第二节 完形填空 （共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Once upon a time in a land far far away, there was a 16 old man who loved everything. Animals, spiders, insects...
One day 17 walking through the woods the nice old man found a cocoon (茧) of a butterfly. He 18 it home.
A few days later, a small 19 appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours 20 it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to 21 making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go 22 farther.
Then the man decided to help the 23, so he took a pair of scissors and 24 the remaining bit of the cocoon.
The butterfly then came out 25 .
26 it had a swollen (浮肿的) body and small, shriveled (枯萎的) wings. The man 27 to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would 28 to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened! 29, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling (爬) around with a swollen body and shriveled wings.
It never was able to 30.
What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting (限制的) 31 and the struggle required for the butterfly to 32 the tiny opening were Nature's way of forcing fluid (液体) from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its 33 from the cocoon.
Sometimes 34 are exactly what we need in our life. If we were allowed to go through our life without any challenges, it would weaken us. We would not be as 35 as what we could have been.
And we could never fly.
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16.
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A. cold
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B. kind
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C. polite
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D. tiresome
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17.
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A. unless
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B. if
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C. while
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D. because
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18.
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A. took
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B. moved
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C. circulated
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D. dashed
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19.
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A. sign
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B. fly
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C. shade
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D. opening
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20.
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A. and
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B. until
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C. as
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D. then
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