第二节完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的(A、B、C和D)四个选项中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
You may have heard of Osceola McCarty, an 88-year-old woman in Mississippi who had worked for over 75 years as a 36 woman.
One day after she retired, she went to the bank and discovered that her small monthly 37 had grown to over$150,000. Then to everyone’s surprise, she turned around and 38 almost all of the money to the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) for a 39 fund for students with financial needs. Immediately, she made national 40 .
What you have not heard is how Osceola’s gift had 41 my life. I am 19 years old and the first 42 of an Osceola McCarty Scholarship.
I was a 43 student, and I was determined to go to USM. But I 44 being qualified for a regular scholarship by one point on the entrance exams, and a scholarship was the 45 way I could attend.
One Sunday, I came across the story in the paper about Osceola McCarty and her generous 46 . The next day I went to the financial aid office, and they told me there was still no money 47 for me, but if anything came up they’d call.
A few days later, I was going out with my mother 48 the phone rang. I was told I had been chosen to be given the first Osceola McCarty Scholarship. I was 49 !
McCarty worked hard her whole life, washing clothes by hand. Now that she is 50 , she sits most of the day and reads the Bible, that is, when she is not getting rewards. Every time I go to visit her, she has a new 51 . She’s even gone to the White House. She is so happy and proud. We have tried to talk her into getting a VCR (录像机) so she can tape the programs and see 52 on TV—she just smiles.
McCarty gave me much more than a scholarship. She taught me about the gift of 53 . Now I know there are good people in the world who do good things. She worked hard and helped others, and in turn she has inspired me to 54 when I can some day. So 55 I plan to add to her scholarship fund.
36. A. café B. buffet C. laboratory D. laundry
37. A. expenses B. profits C. savings D. wages
38. A. returned B. donated C. delivered D. removed
39. A. welfare B. project C. scholarship D. research
40. A. headlines B. customs C. sympathies D. doubts
41. A. affected B. formed C. disturbed D. ruined
42. A. designer B. receiver C. contributor D. reporter
43. A. considerate B. dedicated C. casual D. sensitive
44. A. advocated B. regretted C. missed D. avoided
45. A. normal B. wrong C. legal D. only
46. A. gift B. idea C. decision D. plan
47. A. left B. raised C. available D. enough
48. A. since B. before C. though D. when
49. A. shocked B. excited C. puzzled D. encouraged
50. A. retired B. dismissed C. promoted D. transferred
51. A. job B. hobby C. life D. award
52. A. everybody B. everything C. herself D. us
53. A. giving B. understanding C. receiving D. loving
54. A. give up B. give back C. give off D. give in
55. A. suddenly B. originally C. gradually D. eventually
The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during the break .She seemed so small as she pushed her way __36__ the crowd of boys on the playground . She___37__ from them all.
I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing __38__.She would practice dribbling(运球)and shooting over and over again, sometimes until __39__. One day I asked her __40__ she practiced so much. She looked __41__in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation she said, "I want to go to college. The only way I can __42__ is that if I get a scholarship, I am going to play college basketball. I want to be __43__. My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count."
Well, I had to give it in to her--- she was __44__.One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head __45_ in her arms. I walked toward her and quietly asked what was _46___. "Oh, nothing," came a soft reply. "I'm just too short." The coach told her that at her height she would probably __47__get to play for a top ranked team,__48__offered a scholarship. So she _49___stop dreaming about college.
She was __50___ and I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just didn't __51__ the power of a dream. He told her __52__she really wanted to play for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship, __53___could stop her except one thing-- her own attitude. He told her again," if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count."
The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college recruiter(招聘人员). She was indeed offered a __54__ .She was going to get the college education that she had __55___and worked toward for all those years.
A.across B.through C.over D.into
A.brought out B.showed out C.stood out D.worked out
A.only B.lonely C.simply D.alone
A.dark B.dawn C.midnight D.daybreak
A.how B.when C.why D.what
A.worriedly B.shyly C.quietly D.directly
A.go B.get C.enter D.attend
A.worse B.better C.the best D.the worst
A.encouraged B.determined C.fixed D.fascinated
A.covered B.enclosed C.dropped D.buried
A.the affair B.the matter C.matter D.the wrong
A.ever B.even C.once D.never
A.far more B.much less C.much fewer D.many more
A.should B.must C.can D.may
A.overjoyed B.moved C.embarrassed D.heartbroken
A.understand B.experience C.learn D.believe
A.even if B.as if C.that if D.only if
A.anything B.nothing C.something D.everything
A.prize B.medal C.scholarship D.position
A.dreamed of B.accepted C.thought of D.appreciated
In the clinic, I asked if Michael could be retested, so the specialist tested him again. To my 16 , it was the same score.
Later that evening, I 17 told Frank what I had learned that day. After talking it over, we agreed that we knew our son much better than an IQ test. We decided that Michael’s score must have been a 18 and we should treat him 19 as usual.
We moved to Indiana in 1962, and Michael studied at Concordia High School in the same year, he got 20 grades in the school, especially in biology and chemistry, which was a great comfort.
Michael 21 Indiana University in 1965 as a pre-medical student. Soon afterwards, his teacher permitted him to take more courses than 22 . In 1968, he was accepted by the School of Medicine, Yale University.
On graduation day in 1972, Frank and I 23 the ceremony (典礼) at Yale. After the ceremony, we told Michael about the 24 IQ score he got when he was six. Since that day, Michael sometimes would look at us and say 25 , “My dear mom and dad never told me that I couldn’t be a doctor, not until after I graduated from medical school!” It is his special way of thanking us for the 26 we had in him.
Interestingly, Michael then asked for another IQ test. We went to the same clinic where he had 27 the test eighteen years before. This time Michael scored 126, an increase of 36 points. A result like that was supposed to be 28 .
Children often do as well as what adults, particularly parents and teachers, 29 of them. That is, tell a child he is “ 30 ” , and he may play the role of a foolish child.
A.joy B.surprise C.dislike D.disappointment
A.tearfully B.fearfully C.cheerfully D.hopefully
A.joke B.mistake C.warning D.wonder
A.specially B.strictly C.naturally D.carefully
A.poor B.good C.average D.standard
A.visited B.entered C.passed D.chose
A.allowed B.described C.required D.offered
A.missed B.held C.delayed D.attended
A.high B.same C.low D.different
A.curiously B.eagerly C.calmly D.jokingly
A.confidence B.interest C.pride D.delight
A.received B.accepted C.organized D.discussed
A.imperfect B.impossible C.uncertain D.unsatisfactory
A.hear B.learn C.expect D.speak
A.wise B.rude C.shy D.stupid
A student went to college after 41__ all his school examinations. There he put his name down for world geography. 42_ after the first day, he did not go to 43_ any more. The teacher noticed that this student was 44_ absent and thought that he had changed to 45 class. He was very 46_ when he saw the boy's name on the list(名单) of students 47_ wanted to take the geography examination 48_ the end of the year.
The teacher had prepared a difficult examination paper, which covered 49 he had taught, and he was eager to see 50 this student answered the questions. He expected that his answers would be very 51_; but when he examined his paper carefully, he found only one small mistake in them. 52_ this surprised him very much, he went through the paper 53_, but was still not able to find 54 one mistake, so he sent 55 the student to question him about his work after the exam..
When the student had 56 the room, the teacher said to him, “I know that you came to my class only once on the first day and that you have been absent from all the others. Yet I have found only one small mistake in your paper. 57_ is that?”
“Oh, I'm sorry about that mistake, sir, ”answered the student. “After the examination, I realized 58 I ought to have written. I would not have made that mistake 59 I had been confused(弄糊涂) by your 60_ lecture.”
A.having B.taking C.passing D.failing
A.So B.But C.However D.And
A.it B.lesson C.college D.class
A.always B.once C.never D.sometimes
A.another B.the other C.other D.others
A.angry B.happy C.sorry D.surprised
A.that he B.he C.who D.whom
A.by B.at C.after D.in
A.everything B.something C.anything D.nothing
A.what B.when C.how D.why
A.good B.full C.nice D.bad
A.For B.As C.So D.Though
A.two times B.twice C.once D.again once
A.more than B.another C.the other D.second
A.with B.to C.x D.for
A.reached to B.arrived to C.arrived into D.come into
A.Why B.What C.How D.Which
A.where B.why C.what D.when
A.unless B.if C.because D.as
A.first B.last C.latest D.certain
We always want what we cannot have. When we’re young, we want to stay out late, have romantic relationships and be 1 .However, when we're 2 , we want to go back to being young and we 3 the days when we didn’t have to worry about complex love affairs, 4 pressure and money problems.
Young people believe adulthood 5 freedom from parents and schoolwork.When they get older, they feel that 6 is freedom from work pressure and family responsibilities. To 7 this feeling, people say, "The grass is always8 on the other side of the fence."
As 9 , we like to be like adults but as young adults, we 10 to be young again. We think about staying out late and 11 our own money to spend.Suddenly, we see that love can result in 12 hearts; staying out late makes it hard to get ready for 13 the next morning. We find out that adult life is not as 14 as we thought it would be and suddenly, 15 becomes very scary.
Life is 16 .It gives us time to 17 but also requires us to work. The time will come when we must grow up and we will always look back wishing we 18 being young a bit longer. That time will not come back. It is normal to want what we cannot have but the 19 is that to be happy is to appreciate what we have.That is the first step to grow up. 20 life becomes more complex, we will not regret the time we wasted wishing we were adults.
A.comfortable B.dependent C.polite D.independent
A.defeated B.older C.married D.confident
A.like B.forget C.miss D.regret
A.job B.study C.age D.health
A.creates B.shows C.limits D.means
A.adulthood B.childhood C.parenthood D.neighborhood
A.reduce B.experience C.describe D.understand
A.thinner B.greener C.yellow D.colorful
A.researchers B.adults C.teenagers D.elders
A.decide B.wish C.return D.stop
A.making B.worrying about C.having D.showing off
A.healthy B.ambitious C.excited D.broken
A.breakfast B.school C.work D.exercise
A.rich B.busy C.poor D.easy
A.love B.life C.career D.future
A.long B.fair C.short D.beautiful
A.study B.think C.live D.play
A.stopped B.imagined C.enjoyed D.tried
A.reason B.result C.truth D.dream
A.When B.If C.Unless D.Before
A camp built by students and volunteers spreads over Southern Methodist University(SMU). The affordable 21 are designed to be used by the poor as well as survivors of war and natural disasters.
“By the time 2020, there’s going to be about 1.7 billion people living in slums(贫民窟) so we would like to 22 change,” says Stephanie Hunt, co-founder of the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanities at SMU. The institute, which 23 build the village on SMU’s campus, was established to solve problem of the poor in the United States and around the world through engineering, and the free 24 .
The goal is not just to 25 lives, but to change the victims’ lives. The Institute hopes some entrepreneurs(企业家) might program and 26 some money with these ideas. One of the structures in the SMU village was built with bricks made 27 from recycled plastic bags.
They’re 28 together with heavy wires. Harvey Lacey, father of two college-aged sons, including one here at SUM, heard about this project and 29 his invention. It’s a heavy-duty, hand-crank compactor(手动压缩机)that anybody can use to form the big bricks he calls Ubuntu Blox.
“The advantages are that these 30 weigh less than two pounds. They’re very, very 31 These things can go for many generations of housing, ”says Lacey, who is32 the design. Anybody can follow his online plans to 33 the compactor that turns plastic bags into bricks.
On this warm day, it’s 34 inside the Ubuntu Blox hut, thanks 35 to the thick plastic insulation(绝缘). Kenyan 36 Ronald Omyonga, visiting the global village before returning to his native Africa, says his country is full of these recyclable bags. With Lacey’s design, he says that litter could be transformed into 37 housing. He dreams of other 38 too.
“Look at the Harvey Lacey hut, as a means of creating 39 ,”says Omyonga.“Leaning the environment, and turning 40 into something that can form houses, not just for the poor.”
A.shelters B.clubs C.parties D.rooms
A.affect B.adapt C.effect D.adopt
A.discovered B.helped C.studied D.explored
A.entry B.competition C.trade D.market
A.save B.survive C.defend D.cure
A.share B.donate C.earn D.cost
A.briefly B.relevantly C.mostly D.efficiently
A.held B.stressed C.knocked D.packed
A.delivered B.contributed C.devoted D.sacrificed
A.piles B.masses C.loaves D.blocks
A.fragile B.thick C.hard D.bitter
A.giving out B.giving off C.giving up D.giving away
A.build B.invent C.improve D.possess
A.hot B.cold C.wet D.cool
A.nearly B.exactly C.partly D.fairly
A.doctor B.athlete C.photographer D.architect
A.safe B.dangerous C.beautiful D.large
A.advantages B.chances C.benefits D.profits
A.things B.jobs C.wonders D.conditions
A.waste B.resources C.ideas D.technology