完形填空
阅读下面的短文,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。
Long Hands was the son of a pirate (海盗), the grandson of a pirate, and the great grandson of a pirate. Actually, he hadn’t yet stolen anything, nor attacked any
____; but his whole family were sure that he’d
____to be a very good pirate.
But the idea of spending his life robbing people
____didn’t excite young Long Hands. When he was a toddler, one of his cousins
____one of his favorite toys, and it made him really sad. He knew robbing would make people
____While he was growing up, Long Hands
____terribly that some day his real pirate personality would suddenly
, and send him down the path of robbing. Every morning, when he
____, he looked in the mirror to see if the
____change had yet occurred. But every morning he had the same pleasant sort of
____he had had the day before.
As time went on, it became clear to everyone that Long Hands wasn’t a pirate; but the family
____was so long that no one was bold (胆大的) enough to come out and
____ it. “It’s just that he’s a
____ pirate,” they would say. And they would have kept saying it
____Long Hands had studied medicine and started to
____ the sick. However, Long Hands was still worried about turning into a pirate, and he
____looking into the mirror each morning.
One day, though, seeing that he was now a(n)
____man, he realized that neither himself, nor
, was ever forced to be a pirate. Everyone could do whatever they chose with their
____!
And, having chosen his own life and his own path, Long Hands felt
____happy that he never chose to be a pirate.
1. A.businessman | B.bank | C.family | D.ship |
2. A.turn around | B.turn out | C.stay away | D.watch out |
3. A.unluckily | B.slowly | C.certainly | D.hardly |
4. A.destroyed | B.bought | C.examined | D.replaced |
5. A.fail | B.die | C.change | D.suffer |
6. A.imagined | B.remembered | C.worried | D.doubted |
7. A.break | B.appear | C.move | D.go |
8. A.looked up | B.showed up | C.woke up | D.sat down |
9. A.normal | B.necessary | C.surprising | D.horrible |
10. A.fear | B.face | C.clothes | D.dreams |
11. A.tradition | B.hope | C.tree | D.communication |
12. A.repeat | B.destroy | C.notice | D.say |
13. A.good | B.new | C.funny | D.stupid |
14. A.if only | B.in case | C.even if | D.so that |
15. A.laugh at | B.care for | C.go through | D.look after |
16. A.avoid | B.considered | C.began | D.continued |
17. A.handsome | B.honest | C.old | D.strange |
18. A.anybody | B.everybody | C.somebody | D.nobody |
19. A.experiences | B.desires | C.wishes | D.lives |
20. A.slightly | B.Deeply | C.partly | D.commonly |