第三节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

James’s New Bicycle

James shook his money box again. Nothing! He carefully  26  the coins that lay on the bed. $24.52 was all that he had. The bicycle he wanted was at least $90!  27   on earth was he going to get the  28  of the money?

He knew that his friends all had bicycles. It was  29  to hang around with people when you were the only one without wheels. He thought about what he could do. There was no  30  asking his parents, for he knew they had no money to  31  .

There was only one way to get money, and that was to  32  it. He would have to find a job.  33   who would hire him and what could he do? He decided to ask Mr. Clay for advice, who usually had  34  on most things.

“Well, you can start right here,” said Mr. Clay. “My windows need cleaning and my car needs washing.”

 That was the  35  of James’s odd-job(零工) business. For three months he worked every day after finishing his homework. He was amazed by the   36   of jobs that people found for him to do. He took dogs and babies for walks, cleared out cupboards, and mended books. He lost count of the  37  of cars he washed and windows he cleaned, but the   38  increased and he knew that he would soon have   39   for the bicycle he longed for.

  The day   40  came when James counted his money and found $94.32. He   41  no time and went down to the shop to pick up the bicycle he wanted. He rode   42  home, hoping to show his new bicycle to his friends. It had been hard   43   for the money, but James knew that he valued his bicycle far more   44   he had bought it with his own money. He had   45  what he thought was impossible, and that was worth even more than the bicycle.

26. A. cleaned    B. covered        C. counted         D. checked

27. A. How         B. Why               C. Who              D. What

28. A. amount      B. part                C. sum                D. rest

29. A. brave        B. hard               C. smart               D. unfair

30. A. point          B. reason             C. result              D. right

31. A. cost           B. spend              C. spare              D. save

32. A. borrow       B. earn                C. raise               D. collect

33. A. Or            B. So                  C. For                 D. But

34. A. decisions    B. experience       C. opinions          D. knowledge

35. A. beginning  B. introduction   C. requirement     D. opening

36. A. similarity  B. quality            C. ability             D. variety

37. A. brand        B. number            C. size                D. type

38. A. effort        B. pressure           C. money             D. trouble

39. A. all             B. enough           C. much              D. some

40. A. finally        B. immediately     C. normally          D. regularly

41. A. gave          B. left                        C. took               D. wasted

42. A. patiently     B. proudly           C. silently           D. tiredly

43. A. applying   B. asking             C. looking           D. working

44. A. since          B. if                   C. than                D. though

45. A. deserved     B. arrived            C. achieved          D. learned

I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, midlife for an elephant , and ancient for a sportsman, Fifty is

a nice number for the states in the US or for a national speed limit but it is not a number that I was prepared to have hung on me.Fifty is supposed to be my father’s age.but now I am stuck with this number and everything it means.

A few days ago, a friend tried to cheer me up by saying,  “ Fifty is what forty used to be .”He had made an

inspirational point, Am I over the hill ?People keep telling me that the hill has been moved, and I keep telling them that he high-jump bar has dropped from the six feet I once easily cleared to the four feet that is impossible for me now.

“ Your are not getting older, you are getting better .” says Dr.Joyce Brothers .This, however, is the kind

of doctor who inspires a second opinion.

And so.as I approach the day when I cannot even jump over the tennis net.I am moves to share some thoughts on aging with you.I am moved to show how aging feels to me physically and mentally.Getting older.of course, is obviously a better change than the one that brings you eulogies(悼词).In fact , a poet named Robert Browning considered it the best change of all :

Grow old along with me!

The best is yet to me.

Whether or not Browning was right , most of my first fifty years have been golden ones, so I will settle for

what is ahead being as good as what has gone by.I find myself moving toward what is ahead with a curious blend ( 混合) of both fighting and accepting my aging, hoping that the philosopher(哲学家) was right when he said .”Old is always fifteen years from now.”

5.The author seems to tell us in Paragraph I that      

A.time alone will tell         B.time goes by quickly

C.time will show what is right   D.time makes one forget the past

6.When the author turned fifty , people around him      

A.tried to comfort him             B.got inspiration with him

C.were friendlier with him               D.found him more talkative

7.The author considers his fifty years of life       

A peaceful    B.ordinary          C.satisfactory      D.regretful

8.We can infer from the passage that      

A.the old should led a simple life      B.the old should face the fact of aging

C.the old should take more exercise   D.the old should fill themselves with curiosity

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