第二部分.完形填空. （共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。
My friend Michelle is blind, but you’d never know it. She makes such good use of her other   21  , including her “sixth sense”, that she rarely gives the impression she’s   22  anything.
Michelle looks after her children pretty much like the rest of us,  2 3  that she doesn’t push too hard on them,  2 4  really benefit a lot from her relaxed attitude. She knows when to clean the house. She moves around so fast that often   25  don’t realize she’s blind.
I  26__ this the first time after my six-year-old daughter, Kayla, went to play there. When Kayla came home, she was very  27_ about her day. She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects. But she was  28__ excited about her finger-painting project.
“Mom, guess what?” said Kayla, all smiles. "I learned how to  29__ colors today! Blue and red make purple, and yellow and blue make green! And Michelle  30   with us.
To my great   31 , my child had learnt about color from a blind friend!
Then Kayla continued, “Michelle told me my  32 showed joy, pride and a sense of accomplishment. She really  33  what I was doing!” Kayla said she had never felt how good finger paints felt   34  Michelle showed her how to paint without looking at her paper.
I realized Kayla didn’t know that Michelle was blind. It had just never   35  in conversation.
When I told her, she was   36_ for a moment. At first, she didn’t believe me. “But Mommy, Michelle knew exactly what was in my picture!” Kayla  37  . And I knew my child was  38  because Michelle had listened to Kayla describe her artwork. Michelle had also heard Kayla's   39  in her work,
We were silent for a minute. Then Kayla said slowly, “You know, Mommy, Michelle really did ‘see’ my picture. She just used my   40_ .”
Indeed, she uses a special type of “vision” that all mothers have.
21. A. ways        B. means             C. methods        D. senses
22. A. enjoyed     B. found             C. missed          D. lost
23. A. and         B. except            C. even            D. but
24. A. who         B. it                 C. she             D. which
25. A. guests      B. family             C. children         D. friends
26. A. realized     B. heard             C. recognized      D. witnessed
27. A. excited      B. sad               C. satisfied        D. enjoyed
28. A. especially     B. not so            C. a little         D. not at all
29. A. paint         B. draw             C. create          D. mix
30. A. stayed       B. painted            C. talked         D. played
31. A. excitement   B. encouragement    C. delight         D. surprise
32. A. attitude      B. color             C. picture         D. paper
33. A. touched      B. distinguished      C. saw           D. understood
34. A. after        B. before            C. until           D. when
35. A. referred to   B. turned out       C. come up         D. talked about
36. A. curious       B. quiet             C. puzzle          D. worried
37. A. cried         B. insisted          C. complained      D. informed
38. A. right         B. wrong             C. worried       D. uncertain
39. A. shortcomings  B. difficulties       C. pride          D. description
40. A. paper         B. pens              C. hands        D. eyes