完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
One day in summer I stepped into a tiny coffee shop to drink a cup of black coffee. As I entered, I found a very old woman bent
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a table near the door. Her back was so
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twisted(弯曲) by some sadness that her face nearly
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the table-top. I sat down facing her two tables away.
"Poor woman," I thought. "What does she
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life? Why does God let people live so 小题5:
past their prime(黄金时期)?"
As I thought,
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aged lady entered the shop and sat down with her. Soon the two of them were talking about
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. They talked of how little the shop had
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in 70 years... In minutes the two of them were
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with laughter.
I looked again at the
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woman, then in the mirror on a nearby wall,
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a picture of myself.
I was wearing a dirty shirt. She was well dressed in white, gold rings on her fingers.
I was in
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spirits. She was laughing, smiling.
I was putting the
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of my life together. She had millions of wonderful
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to recall.
She was
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the day with a good friend. I was
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worried about getting old. She was old but it wasn't
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her.
As
I left the shop, I thought of my
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questions about God letting people live past their prime. Why, that woman was more
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and more sensitive than I was.
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has not bent her spirit. But I am always filling my mind with something unpleasant.
| 小题21: | | A．to | B．on | C．over | D．toward |
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| 小题22: | | A．heavily | B．badly | C．slightly | D．hardly |
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| 小题23: | | A．struck | B．reached | C．stuck | D．touched |
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| 小题24: | | A．get out of | B．get off | C．get away with | D．get into |
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| 小题25: | | A．hard | B．long | C．slowly | D．rapidly |
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| 小题26: | | A．other | B．the very | C．another | D．a certain |
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| 小题27: | | A．bright future | B．recent history | C．the present day | D．childhood days |
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| 小题28: | | A．changed | B．improved | C．rebuilt | D．developed |
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| 小题29: | | A．jumping | B．trembling | C．burning | D．running |
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| 小题30: | | A．older | B．poor | C．first | D．younger |
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| 小题31: | | A．watching | B．taking | C．searching | D．catching |
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| 小题33: | | A．dreams | B．pages | C．pieces | D．hopes |
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| 小题34: | | A．affairs | B．sufferings | C．incidents | D．memories |
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| 小题35: | | A．spending | B．enjoying | C．sharing | D．wasting |
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| 小题36: | | A．certainly | B．completely | C．naturally | D．secretly |
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| 小题37: | | A．hurting | B．choking | C．defeating | D．beating |
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| 小题38: | | A．funny | B．foolish | C．serious | D．curious |
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| 小题39: | | A．alive | B．strong | C．useful | D．powerful |
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| 小题40: | | A．Wealth | B．Life | C．Time | D．Age |
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