第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，

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第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项.

I have eyes that are said to be “cow brown,” and my long fair hair is my best feature .Iam not overweight, but I’m not too  16  either.

I’m relatively happy with my   17  ,but where did I get it? Do I share the same features as some unknown stranger?   18  , while walking down the street, I tried to  19  that stranger, imagining that one of the women I passed  20  possibly be my biological mother.

For a long time I wondered what life would be like with  21  . I was never  22  with my life. I just never  23  wondering what it would be like to have been raised by my biological mother. And then one day, I   24  a poem which compared adoption  25  a seed that was planted by one person and then taken care of by another. The second person had   26  the seed and made it grow to be tall and beautiful. I found that it compared perfectly to my  27  .

Gradually I   28  that my mom had made me who I am today. She did my hair for my first dance. She was there for my first hearbreak… She’d been there for  29  that ever mattered. And I started to notice that we had the same silly  30  , the same attitude to life, and the same way of treating people.

Sometimes when we’re out somewhere, people comment on   31  we look  alike, and we turn to each other and laugh,   32  until that moment that she wasn’t the one who gave birth to me.

33  I may not know why I look the way I do, I know why I am who I am. The mom I have now is the   34  one I ever could have hoped for, not only because she holds a huge amount of unconditional（无条件的）love, but because she has  35  who I am today.

16．A．thin   B．fat     C．strong       D．weak

17．A．eyes  B．appearance       C．weight      D．hair

18．A．Still  B．Even C．Again       D．Often

19．A．run after   B．pick out    C．bring back       D．turn down

20．A．should      B．would       C．could D．must

21．A．the biologist            B．my adoptive mother

C．The stranger            D．my birth mother

22．A．dissatisfied       B．content     C．angry       D．pleased

23．A．enjoyed    B．stopped     C．escaped     D．allowed

24．A．wrote down     B．put up      C．handed out       D．came across

25．A．with  B．for    C．to      D．as

26．A．buried      B．harvested  C．planted     D．watered

27．A．thought    B．seed  C．situation   D．history

28．A．realized    B．guessed     C．hated D．expected

29．A．something B．everything       C．everyone   D．someone

30．A．problem   B．illness       C．adoption   D．personality

31．A．how much       B．how far    C．where       D．why

32．A．proving    B．noticing    C．forgetting D．remembering

33．A．As    B．Unless      C．Though     D．Until

34．A．happiest    B．best   C．prettiest    D．wisest

35．A．saved       B．regretted   C．shaped      D．declared