阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21----40各题所给的4 个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A farewell party was going on. Sylvia Calver hated being the center of any pubic show where she didn’t know anyone. It made her
36 hot and she always felt she wanted to go away somewhere. But on an occasion like this when she knew
37 , there was no
38 to feel shy.
39she had made up her mind to
40 people’s attention for once in her life. Unlike others, Sylvia didn’t have any sad feelings herself at leaving Palmeira Court Hotel or saying goodbye to its
41 — she had left so many other
42 , and known too many people in her life to get upset by such things now.
Yet this
43 was a particular occasion, and she hadn’t had so many of those in her
44. She had put on her
45 black dress and her long earrings. She had wanted to enjoy being the center of
46 for one evening, but now they had
47 old Miss Hutton of all people to give the
48 speech, whom she disliked. Even so, she thought there was no sense in getting
49 about it, for it was the first rule her
50 had given her — avoid all anxiety, take things easy. So, surprising herself by enjoying her own well-rounded white arm as
51 showed through the sleeve of her
52 dress, she took a taste of her drink and then sat back comfortably with her cigarette. And her doctor’s orders worked! For
53 out slowly, she put Miss Hutton off the end of her
54 with a cloud of tobacco smoke, so that she smiled to herself at the old girl’s funny expression. She
55 herself quite well that night, even to her own surprise.
| 小题1: | | A．face | B．show | C．room | D．dress |
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| 小题2: | | A．nothing | B．nobody | C．everything | D．everybody |
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| 小题3: | | A．chance | B．time | C．reason | D．use |
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| 小题5: | | A．pay | B．give | C．enjoy | D．offer |
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| 小题6: | | A．guests | B．people | C．places | D．things |
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| 小题7: | | A．houses | B．friends | C．hotels | D．parties |
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| 小题8: | | A．morning | B．afternoon | C．evening | D．night |
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| 小题9: | | A．life | B．work | C．school | D．home |
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| 小题10: | | A．large | B．best | C．most | D．worst |
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| 小题11: | | A．service | B．exhibition | C．Group | D．attention |
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| 小题12: | | A．ordered | B．chosen | C．wished | D．helped |
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| 小题13: | | A．long | B．great | C．goodbye | D．welcome |
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| 小题14: | | A．excited | B．anxious | C．puzzled | D．pleased |
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| 小题15: | | A．teacher | B．friend | C．husband | D．doctor |
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| 小题17: | | A．black | B．white | C．red | D．green |
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| 小题18: | | A．getting | B．putting | C．breathing | D．speaking |
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| 小题19: | | A．action | B．speech | C．work | D．performance |
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| 小题20: | | A．made | B．enjoyed | C．understood | D．thought |
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