题目内容：

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、 B、 C 和 D ）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

“So teach him to close the door”, my daughter Emma responded after listening to me   36   , again, about the dog coming in from the back door, bringing with him a blast of Buffalo January   37   air．

Teach a dog to close a door behind him? That has got to be a really, really   38    thing to do．But then she took it a step   39   ．“Come on Kolby”, she said, grabbing(抓住) some treats and   40   him in front of the open door．“Touch．” And “touch” he did, which moved the door to a   41   position．She   42   him with a treat, smiled, looked at me, and said “see!” And I saw and became   43   ．Over the last few days I have been consistent（一致的） with Kolby．Each time he comes in I  44   him back to the open door patiently and ask him to close．There have been   45   in the beginning, but lately more and more successes．

However, there remains much work to be done．I have to get him follow my hand signal again and again  46   he will close the door from a distance．But, I now realize, as long as you keep to the   47   , the task will be completed, and, with the way things are progressing,   48   quickly．

What a  49   treat to have a dog that can close the door after himself! Even more wonder can be found in the  50   I learned so clearly from both Emma and Kolby．

A wish is just a wish until you decide to take  51   ．Once you   52  the belief that it is “too hard”, then it remains “too hard ” and out of  53  ．Once you decide to accomplish a goal, and  54   that it is “easy”, then it becomes “easy” to do what needs to be done．Just  55    doing it．

1. A．complain                 B．scream                          C．worry                             D．scare

2.A．thin                            B．fresh                              C．dirty                               D．cold

3.A．last                            B．funny                              C．hard                               D．possible

4.A．again                         B．further                           C．deeper                           D．backward

5.A．pushing                     B．tying                               C．seating                          D．positioning

6. A．stopped                   B．fixed                               C．closed                            D．locked

7.A．rewarded                 B．provided                        C．offered                          D．thanked

8.A．persuaded               B．convinced                     C．inspired                         D．puzzled

9.A．bring                          B．pull                                 C．drag                               D．call

10.A．pleasures               B．experiments                C．failures                          D．pauses

11. A．in case                   B．even if                            C．as if                                D．so that

12. A．interest                 B．focus                              C．progress                       D．harmony

13. A．determined          B．taught                           C．bought                           D．completed

14.. A．wonderful            B．small                              C．different                        D．simple

15. A．knowledge            B．skills                               C．lessons                          D．experience

16.A．patience                 B．part                                C．delight                           D．action

17. A．hold on to             B．pay attention to          C．come up with               D．get used to

18. A．date                       B．touch                             C．reach                             D．power

19. A．prove                     B．decide                            C．conclude                       D．realize

20. A．imagine.                B．start                               C．keep                               D．enjoy