三、完形填空：阅读下面短文，掌握大意。从每题所给的四个选项中。选择一个最佳答案，并将所选答案的字母写在题前括号内。(每小题1分，共20分)

A

Two brothers worked together on a farm.  One was married and had a large  36  . The other had no wife yet. Although they lived in different houses, they shared everything they got from their farm.

One day, the single brother said to himself, "It's not   37  that we share all the rice. I'm   38  and I need less than my brother. " So, every night he took a bag of rice from his store-room and   39   across the field   40   their houses, putting it into his brother's store-room.

At the same time, the married brother thought, "It's not fair to share all the rice. I'm married and I have my wife and children to    41   me when I am    42_. However, my brother has no one to take care of his   43  " So, each night he also took a bag of rice and put it into his brother's store-room.

Several months passed by. They found   44  strange that their rice never became less. Then, one dark night the two brothers ran into each other. Slowly they began to understand what was happening. Their bags fell onto the ground and tears   45  their eyes at once.

(     )36. A. group.          B. family          C. class            D. team

(     )37. A. right            B. popular          C. interesting      D. wrong

(     )38. A. poor            B. happy           C. alone            D. rich

(     )39. A. jumped         B. played           C. went            D. rode

(     )40. A. from           B. through         C. off              D. between

(     )41. A. look after       B. look for         C. look out        D. look at

(     )42. A. worried         B. old              C. healthy         D. dead

(     )43. A. hope            B. children         C. farm           D. future

(    )44. A. them           B. this                C. it              D. that

(     )45. A. appeared        B. filled            C. dropped         D. rose

B

When I was about 12, a girl in my class liked to point out my problems. I was too thin; I wasn't a good student; I talked too much, I was too   46  , and so on. At last, I became very angry and ran to my father.

He listened to me   47   . Then he asked, "Are these things true or not? Do you know what you are really like? Go and make a   48   of what she said and find the   49  that are true."

I did as he told me. To my great   50  , I discovered that about half of the things were true. Some of them I couldn't change (like being very thin). But there were things I could and wanted to change. For the   51   time, I got a clear   52   of myself.

I brought the list back to Dad. He refused to take it. "That's just for you. " he said, "You know the truth about   53   better than anyone else.  When people say something that is true about you, you should find it helpful. "

Our world is full of people who think they know your business. Don't   54  your ears and feel   55  . Listen to them.

(    )46. A. beautiful       B. proud            C. smart            D. rich

(    ) 47. A. bravely        B. happily           C. quickly          D. quietly

(     )48. A. joke            B. programme    C. list                D. record

(     )49. A. secrets        B. mistakes        C. lessons         D. points

(    ) 50. A. surprise       B. interest         C. opinion          D. fact

(    )51. A. first              B. second          C. next             D. last

(     )52. A. book           B. picture          C. drawing          D. notice

(     )53. A. yourselves   B. myself           C, herself           D. yourself

(     )54. A. clean           B. open             C. close             D. wash

(    )55. A. hurt             B. safe              C. pretty            D. cheap