During the war, my husband was stationed at an army camp in a desert in California. I went to live there in order to be _______ him. I hated the place. I had never _______ been so unhappy. My husband was ordered out on a long-term duty, and I was left in a tiny shack(棚屋) alone. The heat was _______ — almost 125°F even in the shade of a cactus(仙人掌). _______ a soul to talk to. The wind blew non-stop, and all the food I ate, and the very air I breathed, were _______ with sand, sand, sand!
I was so sorry for myself that I wrote to my parents. I told them I was _______ and coming back home. I said I couldn’t stand it one minute longer. I _______ be in prison! My father answered my _______ with just two lines — two lines that will always sing in my _______— two lines that completely changed my life:
Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud,
the other saw the stars.I read those two lines ________. I was ashamed of myself. I made up my mind I would find out what was good in my present ________; I would look for the stars.
I made friends with the natives, and their ________ amazed me. They gave me presents of their favorite artworks which they had ________ to sell to tourists. I studied the delightful forms of the cactus. I watched for the desert sunsets, and ________ for seashells that had been left there millions of years ago when the sands of the desert had been an ocean ________.
What brought about this ________ change in me? The desert hadn’t changed, ________ I had. I had changed my ________. And by doing so, I changed an unhappy experience into the most amazing ________ of my life. I was excited by this new world that I had discovered. I had looked out of my self-created prison and ________ the stars.
16. A.off | B.behind | C.near | D.beyond |
17. A.before | B.already | C.then | D.still |
18. A.inflexible | B.incomprehensible | C.uncontrollable | D.unbearable |
19. 20. A.covered | B.filled | C.buried | D.charged |
21. A.catching up | B.keeping up | C.giving up | D.getting up |
22. A.ought to | B.might well | C.would rather | D.had better |
23. A.request | B.call | C.question | D.letter |
24. A.comparison | B.imagination | C.consideration | D.memory |
25. A.over and over | B.by and by | C.up and down | D.now and then |
26. A.company | B.occupation | C.situation | D.relationship |
27. A.movement | B.reaction | C.guidance | D.purpose |
28. A.refused | B.failed | C.managed | D.happened |
29. A.asked | B.hunted | C.waited | D.headed |
30. A.floor | B.surface | C.rock | D.level |
31. A.shocking | B.challenging | C.puzzling | D.astonishing |
32. 33. A.attitude | B.principle | C.identity | D.standard |
34. A.vacation | B.operation | C.affair | D.adventure |
35. A.sought | B.counted | C.found | D.reached |