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，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项（A，B，C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

My father and I were standing at the top of a church tower. He 36 me to this place in a small Italian town not far from our home in Rome. I 37 why he did so.

“Look down, Elsa,” Father said to me. I looked down and 38 the square in the centre of the village and I saw many turning streets 39 to the square.

“ See, my dear. There is more than one 40 to the square. Life is like that. If you can’t get to the place 41 you want to go by one road, 42 another,” he said to me.

Now I 43 why I was there. My father wanted to tell me how to 44 and deal with the difficulties.

In the years that 45 I often remembered the lesson Fathere taught me. I knew where I wanted to go in 46 . I wanted to be a fashion 47 . And on the way to my first small success I found the road 48 . What could I do ? Accept the failure? Or use my imagination and wisdom to find another road to my 49 ?

I had come to Paris, the 50 of the world of fashion , with some clothes I 51 . But none of the famous fashion designers seemed 52 in them. Then one day I met a friend who was wearig a very beautiful sweater. It had a lovely and 53 stitch (针法).

“Did you knit that sweater ?” I asked her.

“No,”she answered. “ It was done by a woman here in Paris.”

“ What an interesting stitch !” I continued.

My friend had an 54 . “The woman’s name is Mrs Vidian    she learned the stitch in Armenia, her motherland.”

Suddenly a good idea 55 me. why not open my own house of fashion? Why not design, make and sell clothes? I would do it, and I would begin with a sweater.

1.A . carried	B. got	C. took	D. brought
2.A. doubted	B. guessed	C. wondered	D. knew
3.A. saw	B. realized	C. noticed	D. observed
4.A. going	B. leading	C. turning	D. directing
5.A. path	B. method	C. road	D. way
6.A. why	B. which	C. where	D. when
7.A. attempt	B. experiment	C. manage	D. try
8.A. imagined	B. supposed	C. witnessed	D. understood
9.A. face	B. handle	C. settle	D. solve
10.A. approached	B. caught	C. followed	D. wasted
11.A. life	B. class	C. work	D. heart
12.A. seller	B. worker	C. teacher	D. designer
13.A. blocked	B. approved	C. passed	D. smoothed
14.A. comfort	B. intelligence	C. failure	D. success
15.A. country	B. attraction	C. centre	D. capital
16.A. designed	B. performed	C. recommended	D. chose
17.A. buried	B. occupied	C. absorbed	D. interested
18.A. unusual	B. perfect	C. ordinary	D. rough
19.A. reason	B. explanation	C. description	D. cause
20.A. thought	B. entered	C. came	D. struck