One Friday night, a poor young man stood at the train station. He played his violin and many people put 41 into the hat in front of him.
The next day, the young man came to the station 42 . But this time he took out a large piece of paper 43 some words on it. It said “Last night a lady 44 Mrs Sang put an important thing into my hat 45 . Please come for it.”
After about an hour, a middle-aged woman ran to the young man in a hurry and said, “You do come here. I know that you’re a(n) 46 man and will certainly come here.” They had a talk and the young man made sure she was the owner. Then he took out a lottery ticket and 47 it to the woman. Her husband bought a lottery ticket every day. Yesterday when she knew the lottery ticket he bought won, she was very 48 . The prize of the lottery ticket was $ 500,000. When she walked past the young man, she took out $50 and put it in the hat. 49 , the lottery ticket was also thrown in.
Later, someone asked the young man, “You play the violin every day to make money. Why didn’t you just take the prize of the lottery ticket for yourself?” the young man said，“Although I don’t have much money, I live happily. But if I 50 honesty, I won’t be happy forever.” A. money B. tickets C. paper
A. instead B. differently C. again
A. for B. with C. over
A. introduced B. spelled C. named
A. by mistake B. for mistake C. on mistake
A. crazy B. cool C. honest
A. gave B. lent C. offered
A. surprising B. happy C. exciting
A. But B. However C. Therefore
A. have B. win C. lose
【2013广西玉林】(二〉完形填空（毎小题1分，共10分〉
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从各小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项
Mr. Smith is a successful man. He is very rich. He lives in a big city now. Last month he came back to his hometown. people knew him, because be left there when he was a child. And when be stopped near a house, he saw an old woman sitting in the sun enjoying herself. Her were closed and she didn't notice there was a man looking at her carefully.
"Aunt," Mr Smith called out, “Aunt!”
The old woman didn't believe her nephew (侄子）had come to see her. She was very glad and excited. Tears (泪水) her face. Thirty years! It was for thirty years that she hadn't seen him. As a boy in the small village, he was always hungry and had little food to eat. So he went to city to find a . He didn't come back after that. So he couldn’t see his parents and his aunt .
Mr Smith had only a holiday. He asked some neighbors to repair his Mint's small old home. He never forgot his teacher, Mt Green, who often helped him be got into trouble. So he went to the school.
“ I see Mr. Green, sir? ” he asked an old man at the school gate(门口).
“Oh, sorry, you can’t.” answered the man.
“But why? What happened to him?”
“He died two years ago!”
Mr. Smith felt very sad when he heard the news. What a pity! He could never say thanks to Mr. Green.
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【2014达州】A
The Malaysian government announced that Malaysian flight MH370 lost the contact with the Air Traffic Control the morning of March 8th. The flight at 00:41 a.m. that morning and planned to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. It carried 239 passengers, 154 Chinese. The passengers come from 14 countries and areas. Nobody knows what happened to the plane. Over twenty countries took part in it. On March 24, Prime Minister of Malaysia said that MH370 crashed in southern Indian Ocean and none of the passengers survived. When we heard the bad news, we were very sad. So far the plane wreckage (飞机残骸) yet. We hope they will find it soon.
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【2014鄂州】阅读下面短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，使短文完整、通顺。
Yesterday my son and I went to the grocery store. In front of us was a little girl with her mother. The little girl was asking her mother for a box of Smarties. The polite way she was asking broke the mother’s heart. “I’m sorry, honey, but we have no money to buy it.”
My son was watching that dialogue. By the way, he had been raking leaves in our garden to himself some money to buy a bike. As he watched the mother and daughter leave the , he ran to the candy counter and bought a box of Smarties with his money. Then he ran out after the little girl and her mother, and gave them the . He came back and told me what he told them, “Every kid should have a pack of Smarties because they can make you .”
I was so excited I bought a pack of Smarties for my son. I told him that I was proud of him, and that was for his act of generosity because he gave his own Smarties to others. Quickly, he , “But you do nice things for people and you never get anything for it.” I explained, “When you do something nice for someone, you shouldn’t get anything, but when you do get something you should be very .”
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【2014年烟台】完形填空（缺画）
Friends play an important role in our life. Most people hope that their friends will always be there. They friendship to last forever. , even the best friendship can end.
As time goes by, many friendships end because of a(n) in personality or way of life. The friendship slowly loses importance and finally .
Tommy wrote, “I didn’t even know the friendship was over until I caught myself thinking of Alan as a former friend.”
Peter explained. “We seeing each other less and less. The friendship was just over.”
Sometimes friendships suddenly from a disagreement or move to another place.
Alice said, “The end of our friendship was a gradual thing. I moved from one side of the city to the other. Since then we made a phone call. We met less and less. At last our friendship ended.”
Jack said, “When I moved to Seattle after college, our friendship died. Both of us were always with new jobs, so we didn’t keep touch with each other. Our friendship was so dead that I didn’t call him I went home.”
Yet the biggest problem to a friendship is change. Lillian Rubin in her book Just Friends say, “Generally it’s that friends will accept each other if they both remain what they were when they met, or change in similar directions. If they change or grow in different ways, the friendship most likely lost.”
No matter why, when, or how friendships end, there is always pain of loss. When nothing can be to keep the friendship, it is important to forget the pain. Then move on new friendships.
May new friendships bring you pleasure and happiness!
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【2014呼和浩特】B
A young man went to visit a wise man living deep in the mountain for the wisdom of life.
“Excuse me! Could you please tell me what the most day in our lives is? Is it the day when we were born or the day we ? Is it the day when we fall in love or the day we succeed?” The young man asked.
“ . The most important day in our lives is today.” The wise man replied calmly.
“Why?” The young man felt more than . “Is it because there is a moving event taking place today?”
“No. Nothing has happened today.”
“Is it because of my visit?”
“Even if nobody visited me today, today is very important because today is the only wealth we have. No matter how memorable yesterday is, it has gone by like a ship going down into the sea; no matter how bright tomorrow may be, it is yet to come; but no matter how common today is, it is our control (控制).”
The young man still wanted to ask something, while the wise man him and said, “When we are talking about the meaning of today, we have a lot of it.”
The young man nodded and then went down the mountain.
Actually, today is the only we have. So, what we should do now is to yesterday and tomorrow and catch fast today!
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