One night I decided to spend some time building a happier and closer relationship with my daughter. For several weeks she had been   21   me to play chess(棋) with her, so I suggested a game and she eagerly   22  . It was a school night, however, and at nine o’clock my daughter asked if I could   23   my moves, because she   24   to go to bed; she had to get up at six in the morning. I   25   she had strict sleeping habits,   26   I thought she ought to be able to    27   some of this strictness. I said to her, “  28  , you can stay up late for once. We’re having  29  .” We played on for another fifteen minutes, during which time she looked   30  . Finally she said, “Please, Daddy, do it quickly.” “No,” I replied. “If you’re going to play it  31  , you’re going to play it slowly.” And so we  32  for another ten minutes, until   33   my daughter burst into tears, and   34   that she was beaten.

Clearly I had made   35  . I had started the evening wanting to have a   36 time with my daughter but had   37   my desire to win to become more    38  than my relationship with my daughter. When I was a child, my desire to win   39   me well. As a parent, I   40   that it got in my way. So I had to change.

One night I decided to spend some time building a happier and closer relationship with my daughter. For several weeks she had been   21  me to play chess(棋) with her, so I suggested a game and she eagerly   22 . It was a school night, however, and at nine o’clock my daughter asked if I could   23  my moves, because she   24   to go to bed; she had to get up at six in the morning. I   25   she had strict sleeping habits,   26   I thought she ought to be able to    27  some of this strictness. I said to her, “ 28 , you can stay up late for once. We’re having 29 .” We played on for another fifteen minutes, during which time she looked  30 . Finally she said, “Please, Daddy, do it quickly.”“No,” I replied. “If you’re going to play it  31 , you’re going to play it slowly.” And so we 32  for another ten minutes, until  33  my daughter burst into tears, and  34  that she was beaten.
Clearly I had made   35 . I had started the evening wanting to have a  36time with my daughter but had   37  my desire to win to become more   38 than my relationship with my daughter. When I was a child, my desire to win   39  me well. As a parent, I   40  that it got in my way. So I had to change.
 

【小题1】A. guiding 【小题2】A. allowed 【小题3】A. change 【小题4】A. agreed 【小题5】A. knew 【小题6】A. so 【小题7】A. put up 【小题8】A. As usual 【小题9】A. patience 【小题10】 A. excited 【小题11】 A. well 【小题12】A. discussed 【小题13】 A. nervously 【小题14】A. promised 【小题15】A. a mistake 【小题16】A. free 【小题17】 A. managed 【小题18】A. important 【小题19】A. offered 【小题20】A. realized

B. asking B. expected B. repeat B. needed B. learned B. for B. take up B. Go ahead B. luck B. proud B. again B. continued B. immediately B. admitted B. a decision B. different B. recognized B. attractive B. served B. apologized

C. training C. replied C. hurry C. begged C. guessed C. but C. pick up C. By the way C. fun C. anxious C. fairly C. counted C. strangely C. wondered C. an attempt C. full C. allowed C. practical C. controlled C. imagined

D. advising D. accepted D. pass D. hated D. heard D. or D. give up D. Come on D. success D. angry D. regularly D. argued D. suddenly D. discovered D. an effort D. happy D. reduced D. interesting D. taught D. explained

第二节 完形填空 （共20小题，每小题1分，共20分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-40各题所给的4个（A、B、C、D）选项中，选出最佳选项。

    A man was cleaning his car with a special brush when a little girl who had been ___21___ him said, “My daddy has a brush like that to clean his car too.” “Really?” said the man. “What kind of ___22___ does your daddy have?” The little girl answered, “Oh, he hasn’t got a car yet, ___23___ he’s got the brush to clean it.”

   Well, I suppose you have to start ___24___! The important thing is that you do ___25___. And to do that, we first have to decide what kind of life we want. It’s ___26___ that many of us want to live forever, when we can’t even decide what to do with our life now! Like the guy who said, “I’m going to ___27___ putting things off, starting tomorrow.”

   You see, ___28___ others have made decisions for you, you can still decide ___29___ you’ll respond and handle the life that’s been handed to you. You still have ___30___ of your own attitudes. Happiness is an attitude and choice, no matter what ___31___ you’re in. Remember, you can always find someone ___32___ than you who you can help. It’s only when we stop looking at our own problems and ___33___ to make others happy that we ourselves can be ___34___ happy. But if you choose not to make a decision, that also is your decision you’ll ___35___. There are many smart, talented people who have never enjoyed the ___36___ they could have, because they could not make a decision and discipline themselves to follow through with it.

   Remember, if your life doesn’t ___37___, it’s going to stay the same! It’s that simple. So to move on ___38___ where you are, you must first decide where you’d ___39___ be. If you can’t change your mind, you can’t change your life. The great writer Tolstoy said, “Everyone wants to change the world, but no one wants to change ___40___.” So ask yourself right now: What’s the decision I need to make to change my life? Just think a minute…

21. A. noticing        B. watching            C. glaring                  D. observin

22. A. car                      B. life                   C. brush             D. view

23. A. however             B. as                         C. but                   D. while

24. A. everywhere      B. somewhere        C. anywhere          D. nowhere

25. A. help                   B. work              C. finish             D.start

26. A. impossible          B. natural                  C. strange              D. likely

27. A. stop                    B. start                  C. avoid             D. continue

28. A. in case                B. even if                  C. now that            D. only if

29. A. how                   B. why                  C. what                 D. that

30. A. power                 B. control                  C. authority           D. sense

31. A. situation             B. condition           C. case                  D. surrounding

32. A. better off            B. worse off          C. more difficult    D. much easier

33. A. give out                     B. leave out           C. go out            D. reach out

34. A. truly                   B. fully                 C. just                   D. simply

35. A. agree with           B. live with           C. start with           D. end with

36. A. success               B. idea                  C. work              D. challenge

37. A. appear                B. regain            C. change                  D. preserve

38. A. with                   B. from                 C. to                         D. until

39. A. rather                 B. quite              C. hardly            D. just

40. A. yourself                     B. herself                  C. itself              D. himself

    As I drove my blue Buick into the garage. I saw that a yellow Oldsmobile was   21   too close to my space. I had to drive back and forth to get my car into the   22   space. That left   23    enough room to open the door. Then one day I arrived home   24  , and just as I turned off the engine, the yellow Oldsmobile entered its space － too close to my car,   25  . At last I had a chance to meet the driver. My patience had   26   and I shouted at her, “Can’t you see you’re not   27   me enough space” Park father over.” Banging(猛推) open her door into  28 ,the driver shouted back: “Make me!”   29   this she stepped out of the garage. Still, each time she got home first, she parked too close to my   30  . Then one day, I thought, “What can I do?” I soon found   31  . The next day the woman   32   a note on her windshield(挡风玻璃):

Dear Yellow Oldsmobile,

I’m sorry mistress(女主人) shouted at yours the other day. She’s been sorry about it. I know it because she doesn’t sing anymore while   33  . It wasn’t like her to scream   34  . Fact is, she’d just got bad news and was taking it out on you two. I   35   you and your mistress will   36   her.

                                                    Your neighbor,

                                                   Blue Buick

When I went to the   37   the next morning, the Oldsmobile was gone, but there was a note on my windshield:

Dear Blue Buick,

My mistress is sorry, too. She parked so   38   because she just learned to drive. We will park much farther over after this. I’m glad we can be   39   now.

                                                 Your neighbor,

                                                 Yellow Oldsmobile

After that, whenever Blue Buick   40   Yellow Oldsmobile on the road, their drivers waved cheerfully and smiled.

21．A．driven                       B．parked               C．stopped                     D．stayed

22．A．complete          B．close            C．narrow                     D．fixed

23．A．quite                        B．nearly           C．seldom                     D．hardly

24．A．hurriedly                   B．first          C．finally                          D．timely

25．A．as usual            B．as planned      C．as well                 D．as yet

26．A．run into                     B．run about        C．run out                 D．run off

27．A．keeping                     B．saving                        C．offering       D．leaving

28．A．mine                B．hers             C．itself                  D．ours

29．A．For                          B．With               C．From                       D．Upon

30．A．room                        B．area             C．front                   D．side

31．A．an instruction             B．a result        C．an answer               D．a chance

32．A．put                         B．wrote                C．sent                D．discovered

33．A．working           B．driving            C．returning             D．cooking

34．A．on end                      B．so long            C．like that             D．any more

35．A．hope                        B．know                  C．suppose             D．suggest

36．A．comfort                     B．help                    C．forgive             D．please

37．A．office                       B．flat                     C．place                D．garage

38．A．crazily                     B．eagerly       C．noisily               D．early

39．A．neighbors                  B．friends            C．drivers               D．writers

40．A．followed                   B．passed            C．found                      D．greeted

This is love, hand in hand with you, old age to the old.
I made a promise to myself on the way down to the vacation beach cottage. For two weeks I would try to be a(an)   31  husband and father. Totally loving. No ifs, ands or buts.
The   32   had come to me as I listened to a talk on my car radio. The   33  was quoting Biblical passage about husbands and their wives. Then he went on to say, “Love is an   34  of will. A person can choose to love.” To myself, I had to   35  that I had been a selfish husband. Well, for two weeks that would   36 .
And it did,   37  from the moment I kissed Evelyn at the door and said, “That new yellow sweater looks   38  on you.”
“Oh, Tom, you noticed,” she said,   39  and pleased. Maybe a little puzzled.   40  the long drive, I wanted to sit and read. Evelyn   41  a walk on the beach. I started to refuse,   42 
then I thought she wanted to be alone with me.” We walked on the beach while the   43  flew their kites.
So it went. Two weeks of not calling the firm where I am a director. We visited the shell museum   44  I usually hate museums. Relaxed and happy, that’s how the whole   45  passed. I made a new promise to keep on remembering to choose love.
There was one thing that went   46  with my experiment, however. Evelyn and I still laugh about it today. On the last night at our cottage, preparing for bed, Evelyn  47 me.    “What’s the matter?” I asked her.
“Tom,” she said in a(an)   48  voice, “do you know something? I don’t….”
“What do you mean?”
“Well… that   49  I had several weeks ago … our doctor … did he tell you something about me? Am I dying?”
It took a moment for it all to be understood. Then I burst into   50 .
“No, honey,” I said, wrapping her in my arms. “You’re not dying; I’m just starting to live.”