二、传统文化 完形填空。(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
根据短文内容，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
When Confucius(孔子) was a young boy，his family was poor. He couldn’t go to a good
1 like rich kids，but he loved learning and got knowledge through self-study. Whenever he had trouble
2 something，he asked people for help，and it didn’t matter if they were young or old. By the age of thirty，Confucius had learned a lot and became famous for his
3 in his town.
Back then，people didn’t have paper like we do now. Instead，they used
4 to make books. They cut the bamboo into thin pieces，dried them with fire，and then
5 on them. These pieces were “bamboo slips”，or zhujian in Chinese. Each slip was long and
6，and people could only write one line on each slip. To
7 a whole book，they needed lots of these bamboo slips. They tied them together with cowhide strings(牛皮绳子) so they could read the book
8. It was a lot of work! Some books，like The Book of Changes，were
9 to read because they had too many bamboo slips.
Confucius didn’t begin studying The Book of Changes until his later years. It was a difficult book， ______
10 ______ Confucius worked hard to understand it. However，he only ______
11 ______ what the book was mainly about when he read it for the first time. So，Confucius read it ______
12 ______ and then understood the important ideas this time. Next，he read it a third time and finally understood the deep meaning. After that，he ______
13 ______ reading The Book of Changes many more times. Since he read it so many times，the cowhide strings holding the bamboo slips together ______
14 ______ several times，and Confucius had to use new ones to tie the bamboo slips. Even though he read it many times，Confucius didn’t think he fully understood the ______
15 ______ . “If I could live a bit longer，” he said，“I would understand everything in The Book of Changes.”
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)1. A. hospital B. museum
C. restaurant D. school
(
)2. A. collecting B. discovering
C. searching D. understanding
(
)3. A. childhood B. education
C. knowledge D. pressure
(
)4. A. bamboo B. paper C. leaves D. trees
(
)5. A. held B. printed C. walked D. wrote
(
)6. A. big B. small C. wide D. thin
(
)7. A. make B. open C. buy D. borrow
(
)8. A. difficultly B. easily
C. quietly D. bravely
(
)9. A. difficult B. light
C. important D. popular
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)10. A. but B. since
C. until D. whenever
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)11. A. arrived at B. agreed with
C. improved on D. learned about
(
)12. A. again B. too
C. together D. anyway
(
)13. A. enjoyed B. considered C. kept D. got
(
)14. A. broke B. died
C. happened D. shook
(
)15. A. book B. story C. reason D. question
