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，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。

Olive, from County Westmeath, Ireland, arrived in England to live with her daughter and son-in-law Thomas. She was   36   because of her poor health and   37   with her most of her treasured   38   . These included a small piece of tissue paper in which she had   39   what appeared to be five teeth which had   40   her dentures (假牙).

Having   41   in, she asked Thomas, "Do you know where I can get my dentures   42   ?" "Of course," replied Thomas.   43   you give them to me, I'll take them to a dental   44   . "

Olive handed over the rather tired piece of paper which   45   some rather dirty-looking   46   . Thomas drove to the dental laboratory.

"   47   will it take?" Thomas asked the technician.

"Oh, about an hour," smiled the dental expert.

"Then I'll wait in the   48   ," said Thomas, "and read my newspaper. "'

An hour passed and the technician   49   at the car window   50  a plastic bag and the piece of paper. "That'll be £80," requested the specialist, "   51   I could only fit four of the teeth to the dentures. I'm sorry. "

"That's a   52   ," commented Thomas. "What happened to the__  53   one?"

"I have it here in the paper," answered the technician,   54   it to Thomas.

"The thing is," he said, "it's easy to fit the teeth but   55   to fit this peanut (花生米)."

36. A. moving       B. going           C. passing      D. returning

37. A. sold        B. provided       C. brought     D. dealt

38. A. clothes           B. possessions       C. furniture    D. materials

39. A. discovered   B. secreted        C. thrown      D. buried

40. A. broken out B. broken in      C. broken away     D. broken off

41. A. settled       B. filled         C. joined       D. fallen

42. A. cut         B. dropped        C. mended     D. placed

43. A. Because      B. If              C. Therefore D. However

44. A. speaker       B. customer      C. patient       D. technician

45. A. needed           B. found           C. touched     D. contained

46. A. teeth       B. jewels          C. peanuts      D. coins

47. A. How often   B. How soon     C. How long D. How much

48. A. building      B. office               C. house        D. car

49. A. appeared     B. broke               C. laughed     D. glared

50. A. putting        B. holding        C. keeping     D. hiding

51. A. and         B. but            C. also       D. nor

52. A. fact        B. pleasure        C. pity       D. thing

53. A. fifth        B. first           C. third     D. second

54. A. proving       B. advising       C. permitting        D. showing

55. A. necessary    B. unimportant      C. impossible D. possible

You have a goal and that is your long-term aspiration. Perhaps it’s to be happy and stand in good relation to the world around you, to be rich so you don’t have to worry about your standing, to conquer a particular area of knowledge or activity and earn recognition to ensure your standing, or simply to live an uncluttered, peaceful life, wherein you gain enough inner peace and enlightenment not to even care about your standing. Your targets are projected landmarks in time with potentially measurable results, the achieving of which you expect to draw you closer to your goal — mastering a specific yoga posture, for example, getting a particular job, reaching a certain profitability in a business, or passing an exam. Then you have your threats. These are all factors that threaten to prevent you achieving your targets — whether it’s the weather, other people’s agendas, ill-health or other possibly unforeseen contingencies. Finally, you have your remedies, the measures you take to counter or prevent the threats. These comprise both the requisite mundane countermeasures to keep your temporal plates spinning externally and, more crucially, internal adjustments to your own state of mind and energetic flow, to enable you to attain the inner balance and clarity necessary to realign your vision with your goal, when the threats, potential or actual, have temporarily obfuscated that vision. No matter how apparently complex the mundane details in need of attention, the internal readjustment process remains consistently simple. For a few moments in the midst of activity, stop whatever you’re doing, mentally relax your muscles and sinews, lengthen your spine, broaden your shoulders and pelvis, desist from holding your breath, soften your chest and breathe freely, allowing your belly to expand with the inhalation and contract with the exhalation. Let all thoughts about your situation and condition drift and be momentarily empty of self. Draw your. point of gazing out at the world back from your eyeballs into the center of your brain, between and behind your eyes, equidistant between your ears. Envisage your goal clearly and tell yourself, "I can do this!" and you will.