One afternoon, many years ago, I went to pick up my mother from work. I got there a little early so I   21  the car by the roadside and waited for her.

As I looked   22  the car window, there was a small park where I saw a little boy, around two years old,   23  freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short   24 . The boy had a big smile on his face   25  he had just been set free from some sort of   26 . The boy would then fall to the grass,   27 , and without hesitation or without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could again, still with a   28  on his face.   

Kids, when they fall down, don't view their falling down as failure, but   29 , they treat it as a learning experience. They try and try again until they   30 . While I was touched by the boy's persistence, I was   31  touched by the manner in which he ran. With each attempt, he looked so   32  and so natural — no signs of fear, nervousness, or of being discouraged. His only   33  was to run freely and to do it as effectively as he could. He was just being a   34  — just being himself—being completely in the moment. He was not looking for   35  or was not worrying about whether   36  was watching. He didn't seem to be bothered by the fact that maybe someone would see him   37  and that it would be   38  if he did fall. No, all that   39  to him was to accomplish the task, to feel the experience of running fully and freely. I learned a lot from that   40  and experience, and have successfully brought that lesson with me in my many pursuits（追求) in life.

1.                A．drove          B．started         C．parked   D．broke

2.                A．outside         B．down          C．toward   D．over

3.                A．playing         B．smiling         C．rolling    D．running

4.                A．way           B．length          C．time D．distance

5.                A．even if         B．as if            C．so long as D．now that

6.                A．park           B．cave           C．prison    D．castle

7.                A．get up          B．take up         C．break down   D．lie down

8.                A．tear           B．smile           C．pleasure  D．surprise

9.                A．however        B．instead         C．therefore D．anyhow

10.               A．stop           B．win            C．achieve   D．succeed

11.               A．luckily          B．apparently      C．actually   D．equally

12.               A．confident       B．joyful          C．quiet D．proud

13.               A．worry          B．dream         C．aim   D．hope

14.               A．boy           B．child           C．player     D．winner

15.               A．chance         B．fortune         C．approval   D．trouble

16.               A．someone       B．anyone         C．everyone  D．one

17.               A．fail            B．run            C．fall   D．cry

18.               A．embarrassing    B．disappointing    C．frightening D．amusing

19.               A．happened      B．contributed     C．related    D．mattered

20.               A．discovery       B．observation     C．story D．incident

John，an academically excellent young man，went to apply for a management position in a big company．The director did the last  36 ．

The director asked，“Who paid for your school fees?” John answered．“My  37 did．When I was young，my father  38 ．”Then he continued．“  39 was your mother?” John answered，“My mother worked as a  40 cleaner．”Hearing this, the director asked John to  41  his hands．John reached out his hands that were  42 and perfect．The director said，“I have a  43 ．when you go home，clean your mother’s hands and see me tomorrow．”

John felt  44 but did it．His tears fell  45 he cleaned his mother’s hands．He noticed  for the first time that her hands were so  46 ．Also John  47 that it was this pair of hands  that washed clothes every day to  48 him．After cleaning his mother’s hands，John  49 washed all the remaining clothes for her．

Next day，John went to the director’s office. Tears in eyes，John was asked to  50 his  feelings．“Now I know what is  51 ．Without my mother，there wouldn’t be the  52 me today．By helping my mother，I see how  53 it is to get something done．I have also come to know the value of family relationship．”

The director smiled，This is what I am  54 ．I want a person who can appreciate the help of others，a person who knows the sufferings of others and a person who  55 put money as his only goal in life．You are hired．”

完形填空（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，D中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A very little boy was spending his Saturday morning playing in his sandbox. He had with him a plastic pail (桶) and a shiny, red plastic shovel (铲). In the   36  of creating roads and tunnels in the sand, he   37  a large rock in the middle of the sandbox.
The boy dug around the rock,   38  to move it off the dirt. At first, he wanted to carry it out of the sandbox with his hands; however, it was too heavy. Later, with much   39 , he pushed the rock across the sandbox by   40  his hands. When the boy got the rock to the   41  of the sandbox, he found that he couldn’t roll it up and   42  the little wall.   43 , the little boy pushed, but every time he thought he had made some   44 , the rock tipped (翻滚) and then fell back into the sandbox. The little boy pushed and pushed, but his only   45  was to have the rock roll back.
Finally he   46  tears. All this time the boy’s father watched from his living room window   47  the drama was unfolded. The moment the tears fell, a large   48  appeared across the sandbox. It was the boy’s father. Gently but   49 , he said, “Son, why didn’t you use all the strength that you had?”
Defeated, the boy   50  back, “I did! I did! I used all the strength that I had!”
“No, you didn’t. You didn’t ask me for help.” The father   51  down, picked up the rock and dropped it off the sandbox.
Do you have “rocks” in your life that need to be   52 ? Are you discovering that you don’t have   53  it takes to lift them? There is someone who is willing to give us the   54  we need. Maybe, it’s sometimes a good idea to ask others for   55  when we meet difficulties we can’t overcome.

Directions: For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

Micheal Scofield has won fans all over the world. The star of the hit show Prison Break is kind, clever and good-looking. But what about the man ___50___ the character?

Wentworth Miller, the 35-year-old actor who plays Scofield, is a hard guy to ___51___. He does not come from a traditional background and doesn’t ___52___ a traditional path.

Miller didn’t take a ___53___ road to fame and fortune. He graduated from Princeton University in 1995 with a degree in English, not a degree in theatre or film. He didn’t even act when he was in college. His only ___54___ experience was in his university’s well-known singing group. Yet, at graduation, Miller still decided to make the   ___55___ to Hollywood.

Miller has always been ___56___. Although he is American, he was born in Britain when his father was studying there. His family background is a ___57___ of cultures. “My father is black and my mother is white. That means I have always been caught in the middle. I could be   ___58___ one, which can make you feel out of place,” Miller says.

Following his unusual path, Miller did not start trying out for films and TV shows when he got to Hollywood. ___59___, he worked as a production assistant. Not what you would   ___60___ from a Princeton graduate.

However, it all paid off for Miller ___61___. Working on production side, he learned a lot about what makes a good ___62___.

In 2002, Miller played a role in the drama Dinotopia. He starred as a shy man. The producers ___63___ his performance when they were making Prison Break two years later.

With a golden globe nomination (金球奖提名) and another season of Prison Break under his belt, Miller seems ready to ___64___ all of Hollywood.

50.   A. beside               B. behind                     C. outside              D. after

51.  A. talk with           B. go after             C. get along with    D. figure out

52.   A. go                    B. walk                 C. follow               D. step

53.   A. direct                B. special                     C. wide                 D. correct

54.   A. graduation         B. performance      C. production               D. education

55.   A. role                  B. move                C. decision            D. movie

56.   A. strange              B. outstanding        C. different            D. successful

57.   A. mixture             B. result                C. mystery             D. representative

58.   A. other                B. either                C. another             D. the other

59.   A. Moreover          B. Therefore          C. Instead              D. Finally

60.   A. respect              B. make                C. indicate             D. expect

61.   A. in the end          B. in particular       C. as a whole         D. as a result

62.   A. film                  B. actor                 C. drama               D. guy

63.   A. recognized        B. made                C. recorded            D. remembered

64.   A. take up             B. take over           C. turn up             D. turn over

An old man once had an argument with his only son. He tried to __36__ many times, but the young man would not __37__. The father never__38__ because he loved his son with all his heart, but the son would not give in, __39__ he was too blinded by his pride.
Years passed and as the man lay in his deathbed, he made a __40__ attempt to reconcile (和解) with his son, but __41__ he would not listen and so the father died with a heart full of __42__.
During this time the son too had a child who had now __43__ into a young adult. To this child he never __44__ his father and when the young man asked about his grandfather he __45__   tell him never to mention him again.
One day, they two were involved in a hot __46__ and his son fled away as he did many years ago. This made the man extremely__47__ and this time he had no __48__, but felt completely isolated. (孤立的)
He was afraid that he would__49__ his son forever and for the first time after many years he realized how his father must have__50__ many years back.
He remembered how he had __51__ his old man and only at that point he realized the extent of the hurt he had caused. The __52__ he thought the more he understood how unjust he was with his old father, the man who gave him everything __53__ his life.
With these sad thoughts he felt __54__ on the couch. The next morning when he opened his eyes he found __55__ lying in his bed and in front of him stood his son. The man could not believe his eyes, and the two hugged each other while they cried together.