Passage 4 ?(江西省南昌市2007屆高三第三次模擬考試) ?完形填空

I consider myself something of an expert on apologies. A quick temper has ? 36 ? me with plenty of opportunities to make them. In one of my earliest ? 37 ?, my mother is telling me , “Don’t watch the ? 38 ? when you say, ‘I’m sorry’. Hold your head up and look at the person in the ? 39 ? , so he’ll know you ? 40 ? it.”

My mother thus made the key point of a(n) ? 41 ? apology: it must be direct. You must never ? 42 ? to be doing something else. You do not ? 43 ? a pile of letters while apologizing to a person ? 44 ? ?in position after blaming him or her for a mistake that turned out to be your ??45 ? . You do not apologize to a hostess, whose guest of honor you treat ? 46 ?, by sending flowers the next day without mentioning your bad ? 47 ?.

One of the important things we should do for an? ?48 ? , apology is a readiness to ? 49 ? the responsibility for our careless mistakes .We are used to making excuses ,which leaves no ??50 ??for the other person to ? 51 ??us .Since most people are open-hearted ,the no-excuse apology leaves both parties feeling ? 52 ??about themselves .That ,after all ,is the? ?53 ? of every apology .It???54 ??little whether the apologizer is wholly or only partly a fault :answering for one’s? ?55 ? encourages others to take their share of the blame.

36．A．provided B．mixed C．compared D．treated

37．A．dreams B．courses C．memories D．ideas

38．A．side B．ground C．wall D．bottom

39．A．mind B．soul C．face D．eye

40．A．imagine B．enjoy C．mean D．regret

41．A．useful B．successful C．equal D．basic

42．A．pretend B．forget C．refuse D．expect

43．A．hold on B．put away C．look through D．pick up

44．A．poorer B．weaker C．worse D．lower

45．A．fault B．reason C．result D．duty

46．A．cruelly B．freely C．roughly D．foolishly

47．A．manners B．excuses C．efforts D．roles

48．A．a(chǎn)ctive B．effective C．extra D．easy

49．A．raise B．perform C．a(chǎn)dmit D．bear

50．A．situation B．need C．sign D．room

51．A．a(chǎn)dvise B．forgive C．warn D．blame

52．A．wiser B．warmer C．better D．cleverer

53．A．purpose B．method C．end D．a(chǎn)dvantage

54．A．cares B．matters C．depends D．remains

55．A．facts B．states C．rights D．a(chǎn)ctions

答案 ?36.A ? 37.C ?38.B ?39.D ?40.C ?41.B ?42.A ?43.C ?44.D ?45.A ?46.C ?47.A ?48.B ?49.D ?50.D ?51.B ?52.C ?53.A ?54.B ?55.D