完形填空。
This economy has really got a lot of people moving and not always by a choice they wanted to make.
My wife and I now find ourselves among those unfortunates feeling that
1 .
At the end of last year, our customers just
2 . We had to make the painful decision to
3 our office
and put our house up for
4 . We haven't lived in it for two years yet and expected it would be the
5 one for a long time. How
6 this world economic mess is changing our lives!
As I get older, I find moving less adventurous and more
7 . This time, we're in the process of moving
without knowing where we'll
8 next. Job searching has been thrown into the quagmire(困境) of an
unsettled life. Both my wife and I had been feeling pretty
9 from all this. I've been challenged to find the
positive in all this down that's
10 us.
But then it happened while I watched my wife
11 things up. She's an absolute whiz(能手) when it
comes to packing. I took delight in watching her
12 just the right boxes for
13 in front of her and filling
in the
14 with pillows and towels. I began feeling something like a wind lift me up and sail me through my
own
15 of the packing and loading.
Some friends will be helping us with the
16 . I've told them that they're not
17 friends but gaining
some new vacation spots.
I have
18 that we'll get through this transition finally. We all will always have work to do, by choice
or
19 , and we can also consciously make the effort to create a sense of
20 in a new place.
( )1. A. pressure ( )2. A. stayed up ( )3. A. open ( )4. A. help ( )5. A. last ( )6. A. little ( )7. A. dangerous ( )8. A. return ( )9. A. relaxed ( )10. A. improving ( )11. A. packing ( )12. A. bring up ( )13. A. others ( )14. A. cars ( )15. A. boat ( )16. A. settling ( )17. A. valuing ( )18. A. idea ( )19. A. otherwise ( )20. A. panic |
B. pleasure B. turned up B. close B. comparison B. next B. quickly B. common B. arrive B. excited B. encouraging B. washing B. keep up B. nothing B. gaps B. share B. cooking B. losing B. faith B. indeed B. connection |
C. heat C. dried up C. visit C. decoration C. only C. frequently C. stressful C. study C. ashamed C. beating C. pulling C. size up C. another C. tanks C. wish C. cleaning C. inviting C. feeling C. worse C. humor |
D. chance D. came up D. paint D. sale D. special D. well D. interesting D. prepare D. depressed D. killing D. dividing D. set up D. everything D holes D. promise D. moving D. making D. opinion D. rather D. home |