三、完形填空 （共20小题，20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从各题A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
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 __36__ side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to __37__ in good health, or __38__ about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to __39__ damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text __40__ the title. Therefore, the scissors would __41__ before they start, __42__ halfway done when I find out the __43__result.
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your __44__. You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be __45__ up. But you know the future is unpredictable --- the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left __46__. Thus you are __47__ in a difficult position and feel sad. How __48_nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life __49__ greatly on our preference of one choice to the other.
In fact that is what __50__ is like: we are often __51__ 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 ____52____ we get into another. The __53__ may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I __54__ remember a philosopher’s remarks: “When one door shuts, another opens in life.” So a casual __55__ may not be a bad one.
36 A. front B. same C. either D. opposite
37 A. get B. keep C. lead D. bring
38 A. advice B. news C. a theory D. a report
39 A. suffer B. reduce C. prevent D. cause
40A. on B. for C. without D. off
41A. use B. handle C. prepare D. stay
42 A. or B. but C. so D. for
43 A. satisfying B. regretful C. surprising D. impossible
44 A. courage B. strength C. attention D. patience
45A. given B. held C. made D. picked
46 A. near B. alone C. about D. behind
47 A. filled B. attracted C. caught D. struck
48 A. dare B. come C. deal D. do
49 A. improves B. changes C. progresses D. goes
50 A. study B. society C. nature D. life
51 A. faced B. supplied C. connected D. fixed
52 A. before B. after C. until D. as
53 A. following B. next C. above D. former
54 A. still B. also C. once D. almost
55 A. treatment B. action C. choice D. remark
----John and I will celebrate our fortieth wedding anniversary next month.
----Oh,_________!
A. cheer up B.well done C.go ahead D.congratulations
---I am sorry. I should not have been so rude to you.
--- You _________ your temper but that’s Ok.
A. have lost B. had lost C. did lose D. were losing
Research ________out at Livepool University supports this idea and suggests that if we don’t use the sense of direction, we’ll lose it.
A. to carry B. carrying C. being carried D.having carried
.---Who were those people with the flags?
---A group ______ itself the League of Peace.
A. calls B. calling C. called D. being called
.The captain urged that the mission ______ before dark.
A. must be finished B. be finished C. ought to be finished D. was finished
