阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，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。
After years of searching, a truth seeker was told to go to a cave, in which he would find a well. “Ask the well what is
36 , ” he was advised, “and the well reveal (告诉，揭露) it to you.” Having found the well, the seeker asked that most basic and important
37 . And from the depths came the answer: “Go to the village crossroad, and there you shall find what you are seeking.”
Full of
38 the man ran to the crossroad to
39 only three rather uninteresting shops. One shop was selling pieces of metal, another sold
40 , and thin wires were for sale in the third. Nothing and no one there seemed to
41 much to do with the revelation of truth.
Disappointed, the seeker returned to the well to demand an
42 , but he was told only: “You will
43 in the future.”As years went by, the
44 of his experience at the well gradually
45 until one night, while he was walking, the sound of sitar (西塔琴) music
46 his attention. It was wonderful and it was
47 with great skill and inspiration.
Deeply
48 , the truth seeker felt drawn towards the
49 . He looked at the fingers dancing over the strings. And then suddenly he let out a cry of joyful
50 : the sitar was made out of wires and pieces of metal and wood just like
51 he had once seen in the three stores.
At last he understood the
52 of the well: we have already been given everything we need; our
53 is to assemble (聚集) and use them in the proper way. Nothing is
54 so long as we recognize only fragments (碎片). But as soon as the pieces are put together, something new appears, whose nature we could not have
55 by considering the fragments alone.
| 小题1: | | A．truth | B．hope | C．future | D．music |
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| 小题2: | | A．fact | B．reason | C．question | D．well |
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| 小题3: | | A．energy | B．hope | C．mystery | D．surprise |
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| 小题5: | | A．instruments | B．clothing | C．food | D．wood |
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| 小题6: | | A．connect | B．have | C．prepare | D．offer |
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| 小题7: | | A．explanation | B．advice | C．excuse | D．opportunity |
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| 小题8: | | A．succeed | B．discover | C．pay | D．understand |
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| 小题9: | | A．bitterness | B．failure | C．memory | D．secret |
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| 小题10: | | A．doubled | B．forgot | C．disappeared | D．recovered |
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| 小题11: | | A．paid | B．lost | C．split | D．caught |
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| 小题12: | | A．played | B．broadcast | C．enjoyed | D．conducted |
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| 小题13: | | A．annoyed | B．moved | C．confused | D．frightened |
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| 小题14: | | A．adviser | B．director | C．composer | D．player |
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| 小题15: | | A．admiration | B．distinction | C．recognition | D．imagination |
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| 小题17: | | A．secret | B．message | C．theory | D．benefit |
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| 小题18: | | A．target | B．difficulty | C．task | D．shortcoming |
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| 小题19: | | A．interesting | B．meaningful | C．accessible | D．successful |
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| 小题20: | | A．foreseen(预见) | B．decided | C．judged | D．formed |
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