【原创】英语美文：2016年高考浙江卷完形填空出处---原文欣赏

【博主按语】2016年高考浙江卷完形填空改编自该篇美文。二战时，一位新婚妻子随丈夫由东海岸来到西海岸
沙漠里的兵营附近，艰苦的生活条件使这位妻子打算离开这里，这时妈妈来信中的两句名言改变了她看待周围一切的态度： Two men looked out from prison bars. One saw the mud, the other saw the stars (两个犯人从监狱的铁窗向外看,一个看到了烂泥,另一个看到了星光.)。从此，曾经的艰苦的一切变成了美好…------: 态度会改变一切。

原文欣赏：

It’s All in a Person’s Attitude 一切都取决于一个人的态度

During the Second World War, a young bride from the east followed her husband to an Army camp at the edge of the desert in California. Living conditions were primitive at best; her husband had advised against it, but she wanted to be with him.

The only housing they could find was a rundown shack near an Indian Village. The heat was unbearable in the daytime—115 degrees in the shade. The wind blew constantly—spreading dust and sand all over everything. The days were long and boring. Her only neighbors were the Indians—none of whom spoke English. When her husband was ordered farther into the desert for two weeks of maneuvers, loneliness and the wretched living conditions got the best of (击垮)her. She wrote to her mother that she was coming home; she just couldn’t take it anymore. In a short time she received a reply, which included these lines:

Two men looked out from prison bars,

One saw mud; the other saw stars.

She read the lines over and over and began to feel ashamed of herself. She didn’t really want to leave her husband. All right, she’d look for the stars. In the following days, she set out to make friends with the Indians. She asked them to teach her weaving and pottery. At first they were distant, but as soon as they sensed her interest was genuine, they returned her friendship. She became fascinated with their culture, history—everything about them.

She began to study the desert as well, and soon it too changed from a desolate, forbidding place to a marvelous thing of beauty. She had her mother send her books. She studied the forms of the cacti, the yuccas, and the Joshua trees. She collected seashells that had been left there millions of years ago when the sands had been an ocean floor. Later, she became such an expert on the area that she wrote a book about it.

What had changed? Not the desert; not the Indians. Simply by changing her own attitude, she had transformed a miserable experience into a highly rewarding one.

由此改编的2016年高考浙江卷完形填空：

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  21  him. I hated the place. I had never  22  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  23  ---almost 125°F even in the shade of a cactus(仙人掌). 24  a soul to talk to.  The wind blew non-stop, and all the food I ate, and the very air I breathed, were  25   with sand , sand , sand !

I was so sorry for myself that I wrote to my parents. I told them I was  26   and coming back home. I said I couldn’t stand it one minute longer. I  27  be in prison! My father（注：原文中为mother） answered my  28  with just two lines---two lines that will always sing in my 29  --- 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  30  . I was ashamed of myself. I made up my mind I would find out what was good in my present  31  ; I would look for the stars

I made friends with the natives, and their  32  amazed me. They gave me presents of their favorite artworks which they had  33  to sell to tourists. I studied the delightful forms of the cactus. I watched for the desert sunsets, and  34  for seashells that had been left there millions of years ago when the desert had been an ocean  35 

What brought about this  36   change in me ? The desert hadn’t changed , 37   I had .I had changed my  38  . And by doing so ,I changed an unhappy experience into the most amazing  39  of my life . I was excited by this new world that I had discovered . I had looked out of my self-created prison and  40   the stars

21.  A. off               B.  behind               C. near                        D. beyond

22.  A. before         B. already                C. then                       D. still

23.  A. inflexible    B. incomprehensible  C. uncontrollable        D.unbearable

24.  A. Only             B.  Not                  C. Many                       D.Such

25.  A. covered          B. filled                    C.  buried                D. charged

26.  A. catching up       B. keeping up        C. giving up            D.getting up

27.  A. ought to          B. might well          C. would rather         D.had better

28.  A. request            B. call                     C. question               D.letter

29.  A. comparison     B. imagination        C. consideration        D. memory

30.  A. over and over    B. by and by         C. up and down         D.now and then

31.  A. company           B. occupation       C. situation                D.relationship

32.  A. movement         B. reaction            C. guidance              D.purpose

33.  A. refused             B. failed               C. managed                D.happened

34.  A. asked                B. hunted               C. waited                 D.headed

35.  A. floor                  B. surface             C. rock                       D.level

36.  A. shocking           B. challenging        C. puzzling               D.astonishing

37.  A. as                     B. but                     C. for                        D.or

38.  A. attitude             B. principle               C. identity              D.standard

39.  A. vacation           B. operation              C. affair                  D. adventure

40.  A. sought              B. counted                C. found                D.reached

答案：

21.C         22.A           23.D           24.B            25.B

26.C         27.C           28.D           29.D            30.A

31.C         32.B           33.A           34.B            35.A

36.D         37.B           38.A           39.D            40.C