二、完形填空(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)(2025·江苏宿迁期中)
阅读短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选择最佳选项。
A man once visited an art museum. He saw a sculptor(雕塑家) making a sculpture. He stopped to watch the man work on the sculpture.
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, he noticed that there was a similar
sculpture lying nearby.
He felt it was
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and asked the sculptor, "Why are you making two of the same sculpture? Do you need two to put in
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places?"
"No," the man said without looking up. "We need only one, but the first one is not
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, so I'm making a new one."
The visitor
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the imperfect sculpture and checked it. But he couldn't find
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wrong with it.
"
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is the flaw(瑕疵)?" he asked.
The sculptor continued his work and told the man that there was a scratch(划痕) on the sculpture's
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.
The man then asked, "Where are you going to
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the sculpture?"
The sculptor replied that it would be placed on a 20-foot-high platform. "If the sculpture is up that high, who is going to
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that there is a scratch on the nose?" the man asked.
The sculptor
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his work, looked up at the man and said, "I will know it,
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other people didn't notice it."
The sculptor chose to keep a high
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of excellence in his work. "Excellence" stands for a kind of
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to be great and excellent. "Excellence" is not for someone else to notice but for your own to
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. And this is what we should all work hard to keep.
(
)1. A. Luckily B. Simply C. Recently D. Suddenly
(
)2. A. strange B. difficult C. common D. exciting
(
)3. A. high B. right C. possible D. different
(
)4. A. heavy B. tall C. perfect D. expensive
(
)5. A. picked up B. turned up C. opened up D. fixed up
(
)6. A. nothing B. anything C. something D. everything
(
)7. A. Where B. Why C. When D. Which
(
)8. A. eye B. ear C. nose D. face
(
)9. A. throw B. hide C. collect D. place
(
)10. A. remember B. notice C. hear D. agree
(
)11. A. stopped B. cared C. practised D. started
(
)12. A. so B. and C. though D. because
(
)13. A. value B. degree C. standard D. power
(
)14. A. advice B. spirit C. courage D. feeling
(
)15. A. require B. obey C. solve D. achieve
