第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题 1分，满分 20 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。
It happened many years ago, when I was in high school. Being a student from a poor family, I had to work on weekends to __41__ some __42__ money that my family couldn’t possibly __43__ to give me. One day after work, I lost my wallet.
My old car needed gas at the back. I paid for the gas and __44__ put my wallet on the bumper (保险杠), and drove off. Before I found what had happened to my wallet, an old man called and asked me if I had lost my wallet. I __45__ the pockets of my jacket and to my __46__, I had. He asked me to give him a(n)__47__ to show it was my wallet, and I told him the sum of money it __48__. He then told me where to __49__ my wallet.
As I drove onto his highway, I noticed that his car wasn’t __50__ ------ it was for the disabled（残疾的）. I was thinking that there
was no way this man could __51__ get out of his car and get my wallet off the __52__. He had to pull over, __53__ into his wheelchair（轮椅）, lower the lift, and then pick it up. I was __54_.
I knocked at the __55__ and he told me to come in. I was grateful to him for finding my wallet. While I didn’t want to make him angry by __56__ him with __57__, I really felt like giving something __58__ his kindness. So I asked him if I could do anything to __59__ his kindness, but he said, “Just pass it on.” I was so thankful that I sincerely__60__ I would.
41. A. collect B. raise C. earn D. pay
42. A. rare B. extra C. unexpected D. mobile
43. A. afford B. effort C. affect D. effect
44. A. late B. therefore C. then D. however
45. A. searched for B. tested C. inspected D. checked
46. A. joy B. relief C. excitement D. terror
47. A. evidence B. opinion C. reason D. cause
48. A. brought B. contained C. included D. concluded
49. A. break up B. set up C. take up D. pick up
50. A. normal B. common C. usual D. general
51. A. simply B. easily C. personally D. regularly
52. A. road B. car C. park D. way
53. A. go B. fall C. get D. push
54. A. pleased B. amazed C. surprised D. hopeless
55. A. car B. floor C. door D. window
56. A. rewarding B. offering C. awarding D. replacing
57. A. cash B. thanks C. invitations D. help
58. A. in place of B. in honor of C. as a result
of D. in return for
59. A. pay B. thank C. appreciate D. praise
60. A. promised B. pretended C. programmed D. prevented
完形填空
Burned Toast
When I was a kid, my mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then. And I remember one night in particular when she had made dinner after a long, hard day at________.
On that evening so long ago, my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burned toast in front of my dad. I remember__________ to see if anyone noticed! __________ all my dad did was reach for his toast, ________ at my mom and ask me how my day was at school. . . I don't remember what I told him that night, but I do remember__________him spread butter and jelly on that toast and eat every bite!
When I got up from the table that evening, I remember hearing my mom __________ to my dad for burning the toast. And I'II never________what he said: “Honey, I love burned toast.” Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy good night and I asked him if he really __________ his toast burned. He wrapped me in his arms and said," Your Momma put_________ a hard day at work today and she's really _________. And besides, a burned toast never ________anyone! "
__________is full of imperfect things... and imperfect people. I'm not the best at anything, and I forget_________ and anniversaries just like everyone else. But what I've learned over the years is that learning to accept each other's _________---and choosing to__________ each other's differences---is one of the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and________relationship where a burned toast isn't a deal-breaker!
We could extend this to any___________. In fact, understanding is the_________ of any relationship, whether it is a husband-wife or parent-child or friendship!
"Don't put the key to your___________in someone else's pocket---keep it in your own.”
So please pass me a toast, and yes, a__________ one will be fine!
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完形填空
Pooja Dhingra should have been a lawyer. But while studying ________ at university in Mumbai, she decided to quit her major and to something more ________ .
Remembering helping her mother in the ________ during her childhood, she decided to work with food instead of legal cases. So she ________ her parents to let her go to study cooking. One day, her friends took her to one of the best macaron（杏仁小圆饼）shops in Paris.
After just one ________, Ms Dhingra determined that when she ________ to Mumbai she would open her own macaron store, the first of its kind in India. Upon graduation, she started ________ macarons in her parents' kitchen, but it was a complete ________ .The hot and wet weather in Mumbai made it ________ to make delicious cakes. After 60 failed ________,she finally got an ideal recipe. ________ being both young and female meant she faced additional ________ ."The biggest problem was to get people to take you ________．”she tells us. "For example, ________ I had to buy machinery, I would have to ask my father to make these calls for me. " However, she ________ opened her first shop in 2010. To ________ sales in a city where very few people knew what a macaron was, Ms Dhingra ________ free samples to customers. The cakes were immediately popular, and sales soon took off thanks to the ________ evaluation. .
Now, Ms Dhingra is the ________ of three busy macaron shops. She has planned to ________ her business across the country. One newspaper article called her " the macaron queen of India" .
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完形填空,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。
Looking back on the barbeque that day I hosted, I can’t help thinking that things didn’t go as well as planned. Recalling my own____ may help you avoid making the same mistakes.
I asked a few friends____ the barbeque. The weather was ____ for the whole weekend and there is nothing better than eating food outdoors. ____I ‘d be the one doing the cooking, it was going to give a chance to ____my barbeque skills. On the morning of the actual day, I visited the____ to pick up the essentials, which ____meant beer, wine, sausages, burgers some bread rolls. My ____was that these things would ensure a great barbeque ____. Once people arrived, we all soon started drinking and ____. Although I soon realized I forgot to purchase any soft drinks, all seemed to be going ____.
At this point, a vegetarian friend asked what he would ____ . It was then that it hit me!. I realized that I had assumed that ____wouldn’t be meat eater. The foolish assumption could have been ____if I had thought about these things earlier. Thinking that I let a guest stay hungry, I__ that food that was already cooking. Before I knew it, I had some burnt sausages and burgers for everyone else. ____my friends were very understanding about the whole situation.
____this experience, I realized that I was____. In the future to avoid making the same mistakes, we should ensure that we put plenty of effort into the____ and we should spend more time considering what will happen. There is no doubt that doing so is ____to host a successful event.
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完型填空
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It was unusually quiet in the emergency room on December 25. I didn’t think there would be any , sighing about having to be on duty on Christmas. Just then five bodies at my desk, a pale woman and four children.
“Are you all ?” I asked doubtfully. “Yes,” she said weakly and lowered her head.
But when it came to of their problems, things got a little strange. They all claimed to have headaches, but the headaches weren’t accompanied(陪伴) by the body language of holding the head or trying to keep it still.
Something was wrong. Our hospital policy, , was not to turn away any patient. I explained it might be a little while a doctor saw her. She responded immediately, even a bit “Take your time,” and then added, “It’s warm in here.”
Out of curiosity, I checked their registration form. No address—they were . I went back to the nurses’ station and mentioned we had a family of five in the waiting room. The nurses, complaining of Christmas day, turned to sympathy for a family just trying to get on Christmas. The team went into action, much as we do when there’s a emergency. But this was a Christmas emergency.
We were all a free meal in the hospital dining hall on Christmas Day, so we took back that meal and prepared a big dinner for our .We needed presents. We from different departments candies, fruits and other things that could be presents. As seriously as we met the needs of the patients that came to us that day, our team worked to meet the needs, ________ the expectation, of a family who just wanted to be warm on Christmas.
, as the family walked to the door to leave, the mother came back, gave me a hug and whispered, “Thanks for being our angels today.”
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阅读下面的短文，从短文所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
Not long ago, I was at a state conference (会议) with a group preparing for a week of meetings. I walked into the room where a handful of volunteers were ______ collating (装订整理) handouts. I asked if I could help. One of the ladies _____ said “Oh, no, thank you” and offered me a chair to just sit while they worked.
Then, another volunteer came into the room, saw me sitting there doing nothing and said: “Hey, Larry, come on over here. There’s work to do, and you can help.” He put a couple of chairs ______, placed two stacks of handouts on them and ______: “OK, the left sheet goes on top of the right one.”
“Fine. I can handle that,” I said. And just like that, I was now part of the team.
This member of the group saw that my ______ did not mean an inability to help. ______, I thanked him for having included me, and asked ______ motivated his action. He said: “Well, I figured ______ one more set of hands we’d finish more quickly. I was just using ______.”
I’m sure that the kind folks who initially (最初) ______ my offer of help did not mean to offend (冒犯) me. It just seemed more appropriate to them to say “No, thank you” than to stop their work and try and ______ how to include me. And that’s the real issue here. Too often, people with disabilities are _______ – within their _____ or within a social setting – because of their disability and not because of their inability.
It’s important for all of us to feel part of the group and to feel that we ______. It’s important to our self-esteem (自尊). And it is even more important for people with disabilities. ______ means we are accepted, appreciated and _____ as a full and ______ member of the group. It sends a ______ that states: “To us, your abilities are more important than your disability.”
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