完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
I was recently invited to dinner by a friend. During the meal, the manager of the restaurant came  16  and said that our meal was free. He stood there  17  at me and he seemed a little  18 to me but I couldn’t quite remember him.  19  I asked him if he knew me. He laughed and said I had probably  20  him, but that I’d changed his life. My friend was quite  21  and asked him how I’d done this.
He said that twelve years ago he   22  a stress（压力）management（管理）class that I was giving. I asked the group what their greatest  23  was and most of them, including him, said it was their bosses.
He said I listened   24  and then took a chair and placed it in the center of the room. I  25  on the chair for a few moments and then I   26  everyone to come and do the same. I wanted them to look at the room from up there. After everyone had done it, I asked the group to  27  how the room looked different when they changed their perspective（角度）.
Then I asked them to  28  their bosses. Was this the same person who had seen their good  29 and hired them? Did they remember how happy they were to be  30  for the job? But how did these wonderful people become terrible bosses?
He said I looked at him and asked if he had  31  said thank you to his boss for the  32  to earn a living. He answered he hadn’t. Then I asked him why he hadn’t tried being  33  to his boss.
He told us his  34  changed that night. He went back to work the next day with a thank-you card to his boss. He said I’d  35  him to look at life from different perspectives and express thanks.

He looked tired. He seemed ________ a sleepless night.

1. A.
   to have
2. B.
   to have had
3. C.
   having
4. D.
   as if he had

After her parents separated, things at tam’s house changed. Her mom, still working, and Tami became responsible for the house and making meals for herself and her younger sister. Though money was right, they never went without. They had a nice home in a modest neighborhood food, belching and shelter. What Tami missed most of all, though, was family.

Tami spent the summer during her ninth grade year working at a park to ear exam spending money. Her job was to organize activities for the kids who spent their summer days at the park. The kids absolutely loved Tami. She was constantly going out of her way to do things for them. She would plan picnics, organize field trips and even buy ice cream for all of them, using her own money. She always did more than the job required, even if it did mean using her own money.

She got to know one little boy who lived in an apartment across the street from the park. His parents both worked at fast – food restaurants, and she knew that they didn’t have much money. The boy talked about his upcoming birthday and the fire truck he wanted so badly. He said he was going to be a fireman some day and needed the truck to practice. He told Tami more details about the truck than she knew a boy truck could have.

The boy’s birthday came and went. The next day when Tami saw the boy, she expected to see a shiny red truck in his arms. When he arrived empty – handed, she asked whether he had got the truck. The boy said no. his parents were going to get it for him later, when things were better. He seemed a little sad.

That week, Tami eased her paycheck and headed for the toy stores. She found the truck easily – after all, from his descriptions, she felt she knew it inside out. She used the money from her paycheck to buy the truck, and then had it wrapped in birthday paper.

61．What can we learn from the first paragraph?

        A．They didn’t need in worry too much about their living.

         B．Tami’s sister became more responsible.

         C．Tami began to earn money.

         D．Her mother changed her job.

62．Why did Tami buy the birthday present for the boy using her own money?

         A．Because he was poorer than she.

         B．Because he was her best friend.

         C．Because she wanted him to be a fireman.

         D．because she wanted him to feel love around him.

63．What can we learn from the underlined sentence?

         A．She knew how much money she would pay.

         B．She knew she should check the toy truck inside out.

         C．She was fully aware which toy truck the boy wanted.

         D．She walked inside and then out of the toy store several times.

64．Which of the following could be the opening sentence of the next paragraph?

        A．The next morning, Tami rode to the boy’s house and left the truck at the door.

         B．When the boy showed up at the park that day, he was more excited than ever.

         C．He showed off his new truck to Tami, and then played with it all day long.

         D．That afternoon, the boy’s mom came to the park and walked over to Tami.

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项题卡上将该项涂黑。
In eighteen thirty, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnan,  Ohio, lay a   36 and almost endless forest.
The area had a few settlements   37  by people of the frontier. Many of them had already left the area for settlements further   39  the west. But among those   40  was a man who had been one of the first people to arrive there.
He lived alone in a house of logs surrounded   41 all sides by the great forest. He seemed a part of the darkness and   42  of the forest, for no one had   43  known him to smile or speak an unnecessary word. His simple needs were   44 by selling or trading the skins of wild animals in the town.
His little log house had a single door. Directly   45  was a window. The window was boarded up（堵住）. No one could remember a(n)  46  when it was not. And no one knew why it had been   47 .  I imagine there are few people living today who ever knew the   48  of that window. But I am one, as you shall   49 .
The man's name was said to be Murlock. He   50  to be seventy years old, but he was really fifty. Something other than years had been the   51 of his aging.
His hair and long, full beard were white.  His gray,   52  eyes were sunken.  His face was wrinkled. He was tall and thin with drooping shoulders—like someone with many   53 .
I never saw him. These   54  I learned from my grandfather. He told me the man's story   55  I was a boy. He had known him when living nearby in that early day.

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项题卡上将该项涂黑。

       In eighteen thirty, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnan,  Ohio, lay a   36  and almost endless forest.

       The area had a few settlements   37   by people of the frontier. Many of them had already left the area for settlements further   39   the west. But among those   40   was a man who had been one of the first people to arrive there.

       He lived alone in a house of logs surrounded   41  all sides by the great forest. He seemed a part of the darkness and   42   of the forest, for no one had   43   known him to smile or speak an unnecessary word. His simple needs were   44  by selling or trading the skins of wild animals in the town.

       His little log house had a single door. Directly   45   was a window. The window was boarded up（堵住）. No one could remember a(n)  46   when it was not. And no one knew why it had been   47  .  I imagine there are few people living today who ever knew the   48   of that window. But I am one, as you shall   49  .

       The man's name was said to be Murlock. He   50   to be seventy years old, but he was really fifty. Something other than years had been the   51  of his aging.

       His hair and long, full beard were white.  His gray,   52   eyes were sunken.  His face was wrinkled. He was tall and thin with drooping shoulders—like someone with many   53  .

       I never saw him. These   54   I learned from my grandfather. He told me the man's story   55   I was a boy. He had known him when living nearby in that early day.

1.A．huge                       B．heavy                  C．small                  D．bright

2.A．discovered               B．created                C．established           D．invented

3.A．visited                     B．reached               C．left                     D．loved

4.A．in                           B．for                      C．over                    D．to

5.A．moving                   B．remaining            C．traveling             D．hunting

6.A．along                      B．by                      C．with                    D．on

7.A．silence                    B．noises                 C．brightness            D．freshness

8.A．never                      B．ever                    C．once                   D．sometimes

9.A．understood              B．exchanged           C．satisfied              D．offered

10.A．outside                  B．inside                  C．before                 D．opposite

11.A．time                      B．opportunity         C．story                   D．experience

12.A．opened                  B．closed                 C．destroyed            D．protected

13.A．secreet                   B．structure              C．formation            D．construction

14.A．guess                     B．see                      C．suppose               D．feel

15.A．seemed                  B．happened             C．pretended            D．appeared

16.A．cause                     B．cure                    C．reason                 D．affection

17.A．pretty                    B．lively                  C．lifeless                D．horrible

18.A．achievementsB．enemies                        C．problems             D．dreams

19.A．lessons                  B．details                 C．summaries           D．ideas

20.A．because                 B．since                   C．when                  D．although