Passage 2   (江苏省盐城中学2007届高三第三次模拟考试)  完形填空

When Nancy Lublin got $ 5,000 from her great-grandfather, she never once considered taking a vacation or paying off student loans. __36__, the 24-year-old New York University law student began thinking about the clothing __37__ faced by most of today's low-income women: "If she goes for a job interview __38__ dressed, she won't get the job," Lublin says. "But without a job, she can't __39__ proper clothing."

A few weeks later, Lublin __40__ Dress for Success and began searching for clothing and volunteers. She asked women to give away __41__ business clothes that were  __42__ in good condition. She asked the members of diet centers to give away clothes that no longer fit. At first Lublin __43__ the clothes in her one-bedroom apartment, but finally she found __44__ in Greenwich Village church basement, which now __45__ as the organization's main office.    

Today, when women arrive at the office for help with job-hunting, they __46__ a dress, shoes, a bag, stockings and jewelry, and self-confidence as well. Some are trying to enter the work __47__ after being on welfare for years.

__48__ Dress for Success fitted its first person who got help a year ago, more than 1,000 women have received dresses and many have won __49__. Yarit Polanco was recently __50__ as a law-firm office manager. "Thanks to Dress for Success, I made a good impression and was accepted," she says.    

Donations are now __51__ in, including jewelry and 6,000 pairs of trousers and $ 40,000 worth of handbags. Broadcast journalists have given suits. And Lublin is opening Dress for Success __52__ in other cities. "Many women have clothes __53__ around that they'll never wear again," says a volunteer. "Nancy's __54__ is simple and practical and the __55__ has proved so important to those women who are in great need of it."

36．A．Anyway     B．Instead       C．Fortunately      D．Meanwhile

37．A．condition   B．direction      C．design           D．plan

38．A．poorly     B．well          C．better           D．worse

39．A．make       B．find          C．wear           D．afford

40．A．reached    B．called        C．founded          D．visited

41．A．used       B．needed        C．new            D．torn

42．A．yet        B．already       C．almost           D．still

43．A．hid        B．stored        C．discovered       D．hanged

44．A．space      B．employers     C．work             D．office

45．A．regards    B．serves        C．looks            D．lies

46．A．buy        B．sell          C．receive          D．watch

47．A．office      B．victory       C．wealth           D．force

48．A．When       B．Once        C．Although         D．Since

49．A．jobs       B．shoes         C．business         D．prizes

50．A．fired      B．hired         C．interviewed       D．considered

51．A．giving     B．pouring       C．showing          D．sending

52．A．schools    B．trades        C．races            D．branches

53．A．lying      B．appearing     C．collecting       D．coming

54．A．promise    B．belief        C．idea             D．opinion

55．A．help       B．work          C．shop             D．money

答案  36.D   37.A  38.A  39.D  40.C  41.A  42.D  43.B  44.A  45.B  46.C  47.D  48.D  49.A  50.B  51.B  52.D  53.DA  54.C  55.A