第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的（A、B、C和D）四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
You may have heard of Osceola McCarty, an 88-year-old woman in Mississippi who had worked for over 75 years as a 36 woman.
One day after she retired, she went to the bank and discovered that her small monthly 37 had grown to over＄150,000. Then to everyone’s surprise, she turned around and 38 almost all of the money to the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) for a 39 fund for students with financial needs. Immediately, she made national 40 .
What you have not heard is how Osceola’s gift had 41 my life. I am 19 years old and the first 42 of an Osceola McCarty Scholarship.
I was a 43 student, and I was determined to go to USM. But I 44 being qualified for a regular scholarship by one point on the entrance exams, and a scholarship was the 45 way I could attend.
One Sunday, I came across the story in the paper about Osceola McCarty and her generous 46 . The next day I went to the financial aid office, and they told me there was still no money 47 for me, but if anything came up they’d call.
A few days later, I was going out with my mother 48 the phone rang. I was told I had been chosen to be given the first Osceola McCarty Scholarship. I was 49 !
McCarty worked hard her whole life, washing clothes by hand. Now that she is 50 , she sits most of the day and reads the Bible, that is, when she is not getting rewards. Every time I go to visit her, she has a new 51 . She’s even gone to the White House. She is so happy and proud. We have tried to talk her into getting a VCR (录像机) so she can tape the programs and see 52 on TV—she just smiles.
McCarty gave me much more than a scholarship. She taught me about the gift of 53 . Now I know there are good people in the world who do good things. She worked hard and helped others, and in turn she has inspired me to 54 when I can some day. So 55 I plan to add to her scholarship fund.
36. A. café B. buffet C. laboratory D. laundry
37. A. expenses B. profits C. savings D. wages
38. A. returned B. donated C. delivered D. removed
39. A. welfare B. project C. scholarship D. research
40. A. headlines B. customs C. sympathies D. doubts
41. A. affected B. formed C. disturbed D. ruined
42. A. designer B. receiver C. contributor D. reporter
43. A. considerate B. dedicated C. casual D. sensitive
44. A. advocated B. regretted C. missed D. avoided
45. A. normal B. wrong C. legal D. only
46. A. gift B. idea C. decision D. plan
47. A. left B. raised C. available D. enough
48. A. since B. before C. though D. when
49. A. shocked B. excited C. puzzled D. encouraged
50. A. retired B. dismissed C. promoted D. transferred
51. A. job B. hobby C. life D. award
52. A. everybody B. everything C. herself D. us
53. A. giving B. understanding C. receiving D. loving
54. A. give up B. give back C. give off D. give in
55. A. suddenly B. originally C. gradually D. eventually
On Wednesday afternoon Annie took the bus into town to shop in the market. For an hour or so she would walk up down between the stalls(摊位) at everything， bargaining and buying here and there. And then,after all the things she had been bought，she would the market for the streets of the town to spend another hour the way she liked best: looking in furniture-shop windows.
One Wednesday，she found a new shop full of the delightful things，with a inviting anyone to walk in and look without feeling they had to buy . Annie paused for a moment before through the doorway where she suddenly before a green chair. There was a card on the chair which : “This fine chair is yours less than a pound.” ! She could almost pay that out of her housekeeping money and never it!
Just then,a voice at her shoulder made her .“Can I help you，madam？”She looked round at the who had come softly to her side. “Oh，well，no，” she said.“I was just looking.”“We have chairs of all kinds on . I think you will find something to you.”Annie,worried at the thought of being to buy something she did not need,left the shop hurriedly.
A．sat B．lay C．attracted D．stopped
A．told B．said C．wrote D．printed
A．in B．about C．for D．with
A．Why B．Who C．How D．Where
A．afford B．use C．miss D．get
A．worst B．best C．least D．most
A．promise B．order C．notice D．form
A．out B．over C．up D．round
A．everything B．nothing C．something D．anything
A．stepping B．running C．looking D．pushing
A．and B．to C．then D．or
A．observing B．glaring C．looking D．watching
A．examined B．asked C．needed D．saw
A．enter B．leave C．search D．take
A．on B．by C．in D．of
A．wonder B．jump C．laugh D．wake
A．tailor B．policeman C．assistant D．customer
A．vacation B．purpose C．show D．fire
A．suit B．fix C．comfort D．seat
A．welcomed B．asked C．run D．persuaded
Personal computers and the Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.
Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care most about. I know this from personal experience.
E-mail makes it easy to work at home, which is where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren’t necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she’d been born before electronic mail became such a practical tool.
The Internet also makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do something fun, see a great movie perhaps-and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may tire of telling the story.
With E-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and address (="tell)" it to all the friends you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.
E-mail is also an inexpensive way stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use E-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children off at college.
We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of staying in touch. They don’t take the place of any of the old ways.
We can infer that passage is to ________.
A．explain how to use the Internet B．describe the writer’s joy of keeping up with the latest technology C．tell the merits(价值) and usefulness of the Internet D．introduce the reader to basic knowledge about personal computers and the Internet
A．spend less time working B．have more free time with his child C．work at home on weekends D．work at a speed comfortable to him
A．reach a group of people at one time conveniently B．keep one’s communication as personal as possible C．pass on much more information than the latter D．get in touch with one’s friends faster than the latter
A．Computer: New Technological Advances B．Internet: New Tool to Maintain Good Friendship C．Computers Have Made Life Easier D．Internet: a Convenient Tool for Communication
Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later. I am one of those unfortunate people who have sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get on my way there. When I was young I was so that I never dared ask strangers the way and so I used to round in circles and hope that I would happen to get to the place I was heading for. I am too shy to ask people for directions, but I often replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit that they didn’t know their hometown and will on telling you the way, even if they do not know it ; others who are to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long of directions which you cannot possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the direction. If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong but even this can have embarrassing (尴尬的) results. Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decided it was too late to turn back and him in the crowd behind me I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting. Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the man who had asked for directions to my office and his when he recognized me as the person he had asked.
A．good B．instant C．poor D．fine
A．lost B．disappeared C．stuck D．missing
A．brave B．nervous C．afraid D．shy
A．come B．show C．look D．wander
A．still B．no longer C．any more D．often
A．receive B．accept C．give D．import
A．advise B．suggest C．insist D．persuade
A．glad B．anxious C．interested D．angry
A．line B．list C．page D．paragraph
A．say B．know C．divide D．tell
A．right B．same C．other D．opposite
A．friend B．policeman C．stranger D．foreigner
A．direction B．advice C．answer D．road
A．direct B．tell C．take D．point
A．similar B．common C．usual D．general
A．noticed B．realized C．believed D．considered
A．look B．find C．discover D．search
A．when B．then C．while D．as
A．only B．certain C．very D．just
A．astonishment B．excitement C．judgment D．Embarrassment
When I was in primary school, I got into a major argument with a boy in my class. I can’t what it was about, but I have never forgotten the I learned that day.
I was that I was right and he was wrong--and he was sure that I was wrong and he was right. The decided to teach us a very important lesson. She both of us up to the of the class and him on one side of her desk and me on . In the middle of her desk was a large, round object. I could see that it was black. She asked the boy what the object was. “White,” he answered.
I couldn’t believe he said the object was white, it was obviously black! Another started between my classmate and me, this about the color of the object.
The teacher told me to go and stand where the boy was standing and told him to come and stand where I had been. We changed , and now she asked me what the color of the object was. I
answer, “White.” It was an object with two colored sides, and from his side it was white. from my side was it black.
My teacher taught me a very important lesson that day: You must in the other person’s shoes and look at the through their eyes in order to understand their view.
A．think B．suppose C．remind D．remember
A．lesson B．lecture C．class D．text
A．told B．wished C．convinced D．allowed
A．officer B．teacher C．doctor D．parent
A．told B．came C．brought D．woke
A．back B．front C．middle D．side
A．planted B．placed C．had D．fixed
A．the other B．another C．other D．others
A．happily B．fortunately C．clearly D．nearly
A．width B．shape C．color D．size
A．when B．unless C．until D．if
A．fight B．argument C．conversation D．game
A．time B．year C．month D．day
A．places B．seats C．attitudes D．glasses
A．needed to B．was able to C．hoped to D．had to
A．similarly B．differently C．beautifully D．surprisingly
A．Still B．Since C．Only D．Also
A．seat B．stand C．lie D．put
A．situation B．movement C．condition D．behavior
A．unexpectedly B．suddenly C．quietly D．truly
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。
Once upon a time there lived a poor man named Malcolm who hunted for his food. One warm spring day, Malcolm had been for many hours, and he was hot and tired and hungry. He hadn’t even a mouse. When he came upon a big tree, he sat down under its to rest. Suddenly he found a big ostrich (鸵鸟) egg beside the tree. He the egg and carried it back to his hut (小屋).
The egg was so white and round, pure and beautiful that he couldn’t eating it. So he put the egg on the table and went to sleep.
The next morning when he woke up, he was to find bread and soup on his table. He was so hungry, so he tore off a piece and ate it. “I’ve never anything so delicious,” he said aloud. Then he heard a voice answer, “It’s bread and soup I’ve made for you.”
He turned to find a beautiful woman standing beside the ostrich egg, was cracked wide open. “Malcolm, you are a kind and generous man, and I will make you for the rest of your life. me and I will always make delicious food for you.”
“How can this be? An ostrich egg’s cannot speak or cook or marry me,” he said.
“I will make you happy, Malcolm,” she said, “You must only this: you will never call me the daughter of an ostrich egg.”
“I promise,” Malcolm said.
And so they got married. For many years they lived great happiness. His wife brought him , goats and made him a chief. But one day, Malcolm got so that he was not with what he had. He quarreled with his . He said his wife was the daughter of an ostrich egg… And he was alone again, living in his hut, his old clothes. There were no cattle, no goats and no wife.
He understood that he had been to let greed (贪婪) and anger get the better of him and to break his promise to his wife.
A．boating B．fishing C．hunting D．swimming
A．caught B．removed C．bitten D．held
A．way B．fur C．poster D．shade
A．took up B．picked up C．put up D．added up
A．wait B．help C．imagine D．expect
A．exciting B．secure C．amazed D．lively
A．smelt B．looked C．sounded D．tasted
A．which B．whose C．who D．that
A．intelligent B．happy C．attractive D．popular
A．Follow B．Accept C．Admit D．Marry
A．sister B．daughter C．mother D．son
A．doubt B．respond C．select D．promise
A．in B．at C．under D．beyond
A．sheep B．pigs C．cattle D．chicken
A．puzzled B．greedy C．magical D．upset
A．satisfied B．surprised C．popular D．certain
A．daughter B．mother C．wife D．grandfather
A．in peace B．in a flash C．in danger D．in a way
A．wearing B．having C．preparing D．replacing
A．informal B．artificial C．severe D．mistaken
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