第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面两篇短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college, I was working as an intern（实习生） at my University’s Museum of Natural History. One day while working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an old couple come in with a little girl   36   a wheelchair.
As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was almost   37  on her chair. I then   38    she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and   39  body. She was wearing a little white dress with red dots. As the couple   40  her up to me I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink（眨眼）. As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the cutest, largest smile I have ever seen. 
All of a sudden her  41  was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just    42    me and almost instantly gave me a completely new   43   of what life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her world:　a world of   44  , love and   45  .　
That was ten years ago. I’m a successful business person now and   46   I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable（非凡的）lesson about life that she  47  me.　

36. A. in   B. on  C.up  D.over
37. A. lain B. remained C. set D. thrown
38. A. struck B. hit C. realized D. understood
39. A. top B. upper C. bottom D. lower
40. A. dragged B. headed C. wheeled D. approached
41. A. strength B. advantage C. disability D. happiness
42. A. affected B. infected C. melted D. frightened
43. A. command B. sense C. understand D. control
44. A. smiles B. laughters C. tears D. sweat
45. A. sorrow B. excitement C. warmth D. indifference
46. A. whenever B. whatever C. however D. whichever
47. A.offered B. taught C. gained D. drew

B
 One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault.It's like looking at the tiled (铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is__48__.
     Once I heard a bald man said, "Whenever I enter a room, all I see is hair." Once you've __49__what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will completely make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different __50__,or forget about it and __51__the tiles in your life that are not missing.
     We all know people who have had a relatively __52__ life, yet are essentially unhappy while people who have suffered a great deal but generally remain happy.
     The first secret is gratitude. All happy people are __53__. Ungrateful people cannot be happy.The second is __54__that happiness is a byproduct of something else. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are likely to experience.Finally,if you choose to find the  __55__in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As for happiness itself, this largely depends on your decision to make.

48. A. different  B. missing   C. short D. broken    
49. A. determined  B. predicted   C. assumed   D. imagined  
50. A. tile B. brick    C. ceiling   D. house     
51. A. look on B. focus on C. count on D. rely on
52. A. peaceful  B. difficult  C. easy   D. ordinary
53. A. wealthy B. grateful C. proud D. generous
54. A. admitting B. dividing C. proving D. realizing
55. A. worst B. best   C. positive  D. negative
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