第二节完形填空（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。
There are going to be moments in life when you must make very important decisions. You will find many people   36   to offer you advice if you ask for it (and even if you don’t), but always remember that the life you   37   is yours and nobody else’s. It’s important to decide for yourself what’s important to you and what you want before you   38   others. Because while there will be times   39   outside advice proves wise, there will be at least as many times when it proves completely   40  . The only way to really evaluate other folks’ advice is to first learn everything that you can about whatever challenge you are   41  . Once you’ve done that, in most cases you should be able to make a wise decision   42   anyway.
You were   43   with the ability to decide what is and what isn’t in your best interest. Most of the time, you will make the right decision and   44   the appropriate actions, and in thinking for yourself, you will become far more successful than if you had gone against your own   45  .
Early on in my investment career, I made the mistake of   46   a few important business
decisions on colleagues’ opinions instead of conducting the   47   necessary to make a wise decision. It wasn’t due to   48   on my part; no one could ever accuse me of that. But, being   49   to Wall Street, I intended to assume that my more senior   50   knew more than I did, and so I   51   too much significance to their opinions.
You know what happened? Each of those investments ended in   52  . Eventually I stopped allowing myself to be influenced by   53   and began doing the work myself and making my own decisions. It took me until I was almost 30 years old to   54   this—it’s never too late for a person to change his approach both to   55   and to life. 
36. A. easy                          B. ready                       C. unwilling                 D. hard
37. A. lead                           B. lend                         C. take                         D. earn
38. A. look at                       B. pick up                    C. turn to                            D. learn from
39. A. that                           B. since                        C. when                       D. while
40. A. useless                       B. useful                      C. priceless                   D. clever
41. A. getting                       B. making                    C. suffering                  D. facing
42. A. on one hand               B. on your own             C. on the whole             D. on all sides
43. A. born                          B. tired                        C. satisfied                   D. covered
44. A. enjoy                         B. step                         C. plan                         D. take
45. A. assumption                 B. judgment                  C. condition                  D. fortune
46. A. basing                       B. depending                C. relying                            D. focusing
47. A. research                            B. search                      C. resources                 D. activity
48. A. poverty                      B. laziness                    C. fear                         D. diligence
49. A. used                          B. accustomed               C. new                         D. old
50. A. students                            B. brothers                   C. colleagues                D. classmates
51. A. owed                         B. paid                         C. gave                        D. held
52. A. disaster                      B. progress                  C. failure                      D. success
53. A. either                        B. another                    C. each                         D. others
54. A. think                         B. remember                 C. realize                      D. recall
55. A. payment                    B. dreams                     C. happiness                 D. business

How often one hears children wishing they were grown-ups and old people wishing they were young again. Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets.
Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. In addition, life is always presenting new things to the child — things that have lost their interest for older people because they are too well-known. But a child has his parents. He is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is continually being told not to do things or being punished for what he has done wrong.
When the young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, however, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of building up for himself his own position in society.
【小题1】 According to the second paragraph, the writer thinks that __.

    
第四节：完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将给选项涂黑。
One of my father' s favorite sayings as I was growing up was "Try it!" I couldn’t say I didn’t like  26  , whatever it might be,   27   I tried it. Over the years I' ve come to  28  how much of my success I owe to my  29  of those words as one of my values. My 30 job was just one I decided to try for a couple of years until I  31 what I wanted to do as a career (职业) .   32   I believed I would work for a few years, get married, stay home and raise a family, so I didn’t think the job I took   33  that much. I couldn’t have been more  34   . I mastered the skills of that beginning level position and I was given the opportunity (机会)to  35  through the company into different  36   . I accepted each new opportunity with the  37   , "Well, I' 11 try it; if I don' t like it I can always go back to my  38  position. " But I was with the same company for the past 28 years , and I' ve 39   every career change I' ve made. I' ve discovered I  40  a large number of different talents (才能) and Skills that I never would have thought were within me had it .not been for my being  41   trying new opportunities. I' ve also discovered that if I  42   what I' m doing and work hard at achieving my  43 , I will succeed. That’s why I am so   44   to be a part of CareerFables.com. I think  45  has come and I am determined to make it a success .
26. A. everything          B. something         C. everybody       D. somebody
27. A. until after       B. ever since           C. so that             D. long before
28. A. consider             B. argue               C. include             D. realize
29. A. suggestion          B. explanation          C. acceptance          D. discussion
30. A. hard          B. best                   C. extra               D. first
31. A. determined          B. examined           C. experienced         D. introduced
32. A. Actually         B. Gradually           C. Finally             D. Usually
33. A. helped           B. required            C. expressed           D. mattered
34. A. careful         B. mistaken           C. interested           D. prepared
35. A. look up          B. take up             C. move up            D. put up
36. A. situations       B. choices              C. directions           D. positions
37. A. thought        B. reply              C. action              D. advice
38, A. easier          B. newer              C. earlier             D. higher
39. A. permitted       B. counted            C. organized           D. enjoyed
40. A. show            B. possess                    C. need               D. gather
41. A. lucky for       B. slow at             C. open to             D. afraid of
42. A. think of        B. give away         C. believe in           D. turn into
43. A. business        B. goal              C. fortune           D. growth
44. A. excited         B. curious             C. surprised            D. helpful
45. A. dream         B. time  .            C. power              D. Honor

第二节：完形填空（30分）
When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the _41_ side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to __42__ in good health, or __43__ about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to __44__ damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text __45__ the title. Therefore, the scissors would __46__ before they start, __47__ halfway done when I find out the __48__result.
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your __49__. You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be __50__ up. But you know the future is unpredictable --- the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left __51__. Thus you are __52__ in a difficult position and feel sad. How __53_nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life __54__ greatly on our preference of one choice to the other.
In fact that is what __55__ is like: we are often __56_ with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only __57__we get into another. The __58__ may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I __59__ remember a philosopher’s remarks: “When one door shuts, another opens in life.” So a casual or passive __60__ may not be a bad one.
Whatever we do in our lifetime, wherever life’s storm tosses us, there must be
something we can achieve, some shore we can land, that opens up new vistas to us.
41. A. front                  B. same                        C. either                       D. opposite
42. A. get                        B. keep                        C. lead                         D. bring
43. A. advice            B. news                        C. a theory                   D. a report
44. A. suffer                 B. reduce                  C. prevent                    D. cause
45. A. on                  B. for                           C. without                    D. off
46. A. use                     B. handle                  C. prepare                    D. stay
47. A. or                  B. but                          C. so                            D. for
48. A. satisfying            B. regretful                   C. surprising                 D. impossible
49. A. courage                 B. strength                    C. attention                   D. patience
50. A. given                  B. held                         C. made                       D. picked
51. A. near                   B. alone                       C. about                       D. behind
52. A. filled                  B. attracted                   C. caught                  D. struck
53. A. dare                   B. come                       C. deal                         D. do
54. A. improves            B. changes                    C. progresses            D. goes
55. A. study                  B. society                        C. nature                  D. life
56. A. faced                  B. supplied                   C. connected                 D. fixed
57. A. before                B. after                        C. until                        D. as
58. A. following            B. next                     C. above                   D. former
59. A. still                    B. also                         C. once                        D. almost
60. A. treatment            B. action                  C. choice                  D. remark

Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely you are there to buy a book as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon become totally unaware of your surroundings. You soon become engrossed in some book or other, and usually it is only much later that you realise you have spent far too much time there and must dash off to keep some forgotten appointment—without buying a book, of course.
This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the main attraction of a bookshop. There are not many places where it is possible to do this. You can wander round such places to your heart's content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will disturb you with usual greetings, "Can I help you, sir?" Of course you may want to find out where a particular section is. Then, and only then, are his services necessary. However, when he has led you there, the assistant should retire carefully and look as if he is not interested in selling a single book.
You have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a bookshop. It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the latest best-selling novel. This sort of thing can be very dangerous. Apart from running up a huge account, you can waste a great deal of time wandering from section to section.
【小题1】.
. Which may not be included in the writer's experiences while he is in a bookshop?

A．Getting relaxed without buying a book.

B．Quarrelling with the shop assistant.

C．Buying other books instead of those he wanted.

D．Forgetting some important appointment.