B

　　Since I was 12 years old, I've suffered from a condition called Compulsive Hair Pulling(強迫性拔毛癖). The physical destruction was severe, but the emotional __1__ was worse. When I was young, no one, __2__ my doctor, knew how to help me. I was alone.

　　Growing up, I didn't __3__ anywhere and I suffered great shame knowing I'd brought this __4__ upon myself. My hands seemed to have a __5__ of their own. “What's wrong with me?” I'd often wonder. Sometimes, people asked about my __6__ of eyelashes(睫毛) and eyebrows. I was lonely, but I kept people at a distance. However, each night, __7__ I fell asleep, I'd pray to God to send someone who __8__.

　　Then when I was 25, I read a letter from a mom whose child suffered from the same illness. I could __9__ believe my eyes. After all these years, I discovered, I was not __10__ .

　　At that moment, my journey for __11__ began. I took small __12__ at first-telling only a few friends. Some of them tried to understand. Then, they began to __13__ their secrets with me. I learned to see __14__ the way God saw me, someone __15__ love.

　　One day, my __16__ happened. A friend called with wonderful news. She just met a woman with Compulsive Hair Pulling-someone just like me. She gave me her phone number. I was __17__. I quickly dialed, and from the minute Christina answered, we began to chat like old friends, both thrilled to find someone who understood our pain. We __18__ to meet soon, only to find we lived just two blocks away. We immediately __19__ our phones, and in the dark of night, ran outside to the nearby park in our pajamas, __20__ we hugged, cried and talked for hours, l felt I'd just met my long lost twin, someone who understood my pain and struggles.

　　Yes, it was true. I was not alone.

　　1. A. conflict B. threat

　　C. damage D. puzzle

　　2. A. including B. except

　　C. beyond D. but

　　3. A. belong to B. fit in

　　C. come up D. fall over

　　4. A. shyness B. pain

　　C. anger D. tiredness

　　5. A. decision B. solution

　　C. mind D. conclusion

　　6. A. color B. shape

　　C. recovery D. lack

　　7. A. after B. before

　　C. if D. though

　　8. A. understood B. missed

　　C. thought D. listened

　　9. A. never B. hardly

　　C. seldom D. rarely

　　10. A. ill B. weak

　　C. sad D. alone

　　11. A. healing B. praying

　　C. searching D. longing

　　12. A. efforts B. suggestions

　　C. steps D. walks

　　13. A. share B. betray

　　C. sell D. keep

　　14.A. them B. everyone

　　C. anyone D. myself

　　15.A. wasting B. deserving

　　C. giving D. refusing

　　16.A. illness B. symptom

　　C. prediction D. miracle

　　17.A. peaceful B. surprised

　　C. overjoyed D. cold

　　18.A. went B. ran

　　C. planned D. imagined

　　19.A. dialed B. exchanged

　　C. fell D. dropped

　　20.A. where B. when

　　C. how D. why

　　【語篇解讀】　“我”在12歲的時候得了一種“強迫性拔毛癖”的怪病，覺得自己既孤單又自卑。在“我”25歲時，當“我”得知有人和“我”一樣患有這種病的時候，“我”覺得自己并不孤單并開始治療。

　　1.解析：下文表示“我”年輕的時候，沒有人知道怎么幫助“我”，故此處指“我”身體上受到的傷害很嚴重，心理上的傷害更為嚴重。此處和前面的“destruction”應是同義詞，故選C項。conflict“沖突”;threat“威脅”;puzzle“困惑”。

　　答案：C

　　2.解析：根據(jù)空格前面的“no one”可知，包括“我”的醫(yī)生在內(nèi)沒有人知道怎么幫助“我”，故選A項。except“除了”;beyond“超出……的范圍”;but“除……以外”。

　　答案：A

　　3.解析：根據(jù)空格后面的“I suffered great shame”可知，長大后，“我”任何地方都適應不了。fit in“適應”，符合語境。belong to“屬于”;come up“出現(xiàn)”;fall over“倒下”。

　　答案：B

　　4.解析：這樣的痛苦(pain)是“我”自作自受，故選B項。bring sth. upon oneself表示“自作自受”。

　　答案：B

　　5.解析：根據(jù)上文提到的強迫性拔毛癖這種疾病可知，此處表示，“我”的手看起來好像有自己的思想，故選C項。

　　答案：C

　　6.解析：根據(jù)強迫性拔毛癖的癥狀可知，人們會問“我”缺少的睫毛和眉毛，故選D項。color“顏色”;shape“形狀”;recovery“恢復”;lack“缺乏”。

　　答案：D

　　7.解析：根據(jù)生活常識可知應是在睡覺之前(before)祈禱，故選B項。

　　答案：B

　　8.解析：根據(jù)上下文的內(nèi)容可知，“我”覺得自己非常孤單，故這里是在祈禱上帝能送給“我”一個理解“我”的人。understand“理解”;miss“錯過”;think“想”;listen“聽”。

　　答案：A

　　9.解析：“我”覺得自己很孤單，認為不幸的人只有“我”一個人，所以當看到這封信，得知有人和“我”患有一樣的疾病的時候，“我”幾乎不能相信自己的眼睛，故選B項。never“從不”;hardly“幾乎不”;seldom“很少”;rarely“很少”。

　　答案：B

　　10.解析：經(jīng)過了這些年，“我”發(fā)現(xiàn)自己并不孤單，最后一段中的“I was not alone”也是提示。故選D項。

　　答案：D

　　11.解析：“我”開始治病了，故選A項。heal“醫(yī)治”，符合語境。

　　答案：A

　　12.解析：根據(jù)空格后面的“telling only a few friends”可知，開始的時候，“我”采取了一些小措施，故選C項。

　　答案：C

　　13.解析：在“我”告訴他們“我”的疾病之后，他們開始和“我”分享他們的秘密，故選A項。

　　答案：A

　　14.解析：“我”學著用上帝看待“我”的方式來看待“我”自己——“我”是一個值得被愛的人。故選D項。

　　答案：D

　　15.解析：參見上題解析。deserve表示“應得，應受到”。

　　答案：B

　　16.解析：有一天，奇跡發(fā)生了，故選D項。illness“疾病”;symptom“癥狀”;prediction“預測”;miracle“奇跡”。

　　答案：D

　　17.解析：根據(jù)上下文內(nèi)容可知，“我”此時非常開心，故選C項。peaceful“和平的，平靜的”;surprised“驚奇的”;overjoyed“極為高興的，十分開心的”;cold“寒冷的”。

　　答案：C

　　18.解析：我們打算盡快見面，故選C項。

　　答案：C

　　19.解析：根據(jù)前文中的“I quickly dialed...”和后文中的“and in the dark of night, ran outside to the nearby park in our pajamas”可知，此處指我們放下了電話，出來見面了，故選D項。dial“打電話”;exchange“交換”;fall“跌落”;drop“放下”。

　　答案：D

　　20.解析：空處引導了一個定語從句，先行詞是“the nearby park”，空處所填詞在從句中作地點狀語，故用where引導該定語從句。

　　答案：A