完形填空（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。

I grew up poor－living with my wonderful mother. We had little money, but plenty of love and attention. I was   21   and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still   22   a dream.

   My dream was   23  . By the time I was sixteen, I started playing baseball. I could throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and   24   anything that moved on the football field. I was also   25  : My high school coach was John, who not only believed in me, but also taught me   26   to believe in myself. He   27   me the difference between having a dream and remaining true to that dream. One particular   28   with Coach John changed my life forever.

   A friend recommended me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket－money for a new bike, new clothes and the   29   of savings for a house for my mother. Then I realized I would have to   30   up summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell John I wouldn’t be playing.

   When I told John, he was   31   as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work, ”He said. “Your   32   days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them. ”I stood before him with my head   33  , trying to think of the   34   that would explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his   35   in me.

   “How much are you going to make at this job, son? ”He asked. “3.5 dollars an hour, ”I replied.

   “Well, ”he asked, “is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream? ”

   That simple question made   36   for me the difference between   37   something right now and having a   38  . I decided myself to play sports that summer and the next year I was   39   by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was   40   a $20,000 contract（agreement）. In 1999, I bought my mother the house of my dream!

1. A. happy            B. polite                C. shy              D. honest

2. A. live             B. afford               C. make              D. need

3. A. athletics        B. music            C. business          D. money

4. A. kick             B. play             C. pass              D. hit

5.A. right             B. popular          C. lucky             D. confident

6. A. how              B. why              C. when              D. whether

7. A. gave             B. taught               C. brought           D. asked

8.A. accident          B. matter               C. problem           D. experience

9.A. keep              B. end              C. give              D. pick

10. A. mad             B. mournful         C. frightened            D. shameful

11. A. living              B. playing          C. working           D. learning

12. A. moving          B. nodding          C. shaking           D. hanging

13. A. answers         B. excuses          C. words             D. ways

14. A. sadness         B. regret               C. hopelessness      D. disappointment

15. A. direct              B. clear            C. straight          D. bare

16. A. wanting         B. changing         C. dreaming          D. enjoying

17. A. wish            B. goal             C. score             D. desire

18.A. fired            B. accompanied      C. avoided           D. hired

19. A. paid            B. got              C. offered           D. presented

 

 

Which class are you going to ____ after school?

A. play              B. play with           C. win          D. match

Dick lived in England. One day in January he said to his wife, "I'm going to fly to New York next week because I've got some work there." "Where are you going to stay there?" his wife asked. "I don't know yet." Dick answered. "Please send me your address from there in a telegram (电报)," his wife said. "All right," Dick answered.

 He flew to New York on January 31st and found a nice hotel in the center of the city. He put his things in his room and then he sent his wife a telegram. He put the address of his hotel in it.

 In the evening he didn't have any work, so he went to a cinema. He came out at nine o'clock and said, "Now I'm going back to my hotel and have a nice dinner."

 He found a taxi and the driver said, "Where do you want to go?" But Dick didn't remember the name and address of his hotel.

 "Which hotel are my things in?" he said, "And what am I going to do tonight?" But the driver of the taxi did not know. So Dick got out and went into a post office. There he sent his wife another telegram, and in it he wrote, "Please send me my address at this post office."

1. Dick flew to New York because ___.

A. he went there for a holiday

B. he had work there

C. he went there for sightseeing (观光)

D. his home was there

2.Why did his wife want a telegram from him?

A. Because she didn't know his address yet 

B. Because she wanted to go to New York, too

C. Because she might send him another telegram

D. Because she couldn't leave her husband by himself in New York

3. Who would send him the name and address of his hotel?

 A. The manager of his hotel.            B. The police office.

 C. The taxi driver.                     D. His wife.

4.Which of the following is not true?

 A. Dick stayed at a nice hotel in the center of the city.

 B. Dick didn't work on the first night of his arrival.

 C. Dick forgot to send his wife a telegram.

 D. Dick wanted to go back to his hotel in a taxi.

 

 

The soldiers had just moved to the desert, and as they had never been in such a place before, they had a lot to learn.

As there were no trees or buildings in the desert, it was, of course, very hard to hide their trucks from enemy planes. The soldiers were, therefore, given training in camouflage. They were shown how to paint their trucks in irregular patterns with pale green, yellow, and brown paints, and then to cover them with nets to which they had tied small pieces of cloth.

The driver of the biggest truck had a lot of trouble camouflaging it. He spent several hours painting it, preparing a net and searching for some heavy rocks with which to hold the net down. When it was all finished, he went for lunch.

When he came back from his meal, he was surprised and worried to see that his camouflage was completely spoilt by the truck’s shadow, which was growing longer and longer as the afternoon advanced. He stood looking at it, not knowing what to do.

Soon an officer arrived, and he, too, saw the shadow, of course.

“Well,” he shouted to the poor driver, “What are you going to do about it? If an enemy plane comes over, the pilot will at once know that there is a truck there.”

“I know, sir,” answered the soldier.

“Well, don’t just stand there doing nothing!” said the officer.

“What shall I do, sir?” asked the poor driver.

“Get your spade and throw some sand over the shadow, of course!” answered the officer.

1.From this passage you can know ________.

A．there were a lot of trees where the soldiers were stationed

B．the soldiers were staying in an area far from the enemy planes

C．the soldiers knew nothing about desert

D．the soldiers had lived in desert before

2. Which of the following is right?

A．The nets with which they covered their trucks were made of small pieces of cloth.

B．The soldiers tied small pieces of cloth to the nets with which they covered their trucks.

C．The nets covering the trucks were painted pale green, yellow and brown.

D．The trucks were tied to the nets with small pieces of cloth.

3.The soldier was surprised and worried because ________.

A．his truck had cast a shadow in the sun and the enemy plane would find it.

B．the shadow of his truck was growing longer at noon

C．it was late in the afternoon, and he could not get rid of the shadow

D．his newly-painted truck was in the shadow

4. What do you think of the ending of the story?

A．It is quite reasonable that the officer ordered the soldier to cover the shadow with sand.

B．We’ll laugh at the officer’s order because it is where the humor lies.

C．Though the officer’s order sounded wise, the soldier couldn’t cover the shadow.

D．The soldier managed to cover the shadow with sand

5.What do you think of the ending of the story?

A．It is quite reasonable that the officer ordered the soldier to cover the shadow with sand.

B．We’ll laugh at the officer’s order because it is where the humor lies.

C．Though the officer’s order sounded wise, the soldier couldn’t cover the shadow.

D．The soldier managed to cover the shadow with sand

 

 —Are you going to have a holiday this year?

  —I'd love to. I can't wait to leave this place ______.      

 A. off                 B. out               C. behind               D. over