完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to    36   in order to pay the high tuition (学费) for my brother and me. They don’t act in the    37   waya that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is    38    luxurious (奢侈) for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentine’s Day is even more out of the    39   .
One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I sat down beside her. “Mom, I have a question to ask you. Is there    40   between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice. She didn’t answer immediately. She    41   her head and continued to sew the quilt.
I was very worried because I thought I had hurt her. I was    42   and I didn’t know what I should do. But at 1ast I heard my mother say the following words:
“Susan,” she said    43   , “Look at this thread. Sometimes it is    44   , but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt    45   . If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen    46   , but it’s really there. Love is    47   .”
I listened carefully but I    48   her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly   49   seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked    50   . It seemed both of them had had a serious illness. After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother supported my father    51   on the country road.
“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.
“Susan, don’t    52   me.” he said gently. “To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom.”    53   his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.
Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and    54   .But from this experience, I undentand that love is just    55   in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1．5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to  26  in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me. They don’t act in the  27  ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is too  28  for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentine’s Day is even more out of   29  .
One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I sat down beside her. “Mom, I have a question to ask you. Is there  30  between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice. She didn’t answer immediately. She  31 her head and continued to sew the quilt.
I was very worried because I thought I had  32  her. I was  33  and I didn’t know what I should do. But at last I heard my mother say the following words:
“Susan,” she said thoughtfully, “Look at this thread．Sometimes it  34  , but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt   35  . If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread．It can hardly be seen     36  , but it’s really there. Love is  37 .”
I listened carefully but I  38  her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly  39  seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked  40 . It seemed both of them had had a serious illness. After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother helped my father   41  on the country road．
“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.
“Susan, don’t  42  me.” he said gently. “To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom.”  43  his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.
Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and  44 . But from this experience, I understand that love is just  45  in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.

Once in Japan there lived two frogs, one of whom made his home near the town of Osaka, while the other lived in Kyoto.  36 , they didn’t know each other. Bothof them liked to see a little of the world: the Kyoto frog wanted to visit Osaka, and the Osaka frog wished to go to Kyoto.
So one morning they  37. However, the journey was more  38  than they had expected, for they didn’t know much about traveling. Half-way between the two towns, at the top of a mountain, the two frogs  39  each other! Soon they fell into  40 .
“What a(n)  41  we are too small, ” said the Osaka frog. “Otherwise, we could see both towns from here, and  42  if it is worth our going on.”
“Oh, that is easily  43 ,” replied the Kyoto frog. “We have only got to stand up on our hind (后面的) legs, and hold on to each other  44  we won’t fall down, and then we can both look at the towns we are  45  to.”
This idea  46  the Osaka frog; he stood up and put his front paws on the  47 of the other frog, who had risen also. There they both stood, stretching themselves as  48  as they could. The Kyoto frog turned his nose towards Osaka, and the Osaka frog, towards Kyoto, but the  49  frogs forgot that when they stood up, their eyes were in the backs of their heads, and that  50  their noses pointed to their destinations, yet their eyes looked at the places  51  which they had come.
“Dear me!” cried the Osaka frog. “Kyoto is  52  like Osaka. It is certainly not worth such a long journey.”
“If I had known that Osaka was only a  53  of Kyoto I should never have traveled all this way,”  54  the frog from Kyoto. Then they started off for their  55  again.

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Two friends visited the zoo together. The zoo was very large and it was 3 6  to go everywhere. They had to decide where and which animal to visit as their time was   3 7. So both of them agreed not to  3 8  after choosing a 3 9  at every fork (岔路口). A road sign at the first fork   4 0  one way to the lion quarters and the other to the tiger hill. They decided on the  4 1  after a 4 2  discussion because lions were “the king of the grassland”. The second showed a division (路口) going separately to the panda and peacock. They 43  panda as it was the nation’s treasure and went its way. Thus they made choices all along the way and each choice meant 44   what they couldn’t help regretting. But they had to make it, and  45  , for it brooked(容忍) no delay. If they hesitated (犹豫不决) they would miss 46   . Only  47  decision could offer more chances for sightseeing and 48   possible regret.   Life is 49  like this—choices often occur that one has to make, for example, between two 50   jobs, two fascinating wooers(追求者). To get one you  51  give up the other——you can get half of it. If you 52  weighing the pros and cons and calculating gains and losses, you will most likely 53  empty-handedness. Don’t be sad about it. 54  you have got half of the desirable things in life——something that is  55  to come by.

Just up the road from my home is a field, with two horses in it． From a distance，each horse looks like any horse． But if you get closer, you will   36  something quite interesting ——one of the horses is   37 ．
His owner has chosen not to have him put down（杀死）,   38   has made him a safe and comfortable barn（马棚） to    39  ．This is pretty amazing． But if you stand nearby and listen，you will hear the sound of a  40 ．It is coming from a smaller horse in the field．   41  to the horse is a small bell． It  42   the blind friend know where the other horse is，so he can   43  ．        
As you stand and watch these two friends you'll see that the horse with the bell is always  44 the blind horse，and that the blind horse will   45 for the bell and then slowly walk to where the other horse is，trusting he will not be led the  46  way．
When the horse with the bell returns to the shelter of the   47 each evening, he will stop  48  to look back，making sure that the blind friend isn't too   49 behind to hear the bell．
Like the owner of these two horses，the kind people around us do not  50 us away just because we are not perfect or because we have   51  ．Sometimes we are the blind horse，being   52  by the little ringing bell of those who come to  53 us． And we are the guide horse  54 other times, helping others to find their   55  ．