2019年天津市滨海七所重点学校高三毕业班联考(完形）

How did you do it, Dad? How have you managed not to take a drink for almost 20 years? It took me almost 20 years to have the    31    to even ask my father this very personal question. When Dad first    32    drinking, the whole family was on pins and needles every time he got into a    33    that, in the past, would have started him    34    again. For a few years we were    35    to bring it up for fear that the drinking would begin again.

“I had this little poem that I would recite to myself at least four to five times a day,” was  Dad’s    36    to my 18-year-old unasked question. “The words were a constant    37    to me that things were    38    so hard that I could not deal with them,” Dad said. Then         he    39    the poem with me. The poem’s    40   , yet profound words immediately    became    41    of my daily routine as well.

About a month after this    42    with my father, I received a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a book of daily sayings of wisdom with one    43    for each day of the year.

It has been my    44    that when you get something with days of the year on it, you naturally turn to the page that lists your own    45   .

I    46    opened the book to November 10 to see    47    words of wisdom this book had in store for me. I was    48    when I looked at the page, and then tears of disbelief and appreciation    49    down my face. There, on my birthday, was the exact same poem that     had    50    my father for all these years! It is called the Serenity（平静）Prayer.

God, grant me

the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;

the courage to change the things I can;

and the wisdom to know the difference.

31. A. chance                       B. courage                    C. ability                      D. right

32. A. gave up                      B. took up                    C. went on                    D. carried on

33. A. way                           B. habit                        C. situation                   D. house

34. A. reciting                      B. asking                      C. smoking                   D. drinking

35. A. sure                           B. uncertain                  C. afraid                       D. eager

36. A. reply                         B. words                      C. excuse                      D. explanation

37. A. fear                           B. imagination             C. thought                    D. reminder

38. A. never                         B. often                        C. always                            D. ever

39. A. discussed                   B. shared                      C. offered                     D. talked

40. A. wonderful                  B. long                         C. simple                      D. boring

41. A. all                            B. that                          C. any                          D. part

42. A. talk                           B. quarrel                            C. trip                          D. lesson

43. A. listed                         B. included                   C. read                         D. said

44. A. method                      B. experience                C. wealth                      D. message

45. A. character                    B. birthday                   C. qualities                   D. favourites

46. A. doubtfully                  B. carefully                  C. happily                    D. hurriedly

47. A. where                        B. whether                    C. what                        D. how

48. A. excited                      B. astonished                C. disappointed             D. frightened

49. A. hung                         B. pulled                      C. rolled                       D. pushed

50. A. troubled                   B. disturbed                  C. pleased                     D. helped

31-35: BACDC   36-40: ADABC           41-45: DAABB          46-50: DCBCD