完形填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）
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，选出可以填入的空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
A group of graduates, successful in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about 36 in work and life.
Before offering his guests 37 , the professor went to the kitchen and 38 with a large pot of coffee and a variety of cups -- porcelain（瓷）, plastic, glass, crystal, some 39 and cheap, some exquisite（精致的）and 40 -- telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you 41 , all the nice-looking expensive cups were 42 up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is __43 for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the 44 of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself 45 no quality to the coffee. In most cases 46 is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you 47 wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously 48 for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other’s cups.
Now consider this: 49 is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to 50 life, and the type of cup we have does not define（规定）, nor change the 51 of life we live. Sometimes, by 52 only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has offered us.
God brews（酿造）the coffee, not the cups. Enjoy your coffee!
“The 53 people don’t have the best of everything: They just 54 the best of everything.”
Live simply. Love 55 . Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
1.A. difficulties B. stress C. sadness D. hate
2.A. coffee B. tea C. gift D. cups
3. A. packed B. rushed C. fetched D. returned
4.A. good-looking B. ugly-looking C. plain-looking D. nice-looking
5. A. expensive B. bright C. excellent D. comfortable
6. A. suspected B. noticed C. ignored D. appreciated
7. A. filled B. brought C. taken D. used
8. A. normal B. careful C. polite D. rode
9. A. share B. access C. entrance D. source
10.A. puts B. adds C. attaches D. ties
11.A. this B. which C. it D. one
12.A. really B. generally C. possibly D. precisely
13.A. looked B. searched C. applied D. went
14.A. Peace B. Joy C. Chance D. Life
15. A. refer B. reflect C. contain D. support
16.A. quality B. quantity C. character D. value
17.A. keeping B. basing C. concentrating D. depending
18.A. coolest B. craziest C. happiest D. saddest
19.A. make B. use C. accept D. put
20. A. nervously B. secretly C. generously D. curiously
-- He said you’d be giving them a lift.
-- ________. There are already five people.
A. Why not? B. Not likely. C. What of it? D. All right.
-- Who is dancing to music in the next room?
-- ________ the children.
A. It is B. They are C. That is D. There are
Check your paper carefully to see ________ you have made any mistakes.
A. what B. which C. whether D. that
It rained a lot during their journey, so they ________ have had a good time.
A. must B. can’t C. shouldn’t D. might
People ________ with anyone who is always talking about how wonderful he is.
A. fall in B. keep company C. catch up D. get fed up
