Directions: For each blank in the passage there are
four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or
phrase that best fits the context.
Many years ago I was on a bicycle trip through some
exceedingly picturesque (如画的) countryside. Suddenly, dark clouds piled
up overhead and rain began to fall, but strange to ___50___, several hundred
yards ahead of me the sun shone brilliantly. Riding, however, as rapidly as I
could, I found it ___51___ to get into the clear. The clouds with their rain
kept advancing faster than I could race forward. I continued this unequal
contest for an exhausting half hour, ___52___ realizing that I could not win my
way to the bright area ahead of me.
Then it dawned upon me that I was wasting my strength
in unimportant hurry, while paying no attention whatsoever to the landscape
___53___ which I was making the trip. The storm could not last forever and the
discomfort was not unendurable. Indeed, there was much to look at which might
___54___ have escaped me. As I gazed about with sharpened ___55___, I saw
colours and lines and shapes that would have appeared differently under
brilliant light. The rain mists (薄雾) which now
___56___ the wooded hills and the fresh clearness of the different greens were
entrancing (迷人的). My annoyance at the rain was gone and my
eagerness to ___57___ it disappeared. It had provided me with a new view and
helped me understand that the ___58___ of beauty and satisfaction may be found
close at hand within the ___59___ of one’s own sensibilities.
It made me think, then and later, about other matters
to which this incident was related. It helped me realize that there is no sense
in my ___60___ ever to flee from circumstances and conditions which cannot be
avoided but which I might bravely ___61___ and frequently mend and often turn
to good account. I know that half the battle is won if I can face trouble with
courage, __62__ with spirit, and triumph with humility. It has become ever
clearer to me that danger is far from disaster, that defeat may be the
forerunner of final ___63___, and that, in the last analysis, all achievement
is dangerously weak ___64___ based on enduring principles of moral conduct.
1. A．ask B．relate C．understand D．call
2. A．easy B．likely C．impossible D．comfortable
3. A．before B．after C．as D．while
4. A．in front of B．on account of
C．for the sake
of D．atthe
convenience of
5. A．therefore B．consequently C．accordingly D．otherwise
6. A．puzzle B．appreciation C．wisdom D．shock
7. A．crowned B．covered C．swept D．floated
8. A．enjoy B．embrace C．surround D．escape
9. A．resources B．sources C．causes D．courses
10. A．distance B．help C．range D．comprehension
11. A．requesting B．waiting C．attempting D．expecting
12. A．meet B．avoid C．decline D．change
13. A．happiness B．joy C．disappointment D．surprise
14. A．failure B．victory C．relief D．decision
15. A．if B．though C．until D．unless
