第三节  完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

    It was 4 o'clock in the morning, when I received the phone call．

    “This is the emergency room calling and your son was just ___36___ in with severe burns on his face, neck and arms. We have called for a(n) ___37___ and are going to fly him to the burn unit in Seattle.” Seattle was 350 miles from his college, so we knew immediately this was ___38___.

    The doctor described the ___39___, which caused the burns. At 6 am, our son and his friends decided to barbecue hamburgers in the courtyard of their apartment. When they ___40___ the charcoal(木炭), it burst into flames because they had sprayed too much gasoline. The flames ___41___ my son’s shirt tail and shot from his waist to well over his head. 

    ___42___, one of the boys who was quick—minded grasped my son and ___43___ him on the grass. While it saved his life, it was not in ___44___ to save him from severe burns and the terrible scars. 

    After he ___45___ from the treatments, the doctors told him they would not do plastic surgery(整容)for 6 months ___46___ it takes that long for the skin to stop shrinking and wrinkling. So, he had to return to college with scars typical of severe burns．

    When I was a child, my mother told my sister，who had a 10-inch very ___47___ scar on her arm, “Nancy，if you ignore the scar，other people will ignore it. It does not mean they will not ___48___ it, but it means it will not matter to them if it doesn’t matter to you. ’’

    I ___49___ this wisdom on to my son. He took my advice to __ 50___ and returned to school with his head held high—glad he was alive. 

    By the end of the six-month waiting period, he decided that the scars did not ___51___. So he made the ___52___ to give up any plastic surgery. 

    We all have “scars” that we believe ___53___ people to keep away from us. And we spend a lot of time thinking that if only we looked differently, or dressed differently, people would like us better. 

    But you see, people will only judge you by your looks or your clothes if you are judging yourself by these same ___54___ standards. Put your imperfections out of your mind and concentrate on what you value ___55___ yourself, and your beauty will shine through. 

36. A. brought        B. given         C. turned         D. showed

37. A. doctor         B. hospital       C. aircraft         D. ambulance

38. A. serious        B. terrible        C. dangerous       D. important

39. A. event          B. process       C. reason          D. accident

40. A. got           B. lit            C. burned    　　  D. moved

41. A. took          B. held   　　    C. caught 　　　　 D. attracted

42. A. Fortunately     B. Surprisingly    C. Happily         D. Slowly

43. A. pushed        B. threw         C. dropped         D. rolled

44. A．shape        B. place          C. fact            D. time

45. A. benefited      B. recovered       C. suffered        D. relaxed

46. A. if            B. while          C. because         D. although

47. A. normal       B. violent         C. obvious         D. popular

48. A. mention      B. notice           C. 1augh           D. hide

49. A. sent         B. kept            C. handed          D. passed

50. A. heart        B. life           C. practice         D. considerate

51. A. grow        B. matter          C. exist            D. appear

52 . A. mistake      B. effort           C. decision         D. request

53. A. invite       B. cause           C. allow           D. remind

54 . A. false        B. strict            C. moral           D. general

55. A. by            B. over            C. beyond          D. within
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