完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项

My friend John always has something to tell me. He knows so much that   21   men have to have older and more worldly wise men to tell them,   22  , who to trust, how to care for others and how to live life    23  the fullest.

Recently, John lost his    24  Janet. For eight years she fought against cancer, but in the end her sickness had the last   25  . One day John took out a folded piece of   26  from his wallet. He had found it, so he told me, when he   27   up some drawers at home.

It was a   28   love letter Janet had written. The note could look like a school girl’s scrawls (潦草地写，乱涂) about her dream guy.   29   the letter was written by a woman who had had seven children, a woman who fought for her life and who   30   only had a few months left to live.

It was   31   a beautiful recipe (处方，食谱) for how to keep a marriage together. Janet’s   32   of her husband begins like this, “Loved me. Took care of me. Worried about me.”

“Helped me when I was ill.” The next   33  reads. After that she turned   34   the paper and added “Warmth. Humor. Kindness. Thoughtfulness.” And then she writes about the husband she has   35  with and loved most in her life. “  36   there when I needed you.” The last words she wrote   37   all the others. I can see her for me when she added thoughtfully “Good friend.”

I stand beside John now, and cannot pretend to know how it feels to lose someone who is as close to   38  as Janet was to him. I need to   39   what he has to say much more than he needs to talk.

“John,” I ask. “How do you stick together with someone through 38 years – not to mention the sickness? How do I know   40  I can bear to stand by my wife’s side if she becomes sick one day?”

“You can.” he says quietly, “If you love her enough, you can.”

21．A．old  B．wise C．young    D．foolish

A．for instance    B．at no time   C．in that case D．as a matter of fact

A．in B．to   C．at   D．for

A．friend  B．colleague    C．wife D．sister

A．possibility B．chance   C．hope D．word

A．handkerchief    B．cloth    C．leather  D．paper

A．fixed   B．looked   C．tidied   D．put

A．small   B．long C．descriptive  D．talkative

A．So  B．But  C．And  D．While

A．probably    B．surely   C．certainly    D．definitely

．A．only   B．firstly  C．lastly   D．also

A．imagination B．description  C．dream    D．expectation

A．letter  B．note C．line D．paragraph

A．away    B．down C．off  D．over

A．lived   B．dealt    C．quarreled    D．argued

A．Constantly  B．Always   C．Never    D．Seldom

A．take the place of   B．get rid of   C．take away    D．sum up

A．me  B．Janet    C．John D．you

A．speak up    B．repeat   C．discuss  D．hear

A．why B．where    C．if   D．when

A little boy asked his mother, “Why are you crying?” “Because I’m a woman,” she told him.
“I don’t understand,” he said. His mum just hugged him and said, “You  36 will.”
Later the little boy asked his father, “Why does my mother seem to cry for no reason?” “All women cry for no reason,”  37  so much could his dad say.
The little boy grew up and became a man, still  38  why women cry.  39  he gave a call to God, and when God got on the phone, he asked, “God, why do women cry so  40 ?”
God said, “When I made the woman she had to be  41 . I made her shoulders 42 enough to carry the weight of the world; yet, gentle enough to give  43 .”
“I made her  44 childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children. I gave her hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else  45 , and to take care of her family in spite of sickness and fatigue (劳累) without  46 . I gave her the sensitivity to  47 her children under any and all circumstances,  48  her child has hurt her very badly. I gave her wisdom to carry her husband through his 49 . I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never  50 his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him  51 . And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. She can use it whenever it is needed.”
“You see, the beauty of a woman is not in the  52 she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she  53 her hair. The  54 of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart and the place where love  55 .”

A little boy asked his mother, “Why are you crying?” “Because I’m a woman,” she told him.

“I don’t understand,” he said. His mum just hugged him and said, “You  36 will.”

Later the little boy asked his father, “Why does my mother seem to cry for no reason?” “All women cry for no reason,”  37  so much could his dad say.

The little boy grew up and became a man, still  38  why women cry.  39  he gave a call to God, and when God got on the phone, he asked, “God, why do women cry so  40 ?”

God said, “When I made the woman she had to be  41 . I made her shoulders 42 enough to carry the weight of the world; yet, gentle enough to give  43 .”

“I made her  44 childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children. I gave her hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else  45 , and to take care of her family in spite of sickness and fatigue (劳累) without  46 . I gave her the sensitivity to  47 her children under any and all circumstances,  48  her child has hurt her very badly. I gave her wisdom to carry her husband through his 49 . I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never  50 his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him  51 . And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. She can use it whenever it is needed.”

“You see, the beauty of a woman is not in the  52 she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she  53 her hair. The  54 of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart and the place where love  55 .”

1.                A．surely          B．never          C．probably D．seldom

2.                A．only           B．even           C．almost    D．hardly

3.                A．hoping         B．knowing        C．wondering    D．expecting

4.                A．Actually        B．Generally       C．Luckily   D．Finally

5.                A．easily          B．rarely          C．simply    D．excitedly

6.                A．clever          B．beautiful        C．special   D．ordinary

7.                A．thick           B．fat             C．wide     D．strong

8.                A．sympathy       B．comfort         C．kindness D．mercy

9.                A．stand          B．load            C．accept   D．burden

10.               A．gives in         B．gives away      C．gives up   D．gives out

11.               A．difficulty        B．danger         C．rest  D．complaining

12.               A．control         B．love           C．respect   D．satisfy

13.               A．even if         B．in case         C．so that    D．as though

14.               A．disagreements   B．misunderstandings    C．faults D．quarrels

15.               A．minds          B．helps          C．refuses    D．hurts

16.               A．nervously       B．tiredly          C．determinedly   D．unselfishly

17.               A．clothes         B．smile          C．hair D．glasses

18.               A．washes         B．dyes           C．cuts D．combs

19.               A．figure          B．intelligence     C．beauty    D．appearance

20.               A．hides          B．lives           C．stores     D．comes

完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

When a person is curious about something, it means he is interested in it and wishes to know something about it. There is   16   wrong with curiosity in itself. Whether it is good or bad   17  on what people are curious about.

   Curiosity  18  can be foolish or wrong. Some people with nothing to do are  19  of curiosity about what their neighbors are doing. They have a strong wish to know what they are   20  home or taking outside, or why they have come home so  21  or late. To be interested in these things is silly because it is none of their 22   to know what their neighbors do or are doing. Such curiosity is not only foolish but also 23  . For most probably, it may lead to a small talk  24  often brings harm, loss of honor or disrespect to others, and thus  25  their feelings.

  On the other hand, there is a  26  curiosity- the curiosity of wise men, who  27  at all the great things and try to find out all they  28  learn about them. Columbus could  29  have found America if he had not been  30 . James Walt would not have made the steam engine  31   his curiosity about the rising of the kettle lid. All the  32  in human history have been made as a  33  of curiosity, 34   the clever curiosity is never about unimportant things which have  35  or nothing to do with the happiness of the public.

A. anything            B. everything           C. nothing      D. something

A. keeps              B. puts             C. takes            D. depends

A. always             B. sometimes            C. unusually        D. seldom

A. full               B. certain              C. proud            D. careful

A. taking              B. bringing         C. going            D. coming

A. quickly                B. hurriedly            C. early            D. happily

A. business            B. task             C. duty         D. work

A. instructive            B. useful               C. harmful      D. proper

A. who                B. which                C. when         D. where

A. hurts               B. injures              C. breaks           D. destroys

A. terrible                B. sudden           C. strange      D. clever

A. expect             B. like             C. wonder       D. doubt

A. need                B. must             C. may          D. can

A. never              B. certainly            C. surely           D. probably

A. famous              B. careful              C. curious      D. hard

A. for                    B. without          C. with         D. in

A. products          B. goods                C. discoveries      D. machines

A. profit             B. product          C. fruit            D. result

A. but                    B. however          C. so           D. or

A. little              B. few              C. some         D. any