I’ll never forget my first daughter, who died too early from a bad accident. During those years, life was   36  . One Christmas I found my 3-year-old daughter   37  with a roll of golden wrapping paper. I had bought the paper to finish a rather important project. So I became   38  and scolded her loudly, “You are not good. And you are   39  your father’s money. You don’t know how hard your parents are working.” She was   40  and cried bitterly, running away.

    41 , she brought a gift, a golden   42  made of golden wrapping paper to me the next morning and said, “This is for you, Daddy.” I was   43  of my earlier hurting words, but my anger rose again when I found out the box was   44 . I shouted at her, “Don’t you know, when you give someone a present, there is supposed to be something inside?” She   45  at me with tears in her eyes and cried, “Oh, Daddy, it’s not empty at all. I blew   46  into the box. They’re all for you, Daddy.”

I was completely   47 . I put my arms around her and begged for her   48 . A year later, a serious   49  took the life of my daughter. I was so sad that I   50  in bed for three days and three nights, saying nothing with tears rolling down my cheek. From then on, I hated cars and kept the golden box by my bed for many years. Whenever I was   51  , I would take out an imaginary kiss and   52  the love of my daughter who had put it there.

In a very real   53  , each one of us, as humans beings, has been given a golden container   54  with unconditional love and kisses ... from our children, family members, friends, and God. There are   55  no other possessions that anyone could hold more precious than this.

第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）

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

One day the employees of a large company in St．Louis, Missouri returned from their lunch break．They were ___36___ with a sign on the front door which said: “Yesterday the person who has been ______37___ your growth in this company passed away．We invite you to join the ___38___ in the room that has been prepared in the gym．”

At first everyone was ___39___ to hear that one of their colleagues had died, ___40___ after a while they started getting ___41___ about who this person might be．

The excitement ___42___ as the employees arrived at the gym to pay their ___43___ respects．Everyone wondered: “Who is this person that was in the way of my progress? Well, ___44___ he’s no longer here!”

___45___ the employees got closer to the coffin （棺材） and when they looked inside it they became ___46___．They stood over the coffin, ___47___ and in silence, as if someone had touched the deepest part of their ___48___．

There was a ___49___ inside the coffin: Everyone who looked inside it would see ___50___．There was also a sign next to the mirror that said: “There is ___51___ one person in this world who is really capable of setting ___52___ to your growth: it’s YOU．”

Yes! You are the only person who can help yourself．You are the only person who can ___53___ your happiness and your success．Your life changes when you change, when you go ___54___ your limiting beliefs, when you realize that you are the only one ___55___ for your life．

36．A．greeted     B．provided   C．faced D．concerned

37．A．encouraging     B．keeping    C．helping     D．preventing

38．A．party       B．funeral     C．meeting   D．training

39．A．sad    B．happy      C．calm  D．nervous

40．A．because    B．so     C．but   D．although

41．A．crazy       B．angry              C．curious             D．clear

42．A．grew B．changed    C．worked    D．disappeared

43．A．false  B．forced      C．first D．last

44．A．above all B．first of all       C．at least      D．as usual

45．A．One by one    B．Hand in hand        C．Face to face     D．Side by side

46．A．hopeless   B．desperate  C．lonely      D．speechless

47．A．disappointed    B．shocked    C．frightened       D．satisfied

48．A．memory   B．soul C．company   D．will

49．A．mirror     B．notebook  C．Bible       D．Body

50．A．it      B．himself     C．someone   D．him

51．A．hardly     B．fortunately       C．only    D．accidentally

52．A．examples        B．goals       C．limits       D．dates

53．A．balance    B．influence C．share       D．envy

54．A．over  B．towards    C．through    D．beyond

55．A．secure      B．suitable    C．greedy     D．responsible