二、完形填空。（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从文后各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
I was visiting my grandpa's farm in Kansas, and Grandpa sent me into the woods to pick up pecans(山核桃).
Plunk! I dropped another pecan into my basket. Then a gentle autumn wind
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some more off the tree. I ran to pick them up, but my basket remained
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full. Whew! Pecan picking was hard but I wasn't about to let Grandpa down, so I kept working.
Suddenly, something
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my eye: a squirrel picked up a pecan, climbed up a tree and disappeared into a large hole. A moment later, it returned for another pecan and took it back to his secret hiding place
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the hollow(洞) of the tree.
Not so secret any more, I thought. I ran over to the tree and
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the hollow was filled with sweet pecans. This was my
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. Handful by handful, I took all the pecans from the hollow. Now the basket was full!
I was so
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of myself. I couldn't wait to show Grandpa all of the pecans I'd collected.
"Look, Grandpa," I
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, "look at all of the pecans I found!" Grandpa took a look at my basket. "Well, well, how did you find so many, Jimmy?" I told him
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I'd followed the squirrel and taken the pecans from his hiding place. Grandpa congratulated me on
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something about the squirrel's habits. But then he handed the basket back to me and put his arm
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around my shoulders.
"That squirrel worked very hard to collect his
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food," he said. "Now that all of his pecans are gone, don't you think that little squirrel will be very
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when it gets cold?"
"I didn't think about that," I said.
"I know," Grandpa said. "But true
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is respecting others' hard work, even the squirrel's."
The image(形象) of that hungry squirrel wouldn't
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my mind. There was only one thing I could do.
(
C
)16. A. hit B. beat C. blew D. knocked
(
B
)17. A. so B. half C. almost D. quite
(
B
)18. A. stuck B. caught C. drove D. left
(
D
)19. A. outside B. above C. between D. inside
(
A
)20. A. found B. felt C. gave D. kept
(
C
)21. A. choice B. challenge C. chance D. change
(
B
)22. A. afraid B. proud C. tired D. sure
(
D
)23. A. sensed B. rushed C. nodded D. shouted
(
B
)24. A. why B. how C. when D. where
(
A
)25. A. finding out B. trying out C. working out D. cutting out
(
D
)26. A. closely B. clearly C. heavily D. gently
(
A
)27. A. winter B. autumn C. spring D. summer
(
C
)28. A. cold B. scared C. hungry D. full
(
C
)29. A. mistake B. weakness C. strength D. joke
(
D
)30. A. stop B. forget C. refuse D. leave
