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。
Around twenty years ago I was living in Seattle and going through hard times. I could not find 36 work and I found this especially difficult as I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree.
To my 37 I was driving a school bus to 38 my family. I had been through five 39 with a company and one day they 40 to say I did not get the job. I went to the bus barn, feeling 41 .
Later that afternoon, 42 doing my rounds through a quiet suburban neighborhood I had an inner wave 43 from deep inside me and I thought “Why has my 44 become so hard?” “Give me a sign, I asked, a physical sign, not some inner 45 type of thing.”
Immediately after this internal（内心的） scream I 46 the bus over to drop off a little girl and as she 47 she handed me an earring saying I should keep it 48 somebody looked for it. The 49 was stamped metal, painted black and said “BE HAPPY”. Then it struck me. I had been putting all of my 50 into what was wrong with my life 51 than what was right!
One night there was a phone call for me from the 52 at a large hospital. She asked me whether I 53 do a report for 200 hospital workers. I said 54 and got the job.
My day with the hospital workers 55 very well. I got a great welcome and many more days of work. To this day I KNOW that it was because I changed my attitude to gratitude.
小题1:A. satisfying B. probable 
particular D. considerate
小题2: A. joy B. luck shame D. surprise
小题3:
A．meet
B．supply
C．provide
D．support小题4: A. meetings B. interviews 
conferences D. reports
小题5: A. came B. hoped called D. expected
小题6: A. excited B. worried disappointed D. frightened
小题7: A. though B. while unless D. until
小题8: A. rise B. shout raise D. cry
小题9: A. work B. situation life D. position
小题10: A. sound B. voice noise D. thought
小题11: A. pulled B. carried brought D. held
小题12: A. took off B. put off gave off D. got off
小题13: A. as long as B. now that in case D. as soon as
小题14: A. earring B. watch necklace D. bag
小题15: A. money B. ideas energies D. strength
小题16: A. rather B. other more D. less
小题17: A. nurse B. work patient D. manager
小题18: A. should B. would must D. ought
小题19: A. no B. hello yes D. nothing
小题20: A. went B. looked seemed D. appeared
