完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Many of my friends meet on Wednesday in the early morning to go to a specific parking lot sale. We it because we can put whatever fits into the shopping bag just $1.
One day as we finished, paid our dollars, and stayed to talk a bit, we noticed the that remained was being thrown into their dustbin. We asked , and they said they had no room for the extra clothes and it would up very quickly. I asked them why they had not in touch with places like churches and for women and children. They said they several times in the past and they only came two or three times and as they had to be there at a specific time in the right after the parking lot sale. After coming a few times, most of these organizations quit.
As we are here all the time, we to take the remainder of what was left. They ! So we loaded our two cars full and drove it to our city. We have done this every now for two years! We held yard sales and flea markets for whoever clothing. We opened up a clothing closet called Gifts Of Grace a storage facility donated two units to us.
Now we have a real building and advertise clothing for anyone who has the need. We have served hundreds of in the tight economy so far with the clothing they were just going to . Now our community is better because of it and our lives are blessed. Their lives are made a bit to have this opportunity to find nice clothing for not any penny.
We volunteer and run it about two or three days a . One person’s trash is always another person’s treasure!
A．hate B．love C．dislike D．admire
A．for B．at C．with D．by
A．vegetables B．furniture C．food D．clothing
A．how B．what C．why D．where
A．take B．stand C．pile D．pick
A．kept B．got C．stayed D．been
A．shelters B．schools C．hospitals D．villages
A．did B．visited C．wrote D．called
A．paused B．left C．continued D．stopped
A．night B．evening C．afternoon D．morning
A．pretended B．Helped C．Offered D．promised
A．refused B．agreed C．hesitated D．admitted
A．Tuesday B．Wednesday C．Thursday D．Sunday
A．sold B．bought C．needed D．donated
A．until B．before C．while D．when
A．free B．cheap C．expensive D．new
A．families B．churches C．stores D．buildings
A．take away B．wash away C．throw away D．put away
A．harder B．easier C．tougher D．simpler
A．century B．year C．month D．week
阅读下面的短文，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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
“They’re going to kick me out of my own home,” said Karl Berger, 86 years old. Karl is a widower with no living children. When Karl’s wife died a couple of years ago, he told the Social Security Administration to stop monthly checks to his wife. But the agency to send the checks. Karl called again; a clerk said not to 33 . He told Karl to mail a follow-up that included his wife's of death. But the checks continued to come. Karl needed the money, he cashed his wife’s checks.
When SSA realized its mistake, it sent Karl a letter saying that he SSA $5,900 plus interest. Karl receives only $12,000 a year, which is slightly poverty level. The only that he ever had--$5,000--was on his wife’s funeral. He fought on Iwo Jima, site of one of the most furious battles of World War II. The battle left him in one ear and almost blind in one eye.
His small house used to be in a good neighborhood. He takes the bus once a week to visit his wife's . The rest of his time is spent at home, where he carves military figures that he donates to a local charity. The charity the carvings and uses the money to help feed the homeless.
SSA gave Karl six months to pay the debt in . Otherwise, the SSA letter said, the agency would seize his home. Karl wrote back, asking if it would be okay to $30 a month. That was all he could .
“That’s insufficient,” said William Shatner, an SSA agent. “We know that he is a war veteran, but that doesn’t entitle him to . He knew that his wife was dead, yet he cashed her monthly . That is fraud, pure and simple.”
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阅读后面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、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。（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ——Henry David Thoreau
Everything about my future was ambiguously assumed. I would get into debt by going to college, then I would be forced to get a job to __ __that debt, while still getting into more and more debt by buying a house and a car. It seemed like a never-ending cycle that had no place for the ____ of a dream.
I want more—but not necessarily in the material ____ of personal wealth and success. I want more out of life. I want a passion, a conceptual dream ____ wouldn’t let me sleep out of pure ____. I want to ____ out of bed in the morning, rain or shine, and have that passion for life that seemed so intrinsic(固有的) in early childhood.
We all have a dream. It might be defined or just a (n) ____ idea, but most of us are so stuck in the muck of insecurity and self-doubt that we just ____ it as unrealistic or too ____to pursue.
We become so ____ with the life that has been planned out for us by our parents, teachers, traditions, and social norms that we feel that it’s stupid and ____ to risk losing it for the small hope of achieving something that is more __ _.
Taking a risk is ____ a risk. We can, and will, fail. Possibly many, many, many times. But that is ____ makes it exciting for me. That uncertainty can be viewed negatively, or it can empower us.
Failing is what makes us grow, it makes us stronger and more ____ to the aspects of life we have no control ____. The fear of failure, ____, is what makes us stagnant（停滞不前） and sad. So ____ I couldn’t see the future as clearly as before, I took the plunge in hopes that in the depths of fear and failure, I would ____ feel more alive than ever before.
If you feel lost, just take a deep breath and realize that being lost can be ____ point of finding out who you truly are, and what you truly want to do.
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请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I recently heard a story about a famous research scientist who had made several very important medical breakthroughs. A newspaper reporter him why he was able to be so much more than the average person. What set him so far apart from others?
He that it all came from an experience with his mother that occurred when he was about two years old. He had been trying to remove a bottle of milk from the refrigerator when he dropped the slippery bottle, spilling its all over the kitchen floor—a real sea of milk!
When his mother came into the kitchen，instead of at him, giving him a lecture or punishing him, she said, “Robert, what a great and mess you have made! I have seen such a huge pool of milk. Well, the has already been done. Would you like to get down and play in the milk for a few minutes before we clean it up？”
Indeed, the boy did. After a few minutes, his mother said, “You know, Robert, you make a mess like this, eventually you have to clean it up and everything to its proper order. How would you like to do that? We could use a sponge(海绵)，a towel or a mop. Which do you prefer？” He chose the sponge and together they up the spilled milk.
His mother then said，“You know，what we have here is a failed experiment in how to carry a big milk bottle with two hands. Let's go out in the back yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can a way to carry it without dropping it. ”The little boy learned that if he grasped the bottle at the near the lip with both hands, he could make it. What a wonderful !
This scientist then remarked it was at that moment that he knew he didn’t need to be to make mistakes. Instead, he knew that mistakes were just for learning something new, which is, after all, what scientific are all about．Even if the experiment “doesn’t work”, we usually something valuable.
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My Aunt Fannie wasn't really my aunt and, out of fear, I never called her that to her face. I only______to her as "My Aunt Fannie" because the name always made my father laugh and gave my mother cause to look seriously at both of us—at me for being ______ of my elder and at my father for_____my bad behavior. I enjoyed both_____so I looked for every opportunity to work the name into as many conversations as possible.
As a young woman, my mother had worked in the kitchen of a large farmhouse owned by Fannie Cratty and helped Aunt Fanny make the _____ blueberry cobbler jam ever tasted by anyone in Glenfield. She was known for her tasty jam and for never sharing the recipe with another living soul. ____my mother knew the recipe by heart, she never made the jam without Ms. Cratty in our kitchen to direct the process and ____ the secret.
One year, after I had been particularly helpful with the jam process, as a reward, Aunt Fannie gave me a quarter and then made me ____ that I would never spend it. "___ this quarter," she said, "and some day you will be rich. I __ keep my very first quarter given to me by my grandfather." It had obviously worked for her. __ I put the 1938-quarter into a small box, put it away in my dresser drawer, and waited to become rich.
I now have the blueberry cobbler jam recipe and the quarter from Aunt Fannie. In people's eye Aunt Fannie's success owed to that___ recipe. But to me, it was just a common recipe. Neither have contributed to my net worth, but I keep them as ___ to get hold of the valuable things in life. Money can make you feel rich for a while, but it is the relationships and the ____ of time spent with friends and family that truly leave you wealthy. And that is a ___ that anyone can build.
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As a child, I used to hang about with my friends in the woods. “The woods” was our part-time _____, destination, purpose and excuse. If I went to a friend’s house and found him not at home, his mother might say, “Oh, he’s out in the woods,” with a tone of airy _____. It’s _____ to the tone people sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I’m looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or ____ “away from his desk”. For us ten-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just a(n) ____ to do whatever we feel like for a while.
We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring. Exploring was a more _____ idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be _____ about explorers. Our explorations, ____, seemed to have less system than the historic ki: something usually came up along the way. Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, _____ blackberries, digging in what we were briefly _____ was an Italian burial mound(古坟).
Often we got “lost” and had to climb a tree to find out _____ we were. If you read a story in which someone does that successfully, be _____: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to _____ weight, and we could never climb high enough to see anything _____ other trees. There were four or five trees that we visited _____ --- tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.
It was in a tree, too, ____ our days of fooling around in the woods came to a（n） ____. By then some of us has reached seventh grade and had begun the _____ ride of adolescence. In March, the month when we usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring. We climbed a tree, and all of a sudden it _____ to all three of us at the same time that we were really rather_____ to be up in a tree. Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.
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