第三节  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四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Friendship has great power, and it can inspire the people in trouble as well as in easy circumstances.
Recently, one of my best friends, whom I've   21    just about everything with since the first day of kindergarten, spent the weekend with me. Since I   22   to a new town several years ago, we've both always looked forward to   23   times a year when we can see each other.
Over the weekend, we   24   hours and hours, staying up late   25   the night, talking about the people she was hanging around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he   26   with drugs and was into other self-destructive[自毁]  27  . I was blown away! She told me how she had been   28   to her parents about where she was going and even sneaking out to see this guy because they didn't want her around him. No matter   29  hard I tried to tell her that she deserved better, she didn't believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disappeared.
I tried to convince her that she was ruining her future and heading for big   30  . I felt like I was getting   31  . I just couldn't believe that she really thought it was acceptable to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boyfriend.
By the time she left, I was really worried about her and   32   by the experience. It had been so  33  , I had come close to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to continue our friendship - but I didn't. I put the   34   of friendship to the   35   test. We'd been friends for far too long. I had to hope that she   36   me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could conquer anything.
A few days   37  , she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our   38  , and then she told me that she had  39   with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the   40   rewarding moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend.
21. A. divided               B. shared               C. experienced              D. enjoyed
22. A. got                            B. traveled             C. moved                     D. arrived
23. A. the few               B. the little            C. few                   D. little
24. A. took                   B. spared               C. offered                 D. spent
25. A. into                    B. in                            C. for                    D. at
26. A. supplied                 B. experimented     C. tried                 D. provided
27. A. action                 B. movements        C. behavior            D. activities
28. A. explaining           B. speaking            C. calling                     D. lying
29. A. what                   B. why                  C. how                  D. however
30. A. trouble               B. worry               C. difficulty           D. task
31. A. somewhere          B. nowhere            C. anywhere          D. everywhere
32. A. burned down              B. turned down      C. turned out         D. worn out
33. A. discouraging              B. encouraging       C. exciting             D. inspiring
34. A. strength                     B. force                 C. power               D. energy
35. A. last                        B. final                 C. late                   D. recent
36. A. treated                B. regarded            C. honored            D. valued
37. A. later                   B. after                 C. ago                   D. before
38. A. information         B. dialogue            C. conversation      D. communication
39. A. broken out          B. broken up          C. broken away      D. broken off
40. A. luckily                B. correctly           C. naturally           D. truly

It is reported that the government has ______ the poor in some African countries ______ food, clothes and medicine.

       A. supplied; to                                          B. offered; with

C. offered; to                                     D. supplied; with

“Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. “If you can carry on, one day something good will happen. And you’ll   16   that it wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous   17  .”

Mother was right,   18   I discovered after   19   from college in 1932. I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way   20   sports announcer. I hitchhiked（搭便车） to Chicago and knocked on the door of   21   station—and got   22   every time. In one   23  , a kind lady told me that big stations couldn’t   24   hiring inexperienced persons. “Go out in the sticks and find a small station that’ll give you a   25  .” she said.

I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois. While there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local   26   to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I   27  . The job sounded just right for me.   28   I wasn’t hired.

My disappointment must have shown. “Everything happens for the best,” Mom   29   me. Dad   30   me the car to job-hunt. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had   31   hired an announcer.

As I left his office, my   32   boiled over. I asked aloud, “How can a fellow get to be a sport announcer if he can’t get a job in a radio station?” I was waiting for the elevator   33   I heard MacArthur calling, “What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he stood next to me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast an   34   game.

On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother’s words: “if you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous disappointment”. I often   35   what direction my life might have taken if I’d gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.

1.A. realize        B. recognize      C. request          D. receive

2.A. disappointment B. excitement   C. pressure        D. anxiety

3.A. what  B. as C. when    D. how

4.A. studying     B. working         C. living     D. graduating

5.A. up to B. out at    C. up for   D. down to

6.A. every          B. many     C. a few     D. some

7.A. taken down        B. broken down         C. turned down          D. put down

8.A. room B. image    C. studio   D. stage

9.A. risk    B. avoid     C. mind     D. regret

10.A. trouble    B. chance C. choice  D. change

11.A. adviser     B. athlete  C. photographer        D. composer

12.A. applied    B. assisted          C. approved      D. admitted

13.A. And        B. But      C. However       D. So

14.A. reminded         B. praised C. demanded    D. informed

15.A. supplied  B. provided       C. prepared       D. offered

16.A. still  B. even     C. already D. yet

17.A. distinction        B. frustration     C. impression    D. expression

18.A. until          B. when    C. while     D. as

19.A. visible      B. bitterness      C. imaginary      D. satisfactory

20.A. think         B. suspect C. doubt    D. wonder

第三节  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四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Friendship has great power, and it can inspire the people in trouble as well as in easy circumstances.

Recently, one of my best friends, whom I've   21    just about everything with since the first day of kindergarten, spent the weekend with me. Since I   22   to a new town several years ago, we've both always looked forward to   23   times a year when we can see each other.

Over the weekend, we   24   hours and hours, staying up late   25   the night, talking about the people she was hanging around with. She started telling me stories about her new boyfriend, about how he   26   with drugs and was into other self-destructive[自毁]  27  . I was blown away! She told me how she had been   28   to her parents about where she was going and even sneaking out to see this guy because they didn't want her around him. No matter   29  hard I tried to tell her that she deserved better, she didn't believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disappeared.

I tried to convince her that she was ruining her future and heading for big   30  . I felt like I was getting   31  . I just couldn't believe that she really thought it was acceptable to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boyfriend.

By the time she left, I was really worried about her and   32   by the experience. It had been so  33  , I had come close to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to continue our friendship - but I didn't. I put the   34   of friendship to the   35   test. We'd been friends for far too long. I had to hope that she   36   me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could conquer anything.

A few days   37  , she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our   38  , and then she told me that she had  39   with her boyfriend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the   40   rewarding moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend.

21. A. divided               B. shared               C. experienced              D. enjoyed

22. A. got                            B. traveled             C. moved                     D. arrived

23. A. the few               B. the little            C. few                   D. little

24. A. took                   B. spared               C. offered                 D. spent

25. A. into                    B. in                            C. for                    D. at

26. A. supplied                 B. experimented     C. tried                 D. provided

27. A. action                 B. movements        C. behavior            D. activities

28. A. explaining           B. speaking            C. calling                     D. lying

29. A. what                   B. why                  C. how                  D. however

30. A. trouble               B. worry               C. difficulty           D. task

31. A. somewhere          B. nowhere            C. anywhere          D. everywhere

32. A. burned down              B. turned down      C. turned out         D. worn out

33. A. discouraging              B. encouraging       C. exciting             D. inspiring

34. A. strength                     B. force                 C. power               D. energy

35. A. last                        B. final                 C. late                   D. recent

36. A. treated                B. regarded            C. honored            D. valued

37. A. later                   B. after                 C. ago                   D. before

38. A. information         B. dialogue            C. conversation      D. communication

39. A. broken out          B. broken up          C. broken away      D. broken off

40. A. luckily                B. correctly           C. naturally           D. truly

Coming home from school that dark winter day so long ago, I was filled with excitement of having the weekend off. But I was   41   into stillness by what I saw. Mother, seated at the far end of the sofa, was   42   with the second-hand green typewriter on the table. She told me that she couldn’t   43   fast and then she was out of work. My shock and embarrassment at finding Mother in tears was a perfect proof of how   44   I understood the pressure on her. Sitting beside her on the sofa, I began very slowly to understand. “I guess we all have to   45   something,” Mother said quietly. I could   46   her pain and the tension of   47   the strong feeling that were interrupted by my   48  . Suddenly, something inside me lit up. I reached out and put my arms around her. She broke then. She put her face   49   my shoulder and sobbed. I held her  50    and didn’t try to talk. I knew I was doing what I should, what I could and that was   51  . At that moment, feeling Mother’s   52   with feelings, I understood for the first time her being easy to   53  . She was still my mother,   54    she was something   55   : a person like me, capable of fear,   56   and failure. I could feel her pain as she must have felt mine on a thousand occasions when I sought   57   in her arms.

A week later Mother took a job selling dry goods at half the salary the radio station __58  .

“It’s a job I can do, though.” She said simply. But the evening practice on the green typewriter continued. I had a very   59   feeling now when I passed her door at night and heard her   60    away across the paper. I knew there was something more going on in there than a woman learning to type.

1. A. fooled         B. tricked      C. puzzled     D. shocked

2.A. crying          B. smiling      C. thinking    D. whispering

3. A. write          B. type         C. grasp       D. glance

4.A. seldom          B. adequately   C. little      D. much

5.A. fail             B. win          C. forgive     D. gain

6.A. realize         B. understand   C. sense       D. recognize

7. A. holding back   B. putting away C. holding on  D. coming out

8. A. attitude       B. attempt      C. arrival     D. admission

9. A. by             B. upon         C. beside      D. against

10. A. tightly       B. attentively  C. gently      D. cheerfully

11. A. enough        B. little       C. all         D. nothing

12.A. forehead       B. face         C. fingers     D. back

13.A. content        B. break        C. conquer     D. control

14.A. therefore      B. although     C. yet         D. however

15. A. more          B. excellent    C. strange     D. huge

16.A. wound          B. pride        C. success     D. hurt

17.A. kindness       B. memory       C. comfort     D. support

18.A. supplied       B. offered      C. paid        D. contributed

19. A. different     B. distinct     C. pleasant    D. sympathetic

20.A. crying    B. striking C. tapping  D. sewing