第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41～60各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
An old carpenter was to retire soon. He told his boss of his plans to ___41___ the house business and live an easier life with his wife enjoying his extended ___42___, looking after their grandchildren. He would miss his ___43___, but he really needed to __44___.
The boss was sorry to see his __45__ worker go and asked if he could build just one _46_ house as a personal favor. The carpenter  ___47__.  But in time it was easy to see that his heart was _48_ in his work. He applied poor workmanship and used bad materials. It was a(n) _49__ way to end his career.
When the carpenter finished his work and the boss came to ___50___ the house, he handed the front door key to the carpenter. “ This is your house,” he said,” my ___51___ to you.”
What a shame! If ___52___ he had known he was building his own house, he would have done it differently. Now he has to live in the home he had not built __53___ at all!
So it is the same____54___ us. We build our lives in an absent minded way, reacting ___55____acting, willing to put up less rather than the best. At important points we do not give the job our best ____56___ . Then with a shame we fall into the __57___ we have created and ___58___ that we are now living in the “house” we have ___59___. If we had realized it, we should have done it ___60____.
Your life today is the result of your attitudes and choices in the past. Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and the choices of today.
41. A. start            B. run               C. leave                       D. like
42. A. work       B. family                      C. business               D. house
43. A. pay             B. house                       C. carpenter                  D. children
44. A. retire           B. employ                    C. build                        D. plan
45. A. common      B. poor                        C. sick                         D. good
46. A. more           B. big                         C. new                         D. bad
47. A. admitted      B. adjusted                   C. agreed               D. annoyed
48. A. always         B. not                          C. entirely                    D. again
49. A. fortunate      B. unfortunate               C. easy                         D. difficult
50. A. buy             B. plan                         C. examine                   D. take
51. A. pay             B. gift                          C. debt                         D. order
52. A. not                     B. already                     C. yet                           D. only
53. A. poorly         B. carelessly                 C. quickly                    D. well
54. A. to                B. with                         C. as                           D. for
55. A. except         B. rather than                C. other than                 D. besides
56. A. effect          B. infection                  C. effort                       D. impression
57. A. situation      B. condition                  C. state                         D. position
58. A. feel             B. find                         C. learn                        D. know
59. A. wanted        B. bought                            C. destroyed                 D. built
60. A. differently   B. difficultly                 C. purposely                 D. honestly