完型填空（共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分）
閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)(A、B、C和D)中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。
I have two friends who are eager to go hiking. There is a High Peaks region 1 46 mountains in New York. A mountain club gives special recognition（獎(jiǎng)賞） to 2 who climbs all the 46 mountains. My two friends decided to go for this 3. The mountains were really 4 to climb. It  5  them several years to achieve it. My friends had climbed 45 of the mountains, and the 6 one was the most distant and the highest.
Early one morning they left their campsite hiking path to the 7 of a chain of mountains. When they reached the base, they found that they had left their 8 and map in the camp. 9 returning to the camp, they decided to navigate(導(dǎo)航，定位) without them. 10, they reached the top of a mountain. They were worn-out 11 extremely happy.
However, the 12 lasted only for a short time. When they 13 , they saw another higher mountain. They had climbed the 14 mountain! 15 the time problem, they had to wait for another four months to climb the right mountain.
I think this story tells an important 16：often in life we put great 17 into some of our goals, but without the right map and compass, it is easy to get 18. Knowing your 49 in life gives you a powerful personal map and compass, 20 that you are always climbing the right mountain.

閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)A、B、C和D中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。
On Sunday morning, January 29, the call woke me up. It was the president of ABC News. “Lee, Bob has been __41__ in Iraq,” he said, choosing his words __42__. “He’s alive but he may have taken shrapnel (炮彈碎片) to the brain.”
When I saw Bob in the hospital, nothing could have __43__ me. He was unconscious. His __44__ was swollen to the size of a rugby ball and a piece of his skull was missing. All sorts of __45__ were coming out of his body. His left eye looked like a dead fish. I tried to __46__ myself that he didn’t look that bad, that this was the __47__ and that he’d only get better from here.
There were many months of treatment __48__. Every morning I would head over to the hospital and check on Bob. In the __49__ that a mother uses with her baby I would __50__ to him. I let him know about the kids. I told him stories about us and some of our best __51__ together. I brought music and had home movies for Bob to hear.
One day when I pushed open the door as usual, I __52__. Bob was sitting up in bed, a huge smile on his face. He saw me and __53__ his hands in the air. “Hey, sweetie,” he said, “where have you been?” I tried to speak but no words came out. This was so much more than I’d wanted and prayed for, __54__ I couldn’t really believe it. My husband was __55__ and he was calling me. Half of me wanted to shout in __56__ and gratitude and half of me wanted to __57__ everything, how I’d been there day after day for months. I __58__ to him.
Bob was __59__. He had the best medical treatment possible and the finest doctors. But the most important thing __60__ to be the love that held us close.

I heard the bees long before I saw them.
It was a very hot afternoon, and we decided to    21   in the river near my home. As we climbed down a small rocky hill toward the water, my boyfriend John    22   started to shout and then jumped into the water below. Peter and Mary quickly    23    but I was too far away to jump. I was    24  .
I heard a low hum, which was growing louder. From a    25  , the group of bees looked almost like a cloud of smoke. As it got closer, I realized it was actually thousands of bees flying towards me.
All I could do was    26   my face with my hands.    27  , I thought that if I sat very 28  , the bees would think I was just another rock.
After a few seconds, I knew my    29   had failed. The bees were attacking me. I could hear my friends shouting at me to get down.
But it wasn’t so easy. The only way I could    30   was to use my hands to climb down the rocks. However, I was afraid to do that at first because my face would be    31  .
The noise the bees made was so loud and    32  , and I had no choice.
I rushed down the rocks and jumped into the pool. I was just so happy to be free from the pain and the water felt so    33  .
But we still weren’t out of    34  . Every time we tried to climb out, the bees flew back over our heads. We spent the next three hours in the water until the bees finally lost    35  .

完形填空（每小題1.5分，共20小題）
You are near the front line of a battle. Around you shells are exploding; people are shooting from a house behind you. What are you doing there? You aren’t a soldier. You aren’t  1  carrying a gun. You’re standing in front of a  2 and you’re telling the TV 3  what is happening.
It’s all in a day’s work for a war reporter, and it can be very 4  . In the first two years of the  5  in former Yugoslavia（前南斯拉夫), 28 reporters and photographers were killed. Hundreds more were 6  .
What kind of people put themselves in danger to  7  pictures to our TV screens and  48  to our newspapers? Why do they do it ?
“I think it’s every young journalist’s 9  to be a foreign reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s  10  you find the excitement. So when the first opportunity comes, you take it  11  it is a war.”
But there are moments of  12 . Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes, when you’re lying on the ground and bullets（子彈）are flying  13  your ears, you think: ‘What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.’ But that feeling  14 after a while and when the next war starts, you’ll be  15  .”
“None of us believes that we’re going to  16  ” adds Michael. But he always 17 a lucky charm（護(hù)身符）with him. It was given to him by his wife for his first war. It’s a card which says “Take care of yourself.” Does he ever think about dying? “Oh, 18  , and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, ‘If you get me out of this, I  19  I’ll never do it again.’ You can almost hear God  20  , because you know he doesn’t believe you .”

完形填空(共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分)
A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s  1  ,she said she would go. This  2  be the first time that his classmates and teacher  3   his mother and he felt 4  of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar(疤痕)that 5  nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to  6  why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were 7  by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother  8  the car, but the little boy was still embarrassed(尷尬)and  9  himself from everyone. He did, however, get within 10  of a conversation between his mother and his teacher.
The teacher asked 11  ,“How did you get the scar on your face?”
The mother replied,“  12   my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was  13   afraid to go in because the fire was 14  ，so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked  15   but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She  16   the burned side of her face. “This scar will be  17  ,but to this day, I have never  18  what I did.”
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great 19  of the sacrifice(犧牲)that his mother had made for him. He held her hand  20  for the rest of the day.

My father was raised in a fatherless home at a time when the family of five struggled to survive, which caused my father to be extremely tightfisted(吝嗇) with money.
When we children became    16  that other children got pocket money from their parents, we made a(n)   17  to ask our father from some. Immediately his face turned stone-cold, and he said, “If you’re old enough to ask, you’re old enough to    18 .” And we had to seek odd jobs about the neighborhood.
He didn’t    19  his attitude as we grew into adulthood. There was a time when    20  of us had a car, so we had to ride a    21  whenever we came home. Though the bus stopped about two miles from home, Dad never met us, 22  in bad weather. If someone    23  (and my brothers did a lot), he’d say in his    24  father-voice. “That’s what your legs are    25  !”
One spring morning I was on the bus home from    26 . Tests and long hours in labs had    27  me exhausted. As other students were    28  at their stops. I looked silently out of the window. Finally, the bus came to a    29  at my destination, and I    30 , carrying my suitcase to begin the long journey home.
The row of privet hedge(樹籬) came into    31 , which lined the driveway that climbed the hill to our house. I stopped to put a book in the suitcase. When I stood up, I saw something gray    32  along the top of the hedge toward the house.
It was the top of my father’s head. I    33  then, each time I came home, he would stand behind the hedge, watching,    34  he knew I had arrived safely. I held back my tears. He did care,   35 .
Upon reaching home, I found my father innocently in his chair. “So! It’s you!” he said, his face lengthening into surprise.

There was a small boy living on a farm which seemed like so far away from everywhere. He needed to get up before sunrise every morning to start his everyday jobs and go out again later in the evening to do the same 　36　.
During sunrise he would 　37　a break and climb up the fence so that he could see the house with golden windows 　38　 the distance. He thought 　39　 great it would be to live there and his 　40　 would wander to imagine the modern equipment and electric devices that might 　41　 in the house. “If they could 　42　 the golden windows, they 　43　 have other nice things.” He then 　44　 himself, “Some day I will go there and see that wonderful place.”
Then one morning his father told him to stay at home and he would do the everyday jobs. 　45　 that this was his chance, he packed a sandwich and　46　 the field towards the house with golden windows.
He walked and walked. As the afternoon went on, he began to realize how he misjudged the long 　47　 and something else was very wrong. As he 　48　 the house, he saw no golden windows but instead a place in bad 　49　 of a painting surrounded by a broken-down fence. He went to the tattered (破爛的) door and 　50　. A small boy very 　51　 his age opened the door.
He asked him if he had seen the house with 　52　 windows. The boy said “Sure, I know” and 　53　 him to sit on the porch (門廊). As he sat there, he looked back from 　54　 he just came; the sunset 　55　 the windows of his house to gold there.

My friends and I had just finished lunch at a hotel when it started to pour  1  . When it became lighter, I decided to get my car, which was  2  at my office three streets away.
My friends argued that I shouldn’t go, mainly because I was seven months pregnant then. I assured them that I’d be very  3 .
I walked out of the  4 and started making my way to the car. At the traffic junction, a van stopped and the passenger got off with an umbrella. Before I knew what was happening, he walked right beside me and told me he’d escort(護(hù)送) me to my  5  . I was very embarrassed and declined(辭謝), but he was very  6 .
During our  7  , he kept telling me to walk slower, as the ground was  8  . When we got to the car park, I  9  him and we parted ways. I did not get his  10  and may not even recognise him now. Did he  11  stop for me? I’ll never know.
So how did I pay it forward? I was at home when I  12  two Indian construction workers walking in the heavy rain. They were probably on their way to the construction  13  near my estate, which was a long walk in. I went out and passed them an umbrella. I told them they should take the umbrella and  14  it. They were very grateful and like me, probably wondered why a  15  was offering such kindness.

Scott and his companions were terribly disappointed. When they got to the South Pole, they found the Norwegians（挪威人）had    31    them in the race to be the first ever to reach it. After   32   the British flag at the Pole, they took a photograph of themselves    33   they started the 950-mile journey back.
The journey was unexpectedly    34    and the joy and excitement about the Pole had gone out of them. The sun hardly    35   . The snow storms always made it impossible to sight the stones they had     36   to mark their way home. To make things    37   . Evans, whom they had all thought of    38    the strongest of the five, fell badly into a deep hole in the ice. Having     39   along for several days, he suddenly fell down and died.
The four who were     40   pushed on at the best speed they could    41   . Captain Oates had been suffering for some time from his    42    fact; at night his feet swelled（腫脹） so large that he could    43    put his boots on the next morning, and he walked bravely although he was in great    44    . He knew his slowness was making it less likely that     45   could save themselves. He asked them to leave him behind in his sleeping-bag, but they refused, and helped him     46   a few more miles, until it was time to put up the   47     for another night.
The following morning,     48   the other three were still in their sleeping-bags, he said. “I am just going outside and may be    49    some time.” He was never seen again. He had walked out    50    into the snow storm, hoping that his death would help his companions.

I thought my luck had run out at the end of the summer holiday. It was not the   31  of the new term that did it, but the   32  military training. My   33  nightmare(噩夢) had finally come true.
The weather was   34  hot when we were training. Sweat dropped from every part of my body. I   35  as if my mouth was going to catch fire.   36  was the only thing I could think about. It was the first time in my life that I have ever really felt   37 .
However, we had to stand completely   38  all day. The drill-master(教官) were very strict with us. They only   39  us to sit directly on the ground for a few minutes. My heels ached and I had a blister(水泡) on my   40 .
Believe me, this was not the most   41  part. What I couldn’t   42  most of all was the smell of the toilets. It left such a deep impression on me that I can almost smell it right now.I guess most of the other students   43  the same experience that I had. I often thought of giving up and going back home.   44 , I didn’t.
One day, our PE teacher came to watch our   45  for a while. Then he  46  to join the national flag squad(隊(duì)). “You movement is the best of all,” he praised me. It was so   47 ! I almost couldn’t believe my ears. It was a great honor to be chosen for the squad.
From that day on, I worked much harder than before because I knew I was going to   48  the national flag. Every Monday, thousands of eyes would be   49  on me. Now military training has finished and I have become a flag protector in my school. Every time I raise the flag, I know all my hard work has   50  .