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，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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。
My father and I were standing at the top of a church tower. He  31  me to this place in a small Italian town not far from our home in Rome. I  32  why he did so.
“Look down, Elsa,” Father said to me. I looked down and  33  the square in the centre of the village and I saw many turning streets  34  to the square.
“ See, my dear. There is more than one  35  to the square. Life is like that. If you can’t get to the place   36   you want to go by one road,  37  another,” he said to me.
Now I  38  why I was there. My father wanted to tell me how to  39  and deal with the difficulties.
In the years that  40  I often remembered the lesson Fathere taught me. I knew where I wanted to go in  41 . I wanted to be a fashion  42 . And on the way to my first small success I found the road  43 . What could I do ? Accept the failure? Or use my imagination and wisdom to find another road to my  44 ?
I had come to Paris, the  45  of the world of fashion , with some clothes I  46 . But none of the famous fashion designers seemed  47  in them. Then one day I met a friend who was wearig a very beautiful sweater. It had a lovely and  48  stitch (针法).
“Did you knit that sweater ?” I asked her.
“No,”she answered. “ It was done by a woman here in Paris.”
“ What an interesting stitch !” I continued.
My friend had an  49 . “The woman’s name is Mrs Vidian    she learned the stitch in Armenia, her motherland.”
Suddenly a good idea  50  me. why not open my own house of fashin? Why not design, make and sell clothes? I would do it, and I would begin with a sweater.
31. A . carried       B. got        C. took      D. brought
32. A. doubted          B. guessed      C. wondered   D. knew
33. A. saw         B. realized      C. noticed       D. observed
34. A. going      B. leading       C. turning       D. directing
35. A. path        B. method      C. road       D. way
36. A. why        B. which     C. where     D. when
37. A. attempt     B. experiment C. manage      D. try
38. A. imagined     B. supposed    C. witnessed   D. understood
39. A. face         B. handle     C. settle      D. solve
40. A. approached  B. caught     C. followed    D. wasted
41. A. life              B. class      C. work      D. heart
42. A. seller       B. worker          C. teacher       D. designer
43. A. blocked          B. approved    C. passed     D. smoothed
44. A. comfort          B. intelligence C. failure     D. success
45. A. country     B. attraction    C. centre     D. capital
46. A. designed      B. performed  C. recommended    D. chose
47. A. buried     B. occupied    C. absorbed    D. interested
48. A. unusual     B. perfect          C. ordinary     D. rough
49. A. reason     B. explanation C. description D. cause
50. A. thought     B. entered       C. came      D. struck