完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
On the day before the bass（鲈鱼）season opened, he and his father were fishing early in the evening.
When his pole
1 he knew something huge was on the other end. His father watched with
2 as the boy skillfully worked the fish alongside the dock.
3 , he very cautiously lifted the
4 fish from the water. It was the largest one he had ever seen,
5 it was a bass.
The boy and his father looked at the handsome fish, gills（鱼鳃）playing back and forth in the moonlight. The father
6 a match and looked at his watch. It was 10 P.M.——two hours
7 the season opened. He looked at the fish, then at the boy. “You’ll have to put it back, son,” he said.
“Dad！”
8 the boy.
“There will be other fish,” said his father.
“Not as big as this one,” cried the boy again.
He looked around the lake. No other fishermen or boats were anywhere
9 in the moonlight. He looked again at his father.
10 no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time he caught the fish, the boy could
11 from his father’s voice that the decision was not changed. He slowly
12 the hook out of the lip of the huge bass and lowered it into the
13 water. The boy suspected that he would never again see such a great fish.
That was 34 years ago. Today, the boy is a successful architect in New York City. And he was
14 . He has never again caught such a magnificent fish as the one he caught that night long ago. But he does see that same fish—— again and again——every time he
15 a question of ethics(道德).
For his father taught him, ethics are simple
16 of right and wrong. It is only the
17 of ethics that is difficult. Do we do right when no one is looking？We would if we were taught to put the fish back when we were young. For we would have learned the
18 . The decision to do right lives fresh and fragrant in our
19 . It is a
20 we will proudly tell our friends and grandchildren.
| 小题1: | | A．broke down | B．bent over | C．turned up | D．turned out |
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| 小题2: | | A．desire | B．fear | C．admiration | D．love |
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| 小题3: | | A．In the beginning | B．Finally | C．Besides | D．All in all |
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| 小题4: | | A．delighted | B．frustrated | C．frightened | D．exhausted |
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| 小题5: | | A．but | B．however | C．and | D．while |
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| 小题6: | | A．won | B．beat | C．struck | D．picked |
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| 小题7: | | A．after | B．until | C．when | D．before |
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| 小题8: | | A．yelled | B．shouted | C．said | D．cried |
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| 小题9: | | A．around | B．front | C．back | D．right |
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| 小题10: | | A．Ever since | B．Even though | C．In case | D．Now that |
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| 小题12: | | A．worked | B．loosed | C．looked | D．attached |
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| 小题13: | | A．shallow | B．black | C．low | D．white |
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| 小题14: | | A．content | B．wrong | C．right | D．pleased |
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| 小题15: | | A．come up with | B．gets on with | C．meets with | D．catches us with |
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| 小题16: | | A．matters | B．events | C．questions | D．things |
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| 小题17: | | A．meaning | B．understanding | C．practice | D．point |
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| 小题18: | | A．fact | B．truth | C．faith | D．incident |
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| 小题19: | | A．mind | B．heart | C．memory | D．brain |
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| 小题20: | | A．lesson | B．story | C．concept | D．standard |
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