Question

第二节：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，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town, saying that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole world. A large crowd   36   and they all admired his heart, for it was   37 .There was not a mark or a flaw (瑕疵) in it. They all agreed it was  38   the most beautiful heart they had   39   seen. The young man was very   40   and boasted (自夸) more loudly about his beautiful heart.

Suddenly, an old man   41   at the front of the   42   and said, “Your heart is not as beautiful as mine.” The crowd and the young man looked at the old man’s heart. It was beating  43 , but it was full of   44  . It had places where pieces had been   45   and other pieces put in, but they didn’t  46   quite right and there were several rough and pointed edges.

The people stared. “How can he say his heart is more beautiful?” they thought. The young man looked at the old man’s heart and laughed. “You must be   47  ,” he said. “Compare your heart with mine. Mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars.”

“Yes, yours   48   perfect, but I would never trade with you,” said the old man. “Every scar   49   a person to whom I have given my love. I  50   a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they give me a piece of their heart which fits into the   51   place in my heart, but because the pieces aren’t   52   in shape, I have some rough edges, which I  53 .They remind me of the love we shared. So now do you see what true   54   is?”

The young man was moved. He stood there silently with   55   running down his cheeks.

36. A. stopped      B. came       C. agreed       D. gathered

37. A. clean        B. exciting    C. happy        D. perfect

38. A. probably       B. truly      C. likely       D. luckily

39. A. never         B. seldom      C. ever         D. sometimes

40. A. proud        B. regretful   C. happy        D. angry

41. A. appeared      B. cried      C. showed        D. listened

42. A. man          B. crowd        C. street       D. town

43. A. quickly      B. strongly    C. slowly         D. heavily

44. A. tears        B. water      C. scars        D. love

45. A. burnt        B. changed     C. removed      D. cut

46. A. place        B. fit        C. jump         D. see

47. A. joking       B. tricking     C. dreaming       D. playing

48. A. looks        B. smells      C. sounds        D. feels

49. A. explains     B. helps      C. presents      D. represents

50. A. tear down     B. turn down    C. tear out       D. throw out

51. A. clean        B. scary      C. empty        D. painful

52. A. normal         B. big        C. fine           D. exact

53. A. want         B. dislike    C. fear          D. value 

54. A. kindness     B. happiness    C. beauty         D. love

55. A. water        B. sweat      C. tears        D. Blood

Answer

36-- 55   DDBCA   ABBCC  BAADC  CDDCC  

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