阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

During my second year of college, I was looking around for a place to live. One Sunday after church, the pastor(牧师) told me to stay in his daughter’s room because his daughter was studying abroad for one year.

    To be  36  , I really didn’t want to stay with “the pastor’s family”. He told me how much the  37  would be---a very low figure that  38 one home-cooked meal a day. I thought about the  39 and decided to move in.

    At the end of the term I had planned to find   40  living place, since the daughter was to  41  home. To my delight, they  42  that I share a room with their son. I seemed to have been adopted into their  43  ----their people became my people. I   44  accepted the offer.

    As I emptied the daughter’s bedroom, I thought it might be  45  to have a little sister to look after. But when I later met my new sister, I  46 that she was more independent than I first  47 .

   We finally fell in love,  48  , and have looked after each other for many years. There have been times that life turned out more  49  than either of us could have known. But we have always been able to go  50  largely because we knew that we are deeply   51  .

   It isn’t about marriage… It’s about  52  . It’s about mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers and special friends who are as  53  as family. It’s about anybody who can say, “I’ll be  54   ----you can count on me. I’ll try to look after you and sometimes I will need you to look after me.

   Is there somebody you can depend on?  And are others counting on you? We travel the path of life best when there is  55  to look after, and when someone is looking after us.

36. A. honest                      B. surprised                 C. friendly           D. pleased

37. A. price                        B. rent                       C. money             D. pay

38. A. had                         B. included                 C. made               D. contained

39. A. idea                         B. plan                       C. service            D. offer

40. A. same                       B. different                C. another           D. extra

41. A. return                      B. go                         C. get                        D. leave

42. A. ordered                   B. agreed                   C. arranged          D. suggested

43. A. house                      B. family                   C. group             D. friend

44. A. happily                    B. sorrowfully            C. evidently         D. efficiently

45. A. bad                         B. exciting                  C. nice                D. strange

46. A. realized              B. thought               C. knew            D. doubted

47. A. saw                   B. told                       C. imagined                D. believed

48. A. separated                  B. parted                  C. left                        D. married

49. A. smooth              B. challenging           C. exciting            D. different

50. A. backward              B. eastward                C. forward                 D. westward

51. A. hated                 B. cared                  C. felt                        D. liked

52. A. friendship             B. relation                C. love                D. family

53. A. close                  B. good                C. far                  D. long

54. A. away                   B. out                   C. in                   D. around

55. A. nobody             B. somebody         C. anybody          D. everybody

---You didn’t come to the party yesterday.

---- ______? I’m not a party animal.

A. How can I have     B. How would I have   C. Why should I have   D. Why must I have

--- How are they getting on with their work?

---All goes well as ____.

A. planned        B. to be planned        C. planning         D. being planned

---Will you be ____ this afternoon , John?

----It depends.  I’ m afraid I’ll be called in by my boss.

A. suitable                        B. available                C. accurate                        D. convenient

---Will you take these shoes?

---No, they don’t fit me. Show me_____.

A. another one           B. any others              C. the other                D. some others

---Do you have Mary’s address?

----Sorry, I don’t have it ___ me at present.

A. to                         B. on                  C. for                        D. from

A lack of ____ of cultural differences to local customs can cause problems.

A. existence    B. revolution   C. awareness   D. evidence

______ that he has no qualifications in business management , Ken plans to gain the necessary skills by taking a part-time course.

A. Concerning   B. Concerned  C. Being concerned  D. To concern

_____ he met with the difficulty did he realize the importance of group work.

A. Even though          B. Never until      C. Only before    D. Ever since

Exciting as its special effects are ___ , there is too much violence in the film.

A. to watch         B. to be watched        C. watching          D. being watched