第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
When my son was 11 years old, he got a small job helping out with a traveling carnival in our town. He didn't come home at lunch time, phoning 36 to tell me he was fine and had found a few days' work 37 out at an exhibit. However, after he finished work he 38 for supper as usual.
I asked him how he had 39 at lunch and he told me he had made some new 40 at the carnival, some young men who were twin brothers, and their mom and dad. They had 41 him a few dollars and invited him for lunch 42 for helping them set up their exhibit and wanted him to 43 the next day to help with other chores (杂务).
I was glad he had found new friends but a little 44 about the type of people who might be traveling in a carnival. "Oh, Mum, these are just 45 everyday people like anyone else. They 46 work at a carnival instead of in a store or something". "Come down tomorrow and 47 them yourself," he said.
So the next day I went to the carnival and to the exhibit he had 48 me to. The twin brothers _49 out to be Siamese (连体的) twins, joined at the chest. He hadn't thought this 50 was noteworthy enough to mention. When I brought it to him, he said, "yes, I 51 that too. Do you know that their mum has to make all their clothes 52 it's so difficult to find anything to fit them? They're also really good 53 . Today, Joe, one on the fight, made me spaghetti (意大利面条) for lunch. "
What others see first in a person is not what a child considers 54 . Where I saw Siamese twins, he saw people having difficulty buying clothes that fit, and young men who were good cooks. It was a _55 I have thought about many times over the years.
36. A. instead B. even C. also D. besides
37. A. helping B. helping C. taking D. showing
38. A. did up B. gave up C. took up D. turned up
39. A. sought B. managed C. worked D. acted
40. A. clothes B. friends C. choices D. differences
41. A. paid B. charged C. lent D. owed
42. A. by chance B. in return C. by turns D. in advance
43. A. return B. promise C. consider D. decide
44. A. excited B. regretful C. worried D. optimistic
45. A. humorous B. obvious C. particular D. normal
46. A. just B. never C. hardly D. always
47. A. teach B. meet C. affect D. join
48. A. ordered B. directed C. forced D. persuaded
49. A. worked B. left C. came D. turned
50. A. expression B. change C. fact D. idea
51. A understood B. made C. noticed D. formed
52. A. before B. if C. after D. because
53. A. cooks B. doctors C. artists D. singers
54. A. necessary B. important C. impossible D. unlucky
55. A. lesson B. festival C. task D. match
