Question

完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意, 然后从下面四个答案中选择可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。

There was once a young man who liked puppets (木偶) so much that he was apprenticed (当学徒) to a master puppet-maker. Sadly, the young man was not very clever, and his _________ and other apprentices were always telling him that he had no ability when it came to making puppets, and that he would not _________ .

Even so, he enjoyed it so much that he worked day after day to improve. Though he put all his effort into it, they would always find something _________ with the puppets he had made, and they ended up driving him out of the workshop.

He wasn’t going to give up, so the young man decided that from then on he would spend all his time making just one kind of puppet. And whenever he found a fault (瑕疵) in his puppet he would throw it away and _________ again right from the starting-point. Years passed, and with each _________ attempt (尝试) his puppet became a little bit better. By now, his puppet was much better than anything his old apprentices could make, but he _________ making improvements. Living like that, the man wasn’t making any money, and many people laughed at how _________ he was.

By the time he was an old man, his puppet was truly wonderful. Finally one day, after so many years of effort, he finished his puppet, and said, “I can’t find anything wrong with it. This time it

is _________ .” And for the first time in all those years, instead of _________ his puppet, he put it on the shelf, feeling truly satisfied and happy. The puppet gave that old man more _________ than any other famous puppet-makers ever got from their creations.

1.A. father B. teacher C. classmate D. friend

2.A. miss B. forget C. succeed D. listen

3.A. wrong B. interesting C. special D. unusual

4.A. stop B. start C. change D. appear

5.A. usual B. old C. easy D. new

6.A. finished B. avoided C. kept D. stopped

7.A. serious B. strict C. honest D. silly

8.A. modern B. perfect C. priceless D. expensive

9.A. hiding B. fixing C. covering D. throwing

10.A. confidence B. joy C. courage D. warmth

Answer 1