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，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_{K_S_5_U}
Years ago, when Barbara started looking for her first job, wise advisers urged, "Be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience." How right they were. Enthusiastic people can   36  a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.
"Nothing great was ever   37  without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.     38  is the paste that helps you hang on there when the going gets tough. It is the   39  voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you can't!"
It  40  years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't 41  on her experiments. Work was  42  a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.
As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle(使起皱纹) the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe,   43   the word itself. “Enthusiasm” comes from the Greek and means "God within." And what is God within is but a long-lasting sense of   44  -- proper love of self and, from that, love of others.
Enthusiastic people also love what they do,   45  money or title or power. Patricia McIlrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, "My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, `I never made a dime until I stopped working for money.'" If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time hobby   46  the head of state who paints, the nun(修女) who runs marathons, and the executive who handcrafts furniture.
Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville was 68  47  she began to draw. This activity ended periods of depression that had   48  her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, " I have to say, Layton is  49  a genius." Elizabeth has  50  her enthusiasm. _{￥高#考#资%源*网}
We can't   51  to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be". We need to live each moment   52  with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the   53  picture of a six-year-old, and the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of   54  that puts a sparkle(火花) in our eyes, a lift in our steps and   55  the wrinkles from our souls.
36. A. put                            B. make                C. turn                  D. get
37. A. expected             B. adopted             C. predicted           D. achieved
38. A. It                       B. That                  C. This                  D. As
39. A. slight                  B. outside              C. inner                 D. low
40. A. spent                  B. took                  C. cost                  D. paid
41. A. give off                     B. give in                 C. give out            D. give up
42. A. such                   B. so                     C. too                   D. rather
43. A. links with           B. refers to            C. lies in               D. leads in
44. A. responsibility      B. humor               C. trust                  D. love
45. A. in case                B. regardless of      C. for fear of         D. in terms of
46. A. like                    B. namely              C. as                     D. likewise
47. A. after                   B. since                 C. before               D. until
48. A. pleased              B. shocked             C. worried             D. annoyed
49. A. nothing but         B. anything but      C. everything but   D. something but
50. A. recalled                     B. reflected            C. rediscovered      D. remembered
51. A. pay                    B. afford               C. affect                D. provide
52. A. thoroughly          B. absolutely          C. wholeheartedly  D. warm-heartedly
53. A. colored               B. white                C. green                D. red
54. A. money                B. title                  C. power               D. life
55. A. pushes                B. softens              C. smoothes           D. folds