- 1 -南昌市 2014 高考英语完形填空训练（13）及答案或解析完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 20 分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的（A、B、C 和 D）四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Around twenty years ago，I was going through hard timesI could not find 36 work and I found this especially difficult as I had a lot of experience and a Master degree in a certain 37 To my 38 I was driving a school bus to make ends meet and living with friends as I had lost my 39 I had been through five 40 with a company and one day they called to say I didnt get the jobMy 41 was really hard to bearLater that afternoon，while doing my rounds through a quiet suburban neighborhood I had an inner 42 like a scream-arise from deep inside me， “Why has my life become so 43 ?”Immediately after this internal scream I was 44 the bus over to drop off a little girl when she 45 me an earring，saying I should keep it in case somebody claimed itThe earring was 46 metal，saying “BE HAPPY” At first I got angry-yeah，yeah，I thoughtThen it 47 meI had been putting all of my 48 into what was wrong with my life rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a 49 of 50 things I appreciatedIt was hard in the beginning，and then it got easierOne day I decided to increase it up to 75That night there was a 50 from a manager at a large hospital since I had once 51 for a job to teach a course on stress managementShe asked me if I would do a one-day seminar(研讨会)for 200 hospital workersI said yes and got the 52 My day with the hospital workers went very well I got a standing welcome and many more days of workTo this day I know that it was because I changed my 53 to gratitude(感恩)I spent the next year conducting training workshop all around the Seattle - 2 -area and decided to 54 everything“The only attitude is gratitude” has been my motto for years now and yes，it completely 55 my life36Aimportant Btemporary Cinteresting Dsatisfying37Acollege Bfield Cposition Dsituation38Ajoy Banger Cshame Dsurprise39Aapartment Bfortune Cconnection Dconfidence40Aprograms Bactivities Cinterviews Dtasks41Apressure Bloneliness Cfear Ddisappointment42Acalm Bstrength Cbalance Dwave43Aspecial Bhard Cunique Dstable44Afixing Bpushing Cpulling Dwatching45Ashowed Bbought Csent Dhanded46Adestroyed Bshaped Ccoated Dstamped47Ainspired Bimpressed Chit Damazed48Asavings Benergies Cchances Dpolicies49Ajoke Bcorrection Csuggestion Dlist50Apromise Bcall Cspeech Ddemand51Aapplied Breached Ccared Dpaid52Awage Binstruction Csympathy Djob53Abehavior Bmethod Cattitude Dreply54Atolerate Bevaluate Caccept Drisk55Achanged Bsaved Cdisturbed Dcreated参考答案3640 DBCAC 4145 DDBCD 4650 DCBD 5155 ADCDA*结束- 3 -Passage *I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large 36 across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-age children. At the end of the day, he would 37 his taxi on the road. I 38 why he did not park it in the garage. Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home from 39 , leave his taxi and go out for his 40 affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was 41 . I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I 42 to be outside one evening two weeks 43 , when the garage door was 44 and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce （劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely 45 I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But 46 inside, he saw himself as something else: A Rolls-Royce owner and a （an） 47 . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and 48 him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove or a （an） 49 . We go to bed every night and wake up every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a 50 as close friends or go for a vacation as a 51 . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we 52 the social ladderhow much bigger and better a 53 we have. And we 54 our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on 55 we are than what we do! 36. A. window B. garage C. door D. yard 37. A. park B. stop C. check D. repair 38. A. knew B. understood C. aske