第二节完型填空(共20小题,小题1.5分,满分30分)
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Wings of Angel
I used to hate myself because I wasn’t “normal”. Everyone else could play on the monkey bars and ride on a bicycle, but not   36  . I had a severe spinal cord disorder(脊髓病) and I knew I would always be much   37  than others.
I hated going to school and I hated   38   at me. I hated seeing others smiling broadly and standing   39  and tall. And most of all, I hated looking in the   40  and seeing an ugly and hunchback(驼背).
My friends found me   41  because I didn’t let other get close to me. I thought I was going to go on like this for the rest of my life   42  Angela appeared.
That afternoon, I was sitting by myself in a corner of the school—a spot where no one would
43  me. That’s when I first heard your voice.
“Hi. Can I sit down?”
I raised my head and there she was, with an irresistible smile on her round face.
“What are you looking at?” you asked.
“Ants.”
“What are they doing?”
“No   44  .”
“I bet they’re playing games and make friends. Don’t you think so?”
That was how our   45  started and it didn’t stop. We talked about everything under the sun—the ants, the clouds, my little niche(处境)—until it was sunset.
Then suddenly, you saw my   46  . She just stared.
My heart   47  . What I feared most had happened and I knew for sure she would   48   me now.
She stood up, pointed at my back and said, “49 I know why your back is hunched.”
I closed my eyes like a criminal waiting to be   50  . I begged in my heart for her to   51  , but you just kept on going. “I know what you’ve got in there. Do you?”
“No,” I answered   52  .
She bent and whispered in my ears.
“Your back is bunched because you’ve got a pair of wings from the angels.”
I was   53  . I looked into your eyes and her   54  touched my heart. From that day on, I started to learn to   55  myself because I have the wings of an angel and a kind – hearted friend.
36.A.them B.it      C.mo    D.her
37.A.sadder      B.shorter      C.weaker     D.slower
38.A.looking    B.smiling     C.aiming      D.glaring
39.A.still   B.alone C.straight     D.together
40.A.street B.sun    C.corner      D.mirror
41.A.distant      B.stubborn   C.hopeless    D.unfortunate
42.A.after  B.before      C.since D.until
43.A.disturb     B.seek  C.interrupt   D.ignore
44.A.wonder     B.idea   C.sign   D.action
45.A.connection       B.competition      C.conversation     D.comprehension
46.A.face  B.back  C.eyes  D.shoulders
47.A.sank  B.beat   C.broke       D.ached
48.A.care for    B.rely on     C.look down upon      D.put up with
49.A.that   B.how  C.whether    D.why
50.A.accused    B.arrested    C.punished   D.sentenced
51.A.relax B.leave C.stop   D.pause
52.A.shyly B.weakly     C.proudly    D.firmly
53.A.astonished B.ashamed   C.annoyed    D.amused
54.A.wisdom    B.generosity C.honesty     D.kindness
55.A.control     B.like   C.comfort    D.enjoy

Spend a pound to win a penny
Some people were steaming peas under a tree in order to make a meal for their horses. Up in the branches sat a monkey,  36 what they were doing.
"Aha" thought the monkey. “I spot my  37 !” So when the men had finished steaming the peas and 38 for a moment to look after the horses,  39 ,the monkey let himself down from the tree. He snatched (抓) the peas and filled his  40 and both hands as full as they could 41 . Then he climbed up the tree and sat there, eating happily.
Suddenly one pea fell.
"Oh dear! Oh my pea!" cried the monkey. The other peas  42 to drop out of his mouth. He 43 his hands in despair(绝望地), and the peas fell out of his hands too, but he took no  44 . All he thought of was that one pea was gone,__45__ he climbed down the trunk to hunt for his lost pea on the ground. At this time, the men came back. When they saw a monkey  46 with their pots, they all  47 their arms and shouted, "Shoo! Shoo!" Then they picked up stones and began to 48 the monkey with them. The monkey was so 49 that he gave one jump to the nearest 50 , and swung himself up to the top of the tree.
"After all," said he to himself, “it was  51 one pea.” But he ought to have thought of that 52 ,for now all the other peas had gone too.
That day the monkey had to content himself with the 53 of boiled peas for dinner, and I hope the 54 taught him not to be so 55 in future.

【小题1】
A.watchingB.enjoyingC.describingD.guessing
【小题2】
A.shelterB.neighborsC.dinnerD.friends
【小题3】
A.turned upB.turned awayC.gave upD.gave away
【小题4】
A.easilyB.gentlyC.safelyD.confidently
【小题5】
A.bowlB.pocketC.mouthD.bag
【小题6】
A.receiveB.holdC.supportD.put
【小题7】
A.seemedB.beganC.hurriedD.failed
【小题8】
A.crossedB.hidC.touchedD.squeezed
【小题9】
A.interestB.timeC.noticeD.sign
【小题10】
A.soB.becauseC.althoughD.if
【小题11】
A.helpingB.playingC.mixingD.dealing
【小题12】
A.carriedB.brokeC.wavedD.bent
【小题13】
A.attackB.separateC.destroyD.bother
【小题14】A puzzled          B. disappointed    C. terrified       D. annoyed
【小题15】
A.branchB.stoneC.peaD.horse
【小题16】
A.stillB.evenC.onlyD.almost
【小题17】
A.earlierB.soonerC.longerD.later
【小题18】
A.imageB.smellC.dreamD.taste
【小题19】
A.trickB.disasterC.lossD.process
【小题20】
A.curiousB.ambitiousC.proudD.greedy

Dogs have an understanding of fair play and become angry if they feel that another dog is getting a better deal, a new study has found.
The study looked at how dogs react when a companion is rewarded for the same trick in an unequal way. Friederike Range, a famous researcher, and her colleagues did a series of experiments with dogs who knew how to respond to the command “give the paw”. The dogs were normally happy to repeatedly give the paw, whether they got a reward or not.
But that changed if they saw that another dog was being rewarded with a piece of food, while they received nothing. The dogs hesitated significantly longer when obeying the command to give the paw. Eventually, the unrewarded dogs stopped cooperating.
Researchers always assumed that only humans pay close attention to unfairness. That changed in 2003 when Frans De Waal, a professor of psychology, and a colleague named Sarah Brosnan did a survey on monkeys. Monkeys had to hand a small rock to researchers to get a piece of cucumber(黄瓜) in return. However, the monkeys would suddenly become angry when receiving the piece of cucumber if they saw another monkey receive a more delicious reward, such as a grape, for doing the same job. The monkey that got the cucumber would eventually throw away the food and the rock, and would later just stop performing.
In that experiment, the monkeys considered the fairness of two different types of payment, but when Range and her colleagues did a similar study with their trained dogs, testing to see if dogs would become upset if they only got bread when other dogs received sausage, they found that dogs did not make that kind of subtle (细微的) distinction. As long as the dogs got some kind of food payment, even if it wasn’t the most delicious kind, they would play along.
【小题1】 The dogs refused to give their paws when they _____________________.

A.were given too much reward
B.realized they received less food
C.found another dog was given nothing
D.felt they were being treated unequally
【小题2】The underlined word “that” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to “__________________”.
A.the dogs obeyed the command happily
B.the dogs waited for a reward
C.the dogs hesitated to give the paw
D.the dogs stopped cooperating
【小题3】The monkeys would become angry if they found _____________________.
A.they were being given the same type of food
B.another monkey did much less work
C.another monkey was offered tastier food
D.other monkeys threw food and rocks
【小题4】 Range finds that, compared with monkeys, dogs __________________.
A.enjoy playing interesting games with humans
B.prefer to do the same jobs as humans
C.pay little attention to the type of reward received
D.aren’t sensitive to the stimulation (刺激) of food

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