第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
请阅读下面短文，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，并在答题卡上将选项的标号涂黑。
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。
My 14-year-old son, John, and I spotted the coat at the same time. It was hanging at a （an）  21  clothing store. The coat had a black velvet collar, delightful tailoring, a Fifth Avenue label （标签） and a （an） 22  price of $ 28.
We looked at  23  , saying nothing,  24 John’s eyes shone. Dark, woolen topcoats were popular just then with  25, but could  26 several hundred dollars new.
John 27the coat. He turned from side to side, eyeing himself in the mirror with a serious, studied  28that soon changed into a smile. The 29 was perfect. John wore the coat to school the next day and came home wearing a big smile. “How did the kids like your coat?” I asked. “They love it.” He said, carefully  30  it over the chair and smoothing it flat.
Over the next few weeks, the 31came over John. Quiet, reasoned discussion was  32 argument. He became more thoughtful and eager to  33. “Good dinner, Mum,” he would say every evening. One day when I suggested that he might start on homework before dinner, John said, “You are right, and I guess I will.”
When I  34 this to one of his teachers and remarked that I didn’t know  35  caused the changes, she said with laughter, “It must be his coat!” At the library, we 36  to meet a friend who had not seen our children for a long time. “  37  this be John?” He asked, looking up to John’s new height and coat, and extending his hand, one gentleman to another.
John and I both knew we should never  38  a person’s clothes for the real person within them. But there is something to be said for  39 a standard of excellence for the world to see, for practicing standard of excellence in thought, speech and behavior, and for  40 what is on the inside with what is on the outside.
21．A．second-hand     B．expensive     C．big       D．cheap
22．A．reasonable          B．unbelievable     C．special      D．average
23．A．each other     B．one another      C．the other   D．others
24．A．therefore     B．however      C．but       D．thus
25．A．adults          B．people         C．parents     D．teenagers
26．A．spend          B．cost          C．pay      D．take
27．A．touched       B．buttoned      C．held     D．obtained
28．A．gesture        B．expression     C．attitude     D．feeling
29．A．color         B．price         C．fit        D．style
30．A．pressing       B．taking          C．hanging    D．folding
31．A．happiness     B．satisfaction       C．change      D．generosity
32．A．because of          B．instead of     C．aware of   D．full of
33．A．please          B．understand       C．complain  D．apologize
34．A．mentioned          B．wrote              C．reported    D．explained
35．A．when         B．how         C．what     D．that
36．A．happened     B．came         C．intended   D．decided

It was a cold winter. The day my husband fell to his death, it started to snow, just 36 any November day. His 37 , when I found it, was lightly covered with snow. It snowed almost every day for the next four months, while I sat on the couch and watched it 38 . One morning, I walked slowly 39 and was surprised to see a snow remover clearing my driveway and the bent back of a woman clearing my walk. I dropped to my knees and crawled back upstairs, 40 those good people would not see me. I was 41 . My first thought was, how would I ever 42 them? I didn’t have the 43 to brush my hair, 44 clear someone’s walk.
Before Jon’s death, I felt proud that I 45 asked for favors. I identified myself by my competence（能力） and 46 . So who was I if I was no longer capable? How could I 47 myself if I just sat on the couch every day and watched the snow fall?
Learning to receive the love and 48 from others wasn’t easy. Friends cooked for me and I cried. Finally, my friend Kathy said, “Mary, cooking for you isn’t a 49 for me; it makes me feel good to be able to do something for you.”
Over and over, I heard 50 words from the people who supported me during those 51 days. One wise man told me, “You aren’t doing nothing because being fully open to your 52 may be the hardest work you will ever do.”
I am not the person I 53 was, but in many ways I have changed for the 54 . I’ve been surprised to learn that there is incredible freedom coming from 55 one’s worst fear and walking away whole. I believe there is strength, for sure, in accepting a dark period of our life.

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper(志愿做护士助手的小姑娘) 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.