完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
My fiance (未婚夫) and I were excited about shopping for our first home. But our funds were , and none of the houses in our price range seemed satisfactory.
One agent a house in particular. Although her description sounded wonderful, the price was our range, so we declined. But she kept urging us to have a look .
We finally did and it was at first sight. It was Our Home, small and charming, overlooking a quiet lake. Walking through the rooms and talking with the owners, a nice elderly couple, we felt the warmth and of the marriage within that home. As perfect as it was, the price remained too high for us. But every day, we would sit by the lake, looking at the house and dreaming of________it would be like to live there.
Days later, we made a(n) ________—far below the asking price. Surprisingly, they didn’t ________ us. They renewed their offer ________. It was also much more than we could afford, but far ________ than the original asking price.
The next day, we got a ________ message that another buyer had offered a much higher price. Even so, we decided to talk with the ________ directly. We made our final offer, which ________ was thousands of dollars less than the other buyer’s bid. We knew it, ________ we had to try.
“Sold!” said the owner. Then he ________ : He’d seen us sitting by the lake all those times; he knew how much we loved the place and that we’d ________ the years of work they had put into their home; he realized he would take a ________ by selling it to us, but it was worthwhile; we were the people they wanted to live there. He told us to consider the ________ in the price “an early wedding present.”
That’s how we found our home and how I learned that when people are ________ they are not strangers, only friends we haven’t yet met.
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When I entered Berkeley, I hoped to earn a scholarship. Having been a Straight-A student, I believed I could tough subjects and really learn something. One such course was World Literature given by Professor Jayne. I was extremely interested in the ideas he in class.
When I took the first exam, I was to find a 77, C-plus, on my test paper, English was my best subject. I went to Professor Jayne, who listened to my arguments but remained . I decided to try harder, although I didn’t know what that because school had always been easy for me. I read the books more carefully, but got another 77. Again, I with Professor Jayne. Again, he listened patiently but wouldn’t change his . One more test before the final exam. One more to improve my grade. So I redoubled my efforts and, for the first time, the meaning of the word “thorough”. But my did no good and everything as before.
The last hurdle(障碍) was the final. No matter what I got, it wouldn’t cancel three C-pluses. I might as well kiss the goodbye. I stopped working hard. I felt I knew the course material as well as I ever would. The night before the final, I even myself to a movie. The next day I decided for once I’d have with a test. A week later, I was surprised to find I got an A. I hurried into professor Jayne’s office. He to be expecting me. “If I gave you the As you , you wouldn’t continue to work as hard.” I stared at him, that his analysis and strategy(策略) were correct. I had worked my head , as I had never done before. I was speechless when my course grade arrived: A-plus. It was the only A-plus given. The next year I received my scholarship. I’ve always remembered Professor Jayne’s lesson: you alone must set your own standard of excellence.
A．take B．discuss C．cover D．get
A．sought B．presented C．exchanged D．obtained
A．shocked B．worried C．scared D．anxious
A．but B．so C．for D．or
A．unchanged B．unpleasant C．unfriendly D．unmoved
A．reflected B．meant C．improved D．affected
A．quarreled B．reasoned C．bargained D．chatted
A．attitude B．mind C．plan D．view
A．choice B．step C．chance D．measure
A．memorized B．considered C．accepted D．learned
A．ambition B．confidence C．effort D．method
A．stayed B．went C．worked D．changed
A．grade B．answer C．lesson D．comment
A．scholarship B．course C．degree D．subject
A．helped B．favored C．treated D．relaxed
A．fun B．luck C．problems D．tricks
A．happened B．proved C．pretended D．seemed
A．valued B．imagined C．expected D．welcomed
A．remembering B．guessing C．supposing D．realizing
A．out B．over C．on D．off
I was fifteen months old, a happy carefree kid until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a glass rabbit, _ __ cut my eye badly enough to blind it. Trying to save the eye, the doctors stitched(缝上) the eyeball together where it was cut, __ __ a big ugly scar in the middle of my eye. And as I grew, this __ __ eye in so many ways controlled me.
I walked with my face looking at the __ __ so people would not see the ugly me. Sometimes people, even strangers, asked me__ __questions or made hurtful remarks. When the kids played games, I was always the “ __ _”．
Yet Mama would say to me, “Hold your head up high and face the world. If you hold your head up high, people will see your beautiful _ __.”
Those words have meant __ __ things to me over the years. As a little child, I thought Mama meant, “Be careful, or you will fall down or __ __ something because you are not looking.” As an adolescent, I found that sometimes when I held my head up high and let people __ __ me, they liked me. My mama's words helped me begin to __ __ that by letting people look at my face, I let them recognize the intelligence and beauty __ __ both eyes.
In high school I was__ __both academically and socially. I was even elected class president, __ __， all I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would __ __to my mama and she would look at me with __ __ eyes and say, “Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the beauty that is inside.”
When I met the man who became my __ __ for life, we looked each other straight in the eye, and he told me I was beautiful inside and out. He __ __ it. My mama's love and __ __ were the spark that gave me the confidence to __ __ my own doubt.
A．that B．which C．who D．where
A．achieving B．beginning C．surviving D．leaving
A．sightless B．careless C．stainless D．tasteless
A．sky B．rabbit C．floor D．scar
A．outstanding B．inspiring C．astonishing D．embarrassing
A．monster B．angel C．acquaintance D．stranger
A．face B．eyes C．head D．soul
A．different B．strange C．stupid D．common
A．look into B．bump into C．burst into D．get into
A．recognize B．find C．identify D．know
A．spot B．imagine C．realize D．comment
A．behind B．on C．beneath D．beside
A．awful B．successful C．cheerful D．grateful
A．therefore B．however C．besides D．and
A．smile B．laugh C．cry D．scold
A．terrible B．awkward C．skeptical D．loving
A．partner B．colleague C．leader D．master
A．loved B．got C．meant D．hated
A．statement B．encouragement C．treatment D．comment
A．increase B．emphasize C．plant D．overcome
Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other. These letters were all pilled up in a basket, dirty and With dust. to read and sort them, I asked them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home. They agreed.
As I carefully opened each letter, all of them with age, I discovered a new page unknown to me in this private chapter of my parents' lives.
My father used to in the army. So his letters were full of frontline of the things about the war. Each of my mother's letters was marked with her 1944 dark red lipstick kiss. I was to these letters like a magnet (磁铁).
Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very . and was hospitalized. This time, he was fighting a . kind of war. As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the . He told me how much receiving those lipstick-kissed letters had to him when he had been so far from home.
It so happened that the next day would he February 14. From the letters I chose the card my father had sent Mother in 1944 and brought it to my father's bedside.
At his bedside, I joked with him, saying , "Today is Valentine's Day, don't you want to send Mother a present?" He became more when I handed him the old . He carefully opened it and took out the card, and when he it, his eyes were filled with tears.
My father, in a voice tight with read the loving he'd sent to my mother fifty-six years earlier. And this time, he could read it to her .
A came B. hit C. drew D. fell
A．hidden B．covered C．buried D．filled
A．Pretending B．Suggesting C．Preferring D．Deciding
A．delicate B．tasty C．useful D．tender
A．recently B．usually C．previously D．occasionally
A．work B．study C．serve D．report
A．accounts B．documents C．introductions D．occupations
A．devoted B．abandoned C．thrown D．drawn
A．depressed B．dead. C．dangerous D．ill
A．typical B．traditional C．different D．familiar
A．wars B．illnesses C．letters D．prescriptions
A．divided B．sorted C．separated D．updated
A．sadly B．angrily C．softly D．loudly
A．curious B．enthusiastic C．fantastic D．positive
A．Christmas card B．envelope C．basket D．lipstick
A．found B．wrote C．recognized D．missed
A．astonishment B．sorrow C．sickness D．emotion
A．story B．message C．speech D．motto
A．in person B．in private C．in danger D．in peace
Well, I remember my first teacher, and she told us such _______ (amuse) stories. I remember a math teacher. She was always
______ (dress) very well. I couldn’t stop
_______(look) at her. I wanted to be like her. Our chemistry teacher was so strict
_______ we were afraid of him. I don’t think he liked us. The literature teacher was so
_______(bore). He could make us fall asleep very quickly. One year we had a
_______(real) good Chinese teacher. He told very
_______(interest) jokes. I also had a PE teacher who never gave us any
______ (encourage). I am not interested in sports because of him. Our biology teacher was very intelligent and
_______(organize). All of us had a lot of respect
_______ her.
In 1970, five women scientists __ __ the sea for two weeks. They wanted to ___ that women could do the same work __ __ men.
Their underwater house was made of steel, and was in two parts. Each part had two rooms . One room was the wet chamber( 会议厅). Another was the “ control center”. The third room was _ _ food and equipment. The fourth was the living room. There they could eat, sleep, listen to __ __radio and watch television.
The scientist explored the sea four or five times a day. Sometimes they even worked during the night. They __ different kinds of fish. Plants and other things were gathered from the seabed. When necessary, they _ _ photographs with special cameras.
When they left their underwater home, they felt quite__ __. Later, newspapermen asked them, “Would you like to have _ _under the sea?”
“Oh, yes, we’d love to. If men can__ __ oceans on the moon, we’ll go and explore them too.” They answered.
A．went to B．stayed on C．traveled on D．lived in
A．prove B．announce C．suggest D．know
A．with B．of C．as D．from
A．used for B．put with C． prepared for D．stored in
A．/ B．a C．an D．the
A．looked at B．watched C．caught D．ate
A．got B．printed C．made D．took
A．sick B．sad C．satisfactory D．valuable
A．another adventure B．the second trip C．once more stay D．next work
A．search B．come to C．find D．look for
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