完形填空
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My father was a highly educated, intelligent gentleman. He could debate or discuss for hours on almost any topic and hold your
____ in the process. I thought there was nothing he wasn’t
____ to do.
A few days before my younger brother’s 7th birthday, Dad planned to assemble(装配)a new
____ as a special birthday surprise. After nearly an hour of
____ the instructions, Dad was still unable to
____ the new bike together. Later he
____ the paper of instructions,
____ up his tool box, and decided to take the bike back to the local toy store and pay extra
____ to have it correctly assembled there.
____ an idea came to him, as he called out to Lovett, the quiet little man who cut our grassland.
“Lovett, have you ever assembled a boy’s bicycle?”
As Lovett walked towards the bike, Dad handed him the
____ Lovett handed it back to him, saying, “No, thanks. I can’t read. When you can’t read, you have to
____ ” Less than 15 minutes later, the new bicycle was
____ assembled, with no
____ parts remaining. Dad shook Lovett’s hand, patted him on the back, thanked him, and hid the bike.
On the night after my brother received his shiny new gift, Dad announced at the family dinner table what had happened several days earlier. He took great
____ in telling it over and over again — he used it as an example of thinking.
He did not refer to illiteracy(文盲), but strongly taught us to use our
____ The joke was on my father,
____ he was able to turn it into a learning tool, and I liked him even more after that incident. I also gained a new
____ for Lovett. To me he had
____ been the old yard man who didn’t
____ much, but after that day, he seemed to smile
____ , even walk taller. It’s amazing what a real nod of approval can do to lift people up.
16. A.belief | B.breath | C.view | D.attention |
17. A.willing | B.able | C.lucky | D.capable |
18. A.bicycle | B.toy | C.computer | D.boat |
19. A.reviewing | B.reading | C.examining | D.searching |
20. 21. A.looked through | B.folded up | C.turned to | D.devoted to |
22. A.brought | B.added | C.picked | D.set |
23. A.effort | B.tax | C.service | D.money |
24. A.Then | B.Thus | C.Since | D.Though |
25. A.tools | B.routines | C.instructions | D.orders |
26. A.exchange | B.think | C.learn | D.admit |
27. A.partly | B.largely | C.hardly | D.fully |
28. A.separate | B.different | C.major | D.spare |
29. A.care | B.action | C.delight | D.risk |
30. A.resources | B.heads | C.knowledge | D.hands |
31. 32. A.respect | B.reward | C.relief | D.regard |
33. A.never | B.ever | C.always | D.often |
34. 35. A.colder | B.weaker | C.broader | D.grayer |