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完形填空（共1小题）

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。

Shirley Allen loved to sing and play the piano．She studied music in college and her_________was to become a concert pianist or blues singer．Everything_________when she was 20 years old．She became sick with what doctors _________ was typhoid fever(伤寒)and she almost died．Doctors gave her medicine to help her get well, but the medicine _________her to become_________deaf．She could no longer hear the music which she had always_________

Shirley would never give up playing the piano, _________she did decide to change_________.She transferred to Gallaudet University and studied English .In 1964 Shirley graduated from Gallaudet and looked for_________.She wanted to be _________and work full time .

For three years, Shirley worked as a clerk in Washington,D.C．_________,in 1967 she was asked to work at Gallaudet University as a dorm supervisor(宿舍监管员).Shirley supervised young women who_________in the university during the school year．She also taught English．Somehow she found time to_________ graduate school at Howard University in Washington,D.C．In 1972,Shirley received her M.A.degree.

Always _________ a new challenge, in 1973 Shirley became a professor at National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), which_________deaf and hard-of-hearing students technical and professional training.

This_________ woman became the first black deaf female in the world to receive her Ph.D．She made _________in 1992_________she received the highest degree in education from the University of Rochester in New York.

Dr.Shirley Jeanne Allen has traveled many roads and_________many rainbows searching for her dream．With courage and_________,she never gave up.

1.A．job               B．interest         C．duty             D．dream

2.A．disappeared       B．changed          C．stopped          D．ended

3.A．said              B．agreed           C．found            D．thought

4.A．allowed           B．caused           C．encouraged       D．enabled

5.A．almost            B．actually         C．totally          D．gradually

6.A．loved             B．played           C．performed        D．remembered

7.A．and               B．so               C．but              D．even if

8.A．career            B．interest         C．life             D．attitude

9.A．information       B．help             C．an assistant     D．a job

10.A．happy            B．independent      C．free             D．confident

11.A．However          B．Then             C．Therefore        D．Besides

12.A．worked          B．studied        C．lived            D．played

13.A．attend           B．observe          C．describe         D．advertise

14.A．interested in    B．busy with        C．concerned about D．ready for

15.A．teaches          B．offers           C．pays             D．promises

16.A．amazing          B．strict           C．wealthy          D．beautiful

17.A．progress         B．excuses          C．suggestions      D．history

18.A．after            B．while            C．until            D．when

19.A．found            B．watched          C．followed         D．appreciated

20.A．intelligence     B．determination    C．strength         D．pride