河北省2017高考英语二轮复习专题训练：完形填空（7）
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，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项。
I still remember the days when I was a youthful student in an engineering school. I
lived a
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life，without caring about the future. I smoked，drank with friends.
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did I realize that casualness would certainly lead to loss.
Two years passed and I was____3____down a report card that highlighted FAIL in
more than half the subjects. I didn’t ____ 4
，at least not till my dad found out about
it. You see. I studied in India and____5_____the United States where the students can
finance their own education，my dad financed me.
Then came the day when my dad found out my
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of smoking. He lost his
temper____7_____he just told me，“Son，your___8_____is cut in half from this moment on".
It
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me like a roundhouse kick from Bruce Lee. I couldn't comprehend how to pay
off the debts that I had____10_____in college. I owed everybody____11_____：the grocery store，
the bars，my friends，etc. I was living a life filled with
12__.
When I went back to college，I knew that if I didn't_____13______the way I lived my life
I wouldn't get along. So I decided to make some changes. I quit smoking，
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from
my friends who led me down the wrong road，starting
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out in libraries and
reading my engineering books.
One year later, I went from a____16____failure to a magna curn laude（优等成绩）．
This incident made me know that anything is_____17_______if you take action and do something
about it，___18_____small or large: Even today it still
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me when I feel that I'm
about to lose or give up. It_____20_____me that I can do it！
1. A. happy B. casual C. hard D. busy
2. A. Little B. Much C. Often D. Nor
3. A. breaking B. putting C. staring D. writing
4. A. care B. hope C. go D. stop
5. A. as B. between C. in D. unlike
6. A. habit B. manner C: process D.，sign
7. A. and B. but C. so D. otherwise
8. A. income B. education C. allowance D. time
9. A. pleased B. made C. shocked D. hit
10. A. accumulated B. brought C. received D. earned
11. A. friendship B. help C. money D. time
12. A. joy B. sadness C. business D. credit
13. A. change B. choose C. take D. decide
14. A. cut off B. took away C. picked out D. get down
15. A. carrying B. hanging C. eating D. setting
16. A. small B. sudden C. reliable D. miserable
17. A. helpful B. possible C. important D. urgent
18. A. however B. even C. still D. though
19. A. educates B. shows C. motivates D. warns
20. A. calls B. guarantees C. persuades D. reminds
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