二．完形填空：
Why did I come today? I wondered. My Christmas   16   contained several people that claimed they wanted nothing but I knew their feelings would be hurt   17   I didn’t buy them anything, so gift buying was   18   but fun.
Hurriedly, I finished shopping and   19   the long checkout lines. In front of me were a boy of about 5 and a younger girl. She carried a beautiful pair of    20   slippers. When we finally   21   the checkout register, the girl   22   placed the shoes on the counter. She treated them as though they were a   23  .
“That will be $ 6.09,” the cashier said. The boy   24   his pockets. He finally came up with $ 3.12. “I guess we will have to put them back,” he   25   said. “We will come back some other time, maybe tomorrow.” With that statement, a soft   26   broke from the little girl. “But Jesus would have loved these shoes,” she cried.
“Well, we’ll go home and work some more. Don’t cry. We’ll surely   27  ,” he said. Quickly I handed $ 3.00 to the cashier. These children had waited in line for a long time. And,   28  , it was Christmas. Suddenly a pair of arms came around me and a small voice   29   said, “Thank you, lady.” “What did you   30   when you said Jesus would like the shoes?” I asked. The boy answered, “Our mommy is sick and going to   31  . Daddy said she might go before Christmas to be with Jesus.” The girl spoke, “My Sunday school teacher said the streets in heaven are shiny gold, just like these shoes. Won’t mommy be   32   walking on those streets in these shoes?”
My eyes   33   as I looked into her tear-streaked face. “Yes,” I answered, “I am   34   she will.” Silently I thanked God for using these children to   35   me of the true spirit of giving.
16. A. plan                B. list                    C. goods                D. purchases
17. A. if                       B. because             C. unless               D. since
18. A. something           B. nothing             C. anything            D. everything
19. A. waited                B. joined               C. attended            D. gathered
20. A. cotton                 B. leather                     C. gold                  D. silver
21. A. approached         B. passed               C. checked             D. found
22. A. immediately        B. hesitantly          C. shyly               D. carefully
23. A. gift                    B. treasure             C. life                   D. prize
24. A. opened               B. touched             C. tore                  D. searched
25. A. bravely               B. uncertainly        C. slowly               D. doubtfully
26. A. tear                    B. sob                   C. smile                D. sigh
27. A. leave                  B. come                C. return               D. arrive
28. A. above all             B. at last                C. at least                     D. after all
29. A. gratefully            B. sweetly             C. gracefully          D. kindly
30. A. request               B. expect               C. mean         D. attempt
31. A. hospital                     B. tomb                 C. heaven                     D. sky
32. A. equal                  B. comfortable              C. convenient         D. beautiful
33. A. pained                B. flooded             C. shut                  D. froze
34. A. sure                    B. afraid                C. glad                  D. confident
35. A. inform                B. warn                 C. cure                  D. remind

第三节．完形填空(共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分)
阅读下面的短文，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。     
Greg Mortenson is a mountaineer. In 1993, he   21   but failed to reach K2, one of the most forbidding of the Himalyayan  22  . He staggered(蹒跚) into a tiny village of Korphe in Pakistan, barely alive. The   23   villagers cared for him and fed him back to health. The __24   they showed to a stranger moved Mortenson, and filled him with a' desire to 25   it.
Looking around, he saw that the poor villagers had actually nothing. 26   , he could see the desire of the villagers to   27   their community. For example, they dreamed of 28   for their children. The children received schooling two days a week from a teacher they   29   with another village, because they couldn't   30   to hire one alone. Naturally, the village had no schoolhouse. Moretenson thought it was by building a school   31   he could best express his   32   for their kindness to him. He left,   33   he would return with necessary materials.
However, things didn't go  34   as he had expected. He was a nurse by profession, and wasn't  well   35    It was a struggle for him to raise the $10,000 or so needed to buy the building materials.    36   problems, including his then Cultural   37   of the area led to a series of frustrations. But with his efforts and cooperation of the villagers, he eventually overcame the __ 38  . He fulfilled his promise.
After that he wanted to return to America,build a career and start a family. However, it ba-came clear that a school for Korphe was just the start. There were so many other villagers in Pa-kistan that had the similar needs. The more   39   he became, the more he came to understand the area and the more he realized how important education was. The   40   was that, in the pe-riod of over a decade, 55 schools were built.
21. A. approached     B. paused           C. hesitated          D. attempted
22. A. peaks          B. levels            C. hills              D. slopes
23. A. cold           B. mean             C. kind              D. tiny
24. A. bravery        Ｂ. ability            C.poverty           D.generosity
25. A. receive        B. repay              C. respect         D. recycle
26. A. Besides        B. However         C. Therefore          D. Moreover
27. A. develop        B. visit              C. design            D. increase
28. A. career         B. development      C. education         D. health
29. A. traded          B. worked           C. communicated    D. shared
30. A. help            B. manage           C. decide            D. afford
31. A. that             B. which            C. what              D. if
32. A. sympathy        B. gratitude          C. attitude           D. anger
33. A. adding          B. promising         C. demanding        D. warning
34. A. smoothly        B. badly             C. closely            D. properly
35. A. dressed          B. received           C. respected          D. paid
36. A. Some             B. Others            C. Other             D. Another
37. A. interaction       B. ignorance         C. background       D. difference
38. A. difficulities       B. fears            C. temptations(诱惑)D, shortcomings
39. A. interested        B. rooted            C. involved          D. lost
40. A. result            B. idea              C. cause             D. report