完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—15各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项。
I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large ________ across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would________ his taxi on the road. I________ why he did not park it in the garage.
Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home ________ work, leave his taxi and go out for his ________ affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was ________ .
I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I ________ to be outside one evening two weeks later, when the garage door was ________ and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely ________ I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But deep inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n） ________ . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. For him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n） ________ .
We go to bed every night and ________ every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a party as close friends or go for a vacation as a ________ . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we ________ the social ladder（梯子）And we never use our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on ________ we are than what we do!
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完形填空。阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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。
That night we lay on the floor in the room and I listened to the silk-worms eating. The silk-worms .on shelves of mulberry (桑树)leaves and all night you could hear them eating and a dropping sound in the leaves. I myself didn’t want to because I had been living for a long time with the that if I ever shut my eyes in the dark and let myself go, my would go out of my body. I had been that way for a long time, since I was sleepless at night and felt it go out of me and go off and then .I tried never to think about it, but it had started to go since, in the nights, just at the of going off to sleep, and I could only stop it by a very great . So while now I am fairly sure that it would not really have gone out, yet then, that summer, I was unwilling to make the .
I had different ways of myself while I lay awake. I would think of a trout(鳟鱼) stream I had fished along when I was a boy; and fish its whole length very in my mind; fishing under all the logs, all the turns of the , the deep holes and the clear shallow stretches, sometimes .trout and sometimes losing them. I would stop fishing at noon to eat my lunch; sometimes on a log the stream; sometimes on a high bank under a tree; and I always ate my lunch very slowly and the stream below me while I ate. Often I ran out of bait(诱饵) because I would take ten .with me in a tobacco tin when I started. When I had used them all I had to find worms and sometime it was very difficult digging in the bank of the stream the cedar trees kept out the sun and there was no grass but only the wet earth and often I could find no worms. Always I found some kind of bait, but one time in the swamp I could find no bait at all and had to one of the trout I had caught and used him for bait.
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for the food I had ordered to arrive. Suddenly I that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing in my direction, he knew me. The man had a newspaper in front of him, which he was to read, but I could that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter brought my ,the man was clearly puzzled by the way in which the waiter and I each other. He seemed even more puzzled as went on and it became that all the waiters in the restaurant knew me. Finally he got up and went into the . When he came out, he paid his bill and .without another glance in my direction.
I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had . "Well," he said，"that man was a detective. He you here because he thought you were the man he . "What?" I said, showing my The owner continued, "He came into the kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man. I say he looked very much like you! Of course, since we know you, we told him that he had made a ." "Well, it's really I came to a restaurant where I'm known, " I said." , I might have been in trouble."
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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。
Starting from my early young age，I was a happy child．However，at age twelve，my life had a huge ．I developed obsessive compulsive disorder(OCD)．I started to wash my hands ten times an hour to germs and I frequently checked my kitchen oven to make sure that it was ．This way of life continued for four years，and by then，my OCD had led to ．I was no longer the happy little girl I had been．I told my mother that I was suffering from depression．So mum took me for a ．The medicine didn’t help me very much．I was still sad，believing that my life no longer ．
One autumn evening two years ago，I rock bottom．I even thought suicide(自杀)was the only . to my depression problem，so I wrote a suicide to my family．As I was folding the note，my fell on a photograph. It was a picture of a lovely little girl with dark—blue eyes .of adventure and curiosity．It took me a few minutes to that the smiling girl in the photo was me．The photo had been taken at one weekend at my uncle’s house when I was seven．Suddenly I felt a and it was like my younger self had sent me a message．Once I had been a little girl，and I had to become strong like that again．
I tore up my suicide note and swore that l would have to the depression with my mind，too．I could make myself happy again．It has been two years I “rediscovered” myself．I am OCD-and depression-free．I am prepared for whatever life may bring．My hero is a seven-year-old girl， back at me from a photo on my desk．
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完形填空
阅读下面短文 , 掌握其大意 , 然后从每题所给的 A , B , C , D四个选项中选出最佳答案 .
My daughter performed on behalf of her class in the annual school concert today. She played so ________ that I could not help cheering her. The very ________ reminded me of her experiences of piano practicing.
When she was five, we gave her a piano as a birthday present. With great________ , she began learning it. However, when she was no longer ________ , shebecame sick of it. ________ , it is a tough job to learn the piano, not to mention the daily routine (常规) of ________ .
When her first teacher left, my friend ________ me to an American teacher whoseway of teaching was completely American. After practicing, she would give my daughter some ________ comments, and then point out what should be ________ . Every time she came, ________ beginning the lesson right away, she would first play some _______ . She said, “To learn the piano, you should learn not only the ________of playing, but more importantly, to ________ the music and love it.”
After some time, my daughter became fond of her lessons. Sometimes she ________ would like to ________ a little bit when her skill had reached a certain level.
Surprisingly, my daughter said to me one day, “Mom, I was________ thatyou didn’t give up my piano lessons. Learning it is like climbing a mountain. You’ll feel ________ when you are on the way. When you look ________ from where you are, you will realize that you have been making ________ . But if you ________ ,you’ll never take one more step. ” That was the very thing I wanted to teach her.
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从31-50各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项标号涂黑。
A man wanted to become wealthy．He was told a story one day that there was a ________pebble (鹅卵石）among the pebbles on the beach of the Black Sea．It could turn everything it touched into________．This pebble could be________ only by touching it: unlike the other pebbles it was________when touched．The man rushed to the beach of the Black Sea and began to ________ the pebble．
________ he picked up a pebble that felt cold, he threw it into the sea．He________ this practice day after day．Each pebble that felt cold was________ thrown into the sea．
One morning, he ________ to take hold of a pebble that felt warm, unlike the other ________ . The man threw the pebble into the sea．He hadn’t ________to, but he had formed a habit．Habits can be hard to ________ ．
In fact, if we repeat any behaviour ________ enough, it becomes a habit．But some habits can work in our favour, such as ________ attitudes and healthy ways of life．Our habitual attitudes and behaviour can either ________us or hinder(阻碍) us．
Is there behaviour or an attitude you would like to make into a ________ ? Then reinforce (强化) it by ________ it at every opportunity．
When it comes to habits, ________ may not make perfect．But practice will certainly form ________ behaviour. Your habits will form who you are．So form the habits that are ________ to you and let them mold (塑造) you into the person you want to be．
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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，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。
“Ring! Ring! Ring!”The telephone rang for a long time in Bill Hewlett’s house．Bill was the director of a large ________company called Hewlett-Packard．At that time，computers had already ________ but they were huge machines that cost a lot of money．
Bill answered the telephone________ ．He did not like being disturbed while he was reading his newspaper．A young-sounding ________ on the other line said，”My name is Steve Jobs．I in a ________of the Hewlett-Packard Explorers’Club．I went on a fieldtrip to one of your company ‘s laboratories and was ________ by the 9100A computer．I’ve never seen anything so splendid!”He ________ for a while and continued．”I in looking for some computer ________ to build a frequency counter．Well．I thought you might be able to ________ me．”
There was ________ ．Then，Bill asked the young boy for his ________．Steve revealed that he was twelve．There was another silence．________ by the boy’s enthusiasm，Bill invited Steve to his office．
A few days later，Bill Hewlett gave Steve what he needed．Steve was also offered a ________ job in one of his laboratories．
Eight years later，Steve Jobs set up a ________ with his close friend，Steve Wozniak．Their first step was to find a ________ for the company．Steve Jobs loved apples and had worked off an apple ________ before．Although there was no ________ between apples and computers，________ thought‘Apple’would be a catchy name．”I like the name．We’11 be in a great ________ in the telephone directory，”Steve Wozniak said confidently．That was how Apple was ________ in 1976．
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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。
I always walk to my husband’s office after work, wait for him and then we drive home together every day.
One day, while I was waiting for him, a beautiful Cadillac（凯迪拉克轿车） ________ near me. I was busy ________ the car when I noticed the driver. ________ , she was probably the most ________ woman I had ever seen outside of a movie screen. Her eyes were as blue as the sea, and she had teeth like pearls. Minutes later, a man walked over and they drove off. Sitting there, dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, I wanted to ________ . “Why is it so ________ that some people have it all?” I thought.
The next week I saw her again, and after that it almost became my ________ to see her. I would ________ if she and her husband ate out a lot and where they went. I wanted her to get out of the car so that I could see her in ________ length.
A few weeks later, this question was ________ for me. I was waiting at my usual spot and the lady’s husband came over to their car. He opened the door. The pretty woman ________ walked around to the passenger side—leaning on a walking cane. She ________ one leg with her hands and then the other. She had an artificial limb （假肢）on her left leg and a brace on her right one.
As they drove away, I began to cry. When my husband arrived, I told him about what had _________ . He said that he knew her husband and that, when the lady was twelve years old, she had been ________ in a car that got stuck on the railroad tracks. Unfortunately, both her parents were killed. The rail company made a large ________ with her because the crossing had no ________ . That’s ________ she owns such a nice car now.
For weeks I have ________this woman and her way of life, but now I realize how ________ I am. When you meet a person who seems to be much better off than you, don’t be fooled by ________ .
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阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、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。
Three things I was sure of as a child: My family loved me. The sun would come up tomorrow. I had a wonderful . So I was delighted when my teacher announced her plans for a musical performance at Christmas.
She showed me a list of tunes, and I a family favorite. “Thank you, Jacquelyn,” Sister said, “Next, please.”
After a while, when the other children studied music, Sister looked kindly at me. “Jacquelyn, have you heard the expression tone-deaf? It means you think you are singing is from the music.” Sister patted my hand. “ , it’s nothing to be ashamed of, dear. You can take part in it. You may mouth the words, but no . Do you understand what I’m saying?”
All right. But I was so . After school I took the bus straight to Aunt Dolly’s house for help. “What will I do?” I sobbed. “If I don’t sing, will think I don’t love him.”
She thought hard. Finally her eyes grew . “I’ve got it!” she said. “I will wear my hat!” She her brown eyes on my face. Her voice . “Jacquelyn, I’m about to a bit of secret information about angels, but first you must swear that you will never tell a soul.”
“When I was in Rome,” she said, “I overheard a conversation. It seems that other tone-deaf people also have about God not understanding their in song. They were told that a simple piece of aluminum foil(锡纸) hid in the hat can help. Your silent words off the foil. Angels capture the words and they carry up to God.”
At the performance, I did just as told to. With my eyes on her hat, the fact that none present could hear my voice didn’t . My silent singing was for God’s ears .
Four years ago Aunt Dolly died at 90. Her hat, which helped us overcome life’s , just lay there.
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完型填空
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 side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to in good health, or about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text the title. Therefore, the scissors would before they start, .halfway done when I find out the result.
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your .You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be up. But you know the future is unpredictable(不可预料) — the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left . Thus you are in a difficult position and feel sad. How that nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life greatly on your preference of one choice to the other.
In fact that is what is like: we are often 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 we get into another. The may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I remember a philosopher's remarks, “When one door shuts, another opens in life.” So a casual(不经意) may not be a bad one.
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完型填空
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。
An old man was dying. One by one his relatives visited him. Even relatives and friends he hadn’t seen for years ________ him to say farewell. They all ________ their deep love for him. ________ each came to him, the old man held each person by their ________ and spoke to each. To one he said, “Yes, I love you.” To ________ he said, “I go without any ill will.” To a third one he said, “Peace be with you.”
And so to each person he said such ________ words. Then the old man ________ Nasrudin (a wise man in the Middle East). When Nasrudin came in, he stood on one side, ________ everyone and listened to what they said and what the dying man said to them. After a while, Nasrudin ________ his hands in the air, and when everyone ________ to hear him, Nasrudin said , “Fools! Why didn’t you visit him in his good ________ ? You didn’t love him when he was healthy, but you love him when he is dying!”
After that, Nasrudin turned to the ________ man and shouted, “Fool! Why didn’t you live with such nice feelings all the days when you were________ and fully alive?” With that, Nasrudin left the ________. The old man ________ and said, “At last I’ve heard the ________ . It is a blessing to ________ having heard the truth.” The old man died ________ .
What about the others? They returned to their ________ business of life and continued as they always had been. And Nasrudin? When he returned to his ________ just outside the old man’s house, the donkey made a long high sound, “Hee-haw! Hee-haw!” Nasrudin said, “Yes, I know... You’re right... Live well; die well...”
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完形填空,阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A,B,C,D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂上。
We all often deal with people who complain about the failures and troubles of their daily lives. Life ________ to be full of problems for them. I would like to think such a life ________ unusual. If there were no problems in your job, then your ________ would hire a much less capable person than you to do the things that don’t ________ much thought. In the business world, those who are able to solve difficult problems are the ones who are the most ________ to the employer.
Many times the problems or challenges we face ________ us to grow and become more capable. The runner who ________ for the mile run in the Olympics by running downhill will have no chance of winning the medal ________ . The runner who trains by running uphill is far more likely to ________ the speed and endurance(忍耐力) needed to win the medal.
The ________thing that ever happened to boxer Gene Tunney was that he ________ both hands in the ring. But at that time his manager felt that he could________ again punch(重击) hard enough to be the heavyweight champion. Instead, Tunney ________ that he would become a scientific boxer and win the title as a boxer, not a slugger(重击者). Boxing historians will tell you that he developed into one of the best boxers who ever fought. They ________ will tell you that as a puncher, he would not have had a chance ________Jack Dempsey, who was considered by many to be the hardest ________ in heavyweight history. Tunney would never have been champion ________ he had not had the problem of his broken hands.
The ________ time you meet with a difficult climb, obstacle or problem, you should ________ and say, “Here’s my chance to __________.”
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I put my sunglasses on and took a deep breath. With her hand held ________ in mine, we started walking down the street to her first day of school. I knew that she would be crying; she always cries when she is anxious about new ________ .
As we walked, she asked, “ What if ________ talks to me?”
“ I know that your ________ will talk to you. She’ll help you find your seat and she’ll even ________ you all to each other. And you already know two friends in the class from preschool. They are ________ too, I bet.”
She ________ and started to play with her backpack strap. It’s the backpack that we spent 20 minutes ________ up the night before. And the same one she slipped her small stuffed animal puppy into ________she thought I wasn’t looking this morning.
“ What if I get shy and can’t talk to anyone?”
“ You might feel shy at first,” I said to her, “ ________ give yourself a little time and you’ll realize that you are having fun and feeling more ________ .”
She looked up at me and smiled, as we waited at a stop sign. “ I’m ________ but really excited.”
“ What are you most excited for?”
“________.”
I laughed because this was the same girl who weeks before told me she was ________ from running one block down the street and needed to rest and drink water to ________ .
As we turned the corner, her face dropped. The massive group of students gathered everywhere overwhelmed her and her face ________ fell as the tears swelled up in her eyes.
“ You can do this, sweetie. Everyone has a place to queue up in ________ ; let’s go find yours.”
We lined up with her class and just as she was about to cling to my leg ________ , her friend from preschool stood next to her. In a second, she ________ . As the teacher began to walk them all into the school, she was not ________ , not holding onto me, but smiling. I held my husband’s hand, feeling happy and proud.
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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。
My mother-in-law passed away when she was 76. My wife and I drove to ________ her belongings, deciding what to keep, give away or throw out. Nettie lived on little all her life, ________ we expected no hidden fortunes, but we were ________ .
In early spring every year, Nettie would make a(n) ________ . “I’m making the Easter pies,” she would say, “so nobody should bother me.” Nettie wrapped the pies and labeled each for the intended ________. Her doorbell would start ringing at noon as relatives came to ________ this family present.
In the fridge, my wife and I ________ some pies and looked at each other in ________ , saying nothing. Then we ________ the pies one by one and put them in a plastic bag. We left her apartment for the last time, ________ holding the pies.
That night, as we ________ at the table for dinner with our children in our home, my wife ________ us the pies. I’d eaten my mother-in-law’s pies for more than 20 years, and they ________ tasted good. But this time the pies tasted better than ever. With each ________ I remembered everything Nettie had meant to all of us over the years---how she had ________ her daughter as a single mother and loved her grandchildren. I could actually taste her kind and ________ spirit.
Afterwards, my wife pointed towards one last pie labeled “Nettie”. “I’m saving this one, ”she said. There Nettie’s ________ remains, untouched, unseen, but never ________ . Other families leave behind ________ stuff such as jewelry, but Nettie left us her simple pie. That single pie will be our heirloom（传家宝）and ________ our hearts forever.
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
While attending a conference, I returned to my hotel room late one evening. The overhead light outside my door was burned out and I had ________ finding the keyhole. When I _______ to open the door, I _______ around the wall for a light switch. I found a plate where a switch was_______ installed... but no switch!
Not discouraged easily, I remembered _______ a lamp by the bed when I laid my luggage _______ in the day. I found the bed in the _______ and then the lamp, but when I switched it on, nothing _______ ! I thought that perhaps if I opened the curtains I might be able to use whatever light comes in from the_______ to find another lamp. So I _______ my way slowly across the room to the curtains and... no drawstring! I finally stumbled（跌跌撞撞地走）around _______ I found a desk lamp which actually _______!
That evening I discovered in a whole new way just how dark the world _______ be and how necessary light is! But even more necessary than _______ light is the light that shines from people — the light of _______ and faith. Because, for many people, the world is a dark and _______ place. For someone today just may be stumbling in discouragement or sadness or fear and in _______ of some light. So let your light shine. Whatever light you _______ may be a beacon of hope and encouragement. And if you feel that your light is _______ a candle in a forest remember — there isn’t enough darkness in all the world to _______ the light of one small candle.
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