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阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
(2020•湖南长郡中学模拟二)
Since I was young.I’ve noticed 41 in people’s hairstyles,clothes,facial expressions and behaviors.I like noticing the world around me and I 42 the power of paying attention.
I grew up on our family farm.My grandpa always had an eye on the sky, 43 the clouds and their various colors.He knew when the soybeans got the 44 of brown paper bags it was time to 45 .Farming is about noticing and paying attention.
My mother and grandmother 46 everything from curtains to clothes.My mother made quite a few of my 47 and her pattern work was so 48 .My aunt Becky knit socks and sweaters.The patterns looked like a foreign language to me,but they were road maps my mother followed 49 .If she noticed a 50 stitch(一 针),she would follow seriously 51 .The women in my family practiced 52 crafts,requiring precision and an eye for 53 ,attention to color combinations and a love of a 54 world.
Noticing was all around me.It was the clothes on my body,the 55 in the fields,and the clouds in the sky.
I’m teaching how to write and seeing details is my job.Nothing is too small to 56 .Paying attention is my occupation.Through paying attention to my 57 carefully,I can get to know more about them than before.So if I notice that their eyes look 58 instead of bright,I will know why.The world is 59 one detail after another,and by opening my eyes to each of them,I can see the world much more 60 ,much more broadly.
41.A.decorations B.inventions
C.figures D.changes
42.A.believe in B.think of
C.talk about D.look into
43.A.introducing B.complaining
C.interpreting D.painting
44.A.shape B.color
C.weight D.size
45.A.grow B.water
C.weed D.harvest
46.A.sewed B.bought
C.ploughed D.designed
47.A.bags B.beds
C.clothes D.books
48.A.adequate B.precise
C.complicated D.fragile
49.A.badly B.carelessly
C.rudely D.seriously
50.A.dropped B.broken
C.sharpened D.shortened
51.A.yet B.too
C.again D.though
52.A.troublesome B.conventional
C.demanding D.simple
53.A.detail B.sky
C.perfection D.money
54.A.patterned B.wandering
C.rough D.noisy
55.A.farmers B.workers
C.fruits D.crops
56.A.hear B.ignore
C.concern D.share
57.A.parents B.colleagues
C.neighbors D.students
58.A.big B.dull
C.open D.clever
59.A.made up for B.got hold of
C.composed of D.knocked out of
60.A.clearly B.bravely
C.hopefully D.easily
【答案】 41.D 42.A 43.C 44.B 45.D 46.A 47.C 48.B 49.D 50.A 51.C 52.C 53.A 54.A 55.D 56.B 57.D 58.B 59.C 60.A