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完形填空“I never expected that I would be so busy. Why can’t there be 25 hours a day?” complained Liu Ran in Hong Kong as final exams were going on.The 18-year-old girl was Fujian Province’s ______ scorer in last year’s college entrance examination. After leaving school, she chose the Chinese University of Hong Kong ______ both Peking University and Tsinghua University promised her a place.“I want to experience a more international school and social life in Hong Kong. I’m _______ in journalism, so Hong Kong will surely help widen my horizons,” Liu said.It is about four months since Liu Ran set _______ on Hong Kong. She missed home a lot at beginning, because of the food and _______ problems.“ The canteen offers mostly Western or Guangdong food, but it’s convenient to cook for ourselves in our dorm if we like. People speak Cantonese and almost all classes are in English.” Liu explained.Her English and Cantonese are now improving, but she still needs more _______ to adapt to the new environment.“I’m happy that I made the right _______ to study here. With a mix of the Eastern and Western _______, there is so much to discover and learn,” she said.Keys: 1. top/highest 2. though/although 3. majoring/interested 4. foot 5. language 6. time 7. choice/decision 8. culturesA college professor had his sociology calss go into the poor areas of Baltimore to do research _______ 200 boys. The students in the sociology class were asked to write a predicition of each boy’s future. In every case the students wrote, “ He hasn’t got a chance.” Twenty-five years _____ another sociology professor came across the earlier study. He had his students follow up on the project to see what had ____ to these days.With the exception of 20 boys who had moved away or died, the students learned that 176 of the remaining 180 had achieved more than ordinary success as lawyers, doctors and businessmen.The professor was surprised and decided to ______ into the matter further. Fortunately, all the men were in the area and he was able to ask each one, “ How do you _______ for your success?’ In each case the reply came with feeling, “ There was a teacher.”The teacher was still alive, so he sought her out and asked the old lady _______ magic she had used to make these boys achieve success.The teacher’s ________ sparkled and her lips broke into a gentle smile. “It’s really very ______ ,” she said, “I loved those boys.”Keys: 1. on 2.later 3. happened 4. look 5. account 6.what 7.eyes 8. simple An American soldier called his parents from San Francisco after a war. “ Mom and Dad, I’m coming home, but I’ve got a favor to ask. I have a friend I’d like to bring _______ me.’ “Sure,” they replied. “ we’d love to meet him.” “There’s something you should know,” the son continued. “ he was hurt pretty ______ in the fighting. He stepped on a land mine _______ lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come and live with us.” “I’m sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find _______ to live.” “No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us.” “ Son,” said the father, “ Somene like him would be a terrible burden on us. Just come home and forget about this guy. He will find a way to live on his _______.” At that point , the son hung up the ________ . A few days later, the parents received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building, _______ the police believed was suicide. They went and recognized him, but ________ their horror, they also discovered something they didn’t expect: their son had only one arm and one leg. Key: 1. with 2. badly 3. and 4. somewhere 5. own 6. phone/telephone 7. which 8. to One morning, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building _______ a hat next to his feet. He held a sign which said, “ I am blind. Please help me.”There were only a few coins in the hat, but a man walking by took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. Soon the hat begam to fill up. That afternoon the man came to see _______ things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked. “ Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?”The man said, “ I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way.”What he had written was, “today is a beautiful day, but I cannot ______ it.”Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the _______ thing?Of course _______ signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, _______ the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign told people 。