题目内容：

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_______him. I hated the place. I had never _______been so unhappy. My husband was ordered out on a long-term duty, and I was left in a tiny shack alone. The heat was_______-almost 125 0F even in the shade of a cactus(仙人掌). _______a soul to talk to. The wind blew non-stop, and all the food I ate, and the every air I breathed, were_______ with sand, sand, sand!

I was so sorry for myself that I wrote to my parents. I told them I was _______ and coming back home. I said I couldn’t stand it one minute longer. I _______be in prison! My father answered my _______with just two lines-two lines that will always sing in my_______- 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________ I was ashamed of myself. I made up my mind I would find out what was good in my present ________; I would look for the stars.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8.A. complaints    B. calls    C. questions    D. requests

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16.A. challenging    B. astonishing    C. puzzling    D. exciting

17.A. as    B. or    C. for    D. but

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

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

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