第三部分 英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)
第一节 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。
If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I’d be picking roses for a lifetime.
----------- Swedish proverb
Mary had her own special kind of joy, and she knew exactly how to spread it around. She lifted children from 41 into laughter, love and belonging.
Each time she found a new 42 for a child, she gave the family one of her little homemade paper roses. It had become a 43 for her, and the families didn’t ever forget it.
One evening, Mary was 44 a meeting for adoptive parents. One of the 45
fathers stood up to introduce himself. But before he spoke, he reached into his coat pocket and held up a 46 , red paper rose. Then he explained. Twenty years ago, I felt alone and 47 . I didn’t know the talents inside me or what was possible for me. Then Mary
48 two wonderful people into my life. They taught me what it was like to feel 49 . They not only loved me 50 . They opened a world of 51 that I didn’t know existed. My new parents told me, “Reach for your dreams!” I did, and today I’m 52 to be giving that chance to a child who 53 just like me. My mother gave me this little rose. By now, all of you 54 where she got it so long ago.
Mary sent me a new rose just yesterday. And my new rose 55 a new spring, a beautiful new 56 for my own little girl. It 57 me to show her what unconditional love is, and to teach her to reach for her own beautiful dreams. Thank you, Mary, for the special little things like roses that 58 our lives together. And thank you for all you’ve done for me and so many families over the years!
One brief event can send our spirits soaring or 59 us in quiet to ponder a new beginning. 60 it is also the very small things, like Mary’s roses, that tie together the meaningful things.
41. A. suffering B. poverty C. loneliness D. misery
42. A. place B. home C. life D. school
43. A. tradition B. habit C. favor D. glory
44. A. planning B. attending C. organizing D. hosting
45 A. kind B. new C. active D. grateful
46. A. faded B. broken C. treasured D. dried
47. A. powerless B. tasteless C. worthless D. priceless
48. A. introduced B. directed C. accepted D. brought
49. A. protected B. loved C. cheered D. cared
50. A. unconditionally B. silently C. continuously D. unintentionally
51. A. beauties B. riches C. necessities D. possibilities
52. A. willing B. proud C. eager D. lucky
53. A. came up B. turned out C. started out D. grew up
54. A. know B. understand C. guess D. tell
55. A. equals B. symbolizes C. replaces D. creates
56. A. beginning B. challenge C. chance D. mystery
57. A. helps B. drives C. accompanies D. reminds
58. A. close B. tie C. fix D. gather
59. A. push B. put C. leave D. cause
60. A. Besides B. Yet C. Therefore D. Otherwise
