完形填空

　　As you know, Mark Twain was a famous American writher and James whistler was a famous American artist. Twain liked Whistler’s　　1　　very much and sang 2 praise of his pictures. There is a story about the day 3　　the visited whistler in his house. Whistler was a rather serious person, but Twain was 4　　.

　　Twain walked round the house 5　　Whistler’s wonderful works.

　　“ 6 !” Twain said. “I like this picture of the sea．”
　　“Yes, I 7 it some time ago. It’s called the angry sea”
　　“The colors are beautiful.” Twain said. Then he 8 another picture. “I like the 9　　the woman is standing 10 the picture. I like the way she’s looking out of the window. Yes, this picture is most beautiful.”

　　“ 11 ,” Whistler said.

　　“ 12 are you drawing at the moment?” Twain asked.

　　“This!” Whistled said and the showed Twain a picture which hadn’t been finished. “This is going to be the best picture 13 .

　　“Yes, it is.” Twain said, “It’s excellent indeed. I must 14 it.”

　　Twain put out his 15　　to touch the picture 16 Whistler got very 17　　.

　　“Don’t touch it.” He cried. “It isn’t 18　　 yet!”

　　“I know.” Taint said, “but it’s 19 all right . I’ve had my gloves(手套) 20　　.”

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完形填空 （满分20分）
Wings of Angel
I used to hate myself because I wasn’t “normal”. Everyone else could pay on the monkey bars
and ride on a bicycle, but not  41 . I had a severe spinal cord disorder(脊髓病) and I knew I would always be much  42  than others.
I hated going to school and I hated people  43  at me. I hated seeing others smiling broadly and standing  44  and tall. And most of all, I hated looking in the  45  and seeing my ugly hunchback.(驼背)
My friends found me  46  because I didn’t let others get close to me. I thought I was going to go on like this for the rest of my life  47  Angela appeared.
That afternoon, I was sitting by myself in a corner of the school--- a spot where no one would   48   me. That’s when I first heard her 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?” she asked.
“Ants.”
“What are they doing?”
“No  49   .”
“I bet they’re playing games and making friends. Don’t you think so?”
That was how our  50  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, she saw my  51  . She just started.
My heart  52 . What I feared most had happened and I knew for sure she would  53  me now.
She stood up, pointed at my back and said, “I know  54   your back is hunched.”
I closed my eyes like a criminal waiting to be  55 . I begged in my heart for her to  56 , but she just kept on going. “I know what you’ve got in there. Do you?”
“No,” I answer  57 .
She bent and whispered in my ears.
“Your back is hunched because you’ve got a pair of wings from the angels.”
I was  58 . I looked into her eyes and her  59  touched my heart. From that day on, I started to learn to  60  myself because I have the wings of an angel and a kind-hearted friend.

The Price of a Dream
I grew up poor, living with my wonderful mother. We had little money but plenty of love and attention.  I was   36  and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still   37  a dream.
My dream was to be a sportsman.   38  I was sixteen, I had started playing baseball. I could throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and hit anything that moved on the football field.  I was also   39 . My high-school coach was Ollie Jarvis, who not only believed in me, but taught me  40 to believe in myself. He   41 me the difference between having a dream and realizing the dream. One particular   42  with Coach Jarvis changed my life forever.
It was the summer between my junior and senior years, and a friend recommended (推荐) me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket—money for a new bike and new clothes, and the   43  of savings for a house for my mother. Then I realized I would have to   44  summer baseball to deal with the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell Coach Jarvis I wouldn’t be playing. 
When I told Coach Jarvis, he was as   45  as I expected him to be.  “You have your whole life to work,” he said.  “Your playing days are limited. You can’t   46  to waste them.” I stood before him with my head hanging, trying to think of the   47  that would explain   48  him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his   49  in me.
“How much are you going to make at this job, son?” he asked. “Three twenty-five an hour,” I replied.
“Well,” he asked, “is $3.25 an hour the   50  of a dream?”
That simple question made it   51  to me the difference between   52  something right now and following a dream. I   53  myself to sports that summer, and within the year I was   54  by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was   55  a $20,000 contract. In 2000, I bought my mother the house of my dream!

Long time ago, there was a seed. Because he was only a seed,   36   cared to notice him. Thus, feeling useless, the seed thought he was not important at all.

     Then one day, a   37  picked him up and threw him on an open field under the sun. He was   38 , thinking, "Why would a wind do such a thing?" But   39  any pleasant answers, he was   40   with sunlight as well as   41  , sometimes light and sometimes heavy.

 Time flew by and years later, he saw a  42  sitting by his side. "Thank God for this. I really need some   43 ",he heard the traveler say.

  "What are you   44  ?"The seed asked. He thought the man was   45  him. Surely he had seen many people sitting by his side,  46  no one ever spoke to him like that.

  "Who is this?" The man was   47

  "This is me, the seed. "

  "The seed?" The man looked at the big   48   "Are you kidding me? You are not a seed. You are a tree. A big tree ！

   "   49  ?"

   "Yes! Why else do you think people   50  here?"

   "What do they come here for?"

   "To   51 your shade! Don't tell me you didn't know you had   52 over time. "

    A moment passed, and the traveler's words made him think a lot.

    The seed, now a big tree, thought and  53  for the first time in his life. The years of suffering from the sun and the rain were useful to him at last.

   "Oh! That means I'm not a(n)   54  seed anymore! Wow! I'm a big tree now. That's the   55  that I really want !"

1.A. everybody    B. nobody              C. someone          D. anything

2.A. wind          B. bird                   C. boy               D. man

3.A. confused      B. glad                 C. excited            D. hurt

4.A. except for    B. because of           C. instead of         D. in case of

5.A. made          B. covered             C. heated            D. provided

6.A. food           B. rain                 C. friends            D. flowers

7.A. traveler       B. woman               C. dog               D. god

8.A. water          B. 1ove                C. rest               D. money

9.A. thinking of     B. preparing for       C. looking for       D. talking about

10.A. looking at     B. making fun of      C. seeing off       D. getting away from

11.A. so             B. because              C. but               D. since

12.A. angered       B. delighted            C. moved           D. surprised

13.A. stone           B. mountain            C. tree               D. river

14.A. When         B. Really              C. Where            D. Who

15.A. hate            B. leave                C. live               D. come

16.A. hunt            B. like                  C. enjoy             D. steal

17.A. appeared       B. survived            C. grown            D. risen

18.A. cried            B. smiled              C. sang               D. danced

19.A. small            B. beautiful          C. ugly               D. lovely

20.A. experience      B. adventure         C. reason            D. life