广东省湛江二中2013-2014学年高二上学期统一测试（一）英语试题含听力
第二部分 语言知识及运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-15各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Cheerful Charlie was a very special boy. When he was still in his mother’s tummy, she had an accident, which meant that Charlie couldn’t walk. But that had never been a(n) 1 for him; they had started calling him Cheerful Charlie because of his joyful and 2 nature. He really brightened everything up for those around him.
There wasn’t a postman, or a taxi driver who wasn’t 3 to see Charlie. “Cheer up, Mr. Postman, that way you’ll 4 more letters today!” he would say, or “That was great, Mr. Taxi Driver. You 5 that thing better than anyone else. ”
He also had great ideas and 6 for everything; and he shared them so generously that, just about every day in that town, someone did a great job, or 7 something new, thanks to Charlie’s ideas.
One day, though, he came up against a real 8 . A young boy came to town on his holidays. He was known as Waterworks and was a real crybaby. No matter what Charlie said to him, Waterworks would always find some 9 to be sad: “I don’t have many sweets… my parents didn’t buy me that toy…” Everything seemed so bad to him. But Cheerful Charlie wasn’t going to be 10 , and he kept spending more time with Waterworks, 11 trying to cheer him up, just as he did with everyone.
Then, one day, when they were together in the street, someone 12 a pie from a window above by chance, and it landed 13 on Charlie’s head. He got such a fright that he couldn’t even move his lips. He was speechless, and although Waterworks was just about to cry, he 14 Charlie’s happy words so much that he finally said, “Wow, Charlie, that’s a nice clown mask(小丑面具) you just put on!”
On saying those words, Waterworks felt so 15 that he finally understood why Charlie was always so happy and cheerful. He realized that he was so used to Charlie’s enthusiasm that he couldn’t help but see the funny side of everything.
