完型填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）              
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A girl complained to her father about her hard life. She didn’t know what she could do and wanted to ___1__. She was tired of fighting and fighting. One problem had been settled, but __2___ appeared.
Her father, a cook, took her into the __3___. He poured water into three pots and boiled it. After the water came to a boil, he put some ___4__ in the first pot, eggs in the second and coffee in the last. He waited for them for a few minutes __5___ any words.
The girl closed her mouth and waited, impatient and __6___ by what her father was doing. After about 20 minutes, her father ___7__ the stove, took out the carrots and put them in a bowl. He took the eggs and put them in another bowl. After that he ___8___ the coffee into a cup. Turning back to his ___9___ , he asked, “Sweetheart, what do you see?”
“Carrots, eggs and coffee,” she replied.
Her father asked her to __10 the carrots. She did and felt that the carrots were ___11___.
__12__ he asked her to take the eggs and break them. After peeling them, she felt the eggs were hard.
Last, her father asked her to smell the coffee.
She asked, “What does this _13___, Father?”
He __14_ that each of the things had felt the same unfortunate fate. They were all boiled in ___15___, but with a ___16___ result. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak after being boiled. The fragile eggs became _17___ after cooking. Coffee grounds were very unique. They could change the water.
“___18___ one are you?” asked her father. “When calamity（不幸的事） __19___ on your door, what will your ___20__ be? Are you carrots, eggs of coffee?”

完形填空(共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分)
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.    ------ Eleanor Roosevelt
My home is a place of great beauty and agricultural richness, as well as of war and natural disasters. When I was only fourteen years old, I was filled with __36__ in spite of the terrible surroundings. The families living here, who tried to make their living from the land, __37__ great losses.
For the __38__ I felt sorry especially, but I __39__ to be hopeless. I decided that where I was, I could do __40__ to help them. I began knocking on every door and saying to each person who __41__ my knock, “I know that you are __42__ and give the birds that come to your yard a little __43__. Please consider me your bird. Give me only a handful of rice each week when I come to your __44__. I will take it to the temple where it can be given to the __45__ children.”
No one seemed to __46__ giving me a handful of rice, even __47__ they had little themselves. On Sunday, I would go to the __48__ and give my handfuls of rice to the monks to __49__ to the children.
One day, I came to a house that had __50__ to give. I told my story and asked if I could be their bird. The woman called her daughters, and __51__ gave me fifty cents, as well as the handful of rice! I began to ask for __52__ and rice from the other “bird feeders”, and they gave them to me. Everyone was happy to be helping those who were suffering, even __53__ only this small way. The temple was soon able to help everyone who came to it for food and clothing.
“Consider me your bird.” My __54__ idea had not stopped the war, but anyway, it was __55__ some peace.

完形填空（共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分）
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When I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper(志愿做護士助手的小姑娘) at a local hospital in my town. Most of the   41  I spent there was with Mr Gillespie. He never had any  42  , and nobody seemed to care about his   43 .
I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him,__44__anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine,  45 he responded with only an occasional squeeze(捏) of my hand. Mr Gillespie was in a coma(昏迷).
I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr Gillespie was  46  . I didn’t have the   47 to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear they might  48 me he had died.
Several   49 later, when I was a junior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face. When I   50  who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was  51 ! I built up the courage to ask him if his name was Mr Gillespie. With a(n)   52 look on his face, he replied yes. I   53 how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever   54 .
He began to tell me how,  55 he lay there comatose, he could hear me talking to him and could  56 me holding his hand the whole time. Mr Gillespie  57 believed that it was my voice and  58 that had kept him alive.
Although I haven’t  59 him since, he fills my heart with  60 every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and his death.

完形填空（共20 小題，每小題1 分, 滿分20分）
Returning from a trip overseas, I sensed that something was wrong between Keith, one of my two sons, and me. So I asked him, “Keith, have I done anything that really  41  your feelings?”
Immediately, he said, “Yes, last Christmas you promised us a special  42 that I really wanted but you  43 gave it to me.”
The  44  was that I’d completely forgotten about it. I  45  , “Is there anything else I’ve done wrong, but I haven’t apologized  46  ?”
Again, his  47  was immediate, “Remember last Christmas when Mom said you had to go to the  48  because Kate, my little sister, was going to be born? You left us at home and  49    in a hurry. Remember?”
“Well, you left and forgot the suitcase.” I couldn’t believe he  50  all the details! “After you came back from the hospital you were  51 to see the suitcase had been opened and  52  had been thrown all over the place, and then you  53  me.”
“And you didn’t do it?” I asked.
“No, I didn’t. I was just searching for my gift.”
My heart sank. I felt  54 . I hugged Keith and asked him to  55  me. His honesty made me think of my other son, Kevin. Maybe I’d hurt his feelings, too. I went to ask him the  56    question. Kevin answered as immediately as his  57 , “Last Christmas you promised us a special toy, but you forget about it.”
58 Christmas had passed, I took my two sons to the store that day and bought them what I had promised. The  59  thing wasn’t the toy. The problem was that I’d made a promise too  60  and didn’t keep it as their mother.

完形填空（共15小題；每小題1分，滿分15分）
Wings of Angel 
I used to hate myself because I wasn’t “normal”. Everyone else could play on the monkey bars and ride on a bicycle, but not   36 . I had a severe spinal cord disorder (脊髓病) and I knew I would always be much   37  than others.
I hated going to school and I hated people   38  at me. I hated seeing others smiling broadly and standing straight and tall. And most of all, I hated looking in the   39  and seeing an ugly hunchback (駝背).
My friends found me   40  because I didn’t let others get close to me. I thought I was going to go on like this for the rest of my life   41  Angela appeared.
That afternoon, I was sitting by myself in a corner of the school — a spot where no one would   42  me. That’s when I first heard her voice.
“Hi. Can I sit down?”
I raised my head and there she was, with an irresistible smile on her round face.
“What are you looking at?” she asked.
“Ants.”
“What are they doing?”
“No idea.”
“I bet they’re playing games and making friends. Don’t you think so?”
That was how our   43  started and it didn’t stop. We talked about everything under the sun—the ants, the clouds, my little niche (處境) — until it was sunset.
Then suddenly, she saw my   44 . She just stared.
My heart sank. What I feared most had happened and I knew for sure she would   45  me now.
She stood up, pointed at my back and said, “I know   46  your back is hunched.”
I closed my eyes like a criminal waiting to be sentenced. I begged in my heart for her to   47 , but she just kept on going. “I know what you’ve got in there. Do you?”
“No,” I answered   48 .
She bent and whispered in my ears.
“Your back is hunched because you’ve got a pair of wings from the angels.”  
I was   49 . I looked into her eyes and her kindness touched my heart. From that day on, I started to learn to   50  myself because I have the wings of an angel and a kind-hearted friend.

完形填空（共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分） 
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I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be   36    Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, "What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d  37   ?" Just when I started to    38   that there would not be a Christmas that year, three women   39    at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of   40    that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn’t    41. Somebody had thought    42   of me to bring me a gift.
Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my   43   Christmas there special and memorable, I   44   remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of   45   for as many children as I could possibly reach.
So I    46   a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤兒) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies,  47   with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were   48 .  Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I    49   them that they couldn’t open their presents    50   every child had come forward. Finally the    51   they had been waiting for came as I called out, "One, two, three. Open your presents!" As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles   52   up the room. The    53    in the room was obvious, and   54   wasn’’t just about toys. It was a feeling — the feeling I knew   55  that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter.

完形填空（共20小題；每小題1。5分，滿分30分）
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從36—55各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
When I was a teenager, my dad did everything he could do to advise me against becoming a brewer (造酒人). He’d   36  his life brewing beer for local breweries only to make a living, 37   had his father and grandfather before him. He didn’t want me   38  near a vat (釀酒用的桶) of beer. So I did as he asked. I got good   39 , went to Harvard and in 1971 was accepted into a graduate program there that   40  me to study law and business at the same time.
In my second year of graduate school, I began to realize that I’d   41  done anything but go to school. So, at 24 I decided to drop out.   42 , my parents didn’t think this was a great idea. But I felt strongly that you can’t   43  till you’re 65 to do what you want in life.
I packed my stuff into a bus and headed for Colorado to become an instructor at Outward Bound. Three years later, I was ready to go back to   44 . I finished Harvard and got a highly-paid job at the Boston Consulting Group Still, after working there five years, I   45 ,  “Is this what I want to be doing when I’m 50?”  At that time, Americans spent good money on beer in   46   quality. Why not make good beer for   47 ? I thought.
I decided to give up my job to become   48 . When I told Dad, he was   49 , but in the end he   50  me. I called my beer Samuel Adams,   51  the brewer and patriot (愛國者) who helped to start the Boston Tea Party.   52  I sold the beer direct to beer drinkers to get  the   53  out. Six weeks later, at the Great American Beer Festival, Sam Adams Boston Lager (淡啤酒) won the top prize for American beer. In the end I was destined (注定) to be a brewer. My   54  to the young is simple: Life is very   55 , so don’t rush to make decisions. Life doesn’t let you plan.

完型填空（共20小題，每題1分，滿分20分）
One day in September we were doing repair work on my parents’ old house to get it ready for my youngest daughter’s wedding. We had to  41  a great climbing plant that had grown across a roof beam（房梁）, so that we could repair the roof and   42  the walls.
When my husband was taking the plant away, he found a  43  of a blackbird. He then  44  something  45  among that mass of earth and straw of the nest. He broke the earth __46__ it into pieces with his finger tips and, to his  47 ,saw glittering gold. It was a child’s bracelet（手鐲）. He ran into the house to  48  me.
“You won’t believe that the   49  blackbirds not only steal the best fruit we plant to feed on,” he said, “but they also want their children to  50  in a cradle（搖籃）of gold!”
When my daughter ___51__ on the eve of the  52  ,we told her about this   53  occurrence (事件).
“Don’t you remember, Mother?” she said with a loud   54 .“When I was eight, you gave me a bracelet that I   55  a few days later while out playing in the yard? It was this one!”
As the bracelet no longer  56  its owner and was dirty, I decided to take it into my safekeeping.
In December of the following year, the young couple’s baby son was baptized（受洗禮）.Among the   57  the newborn baby received, I placed his mother’s bracelet, now shining like  58 . I hope that if my grandson  59  loses it, one of the   60 that live in my backyard is somewhere nearby.

完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從36-55各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。
Night after night, as was often the case, she’d lean down and push my long hair out of the  36 ,then kiss my forehead.
I don’t remember when it first started   37  me. But it did. Finally one night, I shouted out as her, “Don’t do that any more – your hands are too   38 ！” She didn’t say anything in reply. But never again did my mother   39  my day with that familiar   40  of her love.
With the years passing, my thoughts   41 to that night, when I missed my mother’s hands, missed her goodnight   42  on my forehead. Sometimes the incident seemed very   43 , while sometimes far away. But always it was hidden in the back of my   44 . Now Mom is in her seventies, and those hands that I   45  thought to be so rough are still doing things for me and my   46 . And now my own children are grown and gone. One Thanksgiving Eve,   47  I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a   48  hand hesitantly run across my face to   49  the hair from my forehead. Then a kiss, ever so   50 , touched my brow.
In my memory, for the thousandth time, I recalled the night and my young voice   51 . “Don’t do that any more – your hands are too rough!”   52 , I caught Mom’s hand in hand, saying how   53 I was for that night. I thought she’d remember, as I did. But Mom didn’t know   54  I was talking about. She had forgotten, and forgiven long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with a new   55  for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the guilt that I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found.

完形填空（共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分）
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I was 9 years old when I found out my father was   36 ．It was 1994, but I can remember my mother’s words as if it   37  yesterday: “Kerrel, I don’t want you to take food   38  your father, because he has AIDS．Be very careful when you are around him．”
AIDS wasn’t  39  we talked about in my country when I was growing up．From then on, I knew that this would be a family   40 ．My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone．For a while, he could take care of himself．But when I was 12, his condition worsened．My father’s   41  children lived far away, so it   42  to me to look after him．We couldn’t afford all the necessary medication for him, and   43  Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn’t  44  buy food for dinner．I would sit  45  feeling completely  46  , the teacher’s words muffled（壓低）as I tried to figure out   47  I was going to manage．
I didn’t share my burden with anyone．I had seen how people reacted to AIDS．Kids __48__ classmates who had parents with the disease．And even adults could be cruel．When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table even though he was __49__ weak to feed himself．I had known that he was going to die, __50__ after so many years of keeping his condition a secret, I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days．Sad and __51__, I __52__ a woman at the non-profit National AIDS Support．That day, she __53__ me on the phone for hours．I was so lucky to find someone who cared．She saved my life．
I was 15 when my father died．He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me．He didn’t want to call attention to __54__．I __55__．