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   During the war ,my husband was stationed at an army camp in a desert in California. I went to live there in order to be  41   him. I hated the place. I had never   42  been so unhappy. My husband was ordered out on a long-term duty, and I was left in a tiny shack(棚屋) alone. The heat was   43  —almost 125 °F even in the shade of a cactus(仙人掌).   44  a soul to talk to. The wind blew non-stop, and all the food I ate, and the very air I breathed, were   45  with sand, sand, sand!    I was so sorry for myself that I wrote to my parents. I told them I was   46   and coming back home. I said I couldn’t stand it one minute longer. I   47   be in prison! My father answered my  48  with just two lines—two lines that will always sing in my   49  — two lines that completely changed my life: Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw the stars.    I read those two lines  50  . I was ashamed of myself. I made up my mind I would find out what was good in my present   51  I would look for the stars.    I made friends with the natives, and their   52  amazed me. They gave me presents of their favorite artworks which they had  53   to sell to tourists. I studied the delightful forms of the cactus. I watched for the desert sunsets, and   54   for seashells that had been left there millions of years ago when the desert had been an ocean  55  .    What brought about this   56  change in me? The desert hadn’t changed,   57   I had. I had changed my   58  . And by doing so, I changed an unhappy experience into the most amazing  59   of my life. I was excited by this new world that I had discovered. I had looked out of my self-created prison and   60   the stars. 41. A. off            B. behind             C. near            D. beyond 42. A. before         B. already             C. then            D. still 43. A. inflexible      B. incomprehensible     C. uncontrollable    D. unbearable 44. A. Only         B. Not                 C. Many           D. Such 45. A. covered       B. filled                C. buried          D. charged 46. A. catching up    B. keeping up           C. giving up        D. getting up 47. A. ought to       B. might well           C. would rather     D. had better 48. A. request         B. call               C. question        D. letter 49. A. comparison     B. imagination        C. consideration     D. memory 50. A. over and over   B. by and by          C. up and down      D. now and then 51. A. company       B. occupation         C. situation         D. relationship 52. A. movement      B. reaction           C. guidance         D. purpose 53. A. refused        B. failed              C. managed         D. happened 54. A. asked          B. hunted             C. waited          D. headed 55. A. floor          B. surface             C. rock            D. level 56. A. shocking       B. challenging         C. puzzling         D. astonishing 57. A. as             B. but                C. for             D. or 58. A. attitude        B. principle            C. identity         D. standard 59. A. vacation       B. operation            C. affair           D. adventure 60. A. sought         B. counted             C. found          D. reached 答案：41-45 CADBB      46-50 CCDDA       51-55 CBABA      56-60 DBADC

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