Question

第二節  完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從36—55各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項_{K_S_5_U}

Years ago, when Barbara started looking for her first job, wise advisers urged, "Be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience." How right they were. Enthusiastic people can   36   a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

"Nothing great was ever   37   without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.     38   is the paste that helps you hang on there when the going gets tough. It is the   39   voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you can't!"

      It  40  years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't 41  on her experiments. Work was  42  a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

      As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle(使起皺紋) the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe,   43   the word itself. “Enthusiasm” comes from the Greek and means "God within." And what is God within is but a long-lasting sense of   44   -- proper love of self and, from that, love of others.

      Enthusiastic people also love what they do,   45   money or title or power. Patricia McIlrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, "My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, `I never made a dime until I stopped working for money.'" If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time hobby   46   the head of state who paints, the nun(修女) who runs marathons, and the executive who handcrafts furniture.

      Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville was 68  47  she began to draw. This activity ended periods of depression that had   48  her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, " I have to say, Layton is  49  a genius." Elizabeth has  50   her enthusiasm. _{￥高#考#資%源*網}

We can't   51   to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be". We need to live each moment   52   with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the   53   picture of a six-year-old, and the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of   54   that puts a sparkle(火花) in our eyes, a lift in our steps and   55   the wrinkles from our souls.

36. A. put                            B. make                C. turn                  D. get

37. A. expected             B. adopted             C. predicted           D. achieved

38. A. It                       B. That                  C. This                  D. As

39. A. slight                  B. outside              C. inner                 D. low

40. A. spent                  B. took                  C. cost                  D. paid

41. A. give off                     B. give in                  C. give out            D. give up

42. A. such                   B. so                     C. too                   D. rather

43. A. links with           B. refers to            C. lies in               D. leads in

44. A. responsibility      B. humor               C. trust                  D. love

45. A. in case                B. regardless of      C. for fear of         D. in terms of

46. A. like                    B. namely              C. as                     D. likewise

47. A. after                   B. since                 C. before               D. until

48. A. pleased              B. shocked             C. worried             D. annoyed

49. A. nothing but         B. anything but      C. everything but   D. something but

50. A. recalled                     B. reflected            C. rediscovered      D. remembered

51. A. pay                    B. afford               C. affect                D. provide

52. A. thoroughly          B. absolutely          C. wholeheartedly  D. warm-heartedly

53. A. colored               B. white                C. green                D. red

54. A. money                B. title                  C. power               D. life

55. A. pushes                B. softens              C. smoothes           D. folds

Answer 1

36-40 CDACB   41-45 DACDB  46-50 ACDAC  51-55 BCADC