第二节：完型填空（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36--55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出一个最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My little Angel, you are teaching me how selfless real love is!
My wife called, “How long will you be with that 36 ? Will you come here and make your dear daughter eat her food?” I threw the paper away and rushed to the 37 . My daughter, Sindu, sat there, 38 welling up in her eyes. In front of her was a big bowl of rice.
I 39 the bowl. “Sindu, darling, why don't you take a few mouthful of this rice?”
Sindu wiped her tears. “Ok, Dad. I will eat — not just a few mouthfuls, 40 the whole lot of this. But …You should…” Sindu hesitated. “Dad, if I eat this 41 rice, will you give me 42 I ask for?”
“Promise”. I 43 the pink soft hand of my daughter with mine. Now I became a bit 44 . “Sindu, dear, you shouldn't insist on getting a computer or any such 45 items. Dad does not have that kind of money right now.”
Slowly and 46 , she finished eating the whole quantity. After that, Sindu came to me with her eyes wide with 47 . “Dad, I want to have my head shaved off(剃掉), this Sunday!”was her 48 .
On Monday morning, I 49 her at her school. It was a sight to watch my hairless Sindu walking towards her classroom. She turned around and 50 . I waved back with a smile. Just then, a boy, who just got out of a car, shouted, “Sindu, please wait for me!' What struck me was the hairless head of that boy.
“Sir, your daughter Sindu is 51 indeed!” Without introducing herself, a lady standing beside me continued, “that boy is my son Harish. He is suffering from a disease. He lost all his 52 due to the side effects of the treatment. He 53 to come back to school fearing the unintentional but 54 teasing（取笑）of the schoolmates. Sindu visited him last week, and promised him that she would take care of the teasing issue. But, I 55 imagined she would sacrifice her lovely hair for the sake of my son!”
36. A. bowl B. newspaper C. daughter D. food
37. A. scene B. kitchen C. bedroom D. study
38. A. surprise B. anger C. tears D. smiles
39. A. took away B. picked up C. put aside D. put down
40. A. and B. so C. or D. but
41. A. delicious B. terrible C. entire D. wonderful
42. A. whatever B. wherever C. whichever D. whenever
43. A. moved B. hit C. covered D. put
44. A. nervous B. anxious C. excited D. confused
45. A. valuable B. useful C. wonderful D. expensive
46. A. happily B. excitedly C. painfully D. quietly
47. A. expectation B. confidence C. worry D. curiosity
48. A. message B. demand C. note D. sign
49. A. sent B. helped C. dropped D. collected
50. A. shouted B. smiled C. waved D. nodded
51. A. beautiful B. lovely C. faithful D. great
52. A. friends B. hair C. hope D. face
53. A. refused B. wished C. intended D. disliked
54. A. kind B. cruel C. harmless D. rough
55. A. hardly B. ever C. never D. nearly
SECTION B （共12小题；每小题 1分，满分12分）
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
I just read a beautiful story. It is about a little girl, a movie and a corporation. , if crying at work might be a problem, you should wait until you get home to read it. Trust me.
10-year-old Colby Curtin of Huntington Beach, California, had been with a rare form of cancer for three years. This month, it became that Colby would probably die soon. The one thing she wanted to do before she died was to see the movie Up. She’d been by the previews.
But Colby’s health was so that she could not be taken to the theater, and Up is only playing in theaters. By June 9, it was clear Colby wouldn’t it. A family friend began desperately dialing numbers at Pixar. She finally to someone and told them Colby’s will. After a discussion, Pixar to help.
Colby’s mother asked her, “Do you think you can hold on?” “I’m to die, but I’m going to wait for the movie, ”the girl replied.
On June 10, Pixar an employee to the Curtin’s home and showed the film on DVD-possibly the only DVD copy of the movie that exists.
Here’s what her mom said, “When I watched it, I had really no idea about the or the theme of the movie. I just know that word ‘Up’ and all of the balloons and I swear to you, for me it meant that Colby was going to go up, up to . ”
Colby died seven hours after watching the movie.
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I used to hate being called upon in class mainly because I didn’t like attention drawn to myself．And otherwise assigned a seat by the teacher, I always to sit at the back of the classroom．
All this after I joined a sports team．It began when a teacher suggested I try out for the basketball team．At first I thought it was a crazy because I didn’t have a good sense of balance, nor did I have the to keep pace with the others on the team and they would tease me．But for the teacher who kept insisting on my “ for it”, I wouldn’t have decided to give it a try．
Getting up the courage to go to the tryouts was only the of it! When I first started the practice sessions, I didn’t even know the rules of the game, much what I was doing．Sometimes I’d get and take a shot at the wrong direction—which made me feel really stupid． , I wasn’t the only one “new” at the game, so I decided to on learning the game, do my best at each practice session, and not to be too hard on myself for the things I didn’t “just yet”．
I practiced and practiced．Soon I knew the and the “moves”．Being part of a team was fun and motivating．Very soon the competitiv in me was winning over my lack of confidence．With time, I learned how to play and made friends in the friends who respected my efforts to work hard and be a team player．I never had so much fun!
With my self confidence comes more praise from teachers and classmates．I have gone from “ “in the back of the classroom and not wanting to call attention to myself, raising my hand—even when I sometimes wasn’t 100 percent I had the right answer．Now I have more self confidence in myself．
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第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30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，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I used to abandon myself to despair. Last year my mother from stroke（中风）and had an operation on her brain. I felt my whole world turn upside down and I had no what I could do to help her to relieve her . Tears welled up in my eyes whenever I was alone.
Last month I precious watch，which was an 18-year-old birthday gift from my father. I could not fall asleep for a couple of nights because I felt about the loss.
There have been many like these in my life. I could never figure out how to deal with such tough things I read“If You Have a Lemon，Make a Lemonade" by American writer Dale Carnegie.
“When the wise man is handed a lemon，he says，‘What 48 can I get from this? How can I my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a lemonade？’”he wrote.
I suddenly that life is full of ups and downs，so I need to stay all the time.
Now when I think of my past，I wish I could have handled things ．When my mother was fighting for ，I should have held her hands in mine，telling her things would get better instead of and crying.
Several weeks ago，I took part in a campus singing competition. I didn't a prize. If I had not this article，I would definitely have felt again. But instead，I smiled after the competition. I was happy that at least I had got some stage ．
Life is not just a bed of roses. There are thorns（刺）as well，but these thorns help us become and strong. When life us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
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A few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking dinner for my son and myself. For a , I had decided on frozen peas. As I was cutting open the bag, it from my hand and crashed to the floor. The peas, like marbles, everywhere. I tried to use a broom, with each swipe they just rolled across the kitchen．
For the next week, every time I was in the , I found a pea---in a corner, or behind a table leg. They kept . Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean behind it, and 12 frozen peas hidden underneath．
At the time I found those few remaining , I was in a new relationship with a wonderful I’d met in a support group. After we married, I was reminded those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had shattered（破碎）. My wife had died; I was in a new city with a busy job, and with a son having trouble his new surroundings and the of his mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered．
When life gets you , when everything you know comes apart, and when you think you’ll never , remember that it’s just a bag of scattered frozen peas. The peas can be , and life will move on. You’ll find all the peas , including the ones that are hardest to find. And when you’ve got them you’ll start to feel whole again．
The life you know can break apart at any time. But you’ll have to , and how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom, will you pick them up one by one and put your life back together?
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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。
In 2014 I was 22 years old and had just come back to Brazil after 14 months in England, holding my Cambridge Proficiency certificate. After nervously a short training course, I began to give class to my 12 students, all of them older than I was. I hard to remain calm in class and they wouldn't find out how unconfident I felt a lot of the time. I was quite , actually, until the end of and the night of the final oral test.
The test was going to start at 7 pm, and at 6:50, I myself in the teachers' bathroom to all the test questions again. I really wanted to learn the by heart so no one would think I was an inexperienced tester. The 4 is, I actually locked myself in the bathroom. I couldn't get out! The bell rang at 7 pm and I could hear the noise in the halls the students went to their rooms. I tried hard to the bathroom door, but failed.
I heard the cleaning lady's voice and asked for help as as I could. However, she wasn't exactly a thoughtful person, and started ;"Diana's locked in the bathroom!"Shame had fallen upon me! the course director, the secretary and some teachers were outside the bathroom trying to get me out, and, ,my students gathered outside too, happily saying things like "Aren't we !No test today !” All I could do was , feeling miserable and utterly stupid. The door finally opened, and my entire was waiting for me outside, naughty smiles on their faces." ! Teacher.” they said," we know you are human too!"
They all passed their test. True to the Brazilian style, we all went out for a beer afterward, and laughed the whole thing off.
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