完形填空,阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后在各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。

It was the first day of school. I had a new classmate, a little old lady with a warm smile.

She said, “Hi, young man! I'm Rose. I'm 87 years old. Can I give you a hug? ”

I said   1   , “Of course!”

“Why are you in college at   2   an age?” I asked.

She joked, “I'm here to meet a    3   husband, get married, have children, and then travel around the world.”

“No, seriously(严肃地),” I asked.

“I always   4  of having a college education. Now I'm getting one!” she told me.

After a year, Rose became popular. She easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she enjoyed the attention from   5   .

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to    6   at our party. I'll never forget what she taught   7  .

“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow   8    because we stop playing. Here are the     9   of staying young. You have to laugh and find humor every   10   . You've got to have a dream. When you    11 your dreams, you die!” she said.

“There is a big   12  between growing old and growing up. Anybody can grow old. That doesn't take any talent or ability,” she added. “But to   13   , you have to find the chance in change. Have no regrets(遗憾). We usually don't have regrets for what we did ,   14   rather for things we did not do.”

Finally we graduated from the college with Rose. One week   15  graduation ( 毕业 ), she died peacefully(平静地) in her sleep. She taught us by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.

(    )1. A. slowly               B. happily                         C. heavily        D. badly

(    )2. A. so                     B. this                              C. such                 D. that

(    )3. A. rich                   B. bad                              C. poor                 D. short

(    )4. A. hoped                B. wished                         C. wanted              D. dreamed

(    )5. A. another              B. the other                      C. the others      D. others

(    )6. A. say                    B. speak                           C. talk                  D. discuss

(    )7. A. us                     B. her                             C. him                  D. them

(    )8. A. young              B. old                           C. tall           D. thin

(    )9. A. stories               B. secrets                        C. seasons            D. surveys

(    )10. A. week               B. month                         C. year                 D. day

(    )11. A. lose                 B. have                            C. keep                 D. like

(    )12. A. chance             B. change                         C. difference      D. problem

(    )13. A. stand up           B. grow up                       C. grow old           D. keep healthy

(    )14. A. because          B. so                             C. though            D. but

(    )15. A. in                 B. after                          C. during        D. before 


Have you ever seen a rainbow(彩虹) in the sky? Do you know what it is?

A story says that when you see a rainbow you should   1     at once to the place where it touches(触摸)the ground, and  2    you would find a bag of gold. Of course, it is not   3  . You could not find the bag of gold, nor could you ever find its end. No matter how   4    you run, it always seems far away.

A rainbow is not a thing which we can feel with our   5    as we can feel a flower. It is only the effect (效果) of light shining on raindrops(雨滴). The raindrops catch the sunlight and break it up into all the wonderful colors which we see.

   It is   6    a rainbow perhaps because it is made up of raindrops and looks like a bow (弓).

That is   7    we can never see a rainbow in a clear   8   . We see rainbows   9    when there is rain in the air and the sun is shining brightly through the clouds. Every rainbow has many colors in the same order. The first of the top color is always red, next    10    orange, then green, and last of all blue. A rainbow is indeed one of the wonders of nature.

1. A. run             B. walk         C. jump            D. stand

2. A. where          B. there          C. here            D. near

3. A. good           B. wrong         C. beautiful         D. true

4. A. long           B. short          C. far              D. difficult

5. A. hands          B. legs           C. heads           D. eyes

6. A. called          B. spoken        C. meant           D. asked

7. A. because        B. why           C. so              D. that

8. A. space          B. sky            C. fields           D. water

9. A. hardly         B. really          C. only             D. usually

10. A. goes          B. sees           C. covers            D. comes

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