二、完形填空。(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)(2025·江苏泰州兴化期末)
阅读下面短文,从短文后每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
For years I went to school by bus, so I met many “familiar”(熟悉的)strangers. We took the
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bus but didn't know each other's names. The first time I took the bus, I saw different faces. We greeted and cold faces changed into
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faces.
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days went on, we chatted like old friends.
But I felt it was a(n)
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that I was unable to have the same friendship with a silent girl in the front of the bus. Maybe she didn't have much money, as she always wore her old clothes.
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she always took a cup of water for the driver. I guessed she was a kind girl. But why did she sit
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instead of talking with us?
Then, one evening, I got the answer. I walked to the park nearby and found the girl
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alone under a tree, lonely and sad. I greeted her with the same warm smile these months, but this time her face turned
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, and then a shy(害羞的)smile appeared. When she began her first words, I
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why she didn't speak to us before. Talking was
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for her.
I learned her
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. Her parents worked hard in another city. She lived with her old grandparents. She said, “I can't express myself very well. Most of the time, I can't say what I want to say. I have no friends but you always
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me, so I also want to smile back.” That evening, we exchanged our names and said goodbye like old
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.
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is the key to opening the door of the heart. It can break the cold walls
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us.
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)1. A. old B. same C. free D. broken
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)2. A. smiling B. serious C. worried D. lonely
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)3. A. When B. As C. Since D. Before
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)4. A. pity B. idea C. excitement D. interest
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)5. A. But B. And C. Or D. So
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)6. A. happily B. silently C. quickly D. angrily
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)7. A. playing B. crying C. sitting D. talking
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)8. A. black B. white C. red D. blue
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)9. A. meant B. discussed C. understood D. shook
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)10. A. exciting B. hard C. possible D. interesting
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)11. A. idea B. thought C. story D. words
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)12. A. talk to B. shout to C. smile at D. listen to
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)13. A. brothers B. sisters C. neighbours D. friends
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)14. A. Love B. Help C. The smile D. Care
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)15. A. between B. below C. behind D. beside