Going to Mount Huangshan reminds me of the popular Beatles' song"The Long and Winding Road". ____56____is so breathtaking about the experience is the out-of-this-world scenes. The rolling sea of clouds you see once you are at the top will remind you how tiny we ____57____(human) are.
The hot spring at the foot of the mountain is something you must try after the climb. It will ____58____(undoubted) help you get refreshed! The amazing thing about the spring is that the colder the temperature gets, the ____59____(hot) the spring! Strange, isn't it? But that's how nature is - always leaving us ____60____(astonish).
What comes next is the endless series of steps. You can't help wondering how hard it ____61____(be) for the people then to put all those rocks into place. Though it is the only unnatural thing on your way up the mountain, still it highlights the whole adventure ____62____offers a place where you can sit down to rest your ____63____(ache) legs.
As the song goes, this long and winding road "will never disappear", and it will always stick in the visitor's memory. It sure does in ____64____(I).While you're in China, Mount Huangshan is ____65____must to visit!
【2015·浙江】完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-40各题所给的四个选项(A, B, C和D)
中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
Since finishing my studies at Harvard and Oxford. I’ve watched one friend after another land high-ranking, high-paying Wall Street jobs. As executives(高级管理人员) with banks, consulting firms, established law firms, and major corporations, many are now on their way to impressive careers. By society’s , they seem to have it made.
On the surface, these people seem to be very lucky in life. As they left student life behind, many had a drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with Longtime roommates, and out of small apartments into high buildings. They made reservations at restaurants where the cost of a bottle of wine a college year’s monthly rent. They replaced their beloved old car with expensive new sports cars.
The thing is, a number of them have that despite their success, they aren’t happy. Some of unfriendly coworkers and feel sad for eight-hour workweeks devoted to tasks they . Some do not respect the companies they work for and talk of feeling tired and . However, instead of devoting themselves to their work, they find themselves working to support the to which they have so quickly become .
People often speak of trying a more satisfying path, and the end the idea of leaving, their jobs to work for something they or finding a position that would give them more time with their families almost always leads them to the same conclusion; it’ s . They have loans, bills, a mortgage（抵押贷款）to , retirement to save for. They recognize there’s something in their lives, but it’s to step off the track.
In a society that tends to everything in terms of dollars and cents, we learn form a young age to consider the costs of our in financial terms. But what about the personal and social costs in pursuing money over meaning? These are exactly the kinds of us tend to ignore — and the very ones we need to consider most.
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My kids and I were heading into the supermarket over the weekend. On the way ,we spotted a man holding a piece of paper that said, “ _____ my job. Family to Feed.”
At this store, a ____ like this is not normal. My 10-year-old noticed him and make a ______ on how bad it must be to have to stand _______ in the cold wind.
In the store, I asked each of my kids to _____ something they thought our “friend” there would ______. They got apples, a sandwich and a bottle of juice. Then my 17-year-old suggested giving him a _______. I thought about it. We were _____ on cash ourselves, but… well, sometimes _____ from our need instead of our abundance is _____ what we need to do! All the kids ______ something they could do away with for the week.
When we handed him the bag of ____, he lit up and thanked us with _____ eyes. When I handed him the gift card, saying he could use it for ______his family might need, he burst into tears.
This has been a wonderful ___ _ for our family. For days the kids have been looking for others we can _____! Things would have played out so ______ if I had simply said, “No, we really don’t have ______ to give more.” Stepping out not only helped a brother in _____, it also gave my kids the ______ taste of helping others. It’ll go a long way with them.
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One of the easiest things in the world is to become a fault-finder. However, life can be ________when you are not busy finding fault with it.
Several years ago I________a letter from seventeen-year-old Kerry, who described herself as a world-class fault-finder, almost always ________by things. People were always doing things that annoyed her, and ________was ever good enough. She was highly self-critical and also found fault with her friends. She became a really ________person.
Unfortunately, it took a horrible accident to change her ________Her best friend was seriously hurt in a car crash. What made it almost ________to deal with was that the day before the ________, Kerry had visited her friend and had spent the whole time criticizing her ________ of boyfriends, the way she was living, the way she related to her mother, and various other things she felt she needed to ________It wasn't until her friend was badly hurt that Kerry became ________her habit of finding fault. Very quickly, she learned to appreciate life rather than to ________ everything so harshly ( 刻薄) . She was able to transfer her new wisdom to other parts of her________as well.
Perhaps most of us aren't as extreme at fault-finding, ________ when we're honest, we can be sharply ________of the world. I'm not suggesting you________ problems, or that you pretend things are ________than they are, but simply that you learn to allow things to be as they are—________most of the time, and especially when it's not a really big ________ .
Train yourself to "bite your tongue" , and with a little ________, you'll get really good at letting things go. And when you do, you'll get back your enthusiasm and love for life.
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【2015·重庆】A
When Alice was sixteen, I was the one who wanted to run away from home. It was to see the changes coming over her. She skipped school, and refused to communicate. I tried being firm, but it didn‘t . I saw a dark future for my once sweet daughter.
One school day Alice returned home very late. With a quarrel in view. I was surprised to see Alice was .
“I hope I did the right thing, Mom,”“Alice said. I saw a cat, all bloody but alive. I it to the vet’s(宠物医院), and was asked to make payment . As I couldn’t reach anyone at the phone number on the cat’s tag(标牌), I had to pay the bill.”
In the following days, the owner still couldn’t be . Alice paid the vet to continue treatment. I grew : what if the family had simply left the cat behind?
A week went by. A woman called to speak to Alice.
“She is at school,” I said.
“You have a daughter,” she said, apparently in tears.
Her family had just returned from abroad, and got a (n) from the vet. Their cat was recovering, thanks to Alice’s . “We can’t wait to hug Cuddles again,” she sobbed.
Upon her return home, Alice was filled with at the news. So was I. I learned through another woman’s eyes that my daughter was still a good person despite her teenage years. Her warm heart would surely guide her in the right direction.
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【2015·天津】完形填空（共20小题：每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16～35各题所给出的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
My fiance (未婚夫) and I were excited about shopping for our first home. But our funds were , and none of the houses in our price range seemed satisfactory.
One agent a house in particular. Although her description sounded wonderful, the price was our range, so we declined. But she kept urging us to have a look .
We finally did and it was at first sight. It was Our Home, small and charming, overlooking a quiet lake. Walking through the rooms and talking with the owners, a nice elderly couple, we felt the warmth and of the marriage within that home. As perfect as it was, the price remained too high for us. But every day, we would sit by the lake, looking at the house and dreaming of it would be like to live there.
Days later, we made a(n) —far below the asking price. Surprisingly, they didn’t us. They renewed their offer . It was also much more than we could afford, but far than the original asking price.
The next day, we got a message that another buyer had offered a much higher price. Even so, we decided to talk with the directly. We made our final offer, which was thousands of dollars less than the other buyer’s bid. We knew it, we had to try.
“Sold!” said the owner. Then he : He’d seen us sitting by the lake all those times; he knew how much we loved the place and that we’d the years of work they had put into their home; he realized he would take a by selling it to us, but it was worthwhile; we were the people they wanted to live there. He told us to consider the in the price “an early wedding present.”
That’s how we found our home and how I learned that when people are they are not strangers, only friends we haven’t yet met.
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