第二节：完形填空（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。
When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and keep it．But just as I am about to do so, I find the article on the   36   side is as much interesting．It may be a discussion of the way to   37   in good health, or   38   about how to behave and conduct oneself in society．If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to   39   damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text40  the title．Therefore, the scissors would   41   before they start,  42   halfway done when I find out the  43   result．
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your   44 ．You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be  45   up．
But you know the future is unpredictable—the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left 46  ．Thus you are   47   in a difficult position and feel sad．How   48   that nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life   49   greatly on your preference of one choice to the other．
In fact that is what   50  is like: we are often   51   with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting．It often occurs that your attention is drawn to one thing only  52   we get into another．The   53   may be more important than the latter and give rise to divided mind．I   54   remember a philosopher's remarks: "When one door shuts, another opens in life．" So a casual   55   may not be a bad one．
36．A．front              B．same              C．either       D．opposite
37．A．get               B．keep              C．lead         D．bring
38．A．advice            B．news              C．a theory       D．a report
39．A．suffer             B．reduce            C．prevent        D．cause
40．A．on                B．for               C．without       D．off
41．A．use               B．handle            C．prepare         D．stay
42．A．or              B．but                C．so           D．for
43．A．satisfying          B．regretful           C．surprising        D．impossible
44．A．courage           B．strength            C．attention      D．patience
45．A．given             B．held              C．made        D．picked
46．A．near              B．alone            C．about          D．behind
47．A．filled             B．attracted           C．caught       D．struck
48．A．dares             B．comes             C．deals        D．does
49．A．improves          B．changes           C．progresses     D．goes
50．A．study             B．society             C．nature         D．life
51．A．faced             B．supplied          C．connected      D．fixed
52．A．before            B．after              C．until               D．as
53．A．following          B．next              C．above          D．former
54．A．still               B．also               C．once         D．almost
55．A．treatment         B．action            C．choice         D．remark