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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Laughter and tears are part of living．But do you find enough time for laughter? I am not
asking if you __21__ lots of good times．__22__ we should laugh during the happy times．But do you also laugh during the__23__times?
Erma Bombeek is known for her humorous books, but she wrote one that __24__ a more serious topic：__25__ in children．Erma talks with many children with cancer and learns __26__
life lessons from them．She learns, for instance, that cancer survivors know how to__27__.
She __28__ the experience of 15-year-old Jessica from Burlinton．Jessica’s leg was cut
off at the knee because of cancer．She was learning to __29__ a prosthesis(假肢)．Jessica tells
about playing __30__．She kicked the ball __31__ and it flew off in one __32__ while her artificial leg flew into another．She fell on the __33__ and laughed．
Jessica may not have laughed about her cancer，but she laughed about handling the__34__
of it．And her laughter helped her a deal．
There is the story of 17-year-old Betsy．She __35__her way to the radiation room for her regular radiation therapy(化疗)．As __36__，she dropped her hospital gown and，wearing only her birthday suit，__37__ onto the table and waited．The extra people in the room were not the medical students she had thought，but__38__painters giving an estimate on painting! Betsy laughed heartily about the incident．And like Jessica, her __39__ to laugh helped her to deal with one of the most difficult things a young person can endure — cancer．
Do you find plenty of__40__ for laughter? 
You can…if you also find reasons to laugh during the especially difficult times．
Survivors know how to laugh．If you can laugh even when the going is rough，you’ll make
it．And you’ll smile 
at the end．
A．lose B．miss C．experience D．laugh
A．Of course B．In addition C．At first D．First of all
A．ordinary B．difficult C．pleasant D．usual
A．connected B．reported C．referred D．covered
A．cancer B．disability C．illness D．laughter
A．serious B．important C．careful D．thoughtful
A．cry B．shout C．laugh D．face
A．describes B．learns C．keeps D．imagines
A．put B．have C．wear D．make
A．basketball B．badminton C．volleyball D．soccer
A．gently B．hard C．slightly D．straightly
A．way B．method C．direction D．point[
A．floor B．table C．chair D．bed
A．causes B．results C．process D．ends
A．fought B．took C．made D．pushed
A．common C．before D．usual
A．climbed B．lay C．jumped D．sat
A．also B．rather C．already D．almost
A．strength B．willingness C．ability D．confidence
A．times B．places C．days D．moments
All of us go through some difficult times as we approach teenage years. It's the age when we have to deal with the most in our life. This transition (过渡) from childhood to adulthood is for some, but rough for others. The most important thing about being a teenager is . When we are teenagers, we would get blamed or even punished for anything wrong we do.
It's all not so about being a teenager though. We don't have to have our take us to somewhere we want to go or we couldn't go before. We can have with friends or even alone, which we couldn’t have because we were too to know what pleasure is! It’s a very enjoyable time of life. During this age, we are old enough to what is good for us, and make decisions without others.
But like the saying goes, “All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue .” During this period, we are having much for our studies. If we don’t pass, we won't get jobs, and things will take a turn for the . With the present world economy in , we have to do really, really well in our 49 for a job. Adults say that their is the hardest part of life. But I think the transition from a kid to an adult is much than being already an adult. What we do in our teenage years will what we become and how we lead our life in the future.
In conclusion, it is quite that parents put much pressure on an already stressed out teenager. If they realized that, living condition for teenagers would be much better. for the teens ourselves we should get to know what is best for us. What’s more, we should understand the right of life we choose at this age can make us happy for the rest of our existence.
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One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault.It's like looking at the tiled (铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is____.
Once I heard a bald man said, "Whenever I enter a room, all I see is hair." Once you've ____what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will completely make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different ____,or forget about it and _ __the tiles in your life that are not missing.
We all know people who have had a relatively ____ life, yet are essentially unhappy while people who have suffered a great deal but generally remain happy.
The first secret is gratitude. All happy people are ___. Ungrateful people cannot be happy.The second is ___that happiness is a byproduct of something else. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are likely to experience.Finally,if you choose to find the ____in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As for happiness itself, this largely depends on your decision to make.
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About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college, I was working as an intern（实习生） at my University’s Museum of Natural History. One day while working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an old couple come in with a little girl a wheelchair.
As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was almost on her chair. I then she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and body. She was wearing a little white dress with red dots. As the couple her up to me I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink（眨眼）. As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the cutest, largest smile I have ever seen.
All of a sudden her was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just me and almost instantly gave me a completely new of what life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her world: a world of , love and .
That was ten years ago. I’m a successful business person now and I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable（非凡的）lesson about life that she me.
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When you smile, not only do you feel happy, but you also bring a ray of light into the lives of . Someone once said, “ A smile is a curve (弧线) that sets everything straight, by your face value.” Know that a smile is a little thing that can produce results. What it takes is a smile to make short work of many difficulties, for just being happy helps others along. I’ve often a smile as the touch of God given to His people.
A day a smile is to waste a day. Some people grin (咧嘴笑) and bear it, while others smile and change the world. Don’t you the feelings of a returned smile? It can move into the and release good into the world. It can make friends with strangers. It can bring friends closer together. It can bridge the generation gap. It can the heart with love.
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My son Tom taught me a beautiful lesson today. He is three years old and it is amazing watching him grow up.
He called out to me today saying“Papa, sit.” That usually means everything and going next to him and sitting down to play with him. I did that, as he can be stubborn and will not stop calling out until I . He was playing with beads (珠子) , pushing a string through them. Then after he finished playing with the beads, it was time to put back in the box that they are stored in. I saw him pick up each bead, look at it as if it were made of chocolate and then placed it into its box.
With over a hundred beads to go, I was getting . “ What a long time it will take ! Why cannot he grab ten beads in one go and drop them in?” said my anxious mind. I noticed that he did this with as much as he had while we were playing. I didn’t see any difference between his play and his the toy. Obviously he enjoyed both.
Then it suddenly me that this boy was enjoying the whole .The journey was his goal. For him the was in the game and after the game, not just in the fun part. What a great perspective to live each moment as it is the moment; to do each task as it is the most awesome task. Nothing else matters.
Looking at how my son was putting beads into the box me that the process was the goal.
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