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，然后从所给出的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
After listening to everyone’s concerns and problems, Professor Smith looked over at the hostess (主持人) and asked her if she could get a paper and pen for everyone in the room. She    36    a minute later, and brought some paper and pens.
“Do me a    37   ,” Professor Smith asked. “We’re going to try something and I    38    your cooperation. On the small piece of paper please    39    the 3 biggest problems you are facing in your personal life right now. Don’t write your name on it. We’ll keep it    40   .”
The group found the experiment    41   , not knowing what was to follow.
After everyone wrote down their problems, Professor Smith asked everyone to    42    their paper and put it in a small basket that was in the front of the room. There were    43    expressions throughout the room,    44    again, everyone cooperated, wanting to know what would    45    next.
Professor Smith shook the basket and then he    46    around the room and asked each person to    47    a paper from the basket. After he had done that, he sat back down and looked around the room.
“Friends,   48    the paper and read to yourself the problems that you    49   ,” Professor Smith said.
Then, Professor Smith    50    at the woman sitting on his left and asked, “Lisa, would you like to    51    your problems that you wrote down with those that you chose from the basket?”
“No,” Lisa said.
Next, Professor Smith asked the man sitting next to Lisa the    52    question. “Would you like to exchange the problems you wrote down with those that you chose from the basket?”
   53    the reply was “No.”
Professor Smith went around the whole room. Everyone had a    54    to answer.
Surprisingly, the answers were all the same — no, no, no, no…. Some people said that “I can settle my own problems, but I can’t    55    what I chose out of the basket”. Some people said “Wow — these make my problems look like nothing.”

A．left B．returned C．answered D．finished

A．favor B．help C．prize D．reward

A．like B．wish C．ask D．need

A．put out B．wash away C．write down D．speak out

A．secret B．silence C．message D．future

A．encouraging B．interesting C．surprising D．boring

A．tear B．cut C．desert D．fold

A．frightened B．pleasant C．curious D．terrible

A．but B．so C．for D．and

A．say B．happen C．move D．adventure

A．jumped B．ran C．walked D．rushed

A．throw B．touch C．hold D．pick

A．unfold B．see C．search D．study

A．heard B．chose C．noticed D．feared

A．shouted B．wondered C．looked D．knocked

A．give B．accept C．understand D．exchange

A．same B．different C．easy D．strange

A．Immediately B．Again C．Surely D．Then

A．bravery B．fault C．chance D．power

A．struggle with B．show off C．throw away D．deal with