完型填空 (20小题，每小题1分，共20分)
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  26  side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to  27  in good health, or  28  about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to  29  damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text  30  the title. Therefore, the scissors would  31  before they start,  32  halfway done when I find out the  33  result.
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your  34 . You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be  35  up. But you know the future is unpredictable (不可预料) — the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left  36 . Thus you are  37  in a difficult position and feel sad. How  38  that nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life  39  greatly on your preference of one choice to the other.
In fact that is what  40  is like: we are often  41  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  42  we get into another. The  43  may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I  44  remember a philosopher’s remarks: “When one door shuts, another opens in life.” So a casual (不经意)  45  may not be a bad one.
26. A. front              B. same          C. either        D. opposite
27. A. get               B. keep           C. lead               D. bring
28. A. advice             B. news       C. a theory                 D. a report
29. A. suffer         B. reduce         . prevent                   D. cause
30. A. on               B. for            C. without            D. off
31. A. use               B. handle        C. prepare              D. stay
32. A. or                B. but     C. so                             D. for
33. A. satisfying      B. regretful       C. surprising      D. impossible
34. A. courage            B. strength        C. attention      D. patience
35. A. given             B. held           C. made               D. picked
36. A. near              B. alone          C. about          D. behind
37. A. filled        B. attracted       C. caught       D. struck
38. A. dares        B. comes          C. deals         D. does
39. A. improves          B. changes        C. progresses      D. goes
40. A. study         B. society         C. nature        D. life
41. A. faced        B. supplied         C. connected       D. fixed
42. A. before        B. after           C. until         D. as
43. A. following     B. next            C. above        D. former
44. A. still          B. also            C. once       D. almost
45. A. treatment     B. action          C. choice        D. remark

科目 英语   题型 完型填空   难度 较易