二、完形填空（共20小题，20分）
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 d iscussion 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 text __40__ 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_nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life __49__ greatly on our 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 our 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 a 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.dare                 B.come               C.deal                              D.do
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