I made the mistake of suggesting to Dad that he give me $10 a week. He said, “OK. How about you paying me for three meals a day you have here? And for the times you bring in your friends free soft drinks?” He the amount of money I owed him, about $40 a week.
I remember returning to Seattle after being in the US Army for about two years. I had just been promoted to Captain at that time. And full of pride, I walked into my parents’ restaurant, but the thing Dad said was, “How about your up tonight?” I couldn’t my ears! I am an officer in the Army! But it didn’t . As far as Dad was concerned, I was just 58 member of the team. I reached for the mop. Working for Dad has taught me that the devotion to a is above all. It has nothing to do with that team is for a family restaurant or the US Army.
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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。
I ran into a stranger as he passed by. “I’m so sorry!” was my reply. Then he said, “Excuse me too. I wasn’t ________ watching for you.” We were very polite, this stranger and I. Then we went ________ our way after saying goodbye.
But at ________ , a different story is told. How we treat our loved ones, young and old. Later in the kitchen, as I ________ the meal, my daughter walked up to me, very still. When I turned, I ________ knocked her down. “Get out of the way!” I shouted with a frown (皱眉). She stepped away silently, with her little heart ________. I didn’t realize how rudely I had spoken.
That night, when I lay ________ in bed, God’s quiet voice spoke to me and said, “While __________ with a stranger, you are calm and polite , but with those you love, you are quick to excite. Go to look around on the kitchen floor, you’ll find some flowers there by the ________.Those are the flowers she brought for you. She ________ them herself — pink, yellow, and your favorite blue. She stood there quietly and you never saw the ________ in her eyes.”
By this time, I felt sad and small and now my own tears began to fall. I quietly went and knelt (跪) by her ________ .“Wake up, my dear,”I said.“Are these the flowers you picked up for me?” She smiled, “I found them out by the tree, I ________ them in a napkin（纸巾）, just for you. I knew you’d like them, especially the ________ .” I said,“I am so sorry that I missed them today. And I ________ have fussed (大惊小怪) at you that way. ”
And she whispered, “Mommy, that’s OK… I still love you ________ .”I hugged(拥抱) her and said,“I love you, too and I love the flowers.”
Do you know that: if you die tomorrow, the ________ you are working for could easily replace you soon. But the family you leave ________ will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into our________ than into our families--- an unwise investment (投资) indeed.
Remember that ________ =" (F)ATHER" + (A)ND + (M)OTHER + (I ) + (L)OVE + (Y)OU.
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