完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所

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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。

Around twenty years ago I was living in Seattle and going through hard times. I could not find   36 work and I found this especially difficult as I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree.

To my   37  I was driving a school bus to   38  my family. I had been through five   39  with a company and one day they   40  to say I did not get the job. I went to the bus barn, feeling   41 .

Later that afternoon,   42  doing my rounds through a quiet suburban neighborhood I had an inner wave   43  from deep inside me and I thought “Why has my   44  become so hard?” “Give me a sign, I asked, a physical sign, not some inner   45  type of thing.”

Immediately after this internal（内心的） scream I   46  the bus over to drop off a little girl and as she   47  she handed me an earring saying I should keep it   48  somebody looked for it. The   49  was stamped metal, painted black and said “BE HAPPY”. Then it struck me. I had been putting all of my   50  into what was wrong with my life   51  than what was right! 

One night there was a phone call for me from the   52  at a large hospital. She asked me whether I   53  do a report for 200 hospital workers. I said   54  and got the job.

My day with the hospital workers   55  very well. I got a great welcome and many more days of work. To this day I KNOW that it was because I changed my attitude to gratitude.

小题1:A. satisfying     B. probable      particular      D. considerate

小题2: A. joy                    B. luck             shame            D. surprise

小题3: 

A．meet

B．supply

C．provide

D．support小题4:  A. meetings            B. interviews    conferences         D. reports

小题5: A. came                 B. hoped          called                 D. expected

小题6: A. excited               B. worried        disappointed              D. frightened

小题7: A. though               B. while           unless                 D. until

小题8:  A. rise                    B. shout           raise                   D. cry

小题9:  A. work                 B. situation       life                D. position

小题10: A. sound                B. voice           noise                  D. thought

小题11: A. pulled                B. carried                brought                     D. held

小题12: A. took off             B. put off                gave off             D. got off

小题13: A. as long as           B. now that       in case                D. as soon as

小题14: A. earring               B. watch           necklace             D. bag

小题15: A. money               B. ideas            energies              D. strength

小题16: A. rather                B. other            more                  D. less

小题17: A. nurse                 B. work            patient                D. manager

小题18: A. should               B. would          must                  D. ought

小题19: A. no                            B. hello            yes                     D. nothing

小题20: A. went                  B. looked                seemed               D. appeared