第四节 完形填空(共20小题，每小题1. 5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的ABCD四个选项中，选出合适填入对应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
I was 17 when I walked into Carley’s bookstore in Ashland. As I was looking at__26__ of the books on the shelves, the shop owner asked if I’d like__27_. I needed to start__28_ for college, so I said yes. I worked after school, and the job helped__29_ my yearly tuition. I would work many other jobs: making coffee in the Students Union; a hotel maid and__30_ making maps for a company. But selling books was one of the most__31_.
One day a woman asked me for books on cancer. She seemed fearful. I showed her almost everything__32_and found other books we could order. She left the store less___33___. I’ve always remembered the__34__I felt in having helped her.
Years later, as a__35___ in Los Angles, I heard about an immigrant child born__36___ his fingers connected. His family couldn’t afford a corrective operation, and the boy lived in__37__, hiding his hand in his pocket.
I __38__ my boss to let me do the story. After the story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the__39_for free.
I visited the boy soon after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his 40 hand and said, “Thank you.” I felt a sense of 41 .
In the past, while I was 42 , I always sensed I was working for the customers, not the store. Today it’s the 43 . Fox pays my salary, 44 I feel as if I work for the 45 , helping them make sense of the world.
26.A.maps B.articles C.reports D.names
27.A.a book B.some tea C.a job D.any help
28.A.planning B.saving C.preparing D.studying
29.A.pay for B.fit for C.run for D.enter for
30.A.so B.yet C.even D.still
31.A.boring B.satisfying
C.surprising D.disappointing
32.A.in need B.in all C.in order D.in store
33.A.worried B.satisfied C.interested D.puzzled
34.A.surprise B.failure C.regret D.pride
35.A.doctor B.TV reporter C.bookseller D.store owner
36.A.with B.in C.by D.for
37A.horror B.honor C.shame D.danger
38.A.advised B.persuaded C.forced D.permitted
39.A.action B.program C.treatment D.operation
40.A.repaired B.connected C.injured D.improved
41.A.humor B.interest C.pleasure D.anger
42.A.at the TV station B.in the Students Union
C.at the US Forest Service D.at Carley’s bookstore
43.A.opposite B.same C.different D.right
44.A.so B.and C.but D.because
45.A.viewers B.readers C.customers D.passengers
