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，然后從所給的 A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be
36 Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d
37 ?” Just when I started to
38 that there would not be a Christmas that year, three women
39 at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll, I felt such a sense of
40 that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to s
chool. I wasn’t
41 . Somebody had thought
42 of me to bring me a gift.
Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my
43 Christmas there special and memorable, I
44 remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of
45 for as many children as I could possibly reach.
So I
46 a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤兒) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school suppliers,
47 with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were
48 . Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I
49 them that they couldn’t open their presents
50 every child had come forward. Finally the
51 they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles
52 up the room. The
53 in the room was obvious, and
54 wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling –the feeling I knew
55 that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter.
| 小題1: | | A．sending | B．receiving | C．making | D．exchanging |
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| 小題2: | | A．found | B．prepared | C．got | D．expected |
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| 小題3: | | A．doubt | B．hope | C．suggest | D．accept |
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| 小題4: | | A．broke in | B．settled down | C．turned up | D．showed off |
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| 小題5: | | A．relief | B．loss | C．achievement | D．justice |
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| 小題6: | | A．blamed | B．loved | C．forgotten | D．affected |
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| 小題7: | | A．highly | B．little | C．poorly | D．enough |
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| 小題8: | | A．present | B．first | C．recent | D．previous |
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| 小題9: | | A．hardly | B．instantly | C．regularly | D．occasionally |
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| 小題10: | | A．strength | B．independence | C．importance | D．safety |
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| 小題11: | | A．kept up with | B．caught up with | C．came up with | D．put up with |
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| 小題13: | | A．fine | B．special | C．helpful | D．normal |
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| 小題14: | | A．reminded | B．guaranteed | C．convinced | D．promised |
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| 小題15: | | A．after | B．until | C．when | D．since |
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| 小題16: | | A．chance | B．gift | C．moment | D．reward |
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| 小題17: | | A．lit | B．took | C．burned | D．cheered |
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| 小題18: | | A．atmosphere | B．sympathy | C．calmness | D．joy |
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| 小題19: | | A．it | B．such | C．something | D．everybody |
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stination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.
learning from her friends
滿分 30分）
rs. “My teachers couldn't have had a lower opinion of me,” he said. “I wasn't even smart enough to rebel . The one thing I remember from the very earliest age was this desire to write. When I was 10 years old, I remember asking my parents to get me a typewriter for my birthday because I wanted to be a writer.” 
hich section can you most probably read the passage?
