第二节 完形填空（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36—55各小题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In the doorway of my home, I looked closely at my 23-year-old son, Daniel. In a few hours he would be flying to France to    36   a different life. It was a transitional（过渡的）time in Daniel's life. I wanted to    37    him some words of significance. But nothing came from my lips, and this was not the    38    time I had let such moments pass.
When Daniel was five, I took him to the bus stop on his first day of kindergarten. He asked, “What is it going to be like, Dad? Can I do it?” Then he walked   39   the steps of the bus and disappeared inside. The bus drove away and I said nothing. A decade later, a similar   40     played itself out. I drove him to college. As I started to leave, I tried to think of something to say to give him    41   and confidence as he started this new stage of life. Again, words    42       me.
Now, as I stood before him, I thought of those    43   opportunities. How many times have I let such moments    44    ? I don't find a quiet moment to tell him what they have     45  to me. Or what he might   46  to face in the years ahead. Maybe I thought it was not necessary to say anything.
What does it matter in the course of a lifetime if a father never tells a son what he really thinks of him?    47   as I stood before Daniel, I knew that it did matter. My father and I loved each other. Yet, I always     48    never hearing him put his   49   into words. Now I could feel my palms sweat and my throat tighten. Why is it so   50   to tell a son something from the heart?
My mouth turned dry, and I knew I would be able to get out only a few words clearly. “Daniel,” I said, “If I could have picked, I would have picked you.” That's all I could say. He hugged me. For a moment, the world    51   , and there were just Daniel and me. He was saying something, but tears misted my eyes, and I couldn't understand what he was saying. All I was    52    of was the stubble（短须）on his chin as his face pressed    53    mine. What I had said to Daniel was    54   . It was nothing. And yet, it was   55   .
36．A. experience           B. spend            C. enjoy              D. shape
37．A. show             B. give             C. leave              D. instruct
38．A. last               B. first             C. very              D. next
39．A. upward            B. into             C. down              D. up
40．A. sign                B. scene            C. scenery             D. sight
41．A. interest             B. instruction          C. courage           D. direction
42．A. failed                   B. discouraged         C. struck             D. troubled
43．A. future             B. embarrassing        C. obvious           D. lost
44．A. last               B. pass            C. fly                   D. remain
45．A. counted           B. meant              C. valued            D. eared
46．A. think             B. want               C. expect             D. wish
47．A. But              B. And                C. Instead            D. So
48．A. wondered          B. regretted                 C. minded           D. tried
49．A. views              B. actions             C. feelings            D. attitudes
50．A. important          B. essential            C. hard               D. complex
51．A. disappeared         B. changed          C. progressed          D. advanced
52．A. sensitive          B. convinced         C. aware            D. tired
53．A. by                B. against           C. on                D. with
54．A. clumsy           B. gentle            C. absurd                  D. moving
55．A. none             B. all               C. anything          D. everything

Last week my youngest son and I visited my father at his new home in Tucson, Arizona. He moved there a few years ago, and I was eager to see his new place and meet his friends.
My earliest memories of my father are a tall, handsome, successful man devoted to his work and his family, but uncomfortable with his children. As a child I loved him. He seemed unhappy with me unless I got straight A’s and unhappy with my boyfriends if their fathers were not as “successful” as he was. Whenever I went out with him on weekends, I used to struggle to think up things to say, feeling on guard.
On the first day of my visit, we went out with one of my father’s friends for lunch at an outdoor café. We talked along that afternoon, did some shopping, ate on the street table, and laughed over my son’s funny facial expressions. Gone was my father’s critical air and strict rules. Who was this person I knew as my father, who seemed so friendly and interesting to be around? What had held him back before?
The next day dad pulled out his childhood pictures and told me quite a few stories about his own childhood. Although our times together became easier over the years, I never felt closer to him at that moment. After so many years, I’m at last seeing another side of my father. And in so doing, I’m delighted with my new friend. My dad, in his new home in Arizona, is back to me from where he was.
【小题1】Why did the author feel bitter about her father as a young adult?

I can still remember when I met my best friend．She had just moved into the neighborhood and her grandmother brought her down to   1  me．I hid behind my mother she hid behind her grandmother，   2   to look at each other．Soon we lost the    3 and started playing with each other．
In the 7^th grade，I first intentionally distanced myself from her．At that time, she was  4  family problems and I deserted her to be with me because she got _  5 than ever before．None of my new friends liked her as much as I did because they knew she had_  6 ．However，every summer we couldalways sit at each other’s house and watch soap operas，and talk about all the boys we liked．
It was last year when I noticed the problem．I guess I was too devoted in high school to    7   she needed someone there for her．Anyway，she made a new best friend and so did I．Then I didn’t know why，but she started cutting herself!
She then was diagnosed（诊断）with clinical depression．At first，I was very 8 ，but we still stayed in  __9___．I wanted to be there for her since her new best friend basically  10 __ her and people were calling her  11 ．
Yesterday she came to me and said：“I never knew what a best friend was until you were the only person that would stop me cutting．I  12 you so much，and you didn’t even know you were ___13 me．”
We both cried．And a kind of  14 that I learn from my life so far is never to give up on your friends．Even if they aren’t as warm as others，or people think they are crazy，they need someonethere．If you desert them，you will only be  15 yourself.

第二节: 完型填空（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、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。
One day I went into a shop for a specific sort of metal polish(擦光剂). While I was in the shop, I saw an older woman looking around at things, and thought I would begin a   31    to light things up. We   32   well and showed some of the beautiful items to each other. She said she was in the shop to purchase a wedding gift for a nephew, whose wedding she wouldn’t be able to attend.
We wandered off  33    and met together again at the cash register. I   34    on the beautiful bowl she had chosen, and how   35   so many of the items were. She asked what I was  36    , and I showed her my polish tube. I said I might buy more items when my kids had all    37    and gone, but they weren’t in my  38    right now. I just like to  39    , as I would do in an art museum.
She asked me what some of my   40    were, and I said I liked the salt and pepper shakers(搅拌器). She asked me to    41     her where the shakers were, so we walked over. She     42    my favorites and took them to the clerk.
I thought she was   43   with my taste, and was going to add them to her nephew’s     44   . No. They were purchased for me. They were worth ninety dollars. I couldn’t 45               it. She laughed and hugged me, and said her husband would   46   know, but she really enjoyed being able to do that    47    me. I never saw her again after that day,   48   I think of her each time I put those beautiful objects on my table.
Remembering that  49    helps me to stay aware and find opportunities to   50     to others, though not in quite such a grand way!
31. A. competition         B. research            C. secret                D. conversation
32. A. looked around    B. got on               C. gave up             D. watched out
33. A. helplessly            B. luckily                     C. separately          D. silently
34. A. depended            B. carried                     C. passed               D. commented      
35. A. lovely                 B. strange              C. expensive          D. terrible
36. A. expressing           B. thinking            C. purchasing         D. discussing
37. A. grown up            B. left                   C. cried                 D. returned
38. A. situation             B. budget                     C. favor                D. control
39. A. look                   B. complain           C. explain              D. challenge
40. A. favorites             B. duties                C. suggestions        D. habits
41. A. remind               B. prove                C. show                 D. write
42. A. turned down     B. picked up           C. laughed at         D. pointed out
43. A. pleased           B. busy                 C. careful                     D. bored
44. A. taste                   B. gift                   C. choice               D. basket
45. A. refuse                 B. change                     C. believe              D. solve
46. A. just                    B. never                C. even                 D. still
47. A. with                   B. like                   C. except               D. for
48. A. when                  B. but                   C. because             D. unless
49. A. experience          B. advice               C. mistake             D. danger
50. A. apply                  B. refer                 C. apologize          D. give

My 4-year-old son now enjoys posting letters. He has formed the   36  of drawing pictures, writing his name on them, and then    37  the artwork in an envelope. He then insists on   38  his handwork to the neighbors, and a mail box he   39  belongs to the elderly couple who live next door. To be   40  , I didn’t think much of it, but I had   41  to warn my neighbors of the drawings   42  appearing in their letterboxes—I just didn’t have the   43  to do so, because I was a little busy recently.
On Tuesday of last week, I was walking down to school to collect my son when I   44  Mary, my elderly neighbor,   45  at her mail box. She said, “Jodie, is it your little son that has been posting items in my letterbox to me?” I was at once   46 , “Oh yes, Mary, it is. I’m sorry. I meant to tell you…” She cut me off, “Jodie, I just love his mail. I’ve   47  every item he has sent. You don’t know how much   48  the letters has made my day. I just love them.” While I was walking down to school after our   49 , many thoughts came to me. Mary doesn’t have a lot to fill her days,   50  she was a mother to a number of children herself who receives fairly regular visitors. The small   51  of getting some mail—pictures drawn by the hand of a young child—has brought   52  to her days, just as my visit to my grandparents does.
I have decided that my son should   53  this practice. He should also start sending some items to his grandparents in Perth as well. It will most   54  make their day.
It’s doing the little, simple things that can often make a big   55  in someone’s life.