第二节 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Arriving in a new city, I had the strangest first week of my graduate school. I fell and broke my 36 within two days of arriving there! I was really 37 by the kindness shown by my new 38 , someone who I had only just met. "We are family now", she said when she found me 39 in my room with a swollen leg, unable to move, in a 40 city with no family except across three oceans.
She 41 me to the student health center by taxi to get my leg 42 . The driver was so nice and said to me how 43 I was to have a friend like that. After that, my roommate 44 stop helping me — she made me delicious meals and 45 them to me and made me comfortable despite my insistence that I could do things on my own. When I refused her help, "I really like 46 people", she would say, "and I believe what goes 47 always comes around..." and this was from someone who I had been 48 just by chance!
I was 49 touched by the kindness of everyone — the girl in the elevator, people on the bus, the doctors and nurses—people who were so considerate and 50 . Not feeling lonely and homesick any more, I 51 I’ve become a member of a big family.
The small acts 52 in my mind — the bus drivers gave me the luxury of being picked up from any point wherever and made sure I could get the connections to 53 I needed to go... or the many people who 54 the door open for me — small things that were incredibly hard with inconvenience. In whatever way I could, I decided to 55 the universe for its blessings.
36. A. leg B. arms C. back D. fingers
37. A. interested B. assisted C. touched D. advocated
38. A. classmate B. teacher C. desk-mate D. roommate
39. A. studying B. lying C. walking D. dying
40. A. strange B. different C. big D. small
41. A. brought B. fetched C. took D. drove
42. A. examined B. examining C. examine D. to examine
43. A. easy B. comfortable C. inspiring D. lucky
44. A. didn't B. had to C. failed to D. promised to
45. A. cooked B. brought C. bought D. sent
46. A. to help B. help C. being helped D. helping
47. A. around B. across C. over D. beyond
48. A. parted B. passed C. paired D. pitied
49. A. slightly B. secretly C. seriously D. suddenly
50. A. concentrated B. concerned C. changed D. conducted
51. A. felt B. stopped C. announced D. determined
52. A. stayed B. lasted C. grew D. related
53. A. whatever B. whenever C. wherever D. whoever
54. A. prepared B. held C. tended D. threw
55. A. refuse B. repay C. reach D. receive