Ⅲ.完形填空
(2012·江西临川一中下学期期中)
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. —Eleanor Roosevelt
My home is a place of great beauty and agricultural richness, as well as of war and natural disasters. When I was only fourteen years old, I was filled with __1__ in spite of the terrible surroundings. The families living here, who tried to make their living from the land, __2__ great losses.
For the __3__ I felt sorry especially, but I __4__ to be hopeless. I decided that where I was，I could do __5__ to help them. I began knocking on every door and saying to each person who __6__ my knock，“I know that you are __7__ and give the birds that come to your yard a little __8__. Please consider me your bird. Give me only a handful of rice each week when I come to your __9__. I will take it to the temple where it can be given to the __10__ children.”
No one seemed to __11__ giving me a handful of rice, even __12__ they had little themselves. On Sunday, I would go to the __13__ and give my handfuls of rice to the monks to __14__ to the children.
One day，I came to a house that had __15__ to give. I told my story and asked if I could be their bird. The woman called her daughters, and __16__ gave me fifty cents, as well as the handful of rice! I began to ask for __17__ and rice from the other “bird feeders”， and they gave them to me. Everyone was happy to be helping those who were suffering, even __18__ only this small way. The temple was soon able to help everyone who came to it for food and clothing.
“Consider me your bird.” My __19__ idea had not stopped the war, but anyway, it was __20__ some peace.
1.A.sorrow B.hope
C.comfort D.happiness
答案：B 尽管环境恶劣，但我充满了希望。
2.A.suffered B.survived
C.covered D.made
答案：A suffer losses“遭受损失”。
3.A.farmers B.citizens
C.villagers D.children
答案：D 本句意：对于孩子们，我特别难过。
4.A.wanted B.failed
C.refused D.stopped
答案：C 承接上文，“但我拒绝失望”;refuse to do... “拒绝做……”。
5.A.something B.everything
C.anything D.nothing
答案：A 我能做些什么来帮助他们。
