完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the 21 side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to 22 in good health, or 23 about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to 24 damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text 25 the title. Therefore, the scissors（剪刀）would 26 before they start, 27 halfway done when I find out the 28 result.
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your 29 .You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be 30 up. But you know the future is unpredictable（不可预料）—the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left 31 .Thus you are 32 in a difficult position and feel sad. How 33 that nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life 34 greatly on your preference of one choice to the other.
In fact that is what 35 is like: we are often 36 with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only 37 we get into another. The latter may be more important than the 38 and give rise to a divided mind. I 39 remember a philosopher’s remarks:“When one door shuts, another opens in life.”So a casual（不经意） 40 may not be a bad one.
21. A. front B. same C. either D. opposite
22. A. get B. keep C. lead D. bring
23. A. advice B. news C. a theory D. a report
24. A. suffer B. reduce C. prevent D. cause
25. A. on B. for C. without D. off
26. A. use B. handle C. prepare D. stop
27. A. or B. but C. so D. for
28. A. satisfying B. regretful C. surprising D. impossible
29. A. courage B. strength C. attention D. patience
30. A. given B. held C. made D. picked
31. A. near B. alone C. about D. behind
32. A. filled B. attracted C. caught D. struck
33. A. dares B. comes C. deals D. does
34. A. improves B. changes C. progresses D. goes
35. A. study B. society C. nature D. life
36. A. faced B. supplied C. connected D. fixed
37. A. before B. after C. until D. as
38. A. following B. next C. above D. former
39. A. still B. also C. once D. almost
40. A. treatment B. action C. choice D. remark
－What made Susan so angry?
－____ in the rain for a long time.
Being kept waiting B. Being kept to wait
C. Because of waiting D. She was kept waiting
—— Do you mind my opening the window? It’s a bit hot in here.
——________, as a matter of fact
A. Go ahead B. Yes, my pleasure C. Yes, I do D. Come on
I’ve been working all day, but I feel as if I _______ nothing.
A. have been achieved B. were achieving C. had achieved D. am achieving
－Look! How busy the building workers are!
－Yes, I see. The houses ____ by them will be completed next week.
A. built B. being built C. to be built D. having been built
. They ______ to accept me as a full-time student of their university.
A. rejected B. refused C. turned down D. said no
