完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

请阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36~55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。

In the clinic,I asked if Michael could be retested,so the specialist tested him again.To my

   36  ,it was the same score.

Later that evening,I    37   told Frank what I had learned that day.After talking it over,we agreed that we knew our    38  much better than an IQ(智商) test.We    39   that Michael’s score must have been a      40     and we should treat him    41   as usual.

We moved to Indiana in 1962,and Michael studied at Concordia High School in the same year.He got      42     grades in the school,especially      43     biology and chemistry,which was a great comfort.

Michael    44   Indiana University in 1965 as a pre-medical student.Soon afterwards,his teacher permitted him to take more courses than    45  .In 1968,he was accepted by the School of Medicine,Yale University.

On graduation day in 1972,Frank and I    46   the ceremony(典礼) at Yale.After the ceremony,we told Michael about the    47   IQ score he got when he was six.Since that day,Michael sometimes would look at us and say    48  .“My dear mom and dad never told me that I couldn’t be a doctor,not until after I graduated from medical school!”It is his special way of thanking us for the    49   we had in him.

Interestingly,Michael then    50   another IQ test.We went to the same clinic where he had    51   the test eighteen years before.This time Michael scored 126,an increase of 36 points.A result like that was supposed to be    52  .

Children often do as    53  as what adults,particularly parents and teachers,   54   of them.That is,tell a child he is “   55  ,”and he may play the role of a foolish child.

36.A.joy                       B.surprise              C.dislike                       D.disappointment

37.A.tearfully               B.fearfully             C.cheerfully                  D.hopefully

38.A.student                 B.son                    C.friend                       D.doctor

39.A.argued                  B.realized              C.decided                     D.understood

40.A.joke                            B.mistake              C.warning                    D.wonder

41.A.specially               B.strictly               C.naturally                  D.carefully

42.A.poor                     B.good                  C.average                     D.standard

43.A.in                        B.about                 C.of                             D.for

44.A.visited                  B.chose                 C.passed                       D.entered

45.A.allowed                B.described            C.required                    D.offered

46.A.missed                  B.held                   C.delayed                     D.attended

47.A.high                     B.same                  C.low                           D.different

48.A.curiously                     B.eagerly               C.calmly                      D.jokingly

49.A.faith                     B.interest               C.pride                         D.delight

50.A.looked for            B.asked for            C.waited for                 D.prepared for

51.A.received               B.accepted             C.organized                  D.discussed

52.A.imperfect              B.impossible          C.uncertain                   D.unsatisfactory

53.A.honestly               B.much                 C.well                          D.bravely

54.A.hear                            B.learn                  C.expect                       D.speak

55.A.wise                     B.rude                   C.shy                           D.stupid

Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I’d be twins!” He was a natural motivator.

One day I went up to Michael and asked him, “I don’t get it. You can’t be positive all the time. How do you do it?”

Michael replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself ‘Mike, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or a bad mood.’ I choose the first. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.” Michael continued, “Life is all about choices. The bottom line is: It’s your choice how you live life.”

Several years later, Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling off 60 feet from a communications tower. I saw him about six months after the accident. I asked him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.

He said, “I first thought of my soon-to-born daughter and then remembered I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could choose to die. I chose to live. I knew I needed to take action. So when a nurse kept shouting questions at me asking if I was allergic to anything, I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Gravity’. Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I’m choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead’.”

Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.

1.Which of the following statements is true?

A. Michael is a person whom people don’t like very much.

B. Michael knows how to learn from bad things in life.

C. Doctors thought Michael was dead.

D. The author didn’t think Michael was a happy person.

2.According to Michael, when someone complains to you, you should ____________.

   A. share your own experiences with him

   B. just listen to what the person says and feel sorry for him

   C. tell the person to look at the happy side of life instead of just listening

   D. discuss with the person and tell him to reflect on the complaints

3.The author quotes Michael’s words “If I were any better, I’d be twins!” to tell us ____________.

   A. Michael wants to have a twin brother

   B. Michael is not satisfied with his present life

   C. Michael is always optimistic

   D. Michael likes to change his mood

4.Which of the following best summarizes the main idea?

A. Accidents will happen.

B. When God shuts a door, he opens another.

C. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

D. Attitude is everything.

War Horse author Michael Morpurgo is being interviewed:

Reporter:How did War Horse become so successful?

Michael:War Horse was published in 1982,and it did not sell very well.But my publishers kept it in print,along with all my books.I am very grateful to Egmont and I’m sure now they are very grateful to themselves.

The book was discovered 21 years later,by accident.I was on Desert Island Discs on Radio 4 in 2003 when my work was becoming better known.One of the listeners was the mother of a director called Tom Morris,and after reading War Horse herself she told her son to read it.Two years later the play came out,and it was a huge hit that went to the West End,Broadway and now Canada and Australia,then a nationwide American tour in June this year.

In 2009 kathy kennedy,the producer who worked with Steven Spielberg,walked into the New London Theatre to see the play because her daughter liked it very much.She then phoned Spielberg and told him this would be his next film!The way it all happened is better than any of my stories.War Horse has now sold over 1 million copies.

Reporter:Has War Horse changed your life?

Michael:It has made all the difference in the world.The most important gift it has given us is not to have to worry about money,because there has always been a slight anxiety.It has allowed us to ensure our grandchildren’s education.There is a disadvantage to it as well,which is an assumption that I am super rich.I’m not,actually.It is very nice and completely unexpected but I have got to go on writing.If I were younger,I think,it would go to my head.Now I am too old for anything to go to my head.It is not the same as winning the lottery(彩票)。

1.Why are Michael’s publishers grateful to themselves too?

2.War Horse got the first huge success thanks to____.

3.Why did Kathy Kennedy watch the play of War Horse?

4.What change made Michael feel most valuable because of War Horse?

5.What is the attitude of Michael to his great success?

Michael’s new house is like a huge palace, ________ with his old one.

A. comparing  B. compares

C. to compare D. compared

The house was quiet at 5 am and Tim’s mother was asleep. Only the sound of the big freezer broke the quiet. He’d dreamt of the cave last night. The purring（轻微颤动声）of the freezer had been the sea .

      Tim pulled on a sweater and put some apples into his schoolbag. It was too early for breakfast. He’d eat after he’d been through the cave, sitting on the rocks and staring at the sea.

      He wished he had a proper pack. His schoolbag would have to do. What else? Sandwiches—but his mother might wake up if he started pulling out bread for sandwiches, she’d want to know why he had to leave so early. He settled for some biscuits, and left a note stuck to the table:

Gone to Michael’s. Back tonight. Tim.

      The sky was high and soft and light outside, though the sun still wasn’t up. Even the highway up the hill was quiet as he made his way down the street. The wind from the sea was fresh and sweet.

      The sandhills still breathed heat from yesterday’s sun, though the top of the sand was cool. He ran down to the beach impatiently, but there was no one, just dry sand dancing in the early wind and seabirds marching up and down watching the waves.

      The light changed suddenly. The first rays of sunlight stretched（延伸）across the sea . The sun was pushing its way over the edge of the world.

      Over the first rocks, along to the point. Tim glanced back. The beach was still empty. The sun sailed higher in the sky. 

     He could see the cave now, even darker in the morning light. The sand turned silver then dark gold as the water flowed away from it. He had to force himself to go closer. Why was it so much more mysterious now ? But it would be silly to go back now after so much trouble. He needn’t go in all the way …

1. “ He settled for some biscuits ”（in Paragraph 3）means that Tim_______.

    A. had to leave the biscuits on the table   

    B. liked biscuits better than sandwiches

    C. had to take biscuits instead of sandwiches 

    D. could only find some biscuits in the kitchen

2.What made it possible for Tim to see the entry to the cave?

    A. The height of the first rocks.     

    B. The ups and downs of the waves.

    C. The change in the position of the sun.   

D. The vast stretch of the sunlit beach.

3.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the story?

    A. The sea looked like a piece of gold.   

    B. Seabirds flew away when Tim arrived.

    C. Tim was the only person on the beach.   

    D. The sky got dark as Tim reached the cave.

4.In the story , Tim’s mood changed from_______..

    A. loneliness to craziness          B. anxiousness to excitement

    C. helplessness to happiness     D. eagerness to nervousness