Question

三、完形填空

A wise man once said, “A man who makes no mistakes usually does not make anything.” It took me a long time to gather the   21  to admit that I had been making mistakes since my earliest days.   22  , many of the things that I had learned were   23  .

As a child from a poor family, I learned that when you had money, you were   24   to spend it on whatever brought you happiness   25  . I didn’t understand that even though putting money in the bank would not   26   me that quick joy, it could provide a sense of   27  — I still had that money.

One problem is that I never had an opportunity to   28   any money of my own until late in my teen years. All of my gift money   29   to my parents for “saving”, which actually   30   to be an emergency fund(风险基金) for things such as food.

On rare   31  , some relatives would give me some money, but they would   32   in my ear not to tell my mother and to spend it quickly on something fun. Their   33   was good — they wanted to bring joy to the life of a “  34  ”boy, but it didn’t teach me any   35   skills. Soon I would go back to having no money.

Another thing is that I believed that   36   help from others was bad. My parents were strict, and in many ways I   37   their philosophy (处事原则), but their personal beliefs prevented them from ever accepting any help.   38   we often had to live on a single part-time income, we never asked   39   anything. In this way, I was led to believe that accepting a helping hand, even in   40   of great need, was a sign of weakness.

21. A. time                          B. power                      C. courage                    D. chance

22. A. Otherwise               B. Also                         C. Instead                     D. However

23. A. different                    B. common                   C. big                          D. wrong

24. A. supposed                    B. determined            C. ordered                    D. left

25. A. naturally                    B. immediately             C. probably                  D. eventually

26. A. buy                           B. prove                       C. sell                          D. show

27. A. direction                    B. guilty                       C. safety                       D. difference

28. A. receive                   B. lend                         C. manage                    D. earn

29. A. gave                          B. went                        C. borrowed                 D. left

30. A. added up                    B. came up                   C. gave out                   D. turned out

31. A. states                      B. occasions                  C. situations                  D. moments

32. A. shout                      B. explain                     C. whisper                    D. insist

33. A. plan                          B. information                  C. look                         D. intention

34. A. naughty                         B. poor                        C. hopeless                   D. lovely

35. A. financial                    B. imaginative               C. popular                    D. formal

36. A. offering                         B. accepting                  C. begging                    D. demanding

37. A. disobeyed                  B. ignored                    C. respected                  D. agreed

38. A. Even if                   B. Now that                  C. Unless                   D. Until

39. A. about                      B. around                         C. against                         D. for

40. A. groups                    B. terms                       C. ways                        D. times

Answer 1

21--25 CBDAB             26--30 ACCBD             31--35 BCDBA             36--40 BCADD