2 . 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。
As we know, it is impossible to make no mistakes all one’s life. My grandpa Nybakken is no
______. Several decades ago he made a mistake — a (n)
_____ mistake, though.
On a cold Saturday, Grandpa was building some wooden cases for the clothes his
______ was sending to an orphanage (孤儿院) in Congo. On his way back home, he
_____ into his shirt pocket for his glasses, but they were gone. So he drove back to the church. His search proved
_____ When he
_____ replayed his earlier actions, he realized what happened. The glasses had slipped out of his pocket and
_____ into one of the cases. His new glasses, having
______ him $20, were heading for Congo that morning! He had to drive home
_____Several months later, the director of the orphanage came to give a report at my grandfather’s church, which Grandpa also attended.
The director said, “I must thank you for the
_____ you sent last year. The bandits (土匪) had just swept through the orphanage,
_____ everything, including my glasses.
_____ I had the money, there was simply no way of
_____ the broken pair of glasses.
_____ not being able to see well, I experienced headaches every day. Then your cases
____ . When my staff removed the covers, they found a pair of glasses lying on top.”
Then, with the
_____ , he continued: “When I tried
_____ the glasses, it was as though they had been made just for me! It was amazing!”
The people listened,
_____ for the miraculous glasses. But the director must have
_____ their church with another, they thought. There were no glasses on their
_____ of things to be sent overseas. But Grandpa was sitting quietly in the back, with tears streaming down his face.
1. A.similarity | B.success | C.luck | D.exception |
2. A.perfect | B.foolish | C.formal | D.common |
3. A.factory | B.church | C.family | D.country |
4. A.turned | B.reached | C.filled | D.put |
5. A.proper | B.reasonable | C.useless | D.necessary |
6. A.mentally | B.physically | C.softly | D.directly |
7. A.fallen | B.jumped | C.forced | D.broke |
8. A.offered | B.spent | C.paid | D.cost |
9. A.disappointed | B.pleased | C.nervous | D.satisfied |
10. A.cases | B.clothes | C.glasses | D.wishes |
11. A.cutting | B.destroying | C.defending | D.recording |
12. A.Unless | B.As long as | C.Until | D.Even though |
13. A.replacing | B.selling | C.wearing | D.changing |
14. A.Except for | B.Along with | C.Rather than | D.As for |
15. A.disappeared | B.flew | C.arrived | D.broken |
16. A.preparation | B.regret | C.satisfaction | D.wonder |
17. 18. A.sorry | B.happy | C.bored | D.stressed |
19. A.confused | B.connected | C.combined | D.compared |
20. A.case | B.order | C.list | D.search |