Question

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 

“I’m going to make you attractive,” said Mika Hill, looking at the  1of the woman sitting before her. The women once had long,  2, dark hair. But alopecia(秃头症) had  3her just a little of it. Hill, a wig(假发) maker, was about to change that.

At 30, Hill knows from experience how a woman feels when she  4her hair. Her own hair fell out several years ago  5a lack of iron after giving birth. “I cried when I washed it, when I combed it, and when I looked in the  6,” she says. Then she bought a wig. “It was too small,” she says, “but my   7went up greatly.”

Hill enrolled(注册) in a wig-making  8in New York. Back home with what she learned, she started making wigs that she planned to   9for $300 each.

But many of her customers with alopecia and cancer couldn’t  10that much, and their health insurance often didn’t  11the cost. So Hill started giving the wigs away, eventually spending $10,000 of her own money. Last year, she and her friend Lita Warren  12Pink Barrette, a non-profit organization that has  13about 60 wigs to poor women.

Hill pays  14the donations with profits from her other products.   15, she and her husband have also spent much of their savings keeping the organization running.

Hill’s customers can’t thank her enough. Elyssa Montoya was too   16to be seen in public with her  17thinning hair. “I didn’t feel I could show my bald head outside. Thanks to Mika, I now have beautiful hair, and feel 18about myself again.”

“Seeing their self-confidence   19after they try on their wigs,” says Hill, “brings   20to my eyes. This is a job for me, and a most rewarding one.”

1.A. head            B. face       C. nose       D. mouth

2.A. light           B. thick      C. little     D. ugly

3.A. showed          B. destroyed    C. left   D. offered

4.A. washes          B. changes     C. loses    D. dyes

5.A. thanks to       B. except for              C. as for  D. because of

6.A. picture         B. room       C. sky        D. mirror

7.A. confidence      B. belief     C. power      D. image 

8.A. speech          B. company    C. course         D. club

9.A. sell            B. produce    C. rent       D. order

10.A. supply         B. appreciate              C. allow    D. afford

11.A. recover        B. cover                   C. admit   D. contain

12.A. set up         B. put up     C. set down   D. put down

13.A. donated        B. imported  C. picked     D. valued

14.A. up             B. off        C. back       D. for

15.A. Besides        B. Therefore               C. Somehow      D. Otherwise

16.A. embarrassed    B. excited    C. happy      D. angry

17.A. hardly         B. badly      C. heavily    D. largely

18.A. frightened     B. strange    C. grateful   D. good

19.A. limit          B. exchange  C. improve    D. cut

20.A. doubt          B. tears      C. fear       D. joys

Answer

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.C

5.D

6.D

7.A

8.C

9.A

10.D

11.B

12.A

13.A

14.D

15.A

16.A

17.B

18.D

19.C

20.B