阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
What is it that you love to do but never feel that you get it quite right? Perhaps you don't even
try any more because you think what you do is not (21) _______ enough.
Discouragement seems to follow us a good part of the time, (22) ________ whatever it is that we work so hard doing, it seems that there is (23) ________ someone else who can do it much better. I have always enjoyed music and it is (24) ________ to me that every musician has a (25) ________of their own. My father (26) ________ several instruments and when he played with other people, it was not difficult to (27) ________ his sound in a group. Whether it was guitar or another instrument, he had his own (28) ________sound.
I (29) ________ read of a music teacher who commented to a discouraged student, “ (30) ________ else can make the sound that you make?” The sound that you make may not be the same as someone else's, but who is to say which is (31)________? It is said that, “(32)________ is in the eye of the beholder(观看者).” Perhaps it could be said that "A delightful sound is in the ear of the (33)________.
Every person has a different tone of voice that (34)________ only to them, (35)________ we all know people with an unforgettable laugh or a way of (36)________that is unique to them. Perhaps it is not the sound of your music or your voice at all.It (37)________be the way you whistle or the sound of yourfootsteps.
Each person has a(n) (38)________ on the world in some way. Someone else can do what you do, but they cannot do it (39)________ the same way that you do it. The next time you feel (40)________, remember "Nobody else can make the sound that you make."
[第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
21.B 22.A 23.B 24.D 25.B 26.A 27.C 28.D 29.A 30.C [
31.B 32.A 33.C 34.D 35.C 36.D 37.B 38.D 39.A 40.C
What is it that you love to do but never feel that you get it quite right? Perhaps you don't even
try any more because you think what you do is not (21) _______ enough.
Discouragement seems to follow us a good part of the time, (22) ________ whatever it is that we work so hard doing, it seems that there is (23) ________ someone else who can do it much better. I have always enjoyed music and it is (24) ________ to me that every musician has a (25) ________of their own. My father (26) ________ several instruments and when he played with other people, it was not difficult to (27) ________ his sound in a group. Whether it was guitar or another instrument, he had his own (28) ________sound.
I (29) ________ read of a music teacher who commented to a discouraged student, “ (30) ________ else can make the sound that you make?” The sound that you make may not be the same as someone else's, but who is to say which is (31)________? It is said that, “(32)________ is in the eye of the beholder(观看者).” Perhaps it could be said that "A delightful sound is in the ear of the (33)________.
Every person has a different tone of voice that (34)________ only to them, (35)________ we all know people with an unforgettable laugh or a way of (36)________that is unique to them. Perhaps it is not the sound of your music or your voice at all.It (37)________be the way you whistle or the sound of yourfootsteps.
Each person has a(n) (38)________ on the world in some way. Someone else can do what you do, but they cannot do it (39)________ the same way that you do it. The next time you feel (40)________, remember "Nobody else can make the sound that you make."
| 21. A.easy | B.good | C.simple | D.hard |
| 22.A.because | B.although | C.when | D.if |
| 23.A.seldom | B.frequently | C.never | D.merely |
| 24.A.satisfying | B.frustrating | C.worrying | D.interesting |
| 25.A.taste | B.sound | C.life | D.song |
| 26.A.played | B.designed | C.created | D.checked |
| 27.A.turn down | B.let out[ | C.pick out | D.give off |
| 28.A.loud | B.powerful | C.beautiful[ | D.special |
| 29.A.once | B.yet | C.even | D.still |
| 30.A.Anybody | B.Somebody | C.Nobody | D.Everybody |
| 31.A.bigger | B.better | C.deeper | D.lower |
| 32. A.Beauty | B.Interest | C.Patience | D.Honesty |
| 33. A.speaker | B.receiver | C.listener | D.looker |
| 34. A.devotes | B.adds | C.adapts | D.belongs |
| 35. A.but | B.yet | C.and | D.for |
| 36. A.hesitating | B.spreading | C.jumping | D.speaking |
| 37. A.must | B.might | C.would | D.should |
| 38. A.choice | B.opinion | C.advantage[] | D.effect |
| 39. A.exactly | B.skillfully | C.cautiously | D.seriously |
| 40. A.annoyed | B.puzzled | C.discouraged | D.bothered |
21.B 22.A 23.B 24.D 25.B 26.A 27.C 28.D 29.A 30.C [
31.B 32.A 33.C 34.D 35.C 36.D 37.B 38.D 39.A 40.C
