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，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
My neighbor Jennifer is blind, but you’d never know it. She makes such good use of her other  36  , including her "sixth sense", that she hardly gives the impression that she has   37  anything. Jennifer looks after her children much like the rest of us,  38  that she doesn’t push too hard on them,  39  really benefit a lot from her relaxed attitude. She knows when to clean the house, and she moves around so fast that   40  often don't realize she's blind.
I  41  this the first time after my six-year-old daughter, Kayla, went to play there. When Kayla came home, she was very   42  about her day. She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects. But she was   43  excited about her finger-painting project.
“Mom, guess what?” said Kayla, all smiles. “I learned how to   44  colors today! Blue and red make purple, and yellow and blue make green! And Jennifer  45   with us”. To my great  46  , my child had learnt about color from a blind friend! Then Kayla continued, “Jennifer told me my   47  showed joy, pride and a sense of accomplishment（成就感）. She really _48   what I was doing!” Kayla said she had never known how good finger paints felt   49  Jennifer showed her how to paint without looking at her paper.
I realized Kayla didn't know that Jennifer was blind. It had just never  50  in conversation. When I told my daughter that Jennifer was blind, she was  51  for a moment. At first, she didn't believe me. “But Mommy, Jennifer knew exactly what was in my picture!” Kayla  52  . And I knew my child was  53   because Jennifer had listened to Kayla describe her art work. Jennifer had also heard Kayla's  54  in her work.
We were silent for a minute. Then Kayla said slowly, “You know, Mommy, Jennifer really did ‘see’ my picture. She just used my   55  .”
Indeed, she uses a special type of “vision” that all mothers have.
36．A．senses                     B．means                     C．methods                  D．ways
37．A．enjoyed                  B．found                     C．missed                   D．got
38．A．instead                   B．except                    C．since                      D．but
39．A．which                     B．it                           C．she                         D．who 
40．A．children                  B．family                    C．guests                     D．friends
41．A．witnessed               B．heard                      C．recognized              D．realized
42．A．sad                        B．satisfied                  C．excited                   D．sorry
43．A．not at all             B．not so                     C．a little                    D．especially
44．A．mix                        B．draw                      C．write                 D．paint
45．A．stayed                    B．painted                  C．talked                     D．studied
46．A．surprise             B．encouragement        C．delight                    D．excitement
47．A．attitude                   B．picture                    C．homework              D．paper
48．A．understood              B．found                 C．saw                       D．touched   
49．A．after                       B．unless                     C．until                      D．when
50．A．talked about            B．turned out               C．referred to              D．come up
51．A．curious                   B．quiet                      C．puzzled                   D．worried
52．A．cried                      B．insisted                  C．required             D．informed
53．A．uncertain                B．wrong                    C．worried                  D．right
54．A．shortcomings          B．difficulties                     C．pride                     D．description
55．A．eyes                  B．pens                       C．hands                     D．paper