完形填空。
Once there was a king who liked pictures very much. One day, he  1  a prize to the artist who would paint
the best picture of peace. Many artists  2  . The king looked at all the pictures. But there were only two he  3  
liked, and he had to choose between them.
One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect  4  for peaceful towering mountains all around
it.  5  was a blue sky with fluffy (蓬松的) white clouds. All who saw this  6  thought that it was a perfect
picture of peace.
  7  picture had mountains, too. But these were large, rough and  8  . Above was an angry sky, from which
rain fell and in which lightning  9  . Down the side of the mountain 10 a foaming (起泡沫的) waterfall. This
did not look 11 at all.
But when the king looked 12 , he saw behind the waterfall a tiny 13 growing in a crack in the rock. In the
bush a mother bird had built her 14  . There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her
nest- 15 perfect peace.
Which picture do you think won the prize? The king 16 the second picture. Do you know why?
"Because," 17 the king, "peace does not mean to be in a place 18 there is no noise, trouble, or hard work.
Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and 19 be calm in your heart. That is the real 20 of peace."

(     )1. A. afforded    (     )2. A. collected   (     )3. A. hardly     (     )4. A. bowl       (     )5. A. Outward    (     )6. A. prize     (     )7. A. The one    (     )8. A. bare       (     )9. A. played     (     )10. A. connected   (     )11. A. hopeful    (     )12. A. regularly   (     )13. A. flower     (     )14. A. house     (     )15. A. of        (     )16. A. protect    (     )17. A. explained   (     )18. A. which     (     )19. A. thus       (     )20. A. story

B. offered   B. planned   B. slightly  B. mirror   B. Indoors   B. result   B. Another   B. fresh   B. screamed  B. floated   B. peaceful  B. suddenly  B. ground   B. business  B. in     B. forced   B. described       B. where    B. even    B. meaning

C. accepted    C. tried        C. really      C. plate     C. Overhead     C. artist     C. Other       C. green        C. wandered    C. fell       C. successful      C. closely     C. tree      C. nest        C. by         C. depended    C. reminded    C. whose        C. also     C. source

D. canceled         D. directed         D. generally        D. cover            D. Downhill         D. picture          D. The other        D. distant          D. cheered          D. rose             D. careful          D. casually         D. bush             D. relationship                 D. for              D. chose            D. persuaded        D. that             D. still            D. history

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