【正文】 preciate the challenges in life, you will find inner strength. A. When B. While D. Unless C. Before 27. Do you like the mobile game Traveling Frog? Yes, the posts about the virtual green frog over 4 million times. A. have read B. have been read C. would be read D. are reading 28. The world’s leading thinkers and policymakers examine what’s e apart in the past year, and what will define the year ahead, A. evaluate B. innovate C. anticipate D. regulate 29. A problem has occurred we should develop innovative thinking abilities in the classrooms by giving students opportunities to generate new ideas. A. what B. where C. whether D. that 30. Although values may be ____, it’s helpful to shar e them with your partner for additional support. A. terminal B. personal C. crucial D. practical 31. There a slight decrease in his weight but he eats too much. A. was B. could have been C. had been D. could be 32. We really emphasize the importance of putting______safeguards to prevent children’s identities from falling in wrong people’s hands . A. in place B. in vain C. in question D. in earnest 33. Could you pass me the sugar, please? OK, ____ A. never mind B. sounds great C. here you go D. there it is 34. We won’t think of human clones and any reason to suggest that we are closer to producing them today than we were yesterday. A. neither there is B. neither there was C. nor is there D. nor was there 35. I feel caught between experience and jobs after graduation. It’s really_________ — without experience you can’t get a job and without a job you can’t get experience . A. a catch22 B. a Herculean task C. a sacred cow D. a Mickey Mouse course 第二節(jié) : 完形填空 (共 20 小題 。 Like many perfectionists, I truly believed that selfsufficiency was a virtue. And 36 my brain was so good at finding what it was looking for, I noticed every single time that idea got proved 37, and so I always had lots of 38 for why it really was better if I just handled everything myself. This kind of thinking, friends, was the 39 in disguise (偽裝 ). My selfreliance came in handy when I was a kid in the seventies and in adulthood when I was an independent 40 Then, in the first years of 41the Organized Artist Company, I found myself 42 everything I could about websites, copywriting, graphic design, etc. Later whenever one of my business friends 43 about how her website was being held hostage (人質(zhì) ) by her designer, I 44 felt too satisfied. 45 if mistakes were made in my business, they were all mine. Now this was where my false 46 showed up— in not wanting others to know I made mistakes. If I had other people 47 me, they would see my errors and 48. Working alone, I could keep up a pretty good display of 49. But as the Organized Artist Company became increasingly 50, I realized I was doing harm to the people I was trying to serve by attempting to do everything myself. I was 51 my growth and the depth of my work. I had built a business with my own two hands, and I 52 with a business that I could hold in my own two hands. Cozy, 53 limited in scope (范圍 ). Once I was willing to control my ego( 自負 ) and admit that my vision of selfsufficiency was a 54 my business took a remarkable leap forward, and revenue 55. Little change, big difference. 36. A. while B. since C. before D. until 37. A. clear B. mistaken C. rough D. right 38. A. evidence B. experience C. suggestion D. confidence 39. A. magic B. devil C. sheep D. heaven 40. A. worker B. perfectionist C. writer D. artist 4 I. A. running B. owning C. founding D. establishing 42. A. losing B. quitting C. learning D. possessing 43. A. municated B. mented C. promised D. plained 44. A. doubtfully B. seriously C. secretly D. strangely 45. A. 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