二、完形填空(本题共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)
请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
Millie was crazy about DIY in her free time. She always enjoyed doing everything by
11, even though she didn't know much about making or
12 things. However, her lack(缺乏) of skills sometimes made her
13 again and again.
14, in her garage, there were pieces of a lawnmower(割草机) that she
15 tried to fix without success. It had already stayed in her garage for years, but it seemed that she thought she might be
16 to fix it one day. In fact, her brother Mike didn't think she would ever manage to fix it.
One day, when Mike came home, he was not
17 to see her trying to fix her broken cleaner. She was hitting it with a screwdriver(螺丝刀),
18 she could not find a good way to open the machine and fix it.
"This really makes me
19! I cannot get this thing to work well!" Millie
20
angrily. "I'm not sure what I can do to fix it. Do you have any good
21?" she asked.
Of course, Mike wasn't sure what to
22. He wanted to point out that she didn't have the skills to fix the machine. But he didn't want to hurt her feelings or make her
23 either.
Suddenly, the lawnmower came to his mind and he thought of
24 funny to say, "If you want the cleaner to work,
25 don't you take it out to the garage and show it the lawnmower that you worked on?"
(
B
)11. A. myself B. herself C. yourself D. himself
(
A
)12. A. repairing B. designing C. attending D. choosing
(
D
)13. A. win B. work C. leave D. fail
(
B
)14. A. As usual B. For example C. At first D. After all
(
C
)15. A. never B. often C. once D. twice
(
D
)16. A. ready B. willing C. eager D. able
(
D
)17. A. excited B. bored C. worried D. surprised
(
A
)18. A. but B. or C. and D. so
(
C
)19. A. cheerful B. terrible C. unhappy D. sick
(
B
)20. A. discussed B. complained C. advised D. cheered
(
A
)21. A. tips B. tricks C. dreams D. secrets
(
D
)22. A. tidy B. pay C. hear D. say
(
C
)23. A. better B. farther C. sadder D. cleverer
(
B
)24. A. anything B. something C. nothing D. everything
(
C
)25. A. what B. how C. why D. when
