The damaged building           , so the people will have to look for other places to shelter themselves from the cold.

第三部分完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
An elderly carpenter (木匠) was ready to retire. He told his employer of his   41 to leave the house building   42and live a more leisurely life with his wife,  43  time with his extended family. He would   44  the pay, but he needed to retire. They could 45  .
The employer was   46  to see such a good worker leave and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal  47  . The carpenter said yes, but in time it was   48  to see that his heart was not in his work. He built the house   49  and used poor materials. It was an  50  way to end his career.
When the carpenter   51   his work, the employer handed the front – door key to the carpenter. “This is your house,” he said, “a   52   to you.”
What a shock! What a  53 ! If he had only known he was building his 54  house, he would have done it all so   55 . Now he had to live in the house he had built none too well.
56  it is with us. We build our   57  in a distracted (心不在焉)way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up less than the best. At   58  points we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have   59  and find that we are now living in the house we have built . If we had   60 , we would have done it differently.
(     )41.A.retirement     B. problem                      C. purposes                     D. plans
(     )42.A.business         B. site                             C. teams                         D. workers
(     )43.A.cheering        B. dividing                      C. enjoying                     D. sparing
(     )44.A.consider        B. miss                           C. raise                          D. save
(     )45.A.get by           B. get alone                     C. get back                     D. get around
(     )46.A.ashamed        B. anxious                       C. frightened                  D. sorry
(     )47.A.favor             B. bargain                       C. present                       D. reply
(     )48.A.frank             B. probable                     C. easy                           D. content
(     )49.A.sadly             B. carelessly                  C. slowly                        D. proudly
(     )50.A.unfair            B. unhappy                      C. unfortunate                 D. unusual
(     )51.A.checked         B. discovered                   C. prepared                     D. finished
(     )52.A.gift               B. salary                         C. memory                     D. punishment
(     )53.A.quality          B. prize                           C. shame                        D. surprise
(     )54.A.final              B. best                            C. everlasting                  D. own
(     )55.A.differently     B. quickly                       C. hard                           D. happily
(     )56.A.Then             B. So                              C. But                            D. Whatever
(     )57.A.houses           B. bodies                         C. glories                       D. lives
(     )58.A.difficult         B. main                           C. strong                        D. important
(     )59.A.created          B. faced                          C. improved                   D. avoided
(     )60.A.recognized     B. noticed                       C. realized                      D. previewed

    Tony Wrench and his wife Faith, wearing the traditional woolly jacket, have set up their home in the shadows of Preseli Mountains.

    They built the house in the winter of 1997 with the dream of living what they call“low-impact lives”. Their dream is to get close to nature, have little pollution and prove they can change the world. But their action was stopped almost a year later by the local government. Eventually, a new rule about environment protection was brought and the government encouraged the couple to carry on their “low-impact lives”.

    The completed house is built around a frame of 200 firs(冷杉木)and made entirely of natural materials, in a style that is part-native American, part-ancient Celt. Mr. Wrench said this house was more like a sort of large basket.  The most expensive part of the building was the rubber (橡胶 ) pond-liner for the roof at ￡650—all in it cost a grand total of￡3, 000, the labor being supplied by the couple and a few good friends. The idea is to try to make the most of the natural resources around them, reducing their impact as much as possible on the environment.

    Electricity is generated from three solar panels on the roof and a small windmill. Food is mostly home-grown (自产的) and they even make their own wine from a vine（藤）on the roof. Drinking water comes from the mountain stream and hot water is more or less on-tap through a back-boiler system fixed up to the back of the fire by the old whisky barrel(桶).

    Waste is dealt with by being rotted, which in turn provides fertilizer for the corns and vegetables etc. . They are by no means tired of life; on the contrary they like it. Mr. Wrench in particular likes nothing better than a nice hot bath. They wait for enough wind to charge the laptop so they can watch a DVD in the evening.

    Their life is not a challenge of existence; they say—just an attempt to keep their footsteps on the planet as light as possible.

55. What can we know from the passage?

A. Mr. Wrench planned to run a wine factory when he was young.

B. Mr. Wrench and Faith love their house and have been in it for twenty years.

C. Mr. Wrench and Faith’s behavior once was forbidden by the local government.

D. Mr. Wrench and Faith can’t watch TV in their house because there’s no electricity.

56. From the text we learn that the couple’s house______.

A. cost them 3, 650 pounds in all

B. is only made of about 200 firs

C. is not strong enough to resist the wind

D. was built by them and some of their friends

57. The food that the couple eat is mostly______.

A. produced by themselves

B. bought from a supermarket

C. offered by the government

D. grown on the roof of their house

58. According to the passage, the waste is______.

A. dealt with to help crops grow better

B. thrown away

C. buried deeply

D. sold to other farmers

--- Any news about the fire?
--- Nearly 20 people ______ from the burning building by now.

One rainy night many years ago ,an elderly couple entered the hall of a small hotel in Philadephia. The couple walked to the front desk hoping to get some  21  for the night. “Could you give us a  22  here?” the husband asked.
The waiter, a  23  man with a bright smile, looked at the couple and   24  that there were three meetings in town. “All of our rooms are taken,” the waiter said. “  25  I can’t send a nice couple like you out into the rain at one o’clock in the morning. Would you be  26  to sleep in my room? It’s not  27  a suite(套房)，but it will be good enough to make you  28  for the night.”
When then couple refused 39 , he explained, “Don’t worry about me.”So the couple   30  . The next morning, the elderly man said to the waiter, “you are the kind of manager who should be the boss of the best   31  in America. Maybe someday I’ll   32  one for you.” The waiter looked at them and  33  .Then they drove away.
Two years passed. The waiter had almost  34  it when he received a letter from the old man. It recalled（提起）that   35  night and enclosed（附上）a round-trip to New York, asking the young man to pay them a visit.
The old man 36  knowledge, the knowledge of the life, history and geography of the people whose  37  him in New York and led him to Fifth Avenue and 34^th Street. He  38   to a great new building there.
“That is the hotel I have just built for you,” said the elderly man.
“You must be 39  ,” the young man said.
“I’m not,” said the elderly man.
The elderly man was William Waldor-Aster, and that 40 building was the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The young waiter who became its first  manager was George Boldt.