第三节完形填空(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。      
It used to be our custom to take handmade baskets to friends on May Day．We would   21   baskets on a doorstep, knock on the door, and then run away as fast as our legs could   22   us．It was delightful to peer (窥视) around a bush and watch our friends open their   23   and pick up the colorful gift,   24   who had left it out for them.
I clearly   25   the May Day of the year when I turned ten．That year I was faced with a(an)   26   involving one of my dearest friends, Pam．We had studied and   27   together nearly every day, but things   28   after a new family had moved into our small town．Pam was spending more and more time at their house and I felt   29  and left out.
When my mother asked me   30   I was going to take a May Day basket to Pam’s house, I responded   31   , “Absolutely not! I hate Pam.” I began to cry.
Mom wiped away my   32   and told me that things and people change．She explained that one of the greatest things friends can do is to give each other a   33   to grow, to change and to develop, and that it’s   34   for one’s friends to spend time with other people.
I   35  decided to give Pam a basket as a sign of forgiveness, and asked my sister to help me do it．As we watched from our   36   place, Pam picked up the basket and said loudly enough for us to hear, “Thank you, Susie, I hoped you wouldn’t   37   me!”
That day, I made a   38   that changed my life: I decided to hold my friends tightly in my heart, but   39    in my expectations of them, allowing them   40   to grow and to change—with or without me.
21．A．hang         B．place         C．throw          D．give
22．A．send         B．transport          C．carry           D．support
23．A．baskets        B．eyes            C．arms            D．doors
24．A．asking         B．wondering           C．mentioning      D．informing
25．A．remember     B．experience          C．remind                D．grasp
26．A．plan         B．task             C．opportunity      D．challenge
27．A．lived         B．played             C．traveled           D．discussed
28．A．failed              B．finished           C．changed           D．proved
29．A．started         B．hurt             C．paid            D．injured
30．A．why              B．what         C．whether           D．how
31．A．anxiously     B．weakly         C．angrily            D．happily
32．A．tears         B．thoughts          C．unhappiness     D．freedom
33．A．reason         B．means          C．chance         D．direction
34．A．able        B．impossible       C．acceptable        D．doubtful
35．A．nearly             B．hardly             C．finally             D．generally
36．A．covering          B．hiding          C．cheering          D．passing
37．A．miss         B．forget              C．disturb             D．control
38．A．decision       B．mistake         C．suggestion        D．difference
39．A．deeply        B．shortly             C．highly             D．loosely
40．A．time         B．space           C．sense           D．care

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