Ted spent seven years as a prisoner of war. There he discovered the power of    1    . For more than half of that   2   he was in isolation (隔絕). He lived for ten months in total     3    . Those ten months was the longest of his life. When they   4   with wooden boards the window of his little seven-by-seven foot cell, shutting out the light, he    5    if he was going to make it.
Ted spent hours a day exercising and thinking. But at times he felt he could do   6   but scream. Not wanting to give his    7    the satisfaction of knowing they’d    8    him, he placed clothing into his mouth to lessen the noise    9    he screamed at the top of his lungs.
One day Ted got down on the    10   and crawled (爬) under his bed. He found a hole that   11   air from the outside. As he approached the hole, he saw a    12    ray of light. Ted put his eye next to the wall and discovered a small crack in the building. It allowed him to glimpse   13   , though all he could see was a     14    piece of grass. But when he saw this, he felt a surge of joy, excitement and   15    that he hadn’t had in years. “It represented life, growth and    16    ,” he later said. It was the small hope that helped Ted    17    this nearly unbearable experience.
The human spirit is   18    . It seems to run forever    19    nothing but a faint (微弱的) hope. Without it, you have nothing. With it, nothing else   20    — even the worst conditions.
1. A. thought             B. scream            C. support               D. hope
2. A. prison                B. war                 C. time                   D. month
3. A. happiness           B. sadness            C. darkness              D. silence
4. A. strengthened         B. fixed               C. covered               D. broke
5. A. reminded            B. required            C. wondered             D. feared
6. A. something         B. nothing            C. everything            D. anything
7. A. soldiers             B. friends             C. enemy               D. army
8. A. wounded           B. quitted             C. satisfied              D. broken
9. A. till                 B. since               C. as                  D. after
10. A. window            B. floor               C. wall                D. board
11. A. let in            B. put out              C. took in             D. gave off
12. A. weak               B. soft                  C. strong               D. sharp
13. A. inside             B. outside              C. above               D. below
14. A. very               B. right                 C. specific            D. single
15. A. gratefulness      B. usefulness           C. fulfillment          D. establishment
16. A. courage         B. perseverance          C. choice              D. freedom
17. A. by              B. out                   C. over                D. through
18. A. straight         B. strong               C. lucky                D. interesting
19. A. against              B. from                  C. on                   D. over
20. A. matters         B. relates               C. changes            D. happens

1--  20      DCCC   BCDCB   AABDA   DDBCA  
 
1. D。全文主旨是講希望的力量。
2. C。that time指他在牢獄的7年時(shí)間。
3. C。根據(jù)后面的“shutting out the light”可知他完全生活在黑暗中。
4. C。根據(jù)后面可知，窗戶被擋住了。
5. C。根據(jù)下文可知，他也有覺(jué)得忍無(wú)可忍的時(shí)候，因此這里是表示他不確定自己能否撐得過(guò)去。
6. B。根據(jù)句中的But可知，他有時(shí)除了尖叫，什么事都干不了。
7. C。根據(jù)文章第一段首句中的“spent seven years as a prisoner of war”及下文中的情景可知，此處指他不想讓敵人(enemy)感到滿意。
8. D。敵人擋住了窗戶，是為了在精神上折磨Ted，因此這里選D，指精神上的跨掉。
9. C。as引導(dǎo)時(shí)間狀語(yǔ)從句，表示他在尖叫時(shí)往嘴里塞上衣服以減弱發(fā)出的聲音。
10. B。從下文的crawled under his bed可知，此處填floor。
11. A。let in意思是“允許……進(jìn)入”，符合語(yǔ)境：外面的空氣通過(guò)這個(gè)小洞進(jìn)入牢房。
12. A。根據(jù)后面“a small crack in the building”，可知僅有微弱的光透進(jìn)來(lái)。
13. B。Ted透過(guò)裂縫往外看。
14. D。根據(jù)前面的“though all he could see was”，可知這里表示他看到的僅僅是一塊草地。
15. A。這里應(yīng)選與與joy、excitement語(yǔ)境一致的詞。
16. D。小草在牢房外，意味著自由。
17. D。through暗含度過(guò)某種困境的意思。
18. B。根據(jù)后面的“nothing but a faint (微弱的) hope”，可知這里表示人的精神的堅(jiān)強(qiáng)。
19. C。run on表示“*……運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)”。
20. A。該句中的it指代上文提到的hope，該句的意思是：沒(méi)有希望，你什么都沒(méi)有；有了希望，別的任何東西都不重要。matter是不及物動(dòng)詞，意為“有關(guān)系，重要”
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