第二节：完形填空（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，选出一个最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My neighbor has an eight-year-old daughter. She used to stay in the countryside, her   36   place. Recently her parents brought her to town to live with them. __37   and uneducated, she would swear or use dirty words when she was   38 _. Sometimes she got   39   to roll on the ground, to the   40   of people around. Her parents tried to tame（驯服） her by beating and kicking, __41   lead to worse outbursts(爆发). Finally they became   42   disappointed with her.
One day their next-door neighbor, a retired woman teacher gave the girl a snow-white dress,   43   was very beautiful. It immediately caught the girl’s eyes and made them shine brightly.
The girl put on the dress and became quite   44   person. She no longer   abused or __45   others, and rolled   46   on the floor. She knew running wild would make her lose face   47   such a beautiful dress. Since then the girl had been   48  , neat, and lovely.
The story set me thinking a lot. Perhaps everyone has a beautiful dress  _49_  somewhere in his or her __50__. Only some people are not aware(意识) of it, forget it or   51   it. Beauty is a power force or weapon—that’s something   52   by many of us. It can arouse fine   53   that humans are born with but have so far hidden somewhere. It has a soul-making   54 __ that is  55    unmatched.
36.  A. native               B. strange       C. similar               D. homeless
37.  A. Excited         B. Wild         C. Polite          D. Dishonest
38.  A. happy               B. scared         C. unhappy         D. calm
39.  A. up to          B. as far          C. so mad           D. so wild as
40.  A. pleasure        B. delight        C. sorrow         D. surprise
41.  A. as to           B. likely to      C. only to               D. so as to
42.  A. hardly           B. completely       C. partly          D. exactly
43.  A. which               B. the          C. it              D. this
44.  A. the other       B. another        C. other           D. each other
45.  A. surprised       B. confused      C. attacked        D. spoke
46.  A. more          B. much              C. less            D. few
47.  A. in              B. with         C. on               D. at
48.  A. impolite        B. loyal        C. determined            D. gentle
49.  A. laid           B. covered       C. hidden         D. fixed
50.  A. eyes           B. heart         C. body            D. head
51.  A. lose           B. control      C. recognise        D. undress
52.  A. realised         B. noticed       C. unrealized      D. valued
53.  A. thoughts        B. opinions      C. purposes          D. qualities
54.  A. effort          B. influence     C. work            D. warmth
55.  A. indeed         B. never        C. seldom         D. sometimes