第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I was 14 when Mr. Ingram knocked on our farmhouse door in Sacred Heart. Okla. The old farmer   36  about a mile away and needed an assistant to help out grass. It was the first time I had been actually   37  for work.
Mr. Ingram was   38  with the job I did and ended up hiring me to dig potatoes. I even   39  when a   40  cow was being born.
One day he found an old truck that was   41  in the   42 ， sandy soil of the melon field. Was full of melons that someone had tried to steal before their truck got stuck.
Mr. Ingram explained that the truck's owner would be returning soon, and he wanted me to   43   the truck and lean(倚靠) against it. Soon a man from a nearby village, who had a terrible   44  for fighting and stealing,   45   with his two full – grown sons. They looked   46  .
While   47   Mr. Ingram said, “Well, I see you want to buy some   48  .”
There was a long silence   49   the man answered, “Yeah, I guess so. What are you getting for them?”
“Three dollars each,”   50  said immediately. “Well, I guess that would be   51   enough if you help me get my truck out of here,” the man bargained.
It   52  out to be our biggest sale of the summer, and an unpleasant, perhaps unfortunate incident had been   53  . After they left, Mr. Ingram smiled and said to me, “Son, if you don’t   54   your enemies, you’re going to run out of friends.” Mr. Ingram died a few years later, but I have never forgotten him or what he taught me   55   my first job.
36．A．covered    B．went  C．lived D．ran
37．A．charged    B．paid  C．inquired    D．blamed
38．A．strict B．disappointed     C．unsatisfied       D．content
39．A．assisted     B．disturbed  C．included   D．existed
40．A．father       B．mother     C．baby  D．brother
41．A．struck       B．dropped    C．fallen       D．stuck
42．A．soft   B．hard  C．smooth     D．tough
43．A．glare at     B．watch       C．spot   D．stare at
44．A．honor       B．custom     C．reputation D．habit
45．A．took down       B．showed up       C．set out      D．broke up
46．A．sad   B．angry       C．happy       D．pleased
47．A．hardly      B．anxiously  C．calmly      D．noisily
48．A．truck B．watermelons     C．tomatoes   D．grass
49．A．before      B．after  C．since D．unless
50．A．they  B．the sons    C．I      D．the farmed
51．A．expensive B．sure   C．friendly    D．fair
52．A．turned      B．came C．broke       D．stood
53．A．caused      B．postponed C．prevented  D．cancelled
54．A．hate  B．forgive     C．admire      D．abandon
55．A．under       B．below       C．off    D．on