Ⅲ.完形填空

　　(2012·江西臨川一中下學期期中)

　　The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. —Eleanor Roosevelt

　　My home is a place of great beauty and agricultural richness, as well as of war and natural disasters. When I was only fourteen years old, I was filled with __1__ in spite of the terrible surroundings. The families living here, who tried to make their living from the land, __2__ great losses.

　　For the __3__ I felt sorry especially, but I __4__ to be hopeless. I decided that where I was，I could do __5__ to help them. I began knocking on every door and saying to each person who __6__ my knock，“I know that you are __7__ and give the birds that come to your yard a little __8__. Please consider me your bird. Give me only a handful of rice each week when I come to your __9__. I will take it to the temple where it can be given to the __10__ children.”

　　No one seemed to __11__ giving me a handful of rice, even __12__ they had little themselves. On Sunday, I would go to the __13__ and give my handfuls of rice to the monks to __14__ to the children.

　　One day，I came to a house that had __15__ to give. I told my story and asked if I could be their bird. The woman called her daughters, and __16__ gave me fifty cents, as well as the handful of rice! I began to ask for __17__ and rice from the other “bird feeders”， and they gave them to me. Everyone was happy to be helping those who were suffering, even __18__ only this small way. The temple was soon able to help everyone who came to it for food and clothing.

　　“Consider me your bird.” My __19__ idea had not stopped the war, but anyway, it was __20__ some peace.

　　1.A.sorrow B.hope

　　C.comfort D.happiness

　　答案：B　盡管環(huán)境惡劣，但我充滿了希望。

　　2.A.suffered B.survived

　　C.covered D.made

　　答案：A　suffer losses“遭受損失”。

　　3.A.farmers B.citizens

　　C.villagers D.children

　　答案：D　本句意：對于孩子們，我特別難過。

　　4.A.wanted B.failed

　　C.refused D.stopped

　　答案：C　承接上文，“但我拒絕失望”;refuse to do... “拒絕做……”。

　　5.A.something B.everything

　　C.anything D.nothing

　　答案：A　我能做些什么來幫助他們。