第二节: 完形填空（共15小题; 每小题1分, 满分15分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16-30各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳答案。
It was 3:43. Thunder was crashing and the rain pouring. Suddenly my father_____16_____into my room.
“Adam! Adam! Get up! We’re flooding!” he shouted and shook me by the shoulders. That _______17______me up! I ran downstairs to the basement(地下室). It was like a swimming pool.
My mother and I immediately started to pick up things and ______18______them upstairs. I had no _______19_______ on, so my feet were absolutely freezing.
Things got worse every minute. Within the next hour, we had moved ______20______that we could to the first floor. The computer, big-screen television and heavy boxes______21_______with our most valuable things were taken to safety. However, our piano, sofa, washing machine and water heater were all still down there-----being______22______. There was nothing we could do.
That was the ______23________part. Knowing that your home is being destroyed is bad enough, but realizing that you can’t do anything to stop it feels even worse. Most people don’t really know how sickening the feeling of being totally helpless is.
Water had come in our front door. Rescue_______24_______ were floating in our streets. Mother told me to pack an overnight bag of clothes and valuables and get ready to leave.
When it was______25_______ safe to walk inside, all the people in the neighborhood ______26______ at the street corner. People became friends, and friends became like family. People comforted each other. We_______27_______later that the National Weather Service had _______28_______ the storm a flash flood.
I really have learned something from this flood. I have learned what destruction is. I’ve learned what ______29______ means. I know in the future, when I watch people’s lives _______30_______ by natural disasters, I can understand them. I will show great pity on them and I will do what I can to help them.
16. A. rushed B. climbed C. fell D. looked
17. A. showed B. phoned C. dressed D. woke
18. A. take B. catch C. help D. make
19. A. hat B. shoes C. jacket D. glasses
20. A. something B. nothing C. anything D. everything
21. A. covered B. crowded C. filled D. fixed
22. A. discovered B. arranged C. measured D. destroyed
23. A. hardest B. longest C. earliest D. smallest
24. A. ships B. boats C. cars D. buses
25.A. usually B. finally C. exactly D. certainly
26.A. restored B. developed C. gathered D. recovered
27. A. learned B. realized C. thought D. concluded
28. A. made B. appointed C. declared D. elected
29. A. truth B. safety C. value D. regret
30. A. shared B. rescued C. risked D. affected
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸(卡)上将该项涂黑。
A little boy wanted to meet God. He thought it was a long trip to where God lived, he packed his suitcase with lots of food and drinks and he started his .
When he had gone about three blocks, he an elderly man. The boy sat down next to him and his suitcase. He was about to take a drink when he noticed that the man looked , so he offered him a drink.
The man it and smiled at the boy. His smile was so pleasant that the boy wanted to see it again, so he him another one.
The man smiled at him. They sat there all afternoon eating and smiling, but they never said a word.
As it grew dark, the boy it was time to leave, but before he had gone more than a few steps, he , ran back to the man, and gave him a hug. The man him his biggest smile ever.
When the boy home a short time later, his mother was surprised by the look of on his face. She asked him what made him so happy.
He replied, “I had lunch with God, and God’s got the most beautiful I’ve ever seen!”
Meanwhile, the elderly man returned to his home. His son was by the look of joy on his face and asked him the question as the little boy’s mother. The elderly man replied, “I ate and drank in the park with God.” However, he , before his son responded, “You know, he’s much than I expected.”
Too often we underestimate the of a touch, a smile, a kind word, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. We should treat the people we meet ; they come into our lives for a reason. Embrace all equally!
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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，并标在答题卷的相应位置。
Last weekends, my kids along with few other kids from the neighborhood volunteered to help me wash my car. My 10-year-old daughter came up with the idea of____ other people’s cars as well. It was pretty ____ outside and I had no plans to ___ being in the bright sun. She ____ wanted to give lemonade（柠檬汽水）to passers-by for free. I had seen little kids ____ and sell fresh lemonade for a small cost but not free. Although I felt ____ , I decided to help her.
Then she asked me, “What if we ____ this a smile car wash?” I couldn’t hold ____ my tears and ____ her and the other kids to go outside the house and come up with ____ ideas. While I kept myself busy in drying the car, the group walked up to me with a(n) ____ with beautiful images of smiles. They had “Free Car Wash” written on it and the ____ of their exercise was “smile”. It was pretty neat to see a team of kids ranging 5--11 years with the ____ to do something for others.
All that seemed ____ and came right from their heart. Nothing seemed to ____ to them: their playtime, the heat outside—they just wanted to ____ others and do something nice in the community!
I helped them make some fresh lemonade and brought out some additional ____ to help clean cars. Passers-by were ____ and one even shouted back to them saying “God Bless You, my kids…” One of them even tried giving them 5 dollars, which they refused. A pretty heartwarming ____!
I feel blessed by being ____ by such wonderful and loving souls.
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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。
In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things have come to represent, in fact, what I call and love.
I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did the water. Any kind of ride seemed to give him pleasure. he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being the water, moving through it, it all around me. I was not a strong , or one who learned to swim early, for I had my . But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my fathers’ office and those summer days with my father, who come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his . But my father always and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s .” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get an ice cream...
A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is .”And I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood” that determines our memories, but , in that childhood, looks at us.
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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、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。
People say one man’s trash(垃圾) is another man’s treasure. That________comes to me as I________the house purchased in 1962 by my parents. My mother passed away in 1996. My father left the house ________ my sister and me when he died a few months ago.
After Dad was ________ , we looked around the________ house where we grew up and that Dad loved so much. At first we felt so ________ all the stuff left. Like so many of their generation, my parents ________ everything. And like many in my generation, we faced anxious ________ about what to abandon and what to keep.
As we started throwing out old phone books and every medical bill from every ________my parents ever saw, I also ________many hidden treasures. Mom's pocketbook was in their bedroom closet, which had everything in it, ________ her hairbrush with hair, as if she were still here. And Dad, who was a World War II veteran(退伍兵) and a world traveler, ________ everything—from little spoons from all over the world to every letter he wrote to his parents while in the ________ . The letters he wrote during the war ________ his thoughts as a young man. Later, in the basement, I ________ our old kitchen table, which brought back ________ of my parents and sister and me having breakfast together.
I'm realizing all these things ________ my parents' life journey. Each time I go to________ , I find something that reminded me of my childhood or teaches me something about my parents I ________ knew. ________ , from the shabby furniture to all the hidden treasures, means more to me than all the money in the world.
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阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项．
On a cold November afternoon，my mother and I were walking home from a ．We were dressed ．I was feeling a little as I was carrying our shopping，and decided to throw away something．So I started to walk towards a when I noticed a poor man walking out of the restaurant in front of us．He over to another nearby dustbin and started looking through it.
I suddenly felt very guilty because I was about to throw away a new drink just because it was ．I walked up to him and handed the and some snacks（小吃）over to him．The man looked up and took what I gave him．A huge smile across his face and this me to feel indescribable satisfaction．I felt I couldn’t be happier myself．But then he said：“Wow，this is my son’s lucky day!”
With that，he thanked me happily and started off on his bike，I heard him whistling a song as he rode away．
I got a warm inside．I now understand is meant by the saying “giving is getting”．
Although it only a little action and a few words，I gained and learned more in those two minutes than I did in the rest of the month．Everyone in the world needs ，everyone can help and everyone will be helped by kindness．
The image of that man’s happiness caused by my small gift appears in my mind every I have the chance to do sething nice．
This is the of charity（慈善行为）．
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