Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phra

Directions: For each blank in thefollowing passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill ineach blank with word or phrases that best fits the context.

When other nine-year-old kids were playinggames, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying orgoing out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But sheovercame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship andgained 36___ to Harvard University. And her 37___story has inspired a movie,Homeless to Harvard: The Tony Morrison Story 38___ in late April.

Tony Morrison, a 22-year-old American girl,has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Tony grew upin the 39___of two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough food or warmclothes in the house. Tony was the only member of the family who had a job. Hermother had AIDS and died when Tony was just 15 years old. The effect of thatloss 40___ a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which shehad grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something aboutit. Tony went back to school. She 41___ herself into her studies, never tellingher teachers that she was homeless. At night, she slept on the streets.

“What drove me to survive had 42___to dowith understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being.I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her bookBreaking Night. She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She usedthe benefits that came easily to others, such as a safe living environment,43___ herself that “next to nothing could hold me 44___”. She finished highschool in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at HarvardUniversity.

But Tony decided to leave her topuniversity for a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care ofher 45___, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They aredrug addicts. But I never forget that they love me 46___.” Tony wantsmoviegoers to go away with the idea that changing your 47___ is “as simple asmaking a decision”.

36. A.permission           B.entry               C. honor             D. confidence

37. A.puzzled              B. puzzling           C. amazing            D.amazed

38. A.published            B. appeared           C.sold              D. shown

39. A.charge                     B.face                C. middle            D.shadow

40. A. layin                B. ledto                     C. referred to          D. stuckto

41. A.threw             B.put              C. devoted           D.concentrated 

42. A.nothing              B.everything                 C. something         D. anything

43. A. toencourage                B. to control         C. topersuade         D. to believe

44. A.up                     B.down                     C.off                   D. back

45. A.mother               B. sister              C.father                D. brother

46. A. once in awhile                                  B. time and time again  

C. at the sametime                               D. all the time

47. A.life                    B. university           C.way             D. family

试题答案

【答案】

36-47 BCDDB   ACABC  DA

【解析】略