三、完型填空：
A man was exploring caves by the seashore when he found a bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls．It was like someone had  36  the balls and left them out in the dune to bake．
They didn’t look like much, but they   37   the man, so he took the bag out of the cave with him．As he walked along the beach, he   38   the clay balls one at a time out into the ocean as far as he could．He thought little about it  39  he dropped one of the clay balls and it cracked open（裂开）on a rock．Inside was a beautiful, precious stone!   40  , the man started breaking open the   41   balls．Each contained a similar treasure．He found thousands of dollars’   42   of jewels in the 20 or so leftover ones．
Then it   43  him．He’d been on the beach a long time, throwing maybe 50 or 60 of the balls, with their hidden treasure, into the   44 ． He  45  have taken home tens of thousands but he had just thrown it away!
It’s like that   46   people．We look at someone, maybe even ourselves, but we  47  see the clay shell．It doesn’t look like much from the   48 ．It isn’t always beautiful or shining, so we  49  it．we see that person as less important than someone more  50  or stylish or well known or wealthy．But we haven’t taken the time to find the treasure  51  inside that person．
There is a treasure in each and every one of us．If we take the time to get to know that person and ask God to show us that person the  52  he sees them, then the clay begins to  53  and the brilliant jewel begins to shine forth．May we not come to the  54  of our lives and find out that we’ve thrown away a   55  in friendships because the gems were hidden in balls of clay! May we see the people in our world as God sees them．
36．A．invented      B．rolled              C．handled    D．bounced
37．A．confused      B．encouraged      C．interested  D．relaxed
38．A．dipped       B．pushed         C．kicked    D．threw
39．A．until        B．when           C．since     D．though
40．A．Frightened       B．Determined      C．Excited    D．Disappointed
41．A．shining       B．floating        C．surviving  D．remaining
42．A．worth       B．value           C．cost      D．wealth
43．A．shocked       B．rejected       C．struck    D．delighted
44．A．caves         B．waves          C．seashore    D．storms
45．A．might         B．must            C．could    D．should
46．A．with          B．towards       C．about    D．between
47．A．hardly        B．actually       C．simply   D．luckily
48．A．distance        B．outside        C．weight   D．pattern
49．A．removed       B．suspected       C．ignored    D．kept
50．A．beautiful      B．cautious       C．positive    D．grateful
51．A．lost            B．hidden         C．divided    D．mixed
52．A．moment        B．point           C．degree    D．way
53．A．come off      B．break away      C．take over  D．fall down
54．A．sight          B．best             C．middle   D．end
55．A．relation        B．position       C．fortune    D．memory