The boy was very sick, but he managed to ______.

第三部分：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each   16   to help drain the fluid(排出流质) from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s only window. The other man had to spend all his time  17   on his back.

The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their families, their homes, their jobs and a whole lot of things. Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by  18   to his roommate what he could see   19   the window.

The man in the other bed began to   20   for those one-hour periods when his   21   would be broadened and brightened by all the activity and color of the world outside.

The window overlooked a   22   with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children   23   their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm among   24   of every color and a fine   25   of the city skyline could be seen in the   26  . As the man described all this, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and  27   the beautiful scene.

Days and weeks passed. One morning, the day nurse arrived to find the man by the window, had died   28  in his sleep. Later, the other man asked   29   he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch.

Slowly, painfully, he managed to   30   and take his first look at the   31   world outside. Surprisingly, it   32   a blank wall.  　　

The next day he learned from the nurse that the man was   33   and could not   34   see the wall. She said, “Perhaps he just wanted to   35   you.”

16. A. morning                   B. afternoon              C. evening                  D. night

17. A. flat                                B. quiet                       C. still                     D. calm

18. A. listening                   B. talking              C. describing        D. explaining

19. A. beyond                B. outside                  C. behind              D. near

20. A. look                           B. live                          C. prepare                 D. work

21. A. health                 B. dream                    C. world                D. career

22. A. garden                B. farm                       C. mountain          D. park

23. A. made                   B. rowed                    C. took                    D. sailed

24. A. trees                         B. flowers                  C. houses                       D. birds

25. A. photo                  B. map                        C. view                   D. appearance

26. A. distance                       B. hospital                 C. future               D. sky

27. A. enjoy                   B. experience      C. sense                 D. imagine

28. A. peacefully        B. painfully                 C. sadly                  D. bravely

29. A. when                   B. if                         C. how                    D. why

30. A. climb up                   B. stand up                C. sit up                  D. turn up

31. A. real                           B. noisy                       C. ordinary                 D. new

32. A. contained                B. covered                 C. connected        D. faced

33. A. mad                          B. blind                       C. ill                    D. dead

34. A. yet                       B. just                         C. even                   D. clearly

35. A. support               B. fool                         C. cure                    D. encourage

The park bench was deserted as I sat down to read beneath the long branches of an old willow tree.   31   at life, I have a good reason to frown, for the world was intent on   32   me down.

And if that weren't enough to ruin my day, a young boy out of breath   33  me, all tired from play. He stood   34   in front of me with his head tilted down and said with great excitement, "Look what I found!" In his hand was a   35  . What a pitiful sight, its petals were all worn - not enough rain, or too little light. Wanting him to take his dead flower away and go off to play, I   36   a small smile and then looked away.

But instead of   37   , he sat next to my side and placed the flower to his nose and   38   loudly with certainty, "It sure smells pretty and it must be beautiful, too. That's why I picked it; here, it's for you." The weed before me was dying or dead, not vibrant of   39  , orange, yellow or red. But I knew I must take it, or he might never leave. So I  40  for the flower, and replied, "Just what I need." Again,  41   placing the flower in my hand, he held it mid-air without reason or plan. It was then  42  I noticed for the very first time that the boy could not see: he was  43 .

I heard my voice trembling. Tears shone like the sun as I thanked him for picking the very best one. "You're welcome," he smiled, and then ran off to play, not realizing the  44  he'd had on my day. I sat there and wondered how he managed to see a  45   woman beneath an old willow tree. How did he 46  my self-indulged plight(困境)? Perhaps he'd been  47  with true sight from his heart by God.

Through the eyes of a blind child, at last I could see, the problem was not with the world; the problem was me. For all of those times I myself had been blind. I decided to see beauty, and  48  every second that belongs to mine.  49  I held that dead flower up to my nose and breathed in the  50  of a beautiful rose , I smiled as that young boy. Another flower in his hand was about to change the life of an unsuspecting old man.

Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy—five, he gave £ 12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment (设备) for a children’s playground.
As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy—five. Johnson had a sense of humour (幽默). He liked whisky (威士忌酒) and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening.”he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy—five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
【小题1】Johnson became a rich man through

Mark Twain left school when he was twelve. Though he had little school education, he became the most famous writer of his time. He made millions of dollars by writing. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clements, but he is better known all over the world as Mark Twain, his penname.
Mark Twain was born in 1835 and he was not a healthy baby. In fact, he was not expected to live through the first winter. But with his mother’s tender care, he managed to survive. As a boy, he caused much trouble to his parents. He used to play jokes on all his friends and neighbors. He didn’t like to go to school, and he ran away from home from time to time. He always went in the direction of the nearby Mississippi. He was nearly drowned(淹死) nine times.
After his father’s death in 1847, Mark Twain began to work for a printer, who only provided him with food and clothing. Then, he worked as a river-boat pilot and later joined the army. But shortly after that he became a miner, during this period, he started to write short stories.  Afterwards he became a full-time writer.
In 1870, Mark Twain got married. In the years that followed he wrote many books including Tom Sawyer in 1876, and Huckleberry Finn in 1884, which made him famous, and brought him a great fortune（财富）.Unfortunately, Mark Twain got into debts in bad investments（投资） and he had to write large numbers of stories to pay these debts. In 1904, his wife died and then three of their children passed away.
He died on April 21, 1910 at the age of 70.
【小题1】Mark Twain was ________ in his childhood.