（贵州省遵义十七中2010届高三第三次月考）

When I was small, my grandmother died and I couldn’t understand why I had no tears.   21   that night when my dad tried to   22  , my laugh turned into crying.

So it came as no   23   to learn that researchers believe crying and laughing come from the same part of the   24  . Just as laughing has many health advantages, scientists are discovering that   25   does crying.

Whatever it takes for us to reduce   26   is important to our emotional（情绪的）health, and crying as the study shows that 85 percent of women and 73 percent of men feel   27   after crying.

28  , tears attract help from other people. Researchers   29   that when we cry, people around us become kinder and friendly and they are more   30   to provide support and comfort. Tears also enable us to   31  our emotions better;   32   we don’t even know we’re very sad   33   we cry. We learn about our emotions through crying, and then we can   34   them.

Just as crying can be healthy, not crying — holding back tears of   35  , pain or suffering  — can be   36   for physical health.   37   have shown that too much control of emotions can   38   high blood pressure, heart problems and some other illnesses. If you have a health problem,   39   will certainly not ask you to cry. But when y9ou feel like crying, don’t   40   it. It’s a natural-and-healthy-emotional response.

21. A. And                    B. So                           C. As                           D. But

22. A. wake me up        B. cheer me up              C. call me up                D. bring me up

23. A. gain                    B. surprise                    C. pain                         D. joy

24. A. brain                   B. lip                            C. memory                   D. mind

25. A. it                        B. either                       C. so                            D. neither

26. A. pleasure                     B. weight                      C. words                      D. pressure

27. A. better                  B. worse                      C. healthy                     D. sick

28. A. Instead               B. However                  C. Besides                    D. Therefore

29. A. expect                B. agree                        C. suggest                    D. require

30. A. interested            B. exciting                    C. unwilling                  D. ready

31. A. understand          B. offer                        C. start                         D. create

32. A. gradually             B. regularly                   C. sometimes                D. easily

33. A. if                        B. because                    C. since                        D. until

34. A. begin with           B. end up with                     C. fill up with                D. deal with

35. A anger                   B. hunger                            C. happiness                 D. calm

36. A. good                   B. bad                          C. difficult                    D. dangerous

37. A. Books                 B. Newspapers              C. Studies                     D. Instructions

38. A. turn to                      B. stick to                     C. relate to                    D. lead to

39. A. parents               B. doctors                    C. scientists                  D. teachers

40. A. fight                   B. accept                      C. strike                       D. hit

  

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

On the day before the bass（鲈鱼）season opened, he and his father were fishing early in the evening.

　　When his pole  1 he knew something huge was on the other end. His father watched with    2  as the boy skillfully worked the fish alongside the dock.  3 , he very cautiously lifted the   4  fish from the water. It was the largest one he had ever seen,   5  it was a bass.

　　The boy and his father looked at the handsome fish, gills（鱼鳃）playing back and forth in the moonlight. The father  6 a match and looked at his watch. It was 10 P.M.——two hours    7  the season opened. He looked at the fish, then at the boy. “You’ll have to put it back, son,” he said.

　　“Dad！”  8  the boy.

　　“There will be other fish,” said his father.

　　“Not as big as this one,” cried the boy again.

　　He looked around the lake. No other fishermen or boats were anywhere    9  in the moonlight. He looked again at his father.  10  no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time he caught the fish, the boy could  11 from his father’s voice that the decision was not changed. He slowly  12  the hook out of the lip of the huge bass and lowered it into the   13  water. The boy suspected that he would never again see such a great fish.

　　That was 34 years ago. Today, the boy is a successful architect in New York City. And he was   14 . He has never again caught such a magnificent fish as the one he caught that night long ago. But he does see that same fish—— again and again——every time he   15  a question of ethics(道德).

For his father taught him, ethics are simple 16 of right and wrong. It is only the  17  of ethics that is difficult. Do we do right when no one is looking？We would if we were taught to put the fish back when we were young. For we would have learned the   18 . The decision to do right lives fresh and fragrant in our   19 . It is a   20  we will proudly tell our friends and grandchildren.

1.                A．broke down     B．bent over       C．turned up     D．turned out

 

2.                A．desire          B．fear            C．admiration D．love

 

3.                A．In the beginning  B．Finally          C．Besides   D．All in all

 

4.                A．delighted       B．frustrated       C．frightened     D．exhausted

 

5.                A．but            B．however        C．and  D．while

 

6.                A．won           B．beat           C．struck    D．picked

 

7.                A．after           B．until           C．when D．before

 

8.                A．yelled          B．shouted         C．said  D．cried

 

9.                A．around         B．front           C．back D．right

 

10.               A．Ever since      B．Even though     C．In case    D．Now that

 

11.               A．say            B．speak          C．talk   D．tell

 

12.               A．worked         B．loosed         C．looked    D．attached

 

13.               A．shallow         B．black           C．low   D．white

 

14.               A．content        B．wrong          C．right  D．pleased

 

15.               A．come up with    B．gets on with     C．meets with D．catches us with

 

16.               A．matters        B．events         C．questions  D．things

 

17.               A．meaning        B．understanding   C．practice   D．point

 

18.               A．fact            B．truth           C．faith  D．incident

 

19.               A．mind          B．heart          C．memory   D．brain

 

20.               A．lesson          B．story           C．concept   D．standard