第二节 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.从短文后所给的四个选项中.选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项.并在答题卡上将该项

第二节  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，从短文后所给的四个选项（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。

Like most people , Iwas brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until inmy late thirties that I made this important   36  :giving-awaymakes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you  37  money.

This is how I  38 with giving-away. If an idea for improving the window display of aneighborhood store  39  to me, I step in and make the suggestion tothe  40  .If an accident takes pace, the  41  of which Ithink the local police could use, I  42  him up and tell him aboutit, though I am mot in  43  here. One discovery I made about thisworld is to give  44  getting something back, though the 45  often comes in an unexpected form.

One Sunday morning thelocal post office delivered an important  46  letter to my home,though it was  47  to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a noteof  48  .More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a newbusiness I was  49  .I was told at the window that there were 50  boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long  51 list. As I was about to  52  , the postmaster appeared in the 53  . "Wasn't it you that wrote us that letter a year ago aboutdelivering a special delivery to your home?" I said it was. "Well,you certainly are going to have a box in this post office  54  wemake one for you. You don't know what a letter like that means to us. Weusually get  55  but complaints."

36. A. decision B.research      C. speech          D.discovery

37. A. earn       B.lack      C. spend  D. steal

38. A. experienced  B.connected   C. combined     D. agreed

39. A. happens         B.flashes          C. sticks   D.leads

40. A. postmaster   B.headmaster         C. storekeeper         D.policeman

41. A. story      B.damage        C. challenge     D.material

42. A. call          B.hold      C. break   D. pick

43. A. need       B.trouble         C. common       D.charge

44. A. within    B.without        C. for        D.before

45. A. process B. goal      C.return  D. concern

46. A. curious  B.immediate   C. special D. heavy

47. A. realized B.addressed   C. forgotten     D. brought

48. A. invitation        B.apology        C. instruction   D.appreciation

49. A. dealing  B.providing      C. operating     D.starting

50. A. enough  B.some   C. no         D. more

51. A. admitting       B.relating        C. examining    D.waiting

52. A. leave      B.shout   C. guess   D. conduct

53. A. window B.doorway       C. library  D. yard

54. A. in case   B.now that      C. even if         D.as if

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

试题答案

【答案】

DBABC  AADBC   CBDDC   DABCC  

【解析】