第二节.完形填空(20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

      阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(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。

      

Learning to Accept

I learned how to accept life as it is from my father.  16 , he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was  17  and ill.

My father was  18  a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness  19  all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is  20 . One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started  21  about life, and I told them about one of my 22_ . I said that we must very often give things up  23  we grow --- our youth, our beauty, our friends --- but it always  24  that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father  25  up. He said, “But, Peter, I gave up 26 ! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I couldn’t think of anything to say.  27 , he answered his own question: “I  28  the love of my family,” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.

I was also  29  by his words. After that, when I began to feel irritated (愤怒的) at someone, I  30  remember his words and become 31 . If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be  32  to give up my small irritations. In this 33 , I learned the power of acceptance from my father.

Sometimes I  34  what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful for this one  35 .

16. A. Afterwards   B. Therefore   C. However    D. Meanwhile

17. A. tired     B. weak   C. poor   D. slow

18. A. already B. still     C. only    D. once

19. A. took     B. threw  C. sent    D. put

20. A. impossible   B. difficult     C. stressful     D. Hopeless

21. A. worrying     B. caring C. talking       D. asking

22. A. decisions      B. experiences C. ambitions   D. beliefs

23. A. as  B. since   C. before D. till

24. A. suggests       B. promises    C. seems  D. requires

25. A. spoke   B. turned C. summed     D. opened

26. A. something    B. anything     C. nothing      D. everything

27. A. Surprisingly B. Immediately      C. Naturally    D. Certainly

28. A. had      B. accepted     C. gained D. enjoyed

29. A. touched       B. astonished  C. attracted     D. warned

30. A. should  B. could  C. would D. might

31. A. quiet    B. calm   C. Relaxed      D. happy

32. A. ready    B. likely  C. free    D. able

33. A. case      B. form   C. method      D. way

34. A. doubt   B. wonder      C. know  D. guess

35. A. award   B. gift     C. lesson D. word

In the United States, 30%of the grown-up population has a “weight problem”. To many people, the cause is clear: we eat too much. But scientific experiments do little to support this idea. Going back to the America of 1910, we find that people were thinner than today, yet they ate more food. In those days people worked harder physically, walked more, used machines much less, and didn’t watch TV.

Several modern studies, besides, have shown that fatter people do not eat more on average than thinner people. In fact, some research work, such as the 1979 study of 3,545 London office workers, reports that fat people eat less than thinner people on average. Studies show that thin people are more active than fat people. A study by the research group at Standford University School of Medicine found the following fact: the more the man ran, the greater body fat he lost. The more he ran, the greater was his need for food. Thus, those who ran the most ate the most, yet lost the greatest amount of body fat.

1. What kind of physical problem do many grown-up Americans have?

A. They are too thin.               B. They work too hard.

C. They are too fat.                D. They lose too much body fat.

2. Based on the information given this article, suppose there are 500 grown-up Americans, about how many of them have a weight problem?

A. 30     B. 50        C. 100       D. 150

3. Are there scientific facts to support that eating too much is the cause of the “weight problem”?

A. Yes, there are plenty of them.

B. Of course, there are facts to show this is true.

C. There are hardly any scientific facts to support this.

D. We don’t know because the information is not given.

4. Compared with the grown-up Americans today, the Americans of 1910______.

A. ate more food and had more physical activities

B. ate less food but had more activities

C. ate less food and had less physical activities

D. had more weight problems

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