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第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分,满分30分）
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
I was working in a store three years ago. I remember one girl who started   36   there a few months after me. I remember always meeting her. I don’t know   37   but for a strange reason we would never talk. We would just see each other and smile.
She would    38   smile in a really happy way until one day when we got to work in the    39   department again. She    40   as if she was the happiest girl in the world. But I had a strange feeling. So I went up to her and asked,“What’s wrong with you?”She answered, “Why?”I said,“I could feel you’re very   41   today and you’re trying to hide it.”
She was shocked(震惊的) as if I had    42   her deepest secret, so we started    43 .
She told me why she was feeling like that and why she was    44   to hide it and we had a good time together. Time    45   and we became good friends. She’d always tell me I had changed her    46   in so many ways, but I could not    47   how it had happened. I would just smile, not understanding what she    48   by that.
Today this girl is one of my best    49  . I really don’t know what I would do    50  
her. She has been there for me in every possible way a friend could be.
I guess what I’m trying to say is you     51    know when you’re helping yourself. I
52   this girl never knowing that at the same time I was helping myself by finding a(n)
53    friend.
So the next time you see a    54   and he looks as if he needs    55   who will listen to him, listen to what he has to say. You never know, you might just end up helping yourself.
36．A．playing                   B．learning                  C．working                  D．living
37．A．why                       B．when                      C．where                     D．how
38．A．secretly                  B．hardly                    C．perhaps                   D．always
39．A．great                      B．same                      C．modern                   D．small
40．A．shouted                  B．cried                      C．spoke                     D．smiled
41．A．happy                     B．angry                            C．proud                     D．sad
42．A．kept                       B．told                        C．discovered                     D．watched
43．A．talking                   B．quarrelling              C．discussing               D．arguing
44．A．planning                 B．trying                     C．refusing                  D．failing
45．A．went off                 B．went by                  C．went up                  D．went down
46．A．life                        B．hobby                     C．habit                      D．manner
47．A．introduce                B．promise                  C．suggest                   D．imagine
48．A．meant                     B．wanted                   C．offered                   D．received
49．A．classmates               B．sisters                     C．friends                    D．workers
50．A．with                       B．without                   C．through                  D．besides
51．A．often                      B．sometimes               C．forever                   D．never
52．A．helped                    B．accepted                 C．recognized              D．praised
53．A．kind                       B．rich                        C．true                        D．honest
54．A．student                   B．stranger                  C．manager                 D．listener
55．A．someone                 B．anyone                   C．none                       D．everyone