Duringthewar,myhusbandwasstationedatanarmycampinadese...

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   During the war, my husband was stationed at an army camp in a desert in California. I went to live there in order to be   41  him. I hated the place. I had never   42    been so unhappy. My husband was ordered out on a long-term duty, and I was left in a tiny shack(棚屋) alone. The heat was   43    —almost 125 0F even in the shade of a cactus(仙人掌).   44   a soul to talk to. The wind blew non-stop, and all the food I ate, and the very air I breathed, were   45   with sand, sand, sand!

I was so sorry for myself that I wrote to my parents. I told them I was   46  and coming back home. I said I couldn’t stand it one minute longer. I   47   be in prison! My father answered my   48   with just two lines—two lines that will always sing in my   49   — two lines that completely changed my life :

Two men looked out from prison bars

One saw the mud, the other saw the stars

I read those two lines   50   I was ashamed of myself. I made up my mind I would find out what was good in my present    51   ; I would look for the stars.

I made friends with the natives, and their   52   amazed me. They gave me presents of their favorite artworks which they had   53   to sell to tourists. I studied the delightful forms of the cactus. I watched for the desert sunsets, and   54   for seashells that had been left there millions of years ago when the desert had been an ocean   55   .

What brought about this   56   change in me ? The desert hadn’t changed,   57   I had. I had changed my   58   . And by doing so, I changed an unhappy experience into the most amazing  59   of my life. I was excited by this new world that I had discovered I had looked out of my self-created prison and  60      the stars.         

41.  A. off     B. behind       C. near         D. beyond

42.  A. before          B. already   C. then        D. still

43.  A. inflexible    B. incomprehensible       C. uncontrollable       D. unbearable

44.  A. Only       B. Not        C. Many        D. Such

45.  A. covered     B. filled       C. buried      D. charged

46.  A. catching up  B. keeping up  C. giving up      D. getting up

47.  A. ought to   B. might well  C. would rather   D. had better

48.  A. request     B. call       C. question      D. letter

49.  A. comparison  B. imagination  C. consideration    D. memory

50.  A. over and over B. by and by   C. up and down     D. now and then

51.  A. company      B. occupation  C. situation   D. relationship

52.  A. movement   B. reaction    C. guidance       D. purpose

53.  A. refused    B. failed     C. managed    D. happened

54.  A. asked     B. hunted    C. waited        D. headed

55.  A. floor      B. surface     C. rock          D. level

56.  A. moving      B. challenging  C. puzzling        D. astonishing

57.  A. as         B. but        C. for          D. or

58.  A. attitude    B. principle   C. identity        D. standard

59.  A. vacation   B. operation   C. affair         D. adventure

60.  A. sought      B. counted    C. found          D. reached

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