第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
A concert violinist was performing a difficult piece in front of a large audience. Suddenly there is a loud snap( 断裂声 ) and the__31___could be heard throughout the auditorium( 礼堂 ).The audience ___32___knew that a string( 弦)had broken. They all __33____the concert to stop for a short time ___34___another instrument was brought to the musician.
But instead, the __35___composed( 使镇定 ) herself and then signaled the conductor to start again.The orchestra( 管弦乐团 ) continued where they had __36___and the musician played the music on three strings. In her __37____she worked out new fingering to make up for the missing string. A work that few people could play __38___on four strings, the violinist played on three.
When she __39____and bowed to the audience,there was a silence in the hall. And then the crowd rose to their feet and cheered wildly. The violinist ___40___and wiped sweat from her forehead. When __41____returned to the hall, she ___42___why she had continued to play although there was a __43___string. "You know," she said, "sometimes it is the artist's __44___to find out how much music you can still ___45___with what has been left."
Maybe we've lived most of our lives and we have only a little time left. Maybe disease has ___46___us of our capacity( 能力 ) to work. Or perhaps a financial(财政的) loss has left us very__47___. Can we still make "music"?
There will come a time when we all __48___loss. Can we find the __49___to discover how much "music" we can still make with what has been left, just like the violinist? And if it takes extra courage to make the "music", others will __50___ your effort. Some people have lost more than others, but they are brave enough to face it. They inspire the rest of us to reach greater heights.
31. A. voice B. sound C.music D. scream
32. A.immediately B. gradually C. hardly D.eventually
33. A. hoped B. advised C.urged D.expected
34. A.when B.until C.after D. since
35. A.audience B.conductor C.violinist D.pianist
36. A.left B. stopped C.remained D.arrived
37. A.hands B. eyes C.opinion D.mind
38. A.fast B.badly C.well D.gently
39. A.started B.performed C.finished D.paused
40. A.worried B.smiled C.apologized D.escaped
41. A.thought B.happiness C.excitement D.silence
42. A.asked B. wondered C.explained D.introduced
43. A.broken B.lost C.bad D.difficult
44. A.dream B. plan C. suggestion D. task
45. A.take B.get C.make D.carry
46. A.warned B.reminded C. required D.robbed
47. A.poor B.brave C.guilty D.rich
48. A.appreciate B.avoid C.experience D.improve
49. A. assistance B. hope C. support D.courage
50. A. comment B.applaud C. accept D.blame
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。
Several times my daughter Carolyn had telephoned to say, “Mother, you must come to see the daffodils (黄水仙) ________ they are over.” I wanted to go, but it was a long drive from my home. “ I will come next Tuesday，” I ________ , a little hesitantly, on her third call.
Next Tuesday I drove there. When I finally ________ Carolyn’s house and hugged my grandchildren, I said, “________ the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in the fog, and there is ________ in the world except you and these children that I want to see badly enough to drive ________ inch！”
My daughter smiled and said, “You will never forgive yourself if you ________ the chance of seeing the beautiful flowers.”
So we drove there. After twenty minutes on the highway we ________onto a small road and I saw a small church. There we got out of the car. I ________Carolyn down the path. As I turned a ________ of the path, I looked up and gasped. Before me lay the most glorious ________ . There were five acres of flowers. It looked ________ someone had taken ________ gold and poured it down ________ the mountain peak and slopes.
“Who planted all these?” I asked Carolyn.
“It’s ________ one woman,” Carolyn answered. “That’s her home,” Carolyn ________ a cottage .We walked up to the house. On the patio(露台), we saw a ________ .
There it was: “ The Daffodil Principe:1. 50,000 bulbs(球茎). 2. One at a time, by one woman. 3.________ in 1958.”
For me that moment was a life-changing________.I thought of this woman whom I had ________ met and who had begun one bulb at a time to bring the beauty and joy to an unknown mountaintop.
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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。
We waiters need to face all kinds of customers every day. When something goes wrong, we should have the ability to keep on going and ________ the customers.
I remember my first job was at a fine restaurant. One day, the manager informed all the cooks and ________ that a VIP group were coming for ________ ．The group were VIPs in the city's restaurants Indus ________ 10 people.
After they arrived, we let them get ________ comfortably and drinks were ordered. ________ , the head waiter would be the person in ________ of wine service. However, the manager asked me to serve that noon. I had never served a group of 10, ________had I done wine service.
When it's turn to ________ one of the wine glasses in front of a young woman, somehow I lost my trip(抓）and the other ________ fell on top of her, and then to the floor and ________ in pieces. I felt ________and apologized many times to the woman and to the rest of the group.
Quickly, the manager ________ my aid, helped in the clean-up, and sent out their ________right away. The group forgave me and the young woman repeatedly informed me it's OK.
________ on that day, my manager told me, "Mistakes and ________ do happen. If you know why they happened, learn from it and move on, ________ you still have a table to serve. Keep your head up and be confident. The glasses are ________．"
I understand why he was truly a well respectable restaurant manager within our ________ ．His close relationship with the group made the situation calm and the group ________ me for that.
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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，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
I was a single parent of four small children, working at a low-paid job. But I didn’t want my children to know we were poor, so when Christmas was drawing near, I decided to give them some money to buy some .
They planned weeks ahead of time, asking what they wanted for Christmas. Luckily, I had saved＄120 for __ to share by all five of us.The big arrived. I gave each kid a twenty-dollar bill and them to look for gifts of about four dollars each. Then everyone scattered(散开).We had two hours to shop, then we would back at the “Santa’s Workshop”.
Driving home, everyone was in high Christmas spirits, my younger daughter, Ginger, who was unusually .She had only one small, flat bag with a few candies, fifty-cent candies! I was so angry, but I didn’t say anything we got home. I called her into my bedroom and closed the door,________to be angry again. This is what she told me.
“I was looking ________ thinking of what to buy, and I ________ to read the little cards on the ‘Giving Trees’. One was for a little girl, four years old, and all she ________ for Christmas was a doll（玩具娃娃）.So I took the card off the tree and ________ the doll for her. We have so much and she doesn’t have anything.”
I never felt so ________ as I did that day.
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阅读下面短文，撑握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项
My friend Kenny and his family had just returned from Disney World. “I saw a sight I’ll ________ forget,” he said. “I want you to know about it.”
He and his family were ________ Cinderella’s(灰姑娘)castle. It was packed with kids and parents. Suddenly all the children rushed to one ________ . If it had been a boat, the castle would have tipped over. Cinderella had ________ .
Kenny said she was a beautiful young girl with each hair________, white skin, and a sweet smile. She stood in the garden of ________ , each wanting to touch and to be touched.
For some reason Kenny ________ and looked toward the other side of the castle. There was a boy who might be seven or eight years old. His ________ was hard to determine because of his height. Dwarfed(侏儒)in height, he stood ________ quietly, holding the hand of an older brother.
It was very ________ that he wanted to be with the children. He ________ to be in the middle of the kids reaching for Cinderella. But can’t you feel his ________ of being turned down? Fear of being laughed at again?
But Cinderella ________ the little boy. She immediately began walking in his direction. ________ but firmly inching through the crowd of children, she became ________ . She walked quickly across the floor, bent down and placed a ________ on his face.
“I thought you would ________ the story,” Kenny told me. I did. It________me of the one you and I had heard of before. The names are ________ , but isn’t the story almost the same? In both cases a gift was given. In both cases love was ________ . In both cases the lovely one performed a gesture beyond words.
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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。
My father was a music teacher who traveled to farm homes or homes in smaller communities to teach his students. He was home in the evening because he left home very early to start teaching and would after everyone, except my mother, was fast asleep. Mom was a(n) taskmaster at home. She demanded that we all the rules without any excuses. When we didn’t, there were always punishments.
One day I got myself into a real . But this time, my mother told me that my father would me. It was clear that my improper behavior was being referred to my .
But I knew I would be in bed he got home.
I went to bed just in case my dad came home. I I would sleep when he got home so he wouldn’t wake me up to me, and by the time morning rolled around, I would probably being punished.
I was quite . I got up thinking all was well but instead, Dad called me in to the playroom. He told me to sit down in the chair directly him and then told me how disappointed he was because he me to do what my mother asked when he wasn’t home. He then told me that I would the privilege(特权) of playing with any of my for two days.
I always remember that even after all these years have gone by. The reason I remember it so well is that it me a good lesson. And, that lesson is that consequences will befall(降临到) you no matter how much you don’t want them.
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