二  完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

                The Parking-Lot（停车场）Sweeper

    Both my parents came from towns in Mexico. I was born in E1 Paso, Texas, and when I was four, my family moved to a housing project in East Los Angeles.

         Even though we struggled to make ends meet, my parents stressed to me and my four brothers and sisters how    21 we were to live in a great country with limitless opportunities. They   22    us with the ideas of family, faith and love.

    I got my first    23    job when I was ten. My dad injured his back working in a cardboard-box factory and was retrained as a hairstylist. He    24   space in a little shopping center and gave his shop the flowery name of Mr. Ben’s Coiffure.

    The owner of the shopping center    25   my Dad’s payment for cleaning the parking lot three    26  a week, which    27 getting up at 3 a.m. Mom and I helped    28 

dustbin and pick up rubbish by hand. It took two to three hours to clean the lot. I     29    sleep in the car on the way home.

    I did this for two years, but the lessons I learned have     30   a lifetime. I obtained discipline（自律）and the importance of work, and learned at a(n)    31    age the importance of balancing life’s competing interests——in my    32   , school, homework and a job. This

   33    helped during my school years, when I worked 40 hours at a fast-food restaurant while taking a full    34   of college preparation courses.

    The hard work    35   off. I attended the U.S. Military Academy and went on to    36   

graduate degrees in law and business from Harvard.     37   , I joined a big Los Angeles law firm and was elected to the California state assembly（州议会）. In these jobs and in everything else I’ve done, I have     38  forgotten those nights in the parking lot. The experience taught me that there is value in all work and that if people are working to    39   for themselves and their families, that is    40   we should honor.

  21. A. important  B. different       C. competitive D. fortunate

  22. A. mixed         B. filled        C. piled         D. left

  23. A. true       B. new          C. real          D. good

  24. A. hired      B. bought              C. cleaned        D. created

  25. A. reduced     B. afforded       C. collected      D. charged

  26. A. mornings B. evenings      C. dawns     D. nights

  27. A. meant        B. overcame    C. admitted      D. allowed

  28. A. lift          B. empty      C. throw      D. hold

  29. A. must      B. need        C. would      D. should

  30. A. existed       B. lasted      C. kept         D. stayed

  31. A. small     B. exact       C. early        D. golden

  32. A. mind      B. way          C. part          D. case

  33. A. really     B. nearly      C. simply      D. merely

  34. A. piece     B. length      C. mass        D. load

  35. A. made     B. took         C. paid          D. started

  36. A. receive       B. offer         C. require             D. study

  37. A. Thus     B. Later          C. Again       D. Instead

  38. A. seldom       B. just           C. even         D. never

  39. A. account      B. enter       C. provide         D. call

  40. A. everything B. something   C. nothing         D. anything

In North America, people are always in __31______ hurry. Children have special lessons or sports activities __32________ school. Parents often work late and ___33________ get home until 7 or 8 o’clock at night. Most North American families don’t have time to prepare a meal. That is __34_________ fast food is so popular in North America. People _____35_____ about 40% of their dollars on fast food.

People usually buy fast food from restaurant chains such as Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, or KFC,__ 36______ they can enjoy pizza, sandwiches, fried chicken, and so on. Fast food saves work and time, but it is not __37_________ (nutrition).

Fast food is popular in many countries. American fast-food companies now have restaurants all over the world. But not __38________ is happy about the spread(扩展) of North American fast food. A group of people in Italy want to fight __39_______ the spread of American fast food. They don’t like the idea of more fast food chains __40__________(open) restaurants in their country.

In North America, people are always in __31______ hurry. Children have special lessons or sports activities __32________ school. Parents often work late and ___33________ get home until 7 or 8 o’clock at night. Most North American families don’t have time to prepare a meal. That is __34_________ fast food is so popular in North America. People _____35_____ about 40% of their dollars on fast food.

People usually buy fast food from restaurant chains such as Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, or KFC,__ 36______ they can enjoy pizza, sandwiches, fried chicken, and so on. Fast food saves work and time, but it is not __37_________ (nutrition).

Fast food is popular in many countries. American fast-food companies now have restaurants all over the world. But not __38________ is happy about the spread(扩展) of North American fast food. A group of people in Italy want to fight __39_______ the spread of American fast food. They don’t like the idea of more fast food chains __40__________(open) restaurants in their country.

 二  完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

                The Parking-Lot（停车场）Sweeper

    Both my parents came from towns in Mexico. I was born in E1 Paso, Texas, and when I was four, my family moved to a housing project in East Los Angeles.

       Even though we struggled to make ends meet, my parents stressed to me and my four brothers and sisters how    21 we were to live in a great country with limitless opportunities. They   22    us with the ideas of family, faith and love.

    I got my first    23    job when I was ten. My dad injured his back working in a cardboard-box factory and was retrained as a hairstylist. He    24   space in a little shopping center and gave his shop the flowery name of Mr. Ben’s Coiffure.

    The owner of the shopping center    25   my Dad’s payment for cleaning the parking lot three    26  a week, which    27 getting up at 3 a.m. Mom and I helped    28 

dustbin and pick up rubbish by hand. It took two to three hours to clean the lot. I     29    sleep in the car on the way home.

    I did this for two years, but the lessons I learned have     30   a lifetime. I obtained discipline（自律）and the importance of work, and learned at a(n)    31    age the importance of balancing life’s competing interests——in my    32   , school, homework and a job. This

   33    helped during my school years, when I worked 40 hours at a fast-food restaurant while taking a full    34   of college preparation courses.

    The hard work    35   off. I attended the U.S. Military Academy and went on to    36  

graduate degrees in law and business from Harvard.     37   , I joined a big Los Angeles law firm and was elected to the California state assembly（州议会）. In these jobs and in everything else I’ve done, I have     38  forgotten those nights in the parking lot. The experience taught me that there is value in all work and that if people are working to    39   for themselves and their families, that is    40   we should honor.

  21. A. important B. different     C. competitive       D. fortunate

  22. A. mixed      B. filled      C. piled       D. left

  23. A. true      B. new        C. real         D. good

  24. A. hired     B. bought           C. cleaned      D. created

  25. A. reduced    B. afforded     C. collected    D. charged

  26. A. mornings        B. evenings     C. dawns     D. nights

  27. A. meant      B. overcame   C. admitted     D. allowed

  28. A. lift        B. empty     C. throw      D. hold

  29. A. must     B. need       C. would     D. should

  30. A. existed     B. lasted      C. kept        D. stayed

  31. A. small           B. exact       C. early       D. golden

  32. A. mind     B. way        C. part        D. case

  33. A. really           B. nearly     C. simply           D. merely

  34. A. piece     B. length     C. mass       D. load

  35. A. made           B. took        C. paid        D. started

  36. A. receive     B. offer       C. require           D. study

  37. A. Thus    B. Later        C. Again      D. Instead

  38. A. seldom     B. just         C. even       D. never

  39. A. account    B. enter       C. provide      D. call

  40. A. everything       B. something  C. nothing      D. anything

One family, which had emigrated from Japan and settled at the turn of the century near San Francisco, had established a business in which they grew roses and trucked them into San Francisco three mornings a week.
The other family was a naturalized(加入国籍的)family from Switzerland who also marketed roses, and   21   families became modestly successful,   22 their roses were known in the markets of San Francisco for their  23 vase-life.
For four decades the two families were neighbors, and the sons   24 the farms, but then on December 7, 1941, Japan   25   Pearl Harbor. Although the rest of the family members were American, the   26   of the Japanese family had never been naturalized. In the turmoil(动乱) and the questions about internment camps（拘留营）, his neighbor made it clear that, if   27  , he would look after his friend’s nursery（花圃）. It was   28 each family had learned in church—Love the neighbor as thyself. “You would do  29 for us, ” he told his Japanese friend.
It was not long before the Japanese   30   was transported to a poor landscape in Granada, Colorado. The relocation center consisted of tar-paper-roofed barracks (兵营)  31 by barbed wire and armed guards.
A full year went by. Then two. Then three. While the   32 neighbors were in internment, their friends worked in the greenhouses, the  33   before school and on Saturdays, and the father's work often stretched to 16 and 17 hours. And then   34 , when the war in Europe had
  35 , the Japanese family packed up and   36  a train. They were going home.
What would they find? The family was   37 at the train station by their neighbors, and when they got to their home, the whole Japanese family stared.. There was the nursery, complete, clean and shining in the sunlight, neat, prosperous and healthy.
So was the balance of the bank passbook   38 to the Japanese father. And the house was  39 as clean and welcoming as the nursery.
And there on the dining room   40  was one perfect red rosebud, just waiting to unfold- the gift of one neighbor to another.