完形填空，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。
Competitive swimming was a big part of my life as a teenager. So I was very excited when my sons decided to take up the sport. Daily, I’d arrive a few minutes early before their ________ ended so I could watch their progress, assess their ________ for later discussions and give them a few tips on how to swim faster ________, one afternoon at the pool, someone else caught my ________ .
The teen girl was not a typical swimmer. Her ________ , out-of-date swimsuit was two sizes too big. She struggled to reach the end of the pool. Always ________ and always being passed by the better-trained girls. The other girls would ________ their friends to climb out of the pool, giggle（咯咯笑）and run back to the starting areas. ________nobody waited for her. She always walked back to the starting areas ________. However, day after day, she’d show up ________ practice and do it all over again in her old, worn swimsuit.
The first swim meeting ________ arrived, and I smiled as I watched my sons________ straight with their team members around the swimming pool. I was a(n) 53 mother, but then, I saw the girl who had________ day after day to swim to the end of the pool. She wasn’t wearing the old, worn swimsuit She was wearing a (n) ________ , new swimsuit with a matching swimming cap and goggles（护目镜）. I ________ again and believed someone bought these new things for her so she could feel and look like a _________ regardless of how fast she could swim. She never did find out who bought the ________for her because the person remained anonymous（匿名）。
I admire the unknown person who ________ the pool girl. Do you ever wonder how you can help a teen? Take time to notice your surroundings. There is a teen in your life that________encouragement or help. Be the one who makes a difference in her life.
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A land free from destruction, plus wealth, natural resources, and labor supply—all these were important reasons in helping England to become the center for the Industrial Revolution. , they were not enough. Something else was needed to start the industrial process. That “something special” was men — persons who could invent machines, find new of power, and establish business organizations to reshape society. Many of them were inventors than scientists. A pure scientist is mainly interested in doing his research an inventor or one interested in applied science is all trying to something that can be exactly used. He may try to solve a problem by using the theories of science or by experimenting through trial and error(反复试验). his method, he is working to get a(n) result: the construction of a harvesting machine, the burning of a light bulb, or one of many other objectives.
Most of the people developing the machines of the Industrial Revolution were inventors, not trained scientists. A few were scientists and inventors.
A．Besides B．Therefore C．However D．Moreover
A．generous B．effective C．smart D．creative
A．means B．sources C．bases D．discoveries
A．less B．better C．more D．worse
A．though B．but C．since D．while
A．make B．start C．handle D．abandon
A．Because of B．Regardless of C．In terms of D．In spite of
A．common B．serious C．similar D．exact
Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in her life, she might go home and write in her diary. Now, a teenager with problems might go onto the Internet and write about his problems in a blog. In many ways a diary and a blog are very . So, what makes blogging different from writing in diary?
The biggest difference is that blogging is much more than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats his diary like a book full of that she does not want to .
It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog a diary will probably write nearly the same information.
I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her . She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test. I was her age, I wrote about the same things, but in my diary. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was that my sister might read it!
The biggest with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something about her in my diary, she would never know! , if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend read her blog and get a “cry”.
There are also to blogging, of course. If I felt sad one day and wrote in my diary, “Nobody cares about me,” would know about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would respond and tell her how much they her. Blogs help people in touch with their friends and know what the people around them are doing.
A．the same B．troublesome C．difficult D．daily
A．familiar B．special C．similar D．different
A．a personal B．an ordinary C．a common D．a traditional
A．attractive B．public C．convenient D．quick
A．thoughts B．puzzles C．mysteries D．secrets
A．tell B．share C．publish D．solve
A．instead of B．as well as C．in favor of D．in spite of
A．blog B．diary C．report D．web
A．Although B．Since C．When D．Because
A．only B．already C．still D．never
A．angry B．concerned C．glad D．worried
A．problem B．doubt C．trouble D．mistake
A．pleasant B．wrong C．mean D．funny
A．Besides B．However C．Therefore D．Then
A．should B．will C．must D．might
A．reasons B．disadvantages C．shortcomings D．advantages
A．everyone B．no one C．anyone D．someone
A．happily B．especially C．quickly D．immediately
A．like B．miss C．need D．help
A．lose B．stay C．get D．find
When I entered Berkeley, I hoped to earn a scholarship. Having been a Straight-A student, I believed I could tough subjects and really learn something. One such course was World Literature given by Professor Jayne. I was extremely interested in the ideas he in class.
When I took the first exam, I was to find a 77, C-plus, on my test paper, English was my best subject. I went to Professor Jayne, who listened to my arguments but remained . I decided to try harder, although I didn’t know what that because school had always been easy for me. I read the books more carefully, but got another 77. Again, I with Professor Jayne. Again, he listened patiently but wouldn’t change his . One more test before the final exam. One more to improve my grade. So I redoubled my efforts and, for the first time, the meaning of the word “thorough”. But my did no good and everything as before.
The last hurdle(障碍) was the final. No matter what I got, it wouldn’t cancel three C-pluses. I might as well kiss the goodbye. I stopped working hard. I felt I knew the course material as well as I ever would. The night before the final, I even myself to a movie. The next day I decided for once I’d have with a test. A week later, I was surprised to find I got an A. I hurried into professor Jayne’s office. He to be expecting me. “If I gave you the As you , you wouldn’t continue to work as hard.” I stared at him, that his analysis and strategy(策略) were correct. I had worked my head , as I had never done before. I was speechless when my course grade arrived: A-plus. It was the only A-plus given. The next year I received my scholarship. I’ve always remembered Professor Jayne’s lesson: you alone must set your own standard of excellence.
A．take B．discuss C．cover D．get
A．sought B．presented C．exchanged D．obtained
A．shocked B．worried C．scared D．anxious
A．but B．so C．for D．or
A．unchanged B．unpleasant C．unfriendly D．unmoved
A．reflected B．meant C．improved D．affected
A．quarreled B．reasoned C．bargained D．chatted
A．attitude B．mind C．plan D．view
A．choice B．step C．chance D．measure
A．memorized B．considered C．accepted D．learned
A．ambition B．confidence C．effort D．method
A．stayed B．went C．worked D．changed
A．grade B．answer C．lesson D．comment
A．scholarship B．course C．degree D．subject
A．helped B．favored C．treated D．relaxed
A．fun B．luck C．problems D．tricks
A．happened B．proved C．pretended D．seemed
A．valued B．imagined C．expected D．welcomed
A．remembering B．guessing C．supposing D．realizing
A．out B．over C．on D．off
I was fifteen months old, a happy carefree kid until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a glass rabbit, _ __ cut my eye badly enough to blind it. Trying to save the eye, the doctors stitched(缝上) the eyeball together where it was cut, __ __ a big ugly scar in the middle of my eye. And as I grew, this __ __ eye in so many ways controlled me.
I walked with my face looking at the __ __ so people would not see the ugly me. Sometimes people, even strangers, asked me__ __questions or made hurtful remarks. When the kids played games, I was always the “ __ _”．
Yet Mama would say to me, “Hold your head up high and face the world. If you hold your head up high, people will see your beautiful _ __.”
Those words have meant __ __ things to me over the years. As a little child, I thought Mama meant, “Be careful, or you will fall down or __ __ something because you are not looking.” As an adolescent, I found that sometimes when I held my head up high and let people __ __ me, they liked me. My mama's words helped me begin to __ __ that by letting people look at my face, I let them recognize the intelligence and beauty __ __ both eyes.
In high school I was__ __both academically and socially. I was even elected class president, __ __， all I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would __ __to my mama and she would look at me with __ __ eyes and say, “Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the beauty that is inside.”
When I met the man who became my __ __ for life, we looked each other straight in the eye, and he told me I was beautiful inside and out. He __ __ it. My mama's love and __ __ were the spark that gave me the confidence to __ __ my own doubt.
A．that B．which C．who D．where
A．achieving B．beginning C．surviving D．leaving
A．sightless B．careless C．stainless D．tasteless
A．sky B．rabbit C．floor D．scar
A．outstanding B．inspiring C．astonishing D．embarrassing
A．monster B．angel C．acquaintance D．stranger
A．face B．eyes C．head D．soul
A．different B．strange C．stupid D．common
A．look into B．bump into C．burst into D．get into
A．recognize B．find C．identify D．know
A．spot B．imagine C．realize D．comment
A．behind B．on C．beneath D．beside
A．awful B．successful C．cheerful D．grateful
A．therefore B．however C．besides D．and
A．smile B．laugh C．cry D．scold
A．terrible B．awkward C．skeptical D．loving
A．partner B．colleague C．leader D．master
A．loved B．got C．meant D．hated
A．statement B．encouragement C．treatment D．comment
A．increase B．emphasize C．plant D．overcome
Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other. These letters were all pilled up in a basket, dirty and With dust. to read and sort them, I asked them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home. They agreed.
As I carefully opened each letter, all of them with age, I discovered a new page unknown to me in this private chapter of my parents' lives.
My father used to in the army. So his letters were full of frontline of the things about the war. Each of my mother's letters was marked with her 1944 dark red lipstick kiss. I was to these letters like a magnet (磁铁).
Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very. and was hospitalized. This time, he was fighting a . kind of war. As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the . He told me how much receiving those lipstick-kissed letters had to him when he had been so far from home.
It so happened that the next day would he February 14. From the letters I chose the card my father had sent Mother in 1944 and brought it to my father's bedside.
At his bedside, I joked with him, saying , "Today is Valentine's Day, don't you want to send Mother a present?" He became more when I handed him the old . He carefully opened it and took out the card, and when he it, his eyes were filled with tears.
My father, in a voice tight with read the loving he'd sent to my mother fifty-six years earlier. And this time, he could read it to her .
A came B. hit C. drew D. fell
A．hidden B．covered C．buried D．filled
A．Pretending B．Suggesting C．Preferring D．Deciding
A．delicate B．tasty C．useful D．tender
A．recently B．usually C．previously D．occasionally
A．work B．study C．serve D．report
A．accounts B．documents C．introductions D．occupations
A．devoted B．abandoned C．thrown D．drawn
A．depressed B．dead. C．dangerous D．ill
A．typical B．traditional C．different D．familiar
A．wars B．illnesses C．letters D．prescriptions
A．divided B．sorted C．separated D．updated
A．sadly B．angrily C．softly D．loudly
A．curious B．enthusiastic C．fantastic D．positive
A．Christmas card B．envelope C．basket D．lipstick
A．found B．wrote C．recognized D．missed
A．astonishment B．sorrow C．sickness D．emotion
A．story B．message C．speech D．motto
A．in person B．in private C．in danger D．in peace