完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项（A，B，C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

My father and I were standing at the top of a church tower. He 36 me to this place in a small Italian town not far from our home in Rome. I 37 why he did so.

“Look down, Elsa,” Father said to me. I looked down and 38 the square in the centre of the village and I saw many turning streets 39 to the square.

“ See, my dear. There is more than one 40 to the square. Life is like that. If you can’t get to the place 41 you want to go by one road, 42 another,” he said to me.

Now I 43 why I was there. My father wanted to tell me how to 44 and deal with the difficulties.

In the years that 45 I often remembered the lesson Fathere taught me. I knew where I wanted to go in 46 . I wanted to be a fashion 47 . And on the way to my first small success I found the road 48 . What could I do ? Accept the failure? Or use my imagination and wisdom to find another road to my 49 ?

I had come to Paris, the 50 of the world of fashion , with some clothes I 51 . But none of the famous fashion designers seemed 52 in them. Then one day I met a friend who was wearig a very beautiful sweater. It had a lovely and 53 stitch (针法).

“Did you knit that sweater ?” I asked her.

“No,”she answered. “ It was done by a woman here in Paris.”

“ What an interesting stitch !” I continued.

My friend had an 54 . “The woman’s name is Mrs Vidian    she learned the stitch in Armenia, her motherland.”

Suddenly a good idea 55 me. why not open my own house of fashion? Why not design, make and sell clothes? I would do it, and I would begin with a sweater.

1.A . carried	B. got	C. took	D. brought
2.A. doubted	B. guessed	C. wondered	D. knew
3.A. saw	B. realized	C. noticed	D. observed
4.A. going	B. leading	C. turning	D. directing
5.A. path	B. method	C. road	D. way
6.A. why	B. which	C. where	D. when
7.A. attempt	B. experiment	C. manage	D. try
8.A. imagined	B. supposed	C. witnessed	D. understood
9.A. face	B. handle	C. settle	D. solve
10.A. approached	B. caught	C. followed	D. wasted
11.A. life	B. class	C. work	D. heart
12.A. seller	B. worker	C. teacher	D. designer
13.A. blocked	B. approved	C. passed	D. smoothed
14.A. comfort	B. intelligence	C. failure	D. success
15.A. country	B. attraction	C. centre	D. capital
16.A. designed	B. performed	C. recommended	D. chose
17.A. buried	B. occupied	C. absorbed	D. interested
18.A. unusual	B. perfect	C. ordinary	D. rough
19.A. reason	B. explanation	C. description	D. cause
20.A. thought	B. entered	C. came	D. struck

 

 

He has been called the “missing link.” Half-man, half-beast. He is supposed to live in the highest mountain in the world-Mount Everest.

He is known as the Abominable Snowman. The   1   of the Snowman has been around for    __2  . Climbers in the 1920s reported finding marks like those of human feet high up on the side of Mound Everest. The native people said they   3   this creature and called it the “Yeti,”and they said that they had   4   caught Yetis on two occasions   5   none has ever been produced an evidence（证据）.

Over the years, the story of the Yetis has   6   . In 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Shipton believed that they were not   7   the tracks of a monkey or bear and   8   that the Abominable Snowman might really   9  .

Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis. But the only things people have ever found were   10   footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than   11   animal tracks, which had been made   12    as the melted（融化）and refroze in the snow.   13  , in 1964, a Russian scientist said that the Abominable Snowman was   14   and was a remaining link with the prehistoric humans. But,   15  . no evidence has ever   16   been produced.

These days, only a few people continue to take the story of the Abominable Snowman   __17  . But if they ever   18   catching one, they may face a real   19  : Would they put it in a   20   or give it a room in a hotel?

1. A. event                          B. story                      C. adventure               D. description

2. A. centuries                    B. too long                  C. some time              D. many years

3. A. heard from                 B. cared for                C. knew of                 D. read about

4. A. even                           B. hardly                    C. certainly                 D. probably

5. A. as                              B. though                   C. when                     D. until

6. A. developed                   B. changed                 C. occurred                D. continued

7. A. entirely                       B. naturally                 C. clearly                   D. simply

8. A. found                         B. declared                 C. felt                        D. doubled

9. A. exist                           B. escape                    C. disappear               D. return

10. A. clearer                      B. more                      C. possible                 D. rare

11. A. huge                         B. recent                    C. ordinary                 D. frightening

12. A. strange                     B. large                      C. deep                      D. rough

13. A. In the end                 B. Therefore               C. After all                  D. However

14. A. imagined                   B. real                        C. special                   D. familiar

15. A. so                            B. besides                   C. again                     D. instead

16. A. rightly                      B. actually                  C. normally                D. particularly

17. A. lightly                       B. jokingly                  C. seriously                D. properly

18. A. succeed in                B. insist on                 C. depend on              D. join in

19. A. decision                    B. situation                 C. subject                   D. problem

20. A. zoo                          B. mountain                C. museum                 D. laboratory

A little girl lived in a simple and poor house on a hill. Usually she   36   play in the small garden. She could see over the garden fence and across the valley a wonderful house with shining golden windows high on another hill.   37   she loved her parents and her family, she desired to live in such a house and   38   all day about how wonderful and exciting   39   must feel to live there.

At the age when she gained some 40 skill and sensibility (识别力)，she 41    her mother for a bike ride  42  the garden. Her mother finally allowed her to go,  43  her keeping close to the house and not 44 too far. The day was beautiful. The little girl knew   45  where she was heading! 46  the hill and across the valley, she rode to the  47  of the golden house.

48   she got off her bike and put it against the gate post, she focused on the path   49  to the house and then on the house itself. She was very disappointed when she 50 that all the windows were 51 and rather dirty.

So _ 52  and heart-broken, she didn’t go any further. She  53  and all of a sudden she saw an amazing  54  . There on the other side of the valley was a little house and its windows were golden. Looking at her little home, she   55  that she had been living in her golden house filled with love and care. Everything she dreamed was right there in front of her nose!

36. A. might                 B. should                           C. would               D. must

37. A. Unless               B. Although                        C. Since                      D. But

38. A. dreamed           B. worried                          C. asked                            D. shouted

39. A. this                    B. that                                C. it                             D. which

40. A. different            B. scientific                        C. musical                   D. basic

41. A. begged             B. blamed                          C. invited                    D. paid

42. A. inside                B. outside                          C. through                  D. along

43. A. insisting on   B. relying on                    C. arguing about  D. wondering about

44. A. traveling            B. running                          C. riding                      D. walking

45. A. madly                B. rapidly                           C. exactly                    D. possibly

46. A. Over                 B. Down                             C. Around                   D. Beside

47. A. windows            B. steps                             C. center                     D. gate

48. A. Until                  B. As                                  C. While                      D. Because

49. A. getting              B. introducing                    C. leading                   D. moving

50. A. felt                    B. learned                          C. concluded                     D. found

51. A. transparent       B. bright              C. plain                D. wide

52. A. anxious      B. angry                        C. serious            D. sad

53. A. turned around   B. cheered up       C. settled down     D. dropped in

54. A. hill                     B. valley                             C. background            D. sight

55. A. imagined           B. decided                         C. realized                  D. guessed

Comedian Groucho Mark said, “Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.”

         You and I have principles and we also have  31  . I have opinions about what I think is right or wrong or good or bad. But they’re only opinions — I could be  32  ! I won’t try to build my life  around my opinions,  33   I’ll try to keep to my principles.

         A 15-year-old boy learned a valuable  34  about life principles. One day, he found a wallet that  35  $127 as well as a woman’s  36  . He jumped onto his  37  and went to her house. He told her he found her wallet and she gave him a big  38  . She also gave him twenty dollars.

         That evening the boy told his parents about the  39  and his father said, “I don’t think you should have  40  $20 for doing what you should have done. A person shouldn’t be rewarded for being  41  .”

         He considered his father’s statement and  42  that he would return the money. He  43  biked to the lady’s home and gave her back the money. She didn’t want to  44  it, but he told her she had to — that his father  45  something to him that he had  46  realized before.

         When ideals such as honesty and a personal standard of always doing the right thing guide our every action and decision, we  47  develop a good character. These great principles  48  our lives and make us into a person of  49  . They teach confidence. That boy is  50  to be raised by a wise father who had the wisdom to say, “Those are my principles.”

1.A. lives                     B. opinions                           C. conditions                        D. purposes

2.A. happy                            B. different                          C. wrong                               D. clever

3.A. so                                   B. and                                    C. or                             D. but

4.A. lesson                           B. skill                                    C. secret                               D. course

5.A. cost                      B. contained                        C. got                                     D. covered

6.A. name                   B. script                                C. identification                   D. house

7.A. bicycle                          B. car                                     C. horse                                D. taxi

8.A. hand                    B. surprise                            C. chance                             D. hug

9.A. performance               B. event                                C. principle                          D. trade

10.A. accepted          B. paid                                   C. earned                             D. saved

11.A. generous          B. honest                              C. selfless                    D. confident

12.A. imagined           B. expected                         C. predicted                         D. decided

13.A. once                           B. even                                 C. again                                 D. still

14.A. fetch                           B. take                                   C. return                               D. spare

15.A. pointed out               B. gave out                           C. picked up                         D. added up

16.A. always                         B. often                                 C. never                                D. ever

17.A. suddenly           B. actually                   C. immediately           D. personally

18.A. shape                          B. protect                             C. encourage                       D. understand

19.A. attitude                      B. sense                                C. direction                          D. character

20.A. sure                            B. free                                   C. fortunate                         D. tough

 

He has been called the “missing link”.Half-man, half-beast. He is supposed to live in the highest mountain in the world—Mount Everest.

He is known as the Abominable Snowman. The   1  of Snowman has been around for

  2  .?Climbers in the 1920s reported finding marks like those of human feet high up on the side of Mount Everest. The native people said they  3  this creature and called it the “Yeti”,and they said that they had   4  caught Yetis on two occasions   5  none has ever been produced as evidence.

Over the years, the story of the Yetis has  6  . In 1916, Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Shipton believed that they were not   7  the tracks of a monkey or bear and   8  that the Abominable Snowman might really   9  .

Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis. But the only things people have ever found were   10  footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than   11  animal tracks, which had been made  12  as they melted and refroze in the snow.  13  ,in 1964,a Russian scientist said that the Abominable Snowman was   14  and was a remaining link with the prehistoric humans. But,?  15  ,?no evidence has ever   16  been produced.

These days, only a few people continue to take the story of Abominable Snowman  17  ,?but if they ever   18  catching one, they may face a real  19  : Would they put it in a   20  or give it a room in a hotel?

1.A.event                            B.story                         C.adventure                  D.description

2.A.centuries                B.too long                    C.some time                 D.many years

3.A.heard from             B.cared for                   C.knew of                    D.read about

4.A.even                      B.hardly                       C.certainly                    D.probably

5.A.as                          B.though                      C.when                        D.until

6.A.developed               B.changed                    C.occurred                    D.continued

7.A.entirely                  B.naturally                   C.clearly                      D.simply

8.A.found                     B.declared                    C.felt                           D.doubted

9.A.exist                      B.escape                       C.disappear                   D.return

10.A.clearer                  B.more                         C.possible                     D.rare

11.A.huge                     B.recent                      C.ordinary                    D.frightening

12.A.strange                 B.large                         C.deep                         D.rough

13.A.In the end             B.Therefore                  C.After all                    D.However

14.A.imagined                     B.real                           C.special                      D.familiar

15.A.so                        B.besides                      C.again                        D.instead

16.A.rightly                  B.actually                     C.normally                   D.particularly

17.A.lightly                  B.jokingly                    C.seriously                   D.properly

18.A.succeed in             B.insist on                    C.depend on                 D.join in

19.A.decision                B.situation                    C.subject                      D.problem

20.A.zoo                      B.mountain                   C.museum                    D.laboratory