第二节:完形填空(共 20 小题;每小题 1 分,满分 20 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、并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we ___36___ realize that those challenges to the very things than ___37___ us and make us who we are, it is the same with the challenges that come with ___38___. When we are fared with a challenge, we usually have two ___39___, we can try to beat it off, or we can decide that the thing ___40___ the challenge isn’t worth the ___41___ and call it quits. Although there are certainly ___42___ when calling it quits it the right thing to do, in most ___43___ all that is needed is ___44___ and communicable. When we are communed to something, it means that no matter how___45___or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to ___46___ it trough instead of running away from it. Communication is making a ___47___ for discussion and talking about how you feel as opposed to just saying what the other person did wrong. ___48___ you can say to a friend, “I got my feelings hurt.” ___49___ “You hurt my feelings,” you are going to be able solve the problem much faster. In dealing with many challenges that friendship will bring to you, try to see them for ___50___ they me: small hurdles you need to jump or___51___on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is ___52___ to get over, and hurt only ___53___ to make us stronger. It s all part of growing up, it ___54___ to everyone, and some day you will ___55___ all of this and say, “Hard as it was, it make me who I am today. And that a good thing.”
36. A. seem to B. come to
C. hope to D. try to
37. A. design B. promote
C. direct D. shape
38. A. confidence B. pressure
C. friendship D. difficulty
39. A. opportunities B. expectations
C. choices D. aspects
40. A. demanding B. deserving
C. predicting D. presenting
41. A. comment B. loss
C. trouble D. expense
42. A. spans B. times
C. dates D. ages
43. A. cases B. fields
C. parts D. occasions
44. A. assessment B. commitment
C. encouragement D. adjustment
45. A. doubtful B. shameful
C. harmful D. painful
46. A. keep B. control
C. face D. catch
47. A. space B. plan
C. topic D. room
48. A. If B. As
C. While D. Unless
49. A. other than B. rather than
C. or rather D. or else
50. A. what B. who
C. where D. which
51. A. pass by B. come across
C. get through D. run over
52. A. unnecessary B. necessary
C. impossible D. possible
53. A. serves B. means
C. aims D. attempts
54. A. opens B. appeals
C. goes D. happens
55. A. lock down on B. look back on
C. look forward to D. look up to