完形填空：（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（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。
Mitchell once had a very serious car accident. More than 65 percent of his 36 was burnt. He was unable to 37 a knife at dinner, or go to the bathroom without 38 . But Mitchell never believed he was 39 . “I am in charge of my own spaceship,” he said. “It’s my up or my down. I could 40 to see this situation as a defeat 41 a starting point.” Six months later Mitchell bought himself a plane and he was piloting it 42 .
Later he 43 with two friends and founded a food company that 44 to be Vermont’s second largest food company. Then four years 45 the car accident, the plane Mitchell was piloting crashed. The accident made Mitchell unable to walk anymore. “I 46 what was happening to me. What did I do to get this?”
Mitchell worked 47 day and night to regain as much independence as possible. He was elected Mayor of Crested Butte, Colorado. He 48 the town from mineral mining that would 49 its beauty and environment.
Although he had 50 looks and physical difficulties, Mitchell 51 flying and speaking in public. “Before I 52 walk, there were 10,000 things I could do,” Mitchell says, “Now there are 9,000. I can 53 cry for the 1,000 I lost or focus on the 9,000 I have. I tell people that I have had two big bad lucks in my life. 54 you think you also have bad lucks, you can step back, take a 55 view and have a chance to say, ‘Maybe that isn’t such a big deal after all.’ It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do about it,”
| 36. | A. car | B. hand | C. head | D. body |
| 37. | A. put up | B. take up | C. pick up | D. set up |
| 38. | A. help | B. strength | C. spirit | D. pain |
| 39. | A. burnt | B. defeated | C. touched | D. hurt |
| 40. | A. choose | B. learn | C. come | D. manage |
| 41. | A. and | B. but | C. or | D. so |
| 42. | A. yet | B. again | C. ever | D. too |
| 43. | A. appeared | B. cheered up | C. practiced | D. teamed up |
| 44. | A. seemed | B. grew | C. happened | D. hoped |
| 45. | A. after | B. before | C. till | D. from |
| 46. | A. understand | B. asked | C. wondered | D. realized |
| 47. | A. sadly | B. bravely | C. proudly | D. kindly |
| 48. | A. took | B. accepted | C. changed | D. saved |
| 49. | A. ruin | B. produce | C. attract | D. serve |
| 50. | A. amusing | B. charming | C. shocking | D. moving |
| 51. | A. stopped | B. continued | C. began | D. tried |
| 52. | A. could | B. couldn’t | C. must | D. mustn’t |
| 53. | A. only | B. still | C. thus | D. either |
| 54. | A. Though | B. Unless | C. When | D. Since |
| 55. | A. bigger | B. wider | C. louder | D. deeper |
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