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，从短文后所给的四个选项（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。
I was 15 when I walked into McCarley' s Bookstore in Ashland. As I was looking at 36 on the shelves, the man behind the counter, 37 , asked if I'd like 38 . I needed to start saving for college, so I said yes. I 39 after school and during summers for the lowest wages, and the job helped 40 my freshman year of college. I would work many other jobs; I made coffee in the Students Union during college; I was a hotel maid and 41 made maps for the U.S. Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most 42 .
One day a woman asked me for books on cancer. She seemed fearful. I showed her almost 43 we had at that time 44 and found other books we could order. She left the store less 45 .I've always remembered the pride I felt in having helped her.
Years later, as a 46 in Los Angeles, I heard about an immigrant child who was born 47 his fingers connected, weblike. His family could not afford a corrective operation, and the boy lived in 48 , hiding his hand in his pocket.
I 49 my boss to let me do the story. After my story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the 50 for free.
I visited the boy in the 51 room soon after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his repaired hand and say, "Thank you." I felt a sense of 52 .
In the past, while I was 53 ,I always sensed I was working for the customers, not the store. Today it's the 54 . NBC News pays my salary, but I feel as if I work for the 55 , helping them make sense of the world.
36. A. maps B. articles C. titles D. reports
37. A. the reader B. the shop owner C. the college student D. the customer
38. A. a book B. any help C. some tea D. a job
39. A. worked B. studied C. cooked D. read
40. A. fit for B. pay for C. run for D. enter for
41. A. even B. yet C. so D. still
42. A. boring B. surprising C. disappointing D. satisfying
43. A. anything B. something C. everything D. nothing
44. A. in need B. in all C. in store D. in order
45. A. satisfied B. worried C. excited D. puzzled
46. A. doctor B. store owner C. TV reporter D. bookseller
47. A. with B. in C. by D. for
48. A. honour B. shame C. horror D. danger
49. A. advised B. forced C. permitted D. persuaded
50. A. operation B. program C. treatment D. action
51. A. waiting B. operation C. reading D. recovery
52. A. sadness B. pleasure C. interest D. disappointment
53. A. at McCarley's Bookstore B. in the Students Union
C. at the U. S. Forest Service D. at the TV station
54. A. difference B. usual C. same D. request
55. A. readers B. passengers C. customers D. viewers
完形填空
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
The other day I talked to a stranger on the bus. When he found out that I was from ________, he told me he had a good friend who lived there and he wondered if, by any chance, I ________ to know him. At the moment I thought he might be joking, but I could ________ from the expression on his face that he was ________ . I felt like saying that it was impossible to all the millions of people in Chicago I could have ________ with his friend. But instead, I just________ and told him that Chicago was a very big city. He ________ , and I thought he was going to ________ talking about the subject. But I was ________ . He was silent for a few minutes, and then he began to tell me about his friend.
He told me that his friend's main ________ in life seemed to be playing tennis. He said he was an excellent tennis player, and that he ________ had his own tennis court(网球场). He added that he knew a lot of people with swimming pools,________ he only knew two people who had private tennis courts. I told him I knew several people having private tennis courts, including my brother who was a doctor in California---and, in fact, ________ my next door neighbor in Chicago. He said that maybe there were ________ private courts in the country than he realized, but he did not know of any others. Then he asked me where my brother lived in California. When I said Sacramento, he said that was a coincidence(巧合) ________ his friend spent the summer in Sacramento last year, and he stayed next door to a doctor who had a tennis court in his backyard. I said I felt that really was a coincidence because my ________ had gone to Sacramento last summer and had rented (租用) the house________my brother's. For a moment, we________ at each other, but we did not say anything.
"Would your friend's name happened to be Roland Dickwood?" I asked finally. He laughed and said, "Yes. Would your ________ name happened to be Dr Ray Hunter?" It was my ________to laugh. "Yes, "I replied.
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完形填空
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。
Our planet isn't in very good shape right now. The air is . The ocean is polluted. The problem we’re facing is really . It may seem like there’s so much we need to do, to make things right. And that’s the . We don’tneed to do more. we need to do less.
Let’s take a look at some of the we can use the power of LESS to save the planet.
Driving less, walking more. Not only will you be saving the environment, you’ll be saving your________as well.
Wanting less, appreciating more. Instead of wanting a big home you can’t afford, maybe you should live in a smaller home in a ________ expensive area.
Talking less, listening more. We usually spend most of our time ________ . And actually you would be ________ how much people never really hear each other at all. Think about how your life can be improved by ________people better.
Spend more ________ being mindful. We often ________ alot of time trying to do too many things ________ .We try to print a report and ________ on the phone at the same time. Doing this we run the ________of printing the wrong pages and saying the wrong thing.
Buy less things. The more things we ________ , the more resources we take from the planet. The more we buy, the larger that________ becomes. Buying new things isn’t really a bad thing. ________ is our desire to buy the newest and greatest each year or every few months that is dangerous. After all, that ________ thing has to go somewhere. And it’s probably in the landfill somewhere.
How can you use the ________ of LESS to help save the planet? I would love to hear your ideas.
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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（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Once upon a time a teacher and his student lay down under a big tree near the big grass area．Then ________ the student asked the teacher，“Teacher，I’m puzzled．How do we ________ our soul mate(知己)?Could you please ________ me?”
________ for a few seconds，the teacher then answered，“Well，it’s a pretty hard and easy question．” The teacher ________ ，“Look that way．There is a lot of ________ ．Why don’t you walk there? But please don’t walk ________ ．On your way，try to find a blade(叶片)of beautiful grass and ________ it and then give it to me．But just one”.
The student said OK and then he walked straight ________ to the grassy field．A few minutes later，the student came back ________ ．When the teacher asked the ________ , the student said，“On my journey，I found quite a ________ beautiful blades of grass，but I ________ that I would find a better one，so I didn’t pick it． ________ I didn’t realize that I was at the ________ of the field，and I hadn’t picked any because you told me not to go back，so I didn’t go back.” Hearing this, the teacher said，“That’s ________ will happen in real life”.
What is the ________ of this story? In the story，grass is the people around you；the beautiful blade grass is the people that ________ you and the grassy field is time．In looking for your soul mate，please don’t always ________ and hope that there will be a better one．By doing that，you’ll ________ your lifetime．Remember “Time Never Goes Back．”
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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（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
I had just picked up my new car, a very beautiful automobile if you’re into cars. A few months later, I was involved in an ________ . That new and very beautiful car was destroyed.
It was clearly not my ________ . The other guy was so busy on his cell phone that he went right through a red light and knocked into the passenger side of my car. It was even ________ because my niece was asleep on the back seat and her father, my brother, was in the front passenger seat. He was not ________, to say the least.
The police arrived and began taking statements. I ________ that my speed had been up to about 55kmph. “So you were going about 50kmph…” he said.
“No, I said I was doing about 55kmph,” I said.
“Right, so you were doing about 50kmph…” again he ________ .
In a slightly ________ tone because I felt I wasn’t being heard, I said: “No! I was doing about 55kmph!”
“OK, if that’s ________ you want it,” this time the officer simply replied.
I didn’t ________ it at the time, but I was shooting myself in the foot. My insurance company paid me for the damages to my car. ________ , I totally missed the boat on the other driver’s insurance company.
The city speed limit is 50km. I ________ getting 50 percent less than I would have from the other guy’s insurance company because I had ________I was doing 55km.
It suddenly ________me that the traffic policeman had been trying to help me out. He hadn’t ________ about the 5kmph; he had known ________ about the insurance that I had not.
I thought about what had ________ over and over again. I might have carried on insisting that I told the ________ , but I could at least have said “Thank you” to him ________ acting so rudely. After all, he had been trying to help me out.
Sometimes the ________ thing to do is to let other people talk while you simply shut up and listen. Never forget --- to ________ , you have to be able to listen.
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完形填空,阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A,B,C,D四个选项中选出最佳答案。
Once upon, there were two traveling angels who stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was impolite and to let the angels stay in the guest room. Instead, the angels were given a space in the underground room. As they their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel , "Things aren't always what they seem."
The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very , but very kind farmer and his wife. sharing what little food they had, the couple let the angels sleep in their bed________ they could have a good night's rest. When the sun came up the next morning, the angels found the farmer and his wife in . Their only cow, whose milk had been their only income, lay in the field.
The younger angel was very angry and asked the older angel, "How could this ? Why did you not watch out for the cow? The first man had ________ , yet you watched over his house," she accused. "The second family had little but was ________ to share everything, and you did not help."
"Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied. "When we ________ in the underground room, I noticed there was gold ________ in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so greedy and unwilling to________ his good fortune, I asked God if I could ________ the wall so he couldn't find it. Then last night as we slept in the farmer's bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I asked God if the angel could take the cow ________. You see, things aren't always what they seem. "
Sometimes this is exactly what happens when things don’t ________ the way they should. You need to ________ that every outcome is always to your advantage. You might not know it until sometime later.
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