第二节：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
One summer in college, I was invited to be an instructor at a high school leadership camp.
I first 36 a boy under the tree on the first day of camp. His obvious 37 and shyness made him appear weak and lonely. Nearby, 200 38 campers were playing and joking, but the boy seemed to want to be anywhere 39 where he was.
I was instructed to care more about campers who might feel 40 . So I 41 him and said, “Hi, I’m Kevin. It’s nice to meet you. How are you?”
42 a shaky voice he 43 answered, “Okay, I guess.”
I calmly asked him to join in the activities and 44 some new people. He quietly replied, “No, this is not really my thing.”
I could 45 that this whole experience was 46 to him. But I somehow knew it wouldn’t be right to 47 him, either. It was going to take more time and 48 .
The next day, I was leading camp songs for the campers. They eagerly participated. But the boy was just sitting alone, 49 out the window.
That evening at our nightly staff meeting, I made my 50 about him known. I asked them to pay special attention and spend time with him 51 they could.
The days flew by fast. When the “last dance” came, surprisingly, the boy from under the tree was now a shirtless dancing 52 . He owned the dance floor 53 meaningful time with others. I couldn’t’ believe it was him.
In that instant, I realized how easy it is to give a bit of 54 every day. You may never know how much each gesture may mean to someone else. I tell this story as 55 as I can, and I advise others to look out for their own “boy under the tree.”
36．A．learned B．recognized C．noticed D．heard
37．A．anger B．discomfort C．excitement D．satisfaction
38．A．ambitious B．curious C．anxious D．eager
39．A．other than B．just as C．or rather D．as well as
40．A．left out B．put out C．made out D．let out
41．A．passed B．left C．visited D．approached
42．A．At B．In C．On D．By
43．A．unfortunately B．unwillingly C．unconsciously D．uninterestingly
44．A．help B．interview C．find D．meet
45．A．sense B．suggest C．consider D．prove
46．A．familiar B．similar C．strange D．typical
47．A．push B．pull C．pardon D．punish
48．A．effects B．exercises C．efforts D．expenses
49．A．observing B．examining C．admiring D．staring
50．A．trouble B．concern C．devotion D．understanding
51．A．unless B．before C．when D．since
52．A．wonder B．danger C．scene D．instructor
53．A．sparing B．saving C．spreading D．sharing
54．A．himself B．yourself C．themselves D．itself
55．A．soon B．far C．often D．long
I used to be a very self-centered person, but in the past two years I have really changed. I have started to think about other people___ I think about myself. I am happy that I am becoming a____person.
I think my ____ _started when I was at Palomar College. At first, I just wanted to get my____ _and be left alone. I thought I was smarter than everyone else, so I hardly ever_____ to anyone in my classes. By the end of my first semester, I was really____ _. It seemed as if everyone but me had made friends and was having fun. So tried a(n) ___ _. I started asking people around me how they were doing, and if they were having trouble I___ _ to help. That was really a big___ for me. By the end of the year, I had several new friends, and two of___ _are still my best friends today.
A bigger cause of my new____ __, however, came when I took a part-time job at a Vista Nursing Home. One old lady there who had Alzheimer’s disease became my____ . Every time I came into her room, she was so ______ _ because she thought I was her daughter. Her real daughter never____ __her, so I took her place. She let me ____ ___that making others feel good made me feel good, too. When she died, I was____ _, but I was very grateful to her.
I think I am a much_____ person today than I used to be, and I hope I will not_____ _ these experiences. They have ____ me to care about other people more than about myself. I _____ __who I am today, and I could not say that a few years ago.
A．since B．before C．or D．unless
A．famous B．simple C．different D．skilled
A．education B．career C．tour D．change
A．balance B．homework C．degree D．interest
A．talked B．wrote C．lied D．reported
A．careful B．lonely C．curious D．guilty
A．argument B．game C．experiment D．defence
A．dared B．offered C．hesitated D．happened
A．dream B．problem C．duty D．step
A．us B．which C．them D．whom
A．attitude B．hobby C．hope D．luck
A．friend B．partner C．guide D．guest
A．polite B．happy C．strange D．confident
A．bothered B．answered C．visited D．trusted
A．explain B．guess C．declare D．see
A．homeless B．heartbroken C．bad-tempered D．hopeless
A．quieter B．busier C．better D．richer
A．forget B．face C．improve D．analyze
A．forced B．preferred C．ordered D．taught
A．miss B．like C．wonder D．expect
I hate spiders, flies, ants and heights…But one of my greatest was riding a bike due to my deformed (畸形的)feet. The good news is that I can even though my parents were told at my birth that walking was impossible. In spite of this, my dad was still to get me on a bike. Unfortunately, on the first I fell, breaking a bone. I became . Eight years later I had a strong to ride. So I went for bicycle riding lessons and by my second hour I could ride. I could not that I , Hannah, was riding a bike without falling!
I knew that I would let fear win and not try to ride, or try again and potentially fall. I wasn’t going to allow fear to from doing something is so easy for others to learn.
Just a few days later, I really was on top of the world. , I was 15,000 feet in the air and ready to jump out of an airplane. I my parents to let me go skydiving as an 18th birthday present. My , Alex, named me the “Rule Breaker” after I told him about my physical . As we boarded the plane, he whispered, “All right Hannah, let’s some rules together.” When we reached 15,000 feet, Alex and I were the first people the airplane.
No matter what disability, disorder or other tries to rob you, it is not for them to determine what you can and cannot do; it is up to YOU to your future. So take a healthy and be your own rule breaker. I am no longer Hannah who is ; I am Hannah who jumped out of a plane and can ride a bike. I can and so can you!
A．hobbies B．dreams C．fears D．regrets
A．skate B．walk C．speak D．run
A．prepared B．honored C．interested D．determined
A．attempt B．plan C．flight D．driving
A．available B．lucky C．smart D．desperate
A．strength B．idea C．talent D．desire
A．believe B．suppose C．hope D．think
A．neither B．either C．both D．all
A．protect B．separate C．prevent D．tell
A．which B．that C． / D．who
A．In return B．In particular C．In time D．In fact
A．promised B．permitted C．convinced D．allowed
A．instructor B．pilot C．driver D．waiter
A．Ability B．disability C．memory D．labor
A．make B．obey C．keep D．break
A．beyond B．above C．off D．below
A．difficulty B．benefit C．reason D．cause
A．design B．predict C．destroy D．decide
A．turn B．rest C．risk D．walk
A．healthy B．carefree C．thrilled D．disabled
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。
I will never forget the night in 1946 when disaster and difficulty visited our home.
My brother, George, came home from football practice and fell ______ with temperature of 40C. After an ______, the doctor informed us that it was polio. Polio was well known in Webster Groves, Missouri, having killed and ______ many children there.
The doctor felt duty-bound(义不容辞的）to inform George of the ______ truth. “I hate to tell you this, son” he said, “but the polio is so bad that you will probably never ______ again without a limp(跛行), and your left arm will be useless.”
George had always ______ himself as a championship wrestler in his senior year after just missing it as a junior. ______ able to speak, George whispered: “Doctor...”
“Yes,” said the doctor ______the bed. “What is it, my boy?”
“Go to hell(见鬼去吧),” said George in a voice filled with ______.
The doctor seemed shocked, but you see, Mom and Dad ______ us that just like you would never like someone else come into your house with an axe and break up your furniture, you should never let a ______ thought come into your mind and break up your dreams.
The next day, the nurse walked into George’s room to find him lying flat on his _____ on the floor.
“What’s going on in here?” asked the ______ nurse.
“I’m walking.” George ______ replied.
Sometimes it would take George 20 minutes just to get out of the chair, but he ______ any offers of help. I remember seeing him lift a tennis ball with as much ______ as a healthy man would need to lift a 100-pound barbell.
I also remember seeing him, six months later, step out on the mat as captain of the ______ team. George’s return from the horrible effects of polio was written about in ______ all over the state of Missouri. No one had ever been known to ______ so quickly or so completely from this disease. He had been through hell and he came out of it with a ______ as strong as steel.
A．ill B．asleep C．senseless D．silent
A．assessment B．analysis C．examination D．investigation
A．seized B．disabled C．injured D．discouraged
A．terrible B．simple C．unpleasant D．scientific
A．stand B．wrestle C．practice D．walk
A．dressed B．defended C．pictured D．awarded
A．Barely B．Well C．Finally D．Not
A．making up B．staring at C．turning to D．leaning over
A．anxiety B．determination C．admiration D．pride
A．comforted B．warned C．taught D．reminded
A．positive B．pleasant C．damaging D．disturbing
A．face B．head C．side D．knees
A．curious B．shocked C．amused D．sensitive
A．briefly B．firmly C．gently D．calmly
A．considered B．accepted C．refused D．missed
A．effort B．enthusiasm C．time D．energy
A．football B．wrestling C．weightlifting D．tennis
A．essays B．books C．magazines D．newspapers
A．flee B．arise C．recover D．survive
A．feeling B．desire C．body D．soul
I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight（货物）yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can still the brightness of sunshine. It would be to see again, but a can do strange things to people. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the of them made me more what I had.
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustmentsto reality. The more quickly a person is able to make these adjustments, the more his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never . I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—the to live—which I didn’t see, and they made me want to against blindness.
The hardest I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: the confidence that I am, despite being imperfect, a real, person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and this confidence. It had to start with the simplest things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he me, “and roll it around.” The words in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought : playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I a successful variation of baseball and I called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my . It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
A．remember B．affect C．measure D．bring
A．possible B．wonderful C．hopeful D．reasonable
A．question B．mistake C．disaster D．situation
A．importance B．value C．loss D．attention
A．record B．expect C．offer D．appreciate
A．natural B．modern C．meaningful D．challenging
A．necessary B．easy C．difficult D．practical
A．right B．plan C．place D．potential
A．guard B．hit C．argue D．fight
A．game B．skill C．lesson D．knowledge
A．self-control B．self-confidence C．self-defense D．self-improvement
A．modest B．energetic C．generous D．positive
A．strengthen B．express C．share D．destroy
A．urged B．blamed C．respected D．admired
A．held B．stuck C．bothered D．knocked
A．important B．specific C．common D．impossible
A．invented B．confirmed C．checked D．noticed
A．interest B．limitation C．experience D．responsibility
A．once B．unless C．because D．though
A．fail B．try C．act D．continue
I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d ?” Just when I started to that there would not be a Christmas that year, three women at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn’t . Somebody had thought of me to bring me a gift.
Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my Christmas t
here special and memorable, I remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of for as many children as I could possibly reach.
So I a plan 
and gathered forty people from my company to
help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they 
were . Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I them that they couldn’t open their presents every child had 
come forward. Finally the they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your present
s!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles up the room. The in the room was obvious, and wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling – the feeling I knew that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter.
A．sending B．making C．receiving D．exchanging
A．got B．prepared C．found D．expected
A．doubt B．hope C．accept D．suggest
A．broke in B．turned up C．settled down D．showed off
A．achievement B．loss C．relief D．justice
A．blamed B．forgotten C．loved
A．enough B．little C．poorly D．highly
A．present B．recent C．first D．previous
A．hardly B．occasionally C．regularly D．instantly
A．importance B．independence C．strength D．safety
A．kept up with B．came up with C．caught up with D．put up with
A．none B．few C．each D．some
A．fine B．normal C．helpful D．special
A．convinced B．guaranteed C．reminded D．promised
A．until B．after C．when D．since
A．chance B．gift C．reward D．moment
A．took B．lit C．burned D．cheered
A．atmosphere B．sympathy C．joy D．calmness
A．such B．it C．something D．everybody
A．from B．till C．for D．by