问题 完形填空
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Teaching my first child, Danae, to share her toys was the biggest challenge. To   36  this, we started inviting other children to play, which could help Danae discover that it’s   37  to share with others – a lesson I needed to   38  myself as well, as it   39 .
One evening Danac had   40 a friend, Natalie, to play with her. Their favorite was a children’s   41  game called Go Fish. That evening,   42  Natalie left, Danae came to me and said, “Mommy, I’d like to give these to Natalie tomorrow. They’re her favorites.”
She help up three cards from the Go Fish game. I tried to   43  that I didn’t want her to give them away because then our   44  wouldn’t be complete. “But I really want her to have them!” Danae   45 . I thought perhaps she didn’t understand that when she gave something away, it was gone   46 . So I tried again, saying, “  47  you give the cards to her, you can’t   48 them back tomorrow.”
A look of   49  came over Danae’s face. For a moment I was happy that she seemed to   50 . But then she smiled and said. “Well, that’s okay, I want her to have them anyway.”
What could I say to that? I sat   51  for a moment and then I realized I had been trying for so long to   52  her to share. Did it   53  that our Go Fish set would be   54 ? What mattered was that my daughter was learning the   55  of giving, that she was thinking about others instead of herself, and that she was trying to make her friends happy. Isn’t that what life is all about?
小题1:
A.achieveB.applyC.receiveD.get
小题2:
A.kindB.gentleC.funD.merciful
小题3:
A.designB.knowC.createD.review
小题4:
A.turned upB.turned awayC.turned toD.turned out
小题5:
A.beggedB.encouragedC.invitedD.found
小题6:
A.boxB.cardC.paperD.show
小题7:
A.beforeB.whileC.afterD.until
小题8:
A.explainB.suggestC.respondD.teach
小题9:
A.thingB.cardC.setD.toy
小题10:
A.insistedB.recommendedC.announcedD.cried
小题11:
A.surelyB.suddenlyC.foreverD.indeed
小题12:
A.IfB.OnceC.AsD.Unless
小题13:
A.ask forB.call forC.look forD.care of
小题14:
A.surpriseB.concernC.delightD.satisfaction
小题15:
A.understandB.acceptC.refuseD.doubt
小题16:
A.sadlyB.angrilyC.quietlyD.slowly
小题17:
A.conductB.askC.forceD.help
小题18:
A.workB.meanC.remindD.matter
小题19:
A.incompleteB.lostC.limitedD.gone
小题20:
A.contentB.usefulnessC.wayD.joy
答案

小题1:A

小题2:C

小题3:D

小题4:D

小题5:C

小题6:B

小题7:C

小题8:A

小题9:C

小题10:A

小题11:C

小题12:D

小题13:A

小题14:B

小题15:A

小题16:C

小题17:B

小题18:D

小题19:A

小题20:D

单项选择题
单项选择题

Should anyone much care whether an American boy living overseas gets six vicious thwacks on his backside So much has been argued, rejoined and rehashed about the case of Michael Fay, an 18-year-old convicted of vandalism and sentenced to a caning in Singapore, that an otherwise sorry little episode has shaded into a certified International Incident, complete with intercessions by the U. S. head of state. An affair has outraged American libertarians even as it has animated a general debate about morality East and West and the proper functioning of U.S. law and order.

Which, to all appearances, is what Singapore wanted. The question of whether anyone should care about Michael Fay is idle. though Singapore officials profess shock at the attention his case had drawn, they know Americans care deeply about the many sides of this issue. Does a teenager convicted of spraying cars with easily removable paint deserve half a dozen powerful strokes At what point does swift, sure punishment become torture By what moral authority can America, with its high rates of lawlessness and license, preach of a safe society about human rights

The caning sentence has concentrated minds wondrously on an already lively domestic debate over what constitutes a due balance between individual and majority rights. Too bad Michael Fay has become a focus for this discussion. Not only does he seem destined to be pummeled and immobilized, but the use of Singapore as a standard for judging any other society, let alone the cacophonous U. S. , is fairly worthless.

To begin with, Singapore is an offshore republic that tightly limits immigration. Imagine crime-ridden Los Angeles, to which Singapore is sometimes contrasted, with hardly any inflow of the hard-luck, often desperate fortune seekers who flock to big cities. Even without its government’s disciplinary measures, Singapore more than plausibly would be much the same as it is now. An academic commonplace today is that the major factor determining social peace and prosperity is culture--a sense of common identity, tradition and values.

Unlike Singapore, though, the U. S. today is a nation in search of a common culture, trying to be a universal society that assimilates the traditions of people from all over the world. Efforts to safeguard minority as well as individual rights have produced a gridlock in the justice system. Its troubles stem more from the decay of family life than from any government failures. Few societies can afford to look on complacently. As travel eases and cultures intermix, the American experience is becoming the world’s.

The circumstances of this affair--evidently no Singaporean has ever been punished under the Vandalism Act for defacing private property--suggest that Singapore has used Fay as an unwilling point man in a growing quarrel between East and West about human rights.

It seems that the writer believes that Singapore should be praised in terms of()

A. legislative measures

B. its balancing policies

C. property safeguard

D. its cultural values