Question

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21~40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

During the war,my husband was stationed at an army camp in a desert in California.I went to live there in order to be ______ him. I hated the place.I had never ______ been so unhappy. My husband was ordered out on a long-term duty,and I was left in a tiny shack(棚屋) alone. The heat was ______—almost 125 °F even in the shade of a cactus(仙人掌). ______ a soul to talk to. The wind blew non-stop,and all the food I ate,and the very air I breathed,were ______ with sand, sand, sand!

I was so sorry for myself that I wrote to my parents. I told them I was ______ and coming back home.I said I couldn’t stand it one minute longer. I ______ be in prison! My father answered my ______ with just two lines—two lines that will always sing in my ______— two lines that completely changed my life:

Two men looked out from prison bars,

One saw the mud,the other saw the stars.

I read those two lines______. I was ashamed of myself. I made up my mind I would find out what was good in my present ______ I would look for the stars.

I made friends with the natives,and their ______ amazed me. They gave me presents of their favorite artworks which they had ______ to sell to tourists. I studied the delightful forms of the cactus.I watched for the desert sunsets,and ______ for seashells that had been left there millions of years ago when the desert had been an ocean______.

What brought about this ______ change in me? The desert hadn’t changed, ______ I had.I had changed my ______. And by doing so,I changed an unhappy experience into the most amazing______ of my life. I was excited by this new world that I had discovered. I had looked out of my self-created prison and ______ the stars.

1.A. off B. behind C. near D. beyond

2.A. before B. already C. then D. still

3.A. inflexible B. incomprehensible C. uncontrollable D.unbearable

4.A. Only B.Not C. Many D.Such

5.A. covered B. filled C. buried D. charged

6.A. catching up B. keeping up C. giving up D.getting up

7.A. ought to B. might well C. would rather D.had better

8.A.request B. call C. question D.letter

9.A. comparison B. imagination C. consideration D. memory

10.A. over and over B. by and by C. up and down D.now and then

11.A. company B. occupation C. situation D.relationship

12.A. movement B. reaction C. guidance D.purpose

13.A. refused B. failed C. managed D.happened

14.A. asked B. hunted C. waited D.headed

15.A. floor B. surface C. rock D.level

16.A. shocking B. challenging C. puzzling D.astonishing

17.A. as B. but C. for D.or

18.A. attitude B. principle C. identity D.standard

19.A. vacation B. operation C. affair D. adventure

20.A. sought B. counted C. found D.reached

Answer 1