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36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项。
It is not so much what happens to each of us that determines our quality of life, but rather our reaction to what happens. Though we may have no     36   in unexpected events that happen to us, we most certainly have choice in   37   we interpret what happens, and in what we choose to do about it. These choices make all the   38  in how we experience our world and very much determine our    39    of life.
Neither does what we own    40   a major role in quality of life. One person with all the money and possessions in the world may have a   41   life, while another in the lowest income classes may    42  love their life. It is what we do with what we own that   43   our level of satisfaction and joy in life. It's not what you    44    or what happens to you in life that    45   , but rather what you do with it.
Every    46   something is happening in our lives. And every moment we    47    or a judgment about what happens. By choosing to become more   48  of how we react to what happens, we can   49  towards what we really want in our lives.   50    following habitual, reactive patterns which   51  more of the same, we can recognize and  52  our old habits to move powerfully in the   53   of creating the life we really want. Yet to do this, we must first find the    54 to look at some of the disempowering, often unconscious   55  which get in the way and don't serve to increase our quality of life. But by continually reminding ourselves of our intention to be creators, we can transform our life.
36．A．need               B．courage          C．choice             D．necessity
37．A．what               B．whether           C．that                 D．how
38．A．difference        B．troubles           C．decisions          D．measures
39．A．type                B．quality             C．amount            D．level
40．A．take                B．play                C．make               D．get
41．A．miserable         B．accessible         C．acceptable        D．adaptable 
42．A．practically         B．privately      C．absolutely       D．adequately
43．A．creates             B．investigates      C．affects             D．handles
44．A．lack                B．need                C．reserve           D．possess 
45．A．means            B．exists              C．works             D．matters
46．A．time                B．period             C．date                 D．moment
47．A．make a mistake                                   B．make a discovery
C．make a decision                           D．make a fortune
48．A．conscious         B．sensitive         C．reasonable        D．active
49．A．alter               B．shift                C．differ                    D．distinguish
50．A．Other than              B．Rather than      C．As well as        D．According to
51．A．lead to             B．lie in               C．call for            D．appeal to
52．A．transplant     B．transform     C．transport      D． transmit
53．A．edge                B．way                 C．direction          D．center
54．A．hope               B．interest            C．chance             D．courage
55．A．patterns           B．frames             C．landscape         D．Examples

My teenage son Karl became withdrawn after his father died. As a single parent, I tried to do my best to talk to him. But the more I tried, the more he pulled away. When his report card arrived during his junior year, it said that he had been absent 95 times from classes and had six falling grades for the year. At this rate he would never graduate. I sent him to the school adviser, and I even begged him. Nothing worked.

One night I felt so powerless that I got down on my knees and pleaded for help.“

Please God, I can’t do anything more for my son.  I’m at the end of my rope. I’m

giving the whole thing up to you.” I was at work when I got a phone call. A man introduced himself as the headmaster. “I want to talk to you about Karl’s absences.” Before he could say another word, I choked up and all my disappointment and sadness over Karl came pouring out into the ears of this stranger. “I love my son but I just don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything to get Karl to go back to school and nothing has worked. It’s out of my hands.” For a moment there was silence on the other end of the line. The headmaster seriously said, “Thank you for your time”, and hung up.

Karl’s next report card showed a marked improvement in his grades. Finally, he even made the honor roll. In his fourth year, I attended a parent-teacher meeting with Karl. I noticed that his teachers were astonished at the way he had turned himself around. On our way home, he said, “Mum, remember that call from the headmaster last year?” I nodded. “That was me. I thought I’d play a joke but when I heard what you said, it really hit me how much I was hurting you. That’s when I knew I had to make you proud.”

1. By saying “Karl became withdrawn”, the author means that the boy changed entirely and ______.

A. preferred to stay alone at home        B. lost interest in his studies

C. refused to talk to others    D. began to dislike his mother

2.There was silence on the other end of the line because______.

A. the speaker was too moved to say anything to the mother

B. the speaker waited for the mother to finish speaking

C. the speaker didn’t want the mother to recognize his voice

D. the speaker was unable to interrupt the mother

3.The sentence “he even made the honor roll means that______”.

A. he was even on the list to be praised at the parent-teacher meeting

B. he was even on the list of students who made progress in grades

C. he was even on the list of students who had turned themselves around

D. he was even on the list of the best students at school

4.What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Children in single-parent families often have mental problems.

B. Mother’s love plays an important role in teenagers’ life.

C. Being understood by parents is very important to teenagers.

D. School education doesn’t work without full support from parents.

On the first day of class, Mr Whiteson gave us a lecture about a creature(生物) called cattytiger, a kind of cat-like animal that completely disappeared during the Ice Age. He passed round a skull (头骨) as he talked, and we all felt interested and took notes while listening. Later, we had a test about that.

When he returned my paper, I was very, very surprised. There was a very large cross through each of my answers. And so it was with everyone else’s in our class. What had happened? Everyone was wondering and couldn’t wait to get the answer.

Very simple, Mr Whiteson explained. He had made up all that story about the cattytiger. There had never been such an animal. So why none of us noticed that and how could we expect good marks for the incorrect answers?

Needless to say, we got very angry. What kind of teacher was this?

We should have guessed it out, Mr Whiteson said. After all, at the very moment he was passing around the cattytiger skull (in fact, a cat’s), hadn’t he been telling us that it completely disappeared during the Ice Age? Clearly he was telling a lie. But we just kept busy making notes and none used his head. We should learn something from this. Teachers and textbooks are not always correct.

1. We failed in the test because we didn’t________.

A. take notes while listening

B. show interest in what Mr Whiteson said

C. listen to the teacher carefully

D. think carefully

2. We got angry because________.

A. Mr Whiteson didn’t tell us the truth about cattytiger

B. we failed in the test

C. we didn’t know why he played the joke on us

D. there was no cattytiger

3. Mr Whiteson gave us a special lesson________.

A. to show his special way of teaching

B. to play a joke on us

C. to help us learn our lessons better

D. so that we would no longer believe him

4. Mr Whiteson meant that________.

A. teachers couldn’t make any mistakes

B. textbooks might be wrong sometimes

C. we should speak up if we thought our teacher or the textbook was wrong

D. we shouldn’t believe our teachers because sometimes they might tell lies

In the clinic, I asked if Michael could be retested, so the specialist tested him again. To my  16  , it was the same score.

Later that evening, I   17  told Frank what I had learned that day. After talking it over, we agreed that we knew our son much better than an IQ test. We decided that Michael’s score must have been a   18  and we should treat him   19  as usual.

We moved to Indiana in 1962, and Michael studied at Concordia High School in the same year, he got     20   grades in the school, especially in biology and chemistry, which was a great comfort.

Michael   21   Indiana University in 1965 as a pre-medical student. Soon afterwards, his teacher permitted him to take more courses than  22 . In 1968, he was accepted by the School of Medicine, Yale University.

On graduation day in 1972, Frank and I   23  the ceremony (典礼) at Yale. After the ceremony, we told Michael about the   24  IQ score he got when he was six. Since that day, Michael sometimes would look at us and say   25 , “My dear mom and dad never told me that I couldn’t be a doctor, not until after I graduated from medical school!” It is his special way of thanking us for the  26  we had in him.

Interestingly, Michael then asked for another IQ test. We went to the same clinic where he had   27  the test eighteen years before. This time Michael scored 126, an increase of 36 points. A result like that was supposed to be  28 .

Children often do as well as what adults, particularly parents and teachers,  29 of them. That is, tell a child he is “  30  ” , and he may play the role of a foolish child.

1.                A．joy            B．surprise        C．dislike    D．disappointment

2.                A．tearfully        B．fearfully        C．cheerfully D．hopefully

3.                A．joke           B．mistake         C．warning  D．wonder

4.                A．specially        B．strictly          C．naturally  D．carefully

5.                A．poor           B．good           C．average  D．standard

6.                A．visited         B．entered        C．passed   D．chose

7.                A．allowed         B．described       C．required  D．offered

8.                A．missed         B．held           C．delayed  D．attended

9.                A．high           B．same           C．low  D．different

10.               A．curiously       B．eagerly         C．calmly D．jokingly

11.               A．confidence      B．interest        C．pride D．delight

12.               A．received       B．accepted       C．organized  D．discussed

13.               A．imperfect       B．impossible      C．uncertain  D．unsatisfactory

14.               A．hear           B．learn          C．expect    D．speak

15.               A．wise           B．rude           C．shy   D．stupid

When I was in my early twenties, I moved away from my home state of Wisconsin to attend graduate school. I chose to go to the University Of Arizona in Tucson and   36   there. Upon landing in early June, I was shocked by the lack of   37  and the burning desert heat. After less than two days in that  38 I called my parent to question whether I had made the  39  choice and to announce that I was   40  considering coming home. My father, in a calm and  41   voice, indicated that I always had a  42 . I could always come home and be welcome there. But in fact, we both   43  I wouldn’t come home at the time. Needless to say, I chose to   44 .

Many years have passed. My father’s    45  words remain with me. Knowing that I can always   46 , I’ve been able to   47  several challenging situations -unemployment, divorce and even the    48   of my only son. I have also used these words in many cases where others need to know that someone   49  and that they do have a choice.

Whether  50 is earthly, spiritual, or some sense of calm, knowing that we can come home will be just enough to  51 us on our way.

It  52 me, in a way, of the prodigal son（回头的浪子） who found  53 and love upon returning home. While we don’t have to be like him and hit bottom in life, it is good to know that we can wander and experience pains and  54 in life but we still have a home where love, support and comfort  55 .

1.                A．flew           B．drove          C．walked   D．cycled

2.                A．blue           B．yellow          C．brown    D．green

3.                A．family          B．refuge          C．environment   D．desert

4.                A．new           B．right           C．last D．difficult

5.                A．naturally        B．fortunately      C．obviously D．seriously

6.                A．gentle          B．weak           C．supportive D．pleasant

7.                A．choice         B．dream          C．friend    D．request

8.                A．pretended      B．expected       C．knew D．forgot

9.                A．graduate        B．regret          C．return    D．continue

10.               A．surprising       B．encouraging     C．interesting     D．moving

11.               A．wander outside  B．hang around     C．come home    D．move away

12.               A．face up to       B．get away with    C．make sure of   D．look out for

13.               A．return         B．growth         C．arrival     D．loss

14.               A．worries        B．cares          C．leaves D．stays

15.               A．health         B．marriage        C．church    D．home

16.               A．help           B．stop           C．protect    D．teach

17.               A．informs        B．reminds        C．warns D．rids

18.               A．comfort        B．interest         C．food  D．money

19.               A．regrets         B．complaints      C．sufferings  D．pleasures

20.               A．survive         B．exist           C．fall   D．disappear