第三部分：完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Dinah Shore said, “There are no hopeless situations — only people who are hopeless about them.” Some 30 years ago, when he was only 11 years old, Morgan Rowe lost his left arm and much of the use of his right arm. It happened when he  41  off a tractor at his father’s fence company, and was dragged under the machine.

Young Morgan was  42  from the hospital after three and a half months. The first thing he  43  to do was to help pay the bill — $30,000 worth. For a boy of 11 to  44  such a task, the situation seemed  45  .

For five years Morgan  46  roadsides picking up cans and bottles. He  47  thousands of cans and picked up and  48  old newspapers. He never gave up  49 . First, he paid off the $455 ambulance bill. He was still a long way off  50  his parents raised another $9,000 toward the debt.

People began to  51  the injured boy and  52  poured in, totaling $25,000. The bill was paid  53 ！Morgan set aside the  54  money for future education.

What then? Morgan  55  his projects and collected money for the hospital so he could 56 others though the bill was paid up.

Maybe someone  57  to tell the boy he was too injured for that kind of work. Maybe someone neglected to inform him that the  58  was hopeless. Somehow young Morgan didn’t 59 that an 11-year-old boy could never pay off a hospital bill so large.

Martin Luther once said, “Everything that is done in the world is done by the hopeful.” Without hope, 60  is possible.

41. A. ranB. fell C. drove  D. lay

42. A. released B. dismissed     C. removed D. liberated

43. A. set about B. set up C. set out D. set down

44. A. understand B. completeC. arrange    D. cancel

45. A. hopeless B. different C. meaningful    D. dangerous

46. A. searched B. controlled     C. explored D. examined

47. A. purchased B. recordedC. collected     D. prepared

48. A. delivered B. sold C. gave     D. bought

49. A. courage B. challenge     C. hopeD. adventure

50. A. though B. so C. but     D. because

51. A. hear about B. learn from     C. worry about D. benefit from

52. A. invitations B. applications    C. suggestions D. donations

53. A. exactly B. fully    C. deeply D. partly

54. A. voluntary B. useless C. additional    D. present

55. A. ended B. kept C. began    D. paused

56. A. help   B. comfort C. affect     D. move

57. A. attempted B. managedC. forgot     D. remembered

58. A. situation B. life C. illness     D. devotion

59. A. realize B. discussC. argue     D. expect

60. A. everything B. anything C. something    D. nothing
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