完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One day in summer I stepped into a tiny coffee shop to drink a cup of black coffee. As I entered, I found a very old woman bent      a table near the door. Her back was so    twisted(弯曲) by some sadness that her face nearly    the table-top. I sat down facing her two tables away.

    "Poor woman," I thought. "What does she    life? Why does God let people live so  past their prime(黄金时期)?"

As I thought,      aged lady entered the shop and sat down with her. Soon the two of them were talking about      . They talked of how little the shop had     in 70 years... In minutes the two of them were      with laughter.

    I looked again at the     woman, then in the mirror on a nearby wall,     a picture of  myself.

    I was wearing a dirty shirt. She was well dressed in white, gold rings on her fingers.

    I was in      spirits. She was laughing, smiling.

    I was putting the      of my life together. She had millions of wonderful      to recall.

    She was       the day with a good friend. I was      worried about getting old. She was old but it wasn't    her.

    As I left the shop, I thought of my      questions about God letting people live past their prime. Why, that woman was more     and more sensitive than I was.       has not bent her spirit. But I am always filling my mind with something unpleasant.

  A. to                B. on           C. over                 D. toward

  A. heavily           B. badly            C. slightly             D. hardly

  A. struck            B. reached      C. stuck           D. touched

A. get out of          B. get off      C. get away with        D. get into

  A. hard              B. long             C. slowly          D. rapidly

  A. other             B. the very         C. another         D. a certain

  A. bright future    B. recent history   C. the present day      D. childhood days

 A. changed            B. improved         C. rebuilt              D. developed

  A. jumping          B. trembling        C. burning         D. running

  A. older                B. poor             C. first                D. younger

A. watching           B. taking       C. searching       D. catching

  A. high                 B. low          C. good            D. sad

A. dreams             B. pages            C. pieces          D. hopes

A. affairs           B. sufferings       C. incidents            D. memories

A. spending           B. enjoying         C. sharing         D. wasting

A. certainly         B. completely   C. naturally            D. secretly

A. hurting            B. choking      C. defeating            D. beating

A. funny         B. foolish      C. serious         D. curious

A. alive              B. strong       C. useful               D. powerful

A. Wealth             B. Life             C. Time             D. Age

请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格填入最恰当的单词。

注意：每空格一个单词。

Eat more, Play more—Weight Less

In the United States, 20 to 40 percent of the adult population have a “weight problem”. To many people, the cause seems obvious: we eat too much. But scientific evidence does little to support this idea.

Several modern studies have shown that fatter people do not eat more on average than thinner people and that slim people are more active than fat people.

I believe that this shows overweight people can become relatively slim gradually via a progressive program of regular exercise. The key is regular, enjoyable activity.

Use of energy(calories) by the body falls into two categories. The first is energy used for essential bodily functions—digestion, heart beat, breathing—and BMR(新陈代谢). In an average-sized adult, BMR requires about 1400 calories per day.

The second category is energy used for physical activity—standing, walking and all other movements. Together with the BMR, it makes up total calorie use, which should be balanced by food intake for weight to remain stable.

For years now, we have known that dieting—especially severe dieting(400 calories per day, for instance)—decreases BMR. This is the body's defense system to keep energy when food supply is reduced. Unfortunately, it tends to weaken the diet's effects by enabling the body to “get by” on fewer calories. For this reason, I believe that severe dieting is not a good way to lose weight, and all dieting should be seen as a temporary measure.

In addition to helping weight loss and continued weight control, regular exercise has many other features to recommend it. While weight loss by dieting alone results in some loss of muscle as well as fat, weight loss by exercise and moderate dieting leads to an increased proportion（均衡）of muscle mass. The regular exerciser has good heart function too.

Regular exercise helps to raise blood levels of high－density lipoprotein(HDL) and increased exercise leads to increased food intake and thus to increased intake of critical nutrients (营养).

The benefits of eating more because of an increase in physical activity are not widely appreciated. Many people in this country, by actual measurement, have remarkably low calorie intake. Often the amount is so low (1 200 to 1 800 calories a day) that nutritionists worry about the adequacy(足够的)of their vitamin and mineral intake. And too little food, with inadequate fiber content, leads in the old population to chronic constipation(长期便秘)．

To sum up, most Americans still get too little regular exercise, and it is within this group that almost all obesity is found. Severe dieting should not be used as it is unpleasant and tends to be self-defeating. Moderate dieting combined with regular exercise is much more effective and enjoyable. The choice is yours: life on the sofa, nibbling celery or the active, healthy-eating, healthful way.

Title                             Eat more, Play more—Weight Less

Causes of weight problems        ●It's commonly believed that adults' weight problems are due to 1.______ too much, but little scientific evidence 2.______ this idea.

●Studies show that fat people eat less and are 3.______ active than slim people.

4.______of eating enough        ●Energy used for essential bodily functions, BMR, and 5.______ activity should be balanced by food intake for weight to remain stable

●Food intake offers 6.______ vitamin and mineral intake and prevents the old from chronic constipation.

Ways of weight loss  ●Dieting alone—a temporary measure

●Tending to weaken the diet's effects

●7.______in some loss of muscle as well as fat

●Exercising 8.______ — a recommended way

●Having good heart function

●Helping to raise blood levels of HDL

●Attaining critical nutrients

9.______ ●Doing little exercise has much to do with obesity.

●Severe dieting should be 10.______.

●Moderate dieting as well as regular exercise is much more effective and enjoyable.

完形填空
My husband Jack hated Christmas. He didn’t hate the true meaning of ___16___, but the commercial aspects of it. Knowing he felt this ______17___, I decided one year to___18___the usual shirts, sweaters, ties and so on. I reached for something _____19__just for Jack. The idea came in an unusual way.
　　 Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was______20______at the junior level at the school he attended and shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match____21_____a team sponsored by a church.
　　 These youngsters from the church, dressed in shoes so_______22_____that shoestrings seemed to be the only thing holding them together,____23______our son’s team were in their beautiful new wrestling shoes.
　　 As the match began, I was_____24_____to see that the other team was wrestling without a helmet designed to____25_____a wrestler’s head. They clearly could not_____26_____ them. Well, our son’s team ended up defeating them and took every weight class. But as the other team ______27_____up from the mat, they walked around with a sense of pride that couldn’t admit______28______.
　　 Jack, seated beside me, shook his head_____29_____, “I wish just one of them could have won,” he said. “They have a lot of potential, but______30_____like this could take the heart right out of them.” Jack loved_____31_____and he knew them, having coached little league football, baseball. That’s when the ____32______for his present came. That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and _____33______some wrestling helmets and shoes and sent them to the church.
　　 On Christmas Eve, I placed the envelope on the tree, the note inside telling Jack what I had done and that this was his_______34_____from me. His smile was the_______35______ thing about Christmas that year.

As a senior high school student, my future is always on my mind. To be exact,thoughts of the future have kept me up countless nights and made me worry enough to do poorly on more than one test. Because of this, words of wisdom are a source of comfort.Steve Jobs gave a speech to Stanford's graduating class in 2005 and his words resound repeatedly in my mind whenever I think about my future.
It started when l became a junior, when college came into view.  It's the first big step to making your life your own. So when Jobs discussed his life as a student, some fears were eased. He, too, felt the need to attend college to make something of himself. He faced what many are extremely afraid of: uncertainty. His lack of understanding caused him to stop attending college and focus on what he felt was important. His story had a happy ending, of course, since he certainly turned out well.
This doesn't mean that students shouldn't attend college, but rather that they shouldn't worry so much.  You'll get where you need to go, even if your path is a bit morewinding(蜿蜒的)than you'd like.
Jobs talked about the hardships in his work.  His love of his work helped him carry on and he got where he was meant to be, which restates the point: don't panic.One particular part of his speech stayed with me.  Steve Jobs quoted(引用)thc saying"Stay hungry, stay foolisll" and it has become my motto. Staying foolish is realizing thatyou are still a fool, no matter how much you've learned or experienced.  There is always more to explore. Staying hungry is wanting to find those things about which you are still uneducated.
Steve Jobs' level of success is possible to achieve, and I aim to prove that. With the will power to go into the world living every day like it's my last and allowing the future to take care of itself, I will do great things.  In the last moments of my life, I'll be proud of what I have done and hope to have all the wisdom a person could wish for.
【小题1】The author felt worried when_____.

Though trying really hard, they acknowledged ____ at last.