We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects （缺陷） that can never be changed．“I’m impatient．” “I’m always behind．” “I always put things   21 !” You’ve surely heard them．Maybe you’ve used them to describe   22 ．

These comments may come from stories about us that have been   23  for years—often from   24  childhood．These stories may have no   25  in fact．But they can set low expectations for us．As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical （操作机械的） skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life．” How did these expectations   26  my development? I was never   27  to work on cars or be around   28 ．When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test．My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!

Six years later,   29 , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree．One of my professors, Dr．Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do．On the positive side, I   30   down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking．” On the   31  side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills．”

Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills．I explained my life   32  and told him about my   33  performance on the Army test．Bob then asked, “  34  is it that you can solve   35  mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”

Suddenly I realized that I didn’t   36  from some sort of genetic defect．I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to   37 ．At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been   38  my belief that I was mechanically hopeless．And it wasn’t just the Army test, either．I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true．  39  , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost   40  we choose．

When my first wartime Christmas came, I was in basic training in New Jersey and not sure if I could make it home for the holidays. Only on the afternoon of December 23 was the list of men who would have three-day holidays posted. I was one of the lucky soldiers. It was Christmas eve when I arrived home, and a light snow had fallen. Mother opened the front door. I could see beyond her, into the corner of the living room where the tree had always stood. There were lights, all colors, and ornaments (装饰物) shining against the green of a pine. “Where did it come from?” I asked.

“I asked the Gates boy to cut it,” my mother said. “I wouldn’t have had one just for myself, such a rush！He just brought it in this afternoon…” The pine reached to the proper height, almost to the ceiling, and the tree top crystal star was in its place. A few green branches reached about a little awkwardly at the side, I thought, and there was a bit of bare trunk showing in the middle. But the tree filled the room with warm light and the whole house with the pleasant smell of Christmas. “It’s not like the one you used to find,” my mother went on. “Yours were always in good shape. I suppose the Gates boy didn’t know where to look for a good one. But I couldn’t be fussy (挑剔的)．”

“Don’t worry,” I told her. “It’s perfect.” It wasn’t, of course, but at the moment I realized something for the first time: all Christmas trees are perfect．

1.From the passage, we can infer that ______．

2.When the writer got home, ______．

3.From this passage，we can conclude that ______．

4.“All Christmas trees are perfect”，because they can remind you of ______．

5.The best title for this passage would be “______”．

When Phillip was on his way to the airport one afternoon, he asked the driver to wait outside the bank while he collected some traveler’s checks.

   The plane was to  21   at 5:30. From the bank there was still a 22  journey to the airport. Phillip merely (仅仅，只不过；只是)watched the   23   along the way. Shortly before arriving, he began  24 the things he would need for the  25 . Tickets, money, the address of his hotel, traveler’s checks—Just a moment. How about his passport? Phillip went through his pockets. He suddenly   26   that he must have left his passport (护照，通行证) 27 .

    Whatever could he do? It was now five past four and there would be too little  28  to return to the bank. This was the  29   time he was representing（代表） his firm for an important  30  with the manager of a French firm in Paris the following morning. Without a passport he would be  31  to board the plane. At that moment, the taxi  32  outside the air . Phillip got out, took his suitcase and  33  the driver. He then  34   a good deal of confusion（混乱）in the building. A 35  could be heard over the loudspeaker.

    “We very much 36 that owing to a twenty-four-hour strike （罢工）of airport staff（职员，员工）, all flights for the rest of today have had to be called off.” Passengers are  37  to get in touch with their travel agents or with this terminal for 38 on tomorrow’s flights. Phillip gave a 39 . He would let his firm know about this situation and, thank goodness, he would have the opportunity of calling at his bank the following morning to 40  his passport.

A. leave        B. register       C. check out             D. pull

A. pleasant     B. short          C. long              D. rough

A. scenery       B. scene         C. view             D. sight

A. counting    B. looking over    C. thinking about      D. checking

A. trip                B. plane         C. meeting           D. flight

A. remembered   B. realized       C. noticed           D. learned

A. at home     B. at the office    C. at the bank        D. in the taxi

A. time        B. chance        C. possibility         D. use

A. golden      B. last           C. only              D. first

A. journey       B. visit          C. business           D. meeting

A. sad         B. unable        C. impossible         D. difficult

A. stopped       B. was driven     C. reached           D. was parked

A. left         B. sent away      C. paid              D. spent

A. started      B. noticed        C. caught            D. found

A. speech      B. noise          C. call               D. voice

A. apologize    B. announce      C. worry             D. regret

A. advised      B. forced         C. told                D. persuaded

A. ideas        B. plans          C. information         D. time

A. loud laugh   B. deep sigh       C. big smile         D. sharp cry

A. return       B. find           C. recover            D. gather

My mom is a teacher．She finds a lesson in everything．I was watching Sesame Street by my second birthday so I’d   16   my ABCs and 123s．Our weekly family trips to the library began when I was three．And my mom had me spotting （认出） the historical markers with childlike   17   on family vacations by the time I was six．For her, life was all about learning．But the biggest lesson she   18   me was never to let my   19   define who I am, and never forget what is   20   in life．
I was born with Freeman-Sheldon Syndrome, an extremely   21   genetic bone and muscular disorder．There are only about 100 reported   22 ．At birth, my knees were bent more than 90 degrees, and I had my first surgery to   23   them when I was just six weeks old．This surgery was the first of many in my   24 ．I’d had 26 surgeries by the time I was 15．
Strange as it   25  , I have good memories of my medical days．One of my   26   is about my mom and me being in the hospital cafeteria（自助餐厅）．We sat down for an ice cream sandwich dessert．It was   27   fancy, but at that moment, I knew I was   28 ．
My parents pushed me to be as   29   as possible — even when I didn’t want to be．My mom taught me that I could do anything and that I should   30   let my disability stop me．In high school, I was a member of the National Honor Society, and in college, I was editor-in-chief of my school newspaper．I wouldn’t have had the   31   to push myself if my parents hadn’t been there,   32   me on and giving me a reality check when I got down on myself．
Every night before I go to bed, I   33   my mom for everything, for all the great help she’s given me．And   34   I get older, I know that “Thanks, Mom” is about so much more than the physical assistance．And that’s   35   matters the most．

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，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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。

         “I’m going to make you attractive,” said Mika Hill, looking at the  21  of the woman sitting before her．The women once had long,  22 , dark hair．But alopecia（秃头症） had  23  her just a little of it．Hill, a wig（假发） maker, was about to change that．

         At 30, Hill knows from experience how a woman feels when she  24  her hair．Her own hair fell out several years ago  25 a lack of iron after giving birth．“I cried when I washed it, when I combed it, and when I looked in the  26   ,” she says．Then she bought a wig．“It was too small,” she says, “but my   27   went up greatly．”

         Hill enrolled（注册） in a wig-making  28   in New York．Back home with what she learned, she started making wigs that she planned to   29   for $300 each．

         But many of her customers with alopecia and cancer couldn’t  30  that much, and their health insurance often didn’t  31  the cost．So Hill started giving the wigs away, eventually spending $10,000 of her own money．Last year, she and her friend Lita Warren  32  Pink Barrette, a non-profit organization that has  33   about 60 wigs to poor women．

         Hill pays  34   the donations with profits from her other products．  35   , she and her husband have also spent much of their savings keeping the organization running．

         Hill’s customers can’t thank her enough．Elyssa Montoya was too   36  to be seen in public with her  37   thinning hair．“I didn’t feel I could show my bald head outside．Thanks to Mika, I now have beautiful hair, and feel 38   about myself again．”

         “Seeing their self-confidence   39   after they try on their wigs,” says Hill, “brings   40   to my eyes．This is a job for me, and a most rewarding one．”

21．A．head             B．face         C．nose         D．mouth

22．A．light              B．thick              C．little           D．ugly

23．A．showed          B．destroyed      C．left          D．offered

24．A．washes          B．changes        C．loses          D．dyes

25．A．thanks to     B．except for          C．as for       D．because of

26．A．picture         B．room            C．sky  D．mirror

27．A．confidence       B．belief            C．power     D．image

28．A．speech                 B．company     C．course    D．club

29．A．sell            B．produce        C．rent     D．order

30．A．supply           B．appreciate       C．allow        D．afford

31．A．recover       B．cover           C．admit      D．contain

32．A．set up            B．put up             C．set down D．put down

33．A．donated        B．imported          C．picked       D．valued

34．A．up            B．off             C．back        D．for

35．A．Besides         B．Therefore         C．Somehow D．Otherwise

36．A．embarrassed            B．excited          C．happy       D．angry

37．A．hardly            B．badly         C．heavily      D．largely

38．A．frightened        B．strange          C．grateful    D．good

39．A．limit              B．exchange         C．improve    D．cut

40．A．doubt           B．tears           C．fear         D．joys