第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡将该项涂黑。other people
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I think about myself. I am happy that I am becoming a
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person.
I think my
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started when I was at Palomar College. At first, I just wanted to get my
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and be left alone. I thought I was smarter than everyone else, so I hardly ever
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to anyone in my classes. By the end of my first semester, I was really
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. It seemed as if everyone but me had made friends and was having fun. So tried a(n)
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. I started asking people around me how they were doing, and if they were having trouble I
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to help. That was really a big
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for me. By the end of the year, I had several new friends, and two of
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are still my best friends today.
A bigger cause of my new
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, however, came when I took a part-time job at a Vista Nursing Home. One old lady there who had Alzheimer’s disease became my
47
. Every time I came into her room, she was so
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because she thought I was her daughter. Her real daughter never
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her, so I took her place. She let me
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that making others feel good make me feel good, too, when she died, I was
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, but I was very grateful to her.
I think I am a much
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person today than I used to be, and I hope I will not
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these experiences. They have
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me to care about other people more than about myself. I
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who I am today, and I could not say that a few years ago.
36. A. since
B. before
C. or
D. unless
37. A. famous B. simple C. different
D. skilled
38. A. education
B. career C. tour D. change
39. A. balance C. homework C. degree D. interest
40. A. talked
B. wrote
C. lied
D. reported
41. A. careful B. lonely C. curious D. guilty
42. A. argument
B. game
C. experiment
D. defence
43. A. dared
B. offered
C. hesitated
D. happened
44. A. dream
B. problem C. duty
D. step
45. A. us B. which
C. them
D. whom
46. A. attitude
B. hobby C. hope
D. luck
47. A. friend B. partner C. guide
D. guest
48. A. polite B. happy
C. strange
D. confident
49. A. bothered
B. answered
C. visited
D. trusted
50. A. explain B. guess C. declare D. see
51. A. homeless B. heartbroken C. bad-tempered
D. hopeless
52. A. quieter B. busier
C. better
D. richer
53. A. forget
B. face C. improve
D. analyze
54. A. forced
B. preferred
C. ordered
D. taught
55. A. miss B. like
C. wonder
D. expect
[定文体抓主旨]：本文是一篇夹叙夹议的文章。作者通过自己从一个以自我为中心的没有朋友的人转变到关心他人，帮助他人，与人相处和谐的过程，说明做一个对别人有益有帮助的人是幸福的，成功的。文章首尾两段都点出文章主旨大意。本篇难度：中等。
[篇章结构]：示例1
段落 关键词 大意推测
第一部分（para.1） used to be a very self-centered person，changed, happy 最近两年我变了，开始为别人着想了，我很高兴。是什么促使了转变呢？
第二部分（para.2--3） be left alone，everyone but me had made friends and was having fun，started asking people around me how they were doing，had several new friends 大学时不与人说话，没有朋友。后来开始改变，并慢慢的有了朋友。
态度转变的另一个重要原因是在敬老院做兼职时，与一个老人成朋友，帮助老人，代替她的女儿，最终自己也得到快乐。
第三部分（para.4） care about other people more than about myself 很高兴自己的改变，喜欢现在的自己，愿意帮助别人。
[解析]：
36．B。 把握上下文的语境。根据前一句话，可知作者现在和过去不一样了，先考虑别人再考虑自己，所以用before, 在为自己着想之前先为别人着想，故选B。
37．C。 利用原词复现解题。根据文章第二句“in the past two years I have really changed.”，可推知，我现在是一个与之前不同的人了，故选C。
38．D。把握上下文的语境。根据文章第二句“in the past two years I have really changed.”，可推知，本段要讲的是，我的改变发生在什么时候，故选D。
39．C。根据生活常识推理手段。上大学的目的，就是为了得学位，所以作者一开始，就只是为了拿学位，故选C。
40．A。把握上下文的语境。由上句“I thought I was smarter than everyone else,”，可知，作者自恃清高，看不起别人，因而也不与人说话交流，故选A。
41．B。 把握上下文的语境。根据前一句话“I hardly ever talked to anyone else”,可知作者没有朋友，很孤独，故选B。
42．C。 利用概括词复现解题。根据下文“I started asking people around me how they were doing, and if they were having trouble I offered to help”，可知作者这样做，不是A争论，不是B游戏，而是一个尝试，D变化与前边动词不搭配，故选C。
43．B。 根据词汇的意义解题。根据前一句“if they were having trouble”可推知，作者是愿意提供帮助的，故选B。
44．D。 根据上下文词意复现解题。前文中出现转变different, 这里说的一大跨越，与前文相符，故选D。
45．C。把握句子结构解题。这是一个由and连接的并列句，前后都是一个简单句，后半句中表达“其中有两人”，所以用two of them. 本句中如果前边没有and，那么就该选D whom，是指人的关系代词。故选C。
46．A。 利用概括词复现解题。前文说作者是生活态度的转变，而不是B兴趣爱好，C希望，D运气的改变，故选A。
47．。 根据生活常识和文化背景的推理手段。作者去敬老院做兼职，与老人之间成了朋友，而不可能成为B伙伴，C向导，D客人，故选。
48．B。 把握句内的逻辑关系。作者每次去看望她，她都把作者当成她的女儿了，所以她应该是高兴的，故选B。
49．C。 把握上下文的语境。根据上下文，可知她真正的女儿从来都不看望她，故选C。
50．D。 把握上下文的语境。由后边句子“making others feel good make me feel good, too”，可知，老人是使作者明白了一个道理，故选D。
51．B。 把握上下文的语境。根据前一句话“when she died”,可知作者非常伤心，故选B。
52．C。 利用概括词复现解题。根据前文的事例，可知作者现在是变成了一个更好的人了，故选C。
53．A。 根据词汇的意义解题。根据前文所说，可推知，作者是希望自己不会忘记这些宝贵的经历，故选A。
54．D。把握上下文的语境。这些经历一定是教会了我这样的道理，故选D。
55．B。把握上下文的语境。我的这些转变，使我喜欢现在的自己，故选B。
完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。
For most of us，success in school has very little to do with actual learning.The most important thing you have to master is how to play the grade games. __1__ you think out your own strategies for getting high marks，everything opens up to you.You may be__2__to a wellknown college or win scholarship，not to mention gaining the admiration of your teachers and parents.
But not everyone does well in tests.At times，it can almost turn into a funny game of hit and __3__ .Some students haven't mastered the __4__of test taking，some fear under pressure or need more time or another way to__5__what they know.
Being a school__6__ means learning things out of the school system.Then you have to work things to your__7__.Lots of students are already doing it without __8__it.Getting high grades also__9__on knowing each teacher's character.For example，I once had to take__10__，so one day in__11__classes I talked to the teacher I had wanted to.I told him how I'd heard what a really good teacher he was，and how disappointed I was that I'd have to graduate__12__ having been in his class.I lied.It__13__.(I had counted on the chemistry teacher being human，and he accepted)．I wasn't proud of myself for what I did.But I considered it__14__of the grade game we're pushed into__15__to aim at going to the best schools.
1．A.Before B．Unless
C．Once
D．While
2．A.permitted
B．allowed
C．agreed
D．admitted
3．A.miss
B．lost
C．strike
D．blow
4．A.game
B．art
C．interest
D．result
5．A.speak
B．tell
C．talk
D．express
6．A.master
B．house
C．failure
D．success
7．A.points
B．ideas
C．advantage
D．freedom
8．A.remembering
B．realizing
C．teaching
D．understanding
9．A.bases
B．depends
C．calls
D．takes
10．A.place
B．arms
C．classes
D．chemistry
11．A.between
B．among
C．afterD．before
12．A.after
B．before
C．without D．from
13．A.worked B．effected
C．mattered
D．did
14．A.one
B．none
C．part
D．member
15．A.taking
B．playing
C．making
D．enjoying二、
1．解析：once的意思是 “一旦”，一旦你想出好对策，一切就迎刃而解了。
答案：C
2．解析：be admitted to college：被大学录取。
答案：D
3．解析：hit and miss：时好时坏。
答案：A
4．解析：有些学生没有掌握应对考试的艺术。
答案：B
5．解析：由于有压力，有些学生在考场上需要更多时间来表达自己本来知道的东西。
答案：D
6．D
7．解析：to one's advantage：发挥自己的长处。
答案：C
8．解析：许多学生无意中就是这么做的。
答案：B
9．B 10.D
11．解析：in between class：在课间休息时。
答案：A
12．C
13．解析：It worked：这招奏效了。
答案：A
14．C
15．解析：上文有play a game。
答案：B
.On that September morning five years ago, a memory of his father came to Mayor Rudy Giuliani. In it, the Brooklyn plumber (管道工) and bartender (侍者) was telling his only child, “In a crisis, you have to become the 1 person in the room.”
Giuliani became more than that. His suit coated with ash from the wreckage (遭难) , he stood 2 , vowing (发誓) that New Yorkers would show the world the meaning of 3 . He comforted victims’ families, 4 funerals of police and firefighters, 5 his fellow citizens on radio and television.
He’d overcome 6 before, including a bitter, public end to his marriage, and a battle with cancer. Along side the terrifying 7 of 9/11, they’re the kind of events that could 8 anyone’s public and personal life. But Giuliani’s determination to success is 9 than ever, and now he is about to find out if his endurance (忍耐) of leadership 10 .
After the coming midterm (中期的) 11 , he will decide whether to seek the Republican nomination (提名) for President for the coming term, or whether to 12 the business ventures (企业) he took up post-9/11. Having spent years in 13 service—as a U. S. Attorney (lawyer) in New York, an Associate Attorney General during the Reagan Administration, and two 14 as mayor of the Big Apple—Giuliani, 62, is 15 cashing in. Chair and CEO of Giuliani Partners LLC, he’s 16 millions as a security and crisis management consultant (顾问). He’s 17 a law partner with Bracewell & Giuliani, 18 gives speeches that reportedly (据说) earn him $100, 000 a pop. Still, he 19 that his current work is about the challenge rather than the 20 . “Learning more about business, finance, how to straighten out organizations—that’s very exciting to me,” he says.
1. A. richestB. happiestC. calmestD. poorest
2. A. firmB. stillC. quietD. high
3. A. wealthB. courageC. victoryD. success
4. A. stoppedB. attendedC. held D. missed
5. A. watchedB. addressedC. greetedD. inspired
6. A. crisesB. hardshipsC. illnessesD. damages
7. A. challengesB. sightC. planesD. view
8. A. affectB. seeC. enrichD. break
9. A. weakerB. slowerC. strongerD. harder
10. A. existsB. lasts C. stopsD. appears
11. A. electionB. chanceC. yearD. occupation
12. A. come up withB. carry on with C. put up withD. put forward
13. A. officeB. businessC. publicD. private
14. A. termsB. citiesC. positionsD. years
15. A. firstB. hardlyC. finallyD. never
16. A. cheatingB. collectingC. makingD. saving
17. A. alsoB. even C. oftenD. ever
18. A. soB. andC. butD. because
19. A. suggestsB. promisesC. proposesD. insists
20. A. chanceB. serviceC. moneyD. rights
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