完形填空。
A little boy was spending his Saturday morning playing in his sandbox (儿童玩耍的沙场). He had with him
his box of cars and trucks and a shiny, red plastic shovel (铲子). In the process of creating roads in the soft
sand, he
1 a large rock in the middle of the sandbox. The boy dug_ around the rock, managing to
2 it from
the sand. With a little bit of
3 , he pushed the rock
4 the sandbox by using his feet. When the boy got the
rock to the
5 of the sandbox,
6 , he found that he couldn't
7 it up and over the little wall.
8 , the little
boy pushed and dragged, but every time he
9 he had made some progress, the
10 tipped and then fell back
11 the sandbox. The little boy had tried his best, but his only
12 was to have the rock roll back, smashing his
finger. Finally he burst into tears of disappointment. All the
13 the boy's father
14 from his living room window
as the story continued. At the moment the tears fell, a large shadow fell across the boy and the sandbox. It was
the boy's
15 . Gently but firmly he said, "Son, why didn't you use all the strength
16 that you had?" Defeated,
the boy sobbed back, "But I did, Daddy, I did! I used all the strength that I had!" "No, son."
17 the father kindly.
"You didn't use all the strength you had. You didn't
18 me." With that the father
19 down, picked up the rock
and removed it from the sandbox.
Do you have "rocks" in your life that need to be removed? Are you discovering that you don't have
20 it
takes to lift them? There is one who is always available to us and willing to give us the strength we need.
( )1.A.discovered ( )2.A.seize ( )3.A.support ( )4.A.across ( )5.A.bottom ( )6.A.still ( )7.A.fix ( )8.A.Excited ( )9.A.thought ( )10.A.sand ( )11.A.beyond ( )12.A.effect ( )13.A.information ( )14.A.watched ( )15.A.car ( )16.A.affordable ( )17.A.corrected ( )18.A.trust ( )19.A.got ( )20.A.when |
B. put B. save B. strike B. away B. edge B. however B. pull B. Disappointed B. suggested B. sandbox B. off B. reward B. time B. worked B. truck B. imaginable B. confirmed B. ask B. lay B. where |
C. gathered C. remove C. suffering C. against C. border C. though C. roll C. Thrilled C. proved C. wall C. into C. effort C. way C. guarded C. father C. manageable C. comforted C. show C. bent C. that |
D. prepared D. return D. struggle D. around D. side D. therefore D. send D. Determined D. learned D. rock D. over D. demand D. arrangement D. tended D. shovel D. available D. complained D. follow D. sat D. what |