完形填空（共15小题; 每小题1分, 满分15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。
Nearly twenty years has passed, I still remember my favourite professor, James Sehwartz. And almost all his students are his friends, and almost all his students know his life story.
When James was a teenager, his father   36  him to a fur (毛皮)factory where he worked . This was during the Great Depression(大萧条). The   37  was to get James a job.
He entered the factory, and immediately felt as if the walls had closed in around him. The room was dark and hot, the windows covered with dust, and the   38  were packed tightly together, running like trains. The fur hairs were flying,   39  the air thicker, and the workers, sewing the pieces of fur together, were bent over their needles   40  the boss marched up and down the rows, shouting and forcing them to go faster. James could hardly   41  . He stood next to his father, frozen with fear, hoping the boss wouldn’t   42  at him, either.
During lunch break, his father took James to the boss and pushed him in front of him,   43 if there was any work for his son. But unfortunately, the answer was “no”, because at that time no one would__44___ it up once he takes a job.
However, for James, it was a blessing(福气) . He hated the place. He made a(an)   45  that  he would never do any work that brought   46  to someone else, and that he would never allow himself to  47  money from others who would lose their jobs for him.
“What will you do?” his mother , Eva , would ask him.
“I don’t know,” he would say. He ruled out（排除）law, because he didn’t like  48  , and he ruled out medicine , because he couldn’t take the    49 of blood.
　　50__, my best professor became a teacher, he thought it was the job not to hurt anybody.
36．A．sent          B．took            C．carried        D．admitted
37．A．situation     B．condition       C．  aim           D．way
38．A．goods         B．workers         C．machines        D．vehicles
39．A．making        B．sending         C．taking          D．breaking
40．A．as            B．after           C．if             D．though
41．A．breathe       B．see             C．walk            D．hear
42．A．attack        B．laugh           C．rush            D．shout
43．A．doubting      B．questioning     C．asking          D．begging
44．A．pick          B． give           C． come          D． turn
45．A．request       B．promise         C．plan            D．arrangement
46．A．harm          B．injury          C．damage          D．convenience
47．A．pay           B．save            C．earn            D．let
48．A．police        B．lawyers         C．doctors         D．government
49．A．sight         B．feel            C．sense           D．scenery
50．A．Generally     B．Possibly        C．Eventually      D．Basically

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。
A.　Goods for auction (拍卖) sales
　　B.　Definition of bidding
　　C.　Way to sell more goods by auction
　　D.　Auction sales in history
　　E.　Brief introduction to auctions
　　F.　Making a larger profit as an auctioneer
【小题1】______
Auctions are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He asks the crowd assembled in the auction-room to make offers, or “bids”, for the various items on sale. He encourages buyers to bid higher figures, and finally names the highest bidder as the buyer of the goods. This is called “knocking down” the goods, for the bidding ends when the auctioneer strikes a small hammer on a table at which he stands.
【小题2】 ______
The ancient Roman probably invented sales by auction, and the English word comes from the Latin auction, meaning “increasing”. The Romans usually sold in this way the goods taken in war. In England in the eighteenth centuries, goods were often sold “by the candle”: a short candle was lit by the auctioneer, and bids could be made while it stayed alight.
【小题3】 ______
Practically all goods whose qualities vary are sold by auction. Among these are coffee, skins, wool, tea, furs, silk and wines. Auction sales are also usual for land and property, furniture, pictures, rare books, old china and similar works of art.
【小题4】 ______
An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by potential buyers. If the advertisement cannot give full details, catalogues are printed, and each group of goods to be sold together, called a “lot”, is usually given a number. The auctioneer need not begin with Lot 1 and continue in the order of numbers: he may wait until he notices the fact that certain buyers are in the room and then produce the lots they are likely to be interested in.
【小题5】 ______
The auctioneer’s services are paid for in the form of a percentage of the price the goods are sold for. The auctioneer therefore has a direct interest in pushing up the bidding as high as possible. He will not waste time by starting the bidding too low. He will also play on the opponents among his buyers and succeed in getting a high price by encouraging two business competitors to bid against each other.

It is difficult for parents of nearly every family to teach their children to be responsible for housework, but with one of the following suggestions, you really can get your children to help at home.
　　If you give your children the impression that they can never do anything quite right, then they will regard themselves as unfit or unable persons. Unless children believe they can succeed, they will never become totally independent.
　　My daughter Carla’s fifth - grade teacher made every child in her class feel special. When students received less than a prefect test score, she would point out what they had mastered and declared firmly they could learn what they had missed.
　　You can use the same technique when you evaluate （评价）your child’s work at home. Don’t always scold and give lots of praise instead.  Talk about what he has done right, not about what he hasn’t done. If your child completes a difficult task（任务）, promise him a Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad.
　　Learning is a process（过程）of trying and failing and trying and succeeding. If you teach your children not to fear a mistake of failure, they will learn faster and achieve success at last.
【小题1】The whole passage deals with ________.
　　   

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。

A.　Goods for auction (拍卖) sales

　　B.　Definition of bidding

　　C.　Way to sell more goods by auction

　　D.　Auction sales in history

　　E.　Brief introduction to auctions

　　F.　Making a larger profit as an auctioneer

1.______

Auctions are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He asks the crowd assembled in the auction-room to make offers, or “bids”, for the various items on sale. He encourages buyers to bid higher figures, and finally names the highest bidder as the buyer of the goods. This is called “knocking down” the goods, for the bidding ends when the auctioneer strikes a small hammer on a table at which he stands.

2. ______

The ancient Roman probably invented sales by auction, and the English word comes from the Latin auction, meaning “increasing”. The Romans usually sold in this way the goods taken in war. In England in the eighteenth centuries, goods were often sold “by the candle”: a short candle was lit by the auctioneer, and bids could be made while it stayed alight.

3. ______

Practically all goods whose qualities vary are sold by auction. Among these are coffee, skins, wool, tea, furs, silk and wines. Auction sales are also usual for land and property, furniture, pictures, rare books, old china and similar works of art.

4. ______

An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by potential buyers. If the advertisement cannot give full details, catalogues are printed, and each group of goods to be sold together, called a “lot”, is usually given a number. The auctioneer need not begin with Lot 1 and continue in the order of numbers: he may wait until he notices the fact that certain buyers are in the room and then produce the lots they are likely to be interested in.

5. ______

The auctioneer’s services are paid for in the form of a percentage of the price the goods are sold for. The auctioneer therefore has a direct interest in pushing up the bidding as high as possible. He will not waste time by starting the bidding too low. He will also play on the opponents among his buyers and succeed in getting a high price by encouraging two business competitors to bid against each other.

My little angel, you are teaching me how selfless real love is!

My wife called, “How long will you be with that      ? Will you come here and make your darling daughter eat her food?” I threw the paper away and       to the place. My daughter, Sindu, sat there, tears welling up in her eyes. In front of her was a big bowl of rice.

　 I       the bowl and persuaded: “Sindu, why not take a few mouthfuls of this rice?”

　 “Ok, Dad. I will eat — not just a few mouthfuls,       the whole lot of this. But…” Sindu hesitated. “Dad, if I eat this entire rice, will you give me       I ask for?”

　 “Promise.” I      .

　 After eating the rice painfully, Sindu came to me, her eyes wide with      . Now I became a bit      . “Dear, you shouldn't insist on       a computer or any such       things. Dad does not have that kind of money right now.”      , “I want to have my head shaved off(剃掉), this Sunday!” was her demand(要求), which was far       my belief.

On Monday morning, I       Sindu at her school and watched her walking towards her classroom. She turned around and      . I waved back with a smile. Just then, a boy, who just got out of a car, shouted, “Sindu, please wait for me!” What       me was the hairless head of that boy.

“Sir, your daughter is       indeed!” Without introducing herself, a lady standing beside me continued, “That boy is my son, who lost all his       because of a disease. He       to come back to school fearing the unintentional(无意的)but        teasing（取笑）of the schoolmates. Sindu visited him last week, and promised him that she would take care of the teasing issue. But, I       imagined she would sacrifice her lovely hair for my son!”

1.A. bowl               B. newspaper        C. book                            D. food

2.A. rushed     B. pulled                     C. jumped           D. shouted

3.A. took out           B. picked up          C. broke down     D. gave out

4.A. and        B. so                          C. or                D. but

5.A. what       B. where                C. which                             D. how

6.A. moved            B. doubted         C. agreed               D. disbelieved

7.A. expectation       B. confidence                   C. worry                         D. attraction

8.A. nervous           B. bored                C. excited                        D. relaxed

9.A. making             B. selling          C. getting             D. studying

10.A. valuable   B. useful                     C. wonderful                    D. expensive

11.A. Therefore  B. However             C. Besides           D. Anyway

12.A. to                  B. beyond               C. of                    D. within

13.A. met       B. helped                     C. dropped                      D. collected

14.A. shouted        B. smiled                C. waved                        D. stared

15.A. interested      B. frightened       C. pleased           D. surprised

16.A. careful          B. hard-working     C. graceful        D. great

17.A. friends          B. hair                             C. hope                            D. face

18.A. refused         B. wished                C. dreamed                      D. decided  

19.A. kind             B. hurtful                        C. harmless                      D. funny

20.A. usually           B. ever                  C. never                         D. nearly