I used to hate being called upon in class mainly because I didn’t like attention drawn to myself. And   36   assigned（指定）a seat by the teacher, I always   37  to sit at the back of the classroom.
All this   38 after I joined a sports team. It began when a teacher suggested I try out for the basketball team. At first I thought it was a crazy  39   because I didn’t have a good sense of balance, nor did I have the  40  to keep pace with the others on the team and they would tease me. But for the teacher who kept insisting on my “  41  for it”, I wouldn’t have decided to give a try.
Getting up the courage to go to the tryouts was only the   42  of it! When I first started  43   the practice sessions（练习赛）, I didn’t even know the rules of the game, much   44 what I was doing. Sometimes I’d get    45  and take a shot at the wrong direction—which made me feel really stupid.   46  , I wasn’t the only one “new” at the game, so I decided to   47  on learning the game, do my best at each practice session, and not be too hard on myself for the things I didn’t    48  “just yet”. 
I practiced and practiced. Soon I knew the   49  and the “moves”. Being part of a team was fun and motivating. Very soon the competitive   50  in me was winning over my lack of confidence. With time, I learned how to play and made friends in the   51   — friends who respected my efforts to work hard and be a team player. I never had so much fun!
With my   52  self-confidence comes more praise from teachers and classmates. I have gone from   “53” in the back of the classroom and not wanting to call attention to myself,   54  raising my hand— even when I sometimes wasn’t and not 100 percent   55 I had the right answer. Now I have more self-confidence in myself.

第三节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）

         阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

         “I’m going to make you attractive,” said Mika Hill, looking at the  21  of the woman sitting before her．The women once had long,  22 , dark hair．But alopecia（秃头症） had  23  her just a little of it．Hill, a wig（假发） maker, was about to change that．

         At 30, Hill knows from experience how a woman feels when she  24  her hair．Her own hair fell out several years ago  25 a lack of iron after giving birth．“I cried when I washed it, when I combed it, and when I looked in the  26   ,” she says．Then she bought a wig．“It was too small,” she says, “but my   27   went up greatly．”

         Hill enrolled（注册） in a wig-making  28   in New York．Back home with what she learned, she started making wigs that she planned to   29   for $300 each．

         But many of her customers with alopecia and cancer couldn’t  30  that much, and their health insurance often didn’t  31  the cost．So Hill started giving the wigs away, eventually spending $10,000 of her own money．Last year, she and her friend Lita Warren  32  Pink Barrette, a non-profit organization that has  33   about 60 wigs to poor women．

         Hill pays  34   the donations with profits from her other products．  35   , she and her husband have also spent much of their savings keeping the organization running．

         Hill’s customers can’t thank her enough．Elyssa Montoya was too   36  to be seen in public with her  37   thinning hair．“I didn’t feel I could show my bald head outside．Thanks to Mika, I now have beautiful hair, and feel 38   about myself again．”

         “Seeing their self-confidence   39   after they try on their wigs,” says Hill, “brings   40   to my eyes．This is a job for me, and a most rewarding one．”

21．A．head             B．face         C．nose         D．mouth

22．A．light              B．thick              C．little           D．ugly

23．A．showed          B．destroyed      C．left          D．offered

24．A．washes          B．changes        C．loses          D．dyes

25．A．thanks to     B．except for          C．as for       D．because of

26．A．picture         B．room            C．sky  D．mirror

27．A．confidence       B．belief            C．power     D．image

28．A．speech                 B．company     C．course    D．club

29．A．sell            B．produce        C．rent     D．order

30．A．supply           B．appreciate       C．allow        D．afford

31．A．recover       B．cover           C．admit      D．contain

32．A．set up            B．put up             C．set down D．put down

33．A．donated        B．imported          C．picked       D．valued

34．A．up            B．off             C．back        D．for

35．A．Besides         B．Therefore         C．Somehow D．Otherwise

36．A．embarrassed            B．excited          C．happy       D．angry

37．A．hardly            B．badly         C．heavily      D．largely

38．A．frightened        B．strange          C．grateful    D．good

39．A．limit              B．exchange         C．improve    D．cut

40．A．doubt           B．tears           C．fear         D．joys

My dad was never the kind to offer many words of love or encouragement. But we knew he loved us... he just had his own way of showing it.
When I was a teen, we were seasonal campers at a family campground almost an hour outside the city where we lived. Each family had their own campsite with water and electric, and you basically parked your camper there from May through October. Most "Seasonals" visited them every weekend during those months, with the occasional weeklong stay. There were plenty of other kids who camped seasonally each weekend, and they came to be some of my closest friends. Of course, many of them were boys.
We kids paired up with our little boyfriends or girlfriends, and we'd hold hands as we'd walk around the campground. We'd play ping-pong, have some snacks, and play songs. Most weekends were pretty similar, but the couples would change. You'd see so-and-so with a different so-and-so than they were with the weekend before. You know how it is when you're a teen — a three-week relationship is a really long time.
So, needless to say, my teen years were spent with quite a few different boys. But every single one of them had something in common... they'd all received The Evil Eye.
The Evil Eye was a magical sort of thing. One simple look from my dad, and the boy immediately knew not to mess with me. It was as if he could send his warnings through invisible laser（激光）beams that shot directly from his eyes to the boys' brains.
"You will not put your hands on my daughter... You will not kiss my daughter... You will not even whisper sweet nothings into my daughter's ear."
I remember one night in particular, walking with a boy around the campground after dark. We came from one direction, and my dad from the other. The boy and my dad locked eyes for a brief second, then the boy dropped my hand like a hot potato and turned away, giving me a quick, "See ya later."
Yes, the Evil Eye. Best way ever to keep wandering teen boy hands away from your daughters.  
【小题1】The Evil Eye in the passage implies that__________.

On Christmas Day, I got my wanted radio-controlled truck. But you would not believe the ___36___ and work that went into getting this holy toy.
For over a month I stared at ___37___ magazines I received from my friend until I had made up my ___38___: I wanted a Pumpkin truck. I __39___ to work immediately, dropping hints to my father about it.
My first job was to tell him about how the steering(操纵杆) on my old car didn’t __40___, but he just blamed the problems on my bad ___41__.
My next plan would have to be more __42__. “Look at this, Dad, the truck with controller and battery pack—all for only US$250!” You can’t __43__ to miss out on this bargain!”
His ___44___ was that he certainly could afford to miss this ___45___ and for US$250 you could buy ___46___ educational like a telescope. “A telescope? To look at the moon? I’ll look at it when I’m 97 years old and living in a ___47___ home! This is my youth! I am supposed to run about.”
I went to my room, ___48___ at how mean my father was. It was obvious that he didn’t _49__ that I would die if I did not get the Pumpkin radio-controlled truck.
When I __50__ on Christmas morning I wasn’t excited. I had been __51__. I opened all my presents until there was just one big package ___52__. “The telescope,” I thought. I ___53___ the packaging and looked at the top of the box—it was a Pumpkin truck. I had ___54___! I loved my parents! I felt like I could do anything! I could ___55___ get an A+ in English class.