Question

完形填空

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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。）

My father woke me up early one summer morning announcing. “ Get up. You are going with me to cut grass”.The idea____ my father actually thought I was big enough to help him in his ____ made me feel proud and ____. From sunup to sundown my father, my younger brother and I____ in the large yards in a rich part of Atlanta, Georgia. By the end of the day I was tired out, but felt good I had____ a hard day’s labour and had earned $6.

One day my father found some leaves I’d____ and pulled me aside. “ Clear away these leaves,” he said____, and don’t make me have to tell you to do it again.” The ____ was clear. Today I value the importance of doing a job ____ the first time. It will never____ to impress the person you are working for.

After two years my father told me and my brother that he felt we were ____enough to do lawns(草坪)on our own. Every Saturday,we____ out early in the morning with the same desire and drive we had gained while working ____ our father.

Taking care of lawns was not exciting____ high-paying, but that didn’t matter. It taught me that any job is a good job and that____ I was paid was more than I had before.

A newspaper reporter once asked me how someone ____ possibly live on a forty-hour-a-week minimum(最低的) pay. “ My father never worked just forty

hours a ____, and neither have I.” I replied. “ If you’re only working forty hours, you probably don’t want to do ____ better than you’re doing.”

In every job I’ve ____ ------ from doing lawns to washing dishes------ I have learned something that helped me in my next job. If you ____ hard enough, you can learn from any job you do.

1.A. what B. that C. which D.why

2.A. farm B. family C. business D. company

3.A. excited B.tired C.troubled D.unpleasant

4.A. played B. excised C. worked D.struggled

5.A. put out B.put down C. put away D.put in

6.A. collected B. cleaned C. missed D. noticed

7.A. finally B.usually C.unexpectedly D.firmly

8.A.news B.message C. information D.word

9.A.right B.quickly C.fast D.wrong

10.A.happen B.seem C. fail D. begin

11.A.strong B.old C. clever D.skilled

12.A.worked B. set C.turned D.figured

13.A. beyond B. without C. under D.like

14.A. and B.and yet C. but D.or

15.A.no matter now B.whatever C. no matter what D. however

16.A.must B.should C.may D.could

17.A.day B. year C. week D.month

18.A.some B.any C.little D.very

19.A.found B. lost C.held D.helped

20.A.see B.work C. try D.enjoy

Answer 1