【正文】 Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I stand over them and watch their little bodies, the rising and falling of life within. I often pray for them. Mostly I pray that their lives will be__36__. But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s time to _37__ my prayer, because life is __38__, whether we want it to be or not. Too many times we pray for ease, but that’s what we seldom __39__. What we need to do is to pray for roots that reach deep into the earth, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won’t be_40__. 21. A. smiled B. shouted C. looked D. kicked 22. A. cold B. lonely C. mild（溫和的） D. careful 23. A. money B. lives C. flowers D. energy 24. A. goal B. way C. attitude D. theory 25. A. regularly B. sometimes C. never D. always 26. A. remove B. benefit C. drown D. spoil 27. A. if B. unless C. although D. since 28. A. kind B. group C. rank D. generation 29. A. rough B. free C. available D. poisonous 30. A. protected B. tied C. beat D. wrapped 31. A. anger B. defence C. shade D. death 32. A. More or less B. Now and again C. Sooner or later D. Here and there 33. A. thin B. dying C. ripe D. strong 34. A. benefit B. harm C. affect D. change 35. A. cure B. danger C. fort D. difficulty 36. A. interesting B. colorful C. easy D. hopeful 37. A. strengthen B. change C. repeat D. realize 38. A. tough B. helpless C. various D. valuable 39. A. seek B. prove C. share D. meet 40. A. challenged B. defeated C. missed D. fotten 第二節(jié)： 語法填空（共 10 小題；每小題 分，滿分 15 分） 閱讀下面短文，按照句子結(jié)構(gòu)的語法性和上下文連貫的要求，在空格處填入適當?shù)膬?nèi)容（ 1個單詞）或使用括號中詞語的正確形式填空。 it gives us the nourishment ( 營養(yǎng) ) we need to stay alive and be healthy. __16_ Brian Wansink, a professor at the University of Illinois, says we also eat certain foods because they make us feel good, and remind us of happy memories. Wansink calls this kind of food fort food. For some people, ice cream is a fort food. For others, a bowl of noodles makes them feel good. __17__ Professor Wansink believes that we connect food with important times, feelings, and people in our lives, “When I was a child, my mother made a delicious soup。, as if they have just e out of the hospital or a lost law came. “An article about the newspaper appeared on the website of the Guardian, under the headline “NOT DEAD YET.” Perhaps not, but the rise of the Inter, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and out of step with the world, has brought about a real sense of death. Some American newspapers have lost 42% of their market value in the past thee years. The New York Times Company has seen its stock （股票） drop by 54% since the end of 2020, with much of the loss ing in the past year. A manager at Deutsche Bank suggested that stockholders sell off their Times stock. The Washington Post Comply has prevented the trouble only by changing part of its business to education: its testing and testpreparation service now brings in at least half the pany’s ine. 12. What can we learn about the New England Curran? A. It is mainly about the stock mar