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       It was a day in late June, gray and depressing, with clouds hanging low. My husband and I were driving to Nova Scotia, Canada, for a much-needed vacation. We traveled tiredly, hoping to  36   rest and dinner before the rain came. Suddenly, on a lonely stretch of highway, the storm  37   . Cascades of water shut us in, making driving impossible. We   38    onto the shoulder of the road and stopped.        Then, as though someone had turned off a celestial tap, it   39   . A thin radiance, like a spray of gold,  40   from the clouds. Every blade of grass was crystalline as the sun flashed on   41    drops. The very road shone, and a rainbow arched across the sky. It was as though this beam of color had been built for us   42   . We could hardly speak for awe and joy.        A friend of mine has described a   43    experience. She had walked out on a lonely beach at twilight. It was a time of grief for her, and   44    was what she wanted. Offshore, across the darkening sea, she made out the   45    of an anchored fishing boat, and in it the figure of a man. My friend told me that after a while, she felt an intense and glowing sense of oneness with that    46    figure. It was as though sea and sky and night and those two solitary human beings were united in a kind of profound identity. “I was    47   by joy,” she said.         48   almost anything may serve as the motivation of such a ­feeling—stars shine on new snow; a sudden field of daffodils; a moment in marriage when hand reaches out to hand in the    49    that this other person speaks as you speak, feels as you feel. Joy may wait, too, just    50    danger when you have enough to face a situation and live it out.   51    the source, such experiences provide the most memorable moments of life.        What if these moments of joy are given to us to  52   that this is the way we are meant to live? What if the clarity of joy is the way we should be seeing all the time? To many people, it seems almost wicked to feel this radiance in a world  53   as ours is. But most generations have known uncertainty and   54   . The more damaged the world, the more we need to remember the luminous beauty at the center of life. Our moments of joy are  55   that at the heart of darkness an unquenchable(不可遏制的) light shines.        Joy is the feeling that we have touched the edge of something far beyond ourselves. 36. A. reach            B. purchase            C. afford               D. offer 37. A. struck                 B. attacked                 C. fell                      D. covered 38. A. pulled up        B. pulled through         C. pulled off                 D. pulled down 39. A. started                B. ended             C. paused                    D. disturbed 40. A. spread             B. unfolded                C. broadcast                       D. reflected 41. A. bright            B. shrinking           C. trembling             D. thick 42. A. alone                B. lonely                     C. only                           D. together 43. A. contrary             B. different                  C. similar                    D. strange 44. A. discomfort          B. loneliness                C. despair                   D. pain 45. A. sightseeing         B. scene                      C. image                 D. picture 46. A. silent                  B. peaceful                   C. quiet                     D. calm 47. A. overlooked         B. overcome                C. overtaken              D. overdone 48. A. Apparently        B. Purposely                C. Accidentally              D. Fortunately 49. A. imagination        B. reputation             C. innovation               D. realization 50. A. against              B. beyond                   C. within                    D. without 51. A. Whichever       B. However                  C. Whatever                D. Whenever 52. A. represent       B. recall                     C. resemble                D. reveal 53. A. threatened           B. destroyed                C. cursed                 D. interfered  54. A. opportunity         B. happiness              C. challenge                D. benefit 55. A. proof           B. version                  C. foundation                     D. comprehension 答案：36-40  AACBA  41-45  CACBC         46-50. ACADB       51-55. CDACA  

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