第二节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 20 分）
请认真阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A month ago, I broke a nail（指甲）. My other nails looked amazing, but now one was a mess. Clearly, there was no point in keeping the others, so I___16___ to cut them all off.
―What are you doing, Mom?‖ my daughter___17___, ―Your nails look great! Don’t cut them!‖
―But they’re ___18___ ,‖I said, waving the broken one in her face.
―They’re not,‖ she said. ―You ___19___ have nine nails left!‖
I ___20___. My nails certainly weren’t perfect anymore, and the ___21___ of ―perfect‖ is ―disaster‖, right? I mean, this is how I think about most things: it’s all or nothing. I seem to go from ―good‖ to ―complete disaster‖ in a matter of moments. I’ve been ___22___ why I act this way, but I don’t know what causes this ___23___. My brain only ___24___ ―perfect‖ or ―disaster‖.
However, we humans are never just good or bad---we are far more ___25___. We have wins and we have losses and, occasionally, they are hard to ___26___. Some people understand this by nature，while others don't. For most of us, learning not to do the thing we’re used to ___27___ effort and might cause discomfort. However, we should ___28___ ourselves that we sometimes make mistakes, and that this doesn’t mean we are___29___. We need to accept that things will sometimes go___30___.
Somehow, failure is part of life. We all fall___31___, and we normally get straight back up. And so, with my daughter’s words ___32___ in my ears, I decided to keep my nine nice nails. I feel ___33___ every time I look at my hands, but I’m determined to ___34___ my choice. It’s a perfect exercise in ___35___.
16. A. expected B. rejected C. decided D. managed
17. A. complained B. criticized C. commented D. cried
18. A. ruined B. broken C. disturbed D. weakened
19. A. even B. still C. just D. ever
20. A. agreed B. admitted C. refused D. hesitated
21. A. opposite B. concept C. misunderstanding D. comparison
22. A. talking about B. worrying about C. thinking about D. setting about
23. A. mistake B. behavior C. condition D. character
24. A. rejects B. abandons C. compares D. sees
25. A. complex B. elegant C. cautious D. aggressive
26. A. possess B. avoid C. distinguish D. accomplish
27. A. motivates B. requires C. acknowledges D. recommends
28. A. remind B. teach C. promise D. inform
29. A. victims B. failures C. winners D. explorers
30. A. bad B. wild C. crazy D. wrong
31. A. helplessly B. casually C. occasionally D. merely
32. A. sticking B. ringing C. whispering D. beating
33. A. vacant B. shallow C. upset D. skeptical
34. A. live on B. live up to C. live through D. live with
35. A. imperfection B. principle C. assumption D. category
【答案】16. C 17. D 18. A 19. B 20. D 21. A 22. C 23. B 24. D 25. A 26. C 27. B 28. A 29. B 30. D 31. C 32. B 33. C 34. D 35. A
【解析】
请认真阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A month ago, I broke a nail（指甲）. My other nails looked amazing, but now one was a mess. Clearly, there was no point in keeping the others, so I___16___ to cut them all off.
―What are you doing, Mom?‖ my daughter___17___, ―Your nails look great! Don’t cut them!‖
―But they’re ___18___ ,‖I said, waving the broken one in her face.
―They’re not,‖ she said. ―You ___19___ have nine nails left!‖
I ___20___. My nails certainly weren’t perfect anymore, and the ___21___ of ―perfect‖ is ―disaster‖, right? I mean, this is how I think about most things: it’s all or nothing. I seem to go from ―good‖ to ―complete disaster‖ in a matter of moments. I’ve been ___22___ why I act this way, but I don’t know what causes this ___23___. My brain only ___24___ ―perfect‖ or ―disaster‖.
However, we humans are never just good or bad---we are far more ___25___. We have wins and we have losses and, occasionally, they are hard to ___26___. Some people understand this by nature，while others don't. For most of us, learning not to do the thing we’re used to ___27___ effort and might cause discomfort. However, we should ___28___ ourselves that we sometimes make mistakes, and that this doesn’t mean we are___29___. We need to accept that things will sometimes go___30___.
Somehow, failure is part of life. We all fall___31___, and we normally get straight back up. And so, with my daughter’s words ___32___ in my ears, I decided to keep my nine nice nails. I feel ___33___ every time I look at my hands, but I’m determined to ___34___ my choice. It’s a perfect exercise in ___35___.
16. A. expected B. rejected C. decided D. managed
17. A. complained B. criticized C. commented D. cried
18. A. ruined B. broken C. disturbed D. weakened
19. A. even B. still C. just D. ever
20. A. agreed B. admitted C. refused D. hesitated
21. A. opposite B. concept C. misunderstanding D. comparison
22. A. talking about B. worrying about C. thinking about D. setting about
23. A. mistake B. behavior C. condition D. character
24. A. rejects B. abandons C. compares D. sees
25. A. complex B. elegant C. cautious D. aggressive
26. A. possess B. avoid C. distinguish D. accomplish
27. A. motivates B. requires C. acknowledges D. recommends
28. A. remind B. teach C. promise D. inform
29. A. victims B. failures C. winners D. explorers
30. A. bad B. wild C. crazy D. wrong
31. A. helplessly B. casually C. occasionally D. merely
32. A. sticking B. ringing C. whispering D. beating
33. A. vacant B. shallow C. upset D. skeptical
34. A. live on B. live up to C. live through D. live with
35. A. imperfection B. principle C. assumption D. category
【答案】16. C 17. D 18. A 19. B 20. D 21. A 22. C 23. B 24. D 25. A 26. C 27. B 28. A 29. B 30. D 31. C 32. B 33. C 34. D 35. A
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