完形填空精练（12）
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。
Passage 1
As a child, I started learning to play the piano, my favorite musical 41 ,but I was forced to give up when I started my middle school 42 I could concentrate more on my studies.
It’s one of my biggest 43 to stop practicing the piano when I recall sadly today. During the following years, I kept telling my piano teacher that I would 44 . However, I didn’t keep my promise because I was 45 with my study. 46 I lost touch with my teacher. Some years later, my teacher died. I was very sad because I lost such a good teacher. She was a very warm and gentle person. It hurts me to think she may have been 47 that I never returned. I haven’t taken lessons since then but to be honest, I 48 to. Sitting at the piano, I couldn’t help recalling many 49 -- times of my practising at home and playing before my teacher and one time my teacher 50 me after I played entire pieces of music wrong in front of her colleagues. I was so 51 that I could hardly say anything. But her 52 helped ease my shame. These memories, 53 , good or bad, never caused my 54 for playing the piano again.
This thought then led me to think that 55 is like music, and that we all try to play different 56 in the instrument of our life. Sometimes the pitch(音高) is 57 when we play it well, but sometimes we are out of tone. However, we all continue to create our own 58 style of music. No matter what style our music is, it is 59 that we sing the songs of joy, quietness and love. Though I may never make it back to piano lessons, it doesn’t 60 that I’ve stopped making music. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55.
A. instrument A. because A. successes A. play A. occupied A. Actually A. astonished A. liked A. dreams A. instructed A. frightened A. happiness A. instead A. hope A. life B. performance B. so that B. regrets B. graduate B. angry
B. Constantly B. glad B. needed
B. expressions B. hurt B. moved
B. satisfaction B. meanwhile B. courage B. learning C. room C. now that C. decisions C. leave C. satisfied C. Suddenly C. disappointed C. wanted C. words C. punished C. embarrassed C. comfort C. therefore C. feeling C. attitude D. stage D. for D. hobbies D. return D. patient D. Gradually D. amazed D. decided D. memories D. respected D. excited D. sigh D. however D. effort D. enjoyment
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56. 57. 58. 59 60
A. cards A. hard A. unique A. necessary A. matter B. sports B. wonderful B. boring B. strange B. mean C. roles
C. surprising C. common C. possible C. report D. games D. complex D. similar D. important D. appear
Passage 1：41-45ABBDA 46-50DCCDA 51-55CCDBA 56-60CBADB
Passage 2
Every one of us, rich or poor, should at least have one or two good friends. I learned that a true friend is the most important in my life after I had gone 41 so many terrible things. I felt upset when I was told that I would have to 42 the company. As I had a very big family to 43 and was in great need of money, what I was 44 about was how to find another new job. In order to 45 this problem, I rushed from place to place like crazy. I read almost all the newspapers and 46 almost all the telephone numbers in the newspaper 47 in my notebook and tried to call almost all the companies that needed new 48 . Not until I found a job in a small town near Townsville had I 49 down. My new boss, Mr. Johnson, was one of my good friends since primary school. “Why didn’t you 50 me until now? Was it 51 to do that ? Explain to me the reason,” he said, 52 me a cup of hot coffee. Both of us were overjoyed to see each other and we 53 the whole afternoon talking about things and persons that we 54 at school. John asked me to give him some advice about 55 to enlarge his present business and he was entirely happy about my 56 . To my great surprise, he offered me a 57 which didn’t need much experience because I was not 58 with this field but the pay l got was much more than 59 . The moment I saw my 60 , the sum of money given by the company, I cried for the first time — that was the first time for me to do so since I grew up.
41．A．for B．over
C．around
C．protect
D．through D．love
D．concerned D．stood for
D．applicants
42．A．operate B．desert C．choose 43．A．care B．support 45．A．solve
D．leave
44．A．particular B．curious C．excited 46．A．took down 48．A．customers 49．A．broken 50．A．contact 51．A．desperate
B．analyze C．explain D．raise
B．turned down C．looked for B．bosses C．clerks B．calmed B．trust
C．sunk C．overlook
D．comments
47．A．advertisements B．surveys C．reports
D．slowed
D．find
D．harmful
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B．significant C．worthy