题目内容
完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
If you ever feel as if you are being knocked about by life, think about the amazing bird called the Water Ouzel. I can’t imagine this waterbird knows what it is to have a day. The little creature is often found living next to waterfalls and rivers rushing fast. And however threatening the weather, however the water, in snow and rain, the tough and cheerful Water Ouzel can be chirping and singing. What's more, while the of most songbirds, however melodious in warm weather, fall over long winter months, the hearty Water Ouzel on through all seasons and every kind of . I have to wonder: does this little creature know anything I don't?
It's as if the knows that every violent storm will eventually sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into . And isn't it true? Even our bleakest and stormiest times do not forever. Like the poor man in the cement mixer(混凝土搅拌机), there is almost always an end to the .
As the incredible humanitarian novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe said, “ you get into a tight place and everything you till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will .” I have had that more times than I can remember.
Maybe this is one of those days you feel as if you are the cement mixer. If so, do you need to a little longer?
1.A. dull B. long C. bad D. wonderful
2.A. violent B. distant C. calm D. slow
3.A. deep B. cold C. clear D. dirty
4.A. recorded B. kept C. taught D. heard
5.A. sizes B. colors C. voices D. shapes
6.A. silent B. sleepy C. ill D. deaf
7.A. lives B. sings C. survives D. flies
8.A. time B. river C. music D. storm
9.A. bird B. novelist C. man D. farmer
10.A. take place of B. get away from C. give way to D. catch up with
11.A. dawn B. dusk C. noon D. night
12.A. come B. last C. stay D. go
13.A. concerned B. cared C. complained D. puzzled
14.A. party B. story C. trouble D. day
15.A. when B. because C. although D. whether
16.A. takes in B. goes against C. gets over D. cuts off
17.A. end B. go C. rise D. turn
18.A. experience B. memory C. idea D. sight
19.A. beside B. on C. in D. with
20.A. take up B. hold on C. put off D. bring in
