三、完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

A little river flowed down from a high mountain far, far away through many villages and forests until it reached a desert. It then thought, “I’ve overcome countless difficulties. I should have no  31  crossing this desert!” But when    32   her journey, she found herself gradually disappearing into the sands. “Maybe I cannot reach the ocean.” she said   33   to herself. 

   At this time, a deep   34   came, saying, “If a breeze(微风) can cross the desert, so can a river. ”

   It was the voice of the desert. The river replied, “That’s because a breeze can fly.”

   “That’s because you   35   what you are. If you give it up, and let yourself evaporate(蒸发)into the breeze, it can take you across,” said the desert. 

   “Give up what I am now and disappear into the breeze? No!” She could not accept this   36  . Wouldn’t it be self-destruction to give up what she was now?

   “How do I know if this is true?” asked the little river. 

   “The breeze can carry the steam across the desert and the steam can   37   into rain at an/a    38  site. The rain will form a river again to continue its   39  ,” answered the desert very  40  , “whether you’re a river or invisible steam, your inner nature never   41  . You stick to the fact that you’re a river because you don’t know your nature   42  . ”

   Now the little river vaguely (模糊地)  43   before she became a river,   44   was the breeze that had carried her up a high mountain, where she turned into rain and   45   onto the ground and became what she was now. Finally the river   46   her courage and rushed into the open arms of the   47  , which carried her to the next stage of her life.

   The course of our lives is like the   48  of the little river. If you want to  49   difficulties in your life, you should also have the wisdom and courage to change yourself. 

   Perhaps you can try asking yourself these questions: What is my inner   50  ? What is it that I stick to? And what is it that I really want?

31. A. problem     B. way     C. power  D. time

32. A. ending     B. starting     C. planning  D. considering

33. A. immediately     B. directly     C. slowly  D. sadly

34. A. breeze     B. desert     C. voice  D. rain

35. A. think of     B. stick to     C. take up  D. refer to

36. A. order     B. requirement    C. idea  D. trick

37. A. disappear     B. change     C. get  D. flow

38. A. beautiful     B. appropriate     C. historic  D. familiar

39. A. cause     B. road     C. route  D. course

40. A. patiently     B. proudly     C. angrily  D. aimlessly

41. A. improves     B. forms    C. changes  D. exists

42. A. outside     B. upside     C. downside  D. inside

43. A. understood     B. realized     C. found  D. remembered

44. A. it     B. she     C. he  D. which

45. A. dropped     B. fell     C. flew  D. dived

46. A. decided     B. saw     C. gathered  D. exposed

47. A. desert     B. mountain     C. breeze  D. God

48. A. experience     B. appearance     C. performance  D. style

49. A. meet     B. overcome     C. avoid  D. refuse

50. A. thought     B. course     C. nature  D. courage
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