第二节完形填空（每题1.5分,共30分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选

问题：

第二节 完形填空（每题1.5分,共30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 

The day was Thankful Thursday. It’s a 36 tradition that my two little girls and I began years ago. Thursday has become our day to go out and make a positive 37 .

My girls shouted “McDonald’s, McDonald’s” as we 38 along a busy Houston road. Suddenly I 39 that almost every crossing I passed through was 40 by a panhandler(乞丐). And then it hit me! All these panhandlers must be hungry, too. Perfect! After we ate, I ordered a(an) 41fifteen lunches and we set out to deliver them. We would pull 42 a panhandler, make a contribution, and tell him or her that we hoped things got better. Then we’d say, “Oh, 43 …here’s lunch.”

We handed our final contribution to a small woman and then immediately 44 back in the opposite direction for home. 45 , the light caught us again and we were stopped at the same crossing where this small woman stood. I was 46 and didn’t know quite how to behave.  

She made her way to our car, “No one has ever done47 like this for me before,” she said with 48 . Feeling uneasy, and wanting to move the conversation along, I asked, “ So, 49 do you think you’ll eat your lunch?”  

She just looked at me with her huge, tired brown eyes and said, “Oh honey, I’m not going to eat this lunch.” I was 50 ,but before I could say anything, she continued, “You see, I have a little girl and she 51  loves McDonald’s, but I don’t have money. But you know what…tonight she is going to have McDonald’s!”

I don’t know if the kids 52 the tears in my eyes. So many times I had questioned whether our acts of kindness were too 53 or insignificant to really effect change. 54 in that moment, I recognized the 55 of Mother Teresa’s words: “We cannot do great things—only small things with great love.”  

36. A. weekly               B. daily             C. monthly                   D. yearly

37. A. decision                     B. choice           C. contribution              D. plan

38. A. walked               B. ran                   C. wandered                 D. drove

39. A. reminded            B. realized             C. understood               D. thought

40. A. crowded             B. occupied           C. discovered                D. laid

41. A. additional           B. expensive      C. cheap                       D. special

42. A. close                  B. together            C. alongside                  D. throughout

43. A. in fact         B. to tell the truth   C. generally speaking     D. by the way

44. A. faced                  B. headed                 C. took                         D. looked

45. A. Unfortunately      B. Luckily             C. Unexpectedly            D. Hopefully

46. A. excited               B. embarrassed       C. frightened            D. annoyed

47. A. something           B. everything     C. anything                   D. nothing

48. A. amazement          B. fear                  C. sorrow                        D. amusement

49. A. what                B. how                  C. where                      D. when

50. A. shocked                     B. confused           C. pleased                     D. worried

51. A. really                 B. even                 C. just                          D. never

52. A. watched                     B. felt                   C. noticed                     D. recognized

53. A. many                  B. small            C. big                          D. simple

54. A. Therefore            B. Although           C. Meanwhile           D. Yet

55. A. promise                     B. oath                  C. truth                    D. Spirit