第二节  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36-55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Arriving in a new city, I had the strangest first week of my graduate school. I fell and broke my  36  within two days of arriving there! I was really  37  by the kindness shown by my new  38 , someone who I had only just met. "We are family now", she said when she found me  39  in my room with a swollen leg, unable to move, in a  40  city with no family except across three oceans.

She  41  me to the student health center by taxi to get my leg  42 . The driver was so nice and said to me how  43  I was to have a friend like that. After that, my roommate  44 stop helping me — she made me delicious meals and  45  them to me and made me comfortable despite my insistence that I could do things on my own. When I refused her help, "I really like  46  people", she would say, "and I believe what goes  47  always comes around..." and this was from someone who I had been   48  just by chance!

I was  49  touched by the kindness of everyone — the girl in the elevator, people on the bus, the doctors and nurses—people who were so considerate and  50 . Not feeling lonely and homesick any more, I  51  I’ve become a member of a big family.

The small acts  52  in my mind — the bus drivers gave me the luxury of being picked up from any point wherever and made sure I could get the connections to  53  I needed to go... or the many people who  54  the door open for me — small things that were incredibly hard with inconvenience. In whatever way I could, I decided to 55  the universe for its blessings.

36. A. leg                            B. arms                        C. back                        D. fingers

37. A. interested                   B. assisted            C. touched                    D. advocated

38. A. classmate                   B. teacher                     C. desk-mate          D. roommate

39. A. studying                    B. lying                        C. walking                    D. dying

40. A. strange               B. different                   C. big                          D. small

41. A. brought                   B. fetched                     C. took                         D. drove

42. A. examined                   B. examining         C. examine                   D. to examine

43. A. easy                          B. comfortable              C. inspiring                  D. lucky

44. A. didn't                         B. had to                     C. failed to                   D. promised to

45. A. cooked               B. brought                C. bought                     D. sent

46. A. to help                B. help                         C. being helped            D. helping

47. A. around                B. across               C. over                         D. beyond

48. A. parted                        B. passed            C. paired               D. pitied

49. A. slightly        B. secretly               C. seriously                  D. suddenly

50. A. concentrated    B. concerned          C. changed                   D. conducted

51. A. felt                            B. stopped       C. announced         D. determined

52. A. stayed                        B. lasted                       C. grew                        D. related

53. A. whatever                    B. whenever                 C. wherever                  D. whoever

54. A. prepared       B. held                    C. tended               D. threw

55. A. refuse         B. repay                       C. reach                       D. receive

Some people look at a hole and see empty space. Others see opportunity. That’s what Sheri Schmelzer spotted a few years ago when everyone—including her three children—started wearing Crocs, the colorful shoes dotted with holes.

“My kids and I were clowning around, and my eldest daughter, Lexie, got the sewing kit out. I brought one of the Crocs, pulled some buttons, rhinestones, and fabric out of the kit, and stuck them in the holes. Lexie said, ‘Mom, I love that!’”

Sheri and Lexie, then seven, spent the rest of the day filling holes in the family’s 12 pairs of Crocs. Every look-alike shoe was suddenly unique. When her husband, Rich, experienced in setting up businesses, came home later that day, says Sheri, “I could see the light bulb go on over his head,” Crocs had sold millions of pairs of shoes; the couple figured they could create a business simply by riding the wave. Rich refused to let a decorated Croc leave their Boulder, Colorado, house until he’d filed a patent.

But first they needed a name. “Rich and I had seen a movie where Meg Ryan says to Tom Hanks, ‘I’m such a flibbertigibbet!’ That became my nickname, so I called the business Jibbitz.” While Sheri designed, Rich strategized. They decided to sell the charms through a website, Jibbitz.com

Six months later, in February 2006, Sheri was doing so well that Rich left his business to work with her full-time. She was making hundreds of Jibbitz to order, by hand, by herself, in their basement. And filling those holes wasn’t as easy as it looked. The bigger the shoe, the bigger the holes; it took six models before Sheri figured out how to make her charms one-size-fits-all. Later Rich found a way to get plastic Jibbitz manufactured in China.

Someone at Crocs was sure going to notice the charms—after all, the company was headquartered (总部设在) just ten miles down the road. Duke Hanson, one of Crocs’ founders, spotted Lexie and her Jibbitz at the local pool, handed her his business card, and said, “Have your mom call me.”

Sheri and Rich met with Crocs executives, but no one suggested buying the company. Sheri was actually relieved because she wanted to see if she, not Crocs, could make it big. And she did. In December 2006, Crocs bought Jibbitz for $20 million, with the Schmelzers staying on board.

1. The passage is mainly about ____.

       A. how the Schmelzers found opportunities out of nothing.

       B. how the Schmelzers found opportunities and developed their business

       C. how creativity matters to a successful business

       D. how the business of Crocs became successful.

2. When Sheri said, “I could see the light bulb go on over his head”, she meant that ____.

       A. Rich was really excited              B. Rich liked their shoe charms

       C. saw this as a business opportunity   

D. Rich wasn’t satisfied with the decorations

3. From Paragraph 5, we can learn that ____.

       A. the Schmelzers kept improving to make their business successful

       B. Sheri does not trust others when it comes to designing Jibbitz

       C. making the products unique is key to business success

       D. Rich made a lot of sacrifices for their family business

4. Which of the following is arranged in the right order according to the text?

       a. the Schmelzers applied for a patent   b. Crocs’ shoes sold well

       c. the Schmelzers set up their website

       d. by making their products in China, the Schmelzers spread their business.

       A. acdb                 B.bacd                  C. bcad                 D. adcb

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