完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）
通读下面短文 ，掌握其大意,然后在各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Edith Cavell was born in a little English village. She was a clever, __ girl and did well at school, especially in music and . After she left school, her first job was to take care of the children of a family in Belgium. The language they spoke was French, she found that her school studies were useful. She could understand them ____, at the same time she taught the children to speak English and play the piano.
After that her father was seriously ill, Edith returned home to look after him. She then decided to become a nurse. she worked for five years in an English hospital where she was good at her job. A Belgian doctor was so impressed that he invited her to his country to a training school for nurses. The World War broke out in 1914 and Edith Cavell’s school of nursing became a hospital. She there to look after the sick and wounded soldiers. Edith treated them kindness. Between November 1914 and August 1915 she helped about 200 wounded soldiers and prisoners (囚犯) escape from the Germans. Later the German army found out Edith had done and they arrested（逮捕）her. Finally, the Germans her, but they could not kill her memory. A statue（雕塑）has been built in Trafalgar Square, London, in honor（纪念）of the English nurse.
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Last Monday, a strong man growing a beard(胡须) arrived at Mr. Li’s gold shop by taxi. He told the driver to ____. He went into the shop and said, “Hand over your money!”
Mr. Li was busy putting some goods(货物) on the shelf and he didn’t hear him clearly. He turned and asked, “____ can I do for you, Sir?”
“I told you to give me your money. I have got a gun in my handbag!”
Mr. Li gave him all his money. While the strong man was putting the money into his handbag, Mr. Li took out his own gun from behind. Seeing this, the strong man ran out of the shop with Mr. Li ____ him.
The strong man jumped into the waiting taxi as Mr. Li shouted, “It’s a robbery(抢劫)! Stop!” The taxi driver thoug ht Mr. Li wanted to ___ him. So he jumped out of his taxi with his hands ____. Then the strong man ____ with his gun in his hand and pointed it at Mr. Li. Mr. Li pointed his gun at the strong man, too. For almost a minute, they stood face to face and gun to gun, but ____ of them fired, because they had toy guns.
Suddenly the strong man ____ his gun and ran down the street away. He stopped a passing car and asked for a ride. The two men in the car were ____ to take him along. They were policemen. They gave him a ride straight to ____.
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Robert is a thirty-five-year-old American. He becomes a man in science. Once, he was interviewed by a newspaper reporter who asked him why he could be so much more creative than other people. He said that, in his opinion, it all came from an experience with his when he was about two years old.
That day, when he was trying to a bottle of milk out of the fridge, but he dropped the milk bottle. The milk spilled all over the _ floor, which turned out to be a sea of milk. He was afraid.
When his mother came into the kitchen, instead of him, she smiled. She said, “Robert, what a great and wonderful mess you have made! I have __ seen such a huge puddle of milk before. Well, since it has already been done, would you like to get down and play in the milk for a moment before we clean it up?” Robert did his mother told him.
After a few minutes, his mother said, “You know, Robert, whenever you make a mess like this, you have to clean it up at last and put to its right place. So, how would you like to do that? We could use a sponge, a towel or a mop(抹布). Which do you prefer?” He the sponge and together they cleaned up he milk.
His mother then said, “You’d better learn to carry a big milk bottle with two small hands, OK? Let’s go out in the back yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can find a way to carry it without it.”
The little boy that if he held the bottle at the top near the lip(瓶口) with both hands, he could make it. What a wonderful lesson!
It was at that moment that Robert knew he didn’t need to be _ to make mistakes. Instead, he learned that mistakes were just to learn something new, and that is what scientific experiments are all about. sometimes the experiment “doesn’t work”, we usually can learn something meaningful from it. Wouldn’t it be great if all parents would do the same as Robert’s mother does?
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Everyone wants to have healthy teeth. When you laugh, you will your mouth and show your teeth. The healthier your teeth are, the happier you feel. Why is that? It's your teeth are important in many ways. Take care of them, and they'll help to take care of you. Strong, teeth help you grow. They also help you speak clearly. You can take care of your teeth by doing like these:
Brush your teeth a day, after getting up and before bedtime. And you brush all of your teeth, not just the front ones. Spend some time the teeth along the sides and in the back. Take your time while brushing. Spend at three minutes each time you brush. Be sure your toothbrush is soft. Ask your parents to help you get a new toothbrush three months. Clean between your teeth with dental floss(牙线). It feels strange when you do it at first, but soon you'll get used to it. Brushing your teeth healthy. You also need to care about what you eat and drink. Eat fruits and vegetables and drink water instead of drinks.
Do you want to have white and healthy teeth? Please brush your teeth!
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My wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and watch a movie. She said, “I love you, but I know that woman also loves you and would like to spend ___ with you.”
The other woman ____my wife asked me to pay attention to was my mother. My father has been dead for many years. My mother lived ____, but sometimes I was too busy to visit her.
That evening I called her and invited her to dinner and watch a movie. She seemed very______ when I arrived at her house. We went to a restaurant. My mother took my arm and walked as if she was my first lady.
____ dinner, we had a very good conversation. It was nothing special. We simply_____the latest events in our lives. But we were so busy talking______we missed the movie. At last, she said,” I’ll go out with you again, but only if you let me invite you.”I agreed.
A few days later, my mother died of a heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn’t have a ______ to do anything for her. Not long after that, I received a payment receipt (收据) from the restaurant as well as an attached (附加) note：
“I paid the bill for our second dinner in advance(提前). I am not sure____I could have dinner with you or not. So I paid for two people, you and your wife. I have no words to explain how important that dinner meant to me. My son, I love you.”
At that moment, I understood the importance of saying in time “I LOVE YOU” and giving our loved ones the time that they deserve (应得) . ____ in life is more important than our family.
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These days it is found that school students hardly have any sports. Is it because they have no __ _ in sports? It may not be true. They often say they have__ _ more important things to do.
What are these important things? Exams! They have to get themselves ready for all kinds of exams and tests in school, so many of them almost ____ bookworms. In the past in the summer holidays, they could do ___ __ they like, but now they have to spend all their free time preparing for exams. So __ _ have kept them away going in for sports.
Because of the pressure (压力)from their parents and teachers, they have to work harder and spend most of their time __ _ books. As for the students themselves, they don’t want to fail the exams because they want to continue their studies__ _. So it becomes necessary to give ___ of their spare time to their studies and ____ up their school sports.
It is true that a good education cannot go without physical training, and the same is true that a quick mind hardly goes along without ___ body. Without a strong body, you can never do anything well, then how can you make great success in life?A. interested B. interesting C. interests
A. veryB. muchC. another
A. turnB. lookC. become
A. anythingB. all what C. something
A. teachersB. parentsC. studies
A. onB. atC. in
A. fartherB. farC. further
A. fewB. anyC. all
A. takeB. giveC. put
A. strongB. ill C. weak