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第二节：完形填空（每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41~60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。
We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we’ve become used to suddenly 41 . Take, for example, the neatly-dressed(穿戴整齐的) woman I 42 to see — or look at — on my way to work each morning.
For three years, no matter 43 the weather was like, she was 44 waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a.m. On 45 days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime 46 out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. 47 , she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I 48 all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how 49 I expected to see her each morning. You might say I 50 her.
“Did she have an accident? Something 51 ?” I thought to myself about her disappearance. Now that she was gone, I felt I had 52 her. I began to realize that part of our 53 life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar 54 : the milkman you see at dawn, the women who 55 walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are 56 markers in our lives. They add weight to our 57 of place and belonging.
Think about it. 58 , while walking to work, we mark where we are by 59 a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though 60 , person?
41.A. disappears B. appears C. arrives D. comes
42.A. happened B. wanted C. used D. tried
43.A. what B. how C. which D. when
44.A. always B. seldom C. sometimes D. often
45.A. sunny B. rainy C. cloudy D. snowy
46.A. took B. brought C. carried D. turned
47.A. Clearly B. Particularly C. Luckily D. Especially
48.A. believed B. expressed C. remembered D. wondered
49.A. long B. often C. soon D. much
50.A. respected B. missed C. praised D. admired
51.A. better B. worse C. more D. less
52.A. forgotten B. lost C. known D. hurt
53.A. happy B. enjoyable C. usual D. daily
54.A. friends B. strangers C. tourists D. guests
55.A. regularly B. actually C. hardly D. probably
56.A. common B. pleasant C. important D. ordinary
57.A. choice B. knowledge C. decision D. sense
58.A. Because B. If C. Although D. However
59.A. keeping B. changing C. passing D. mentioning
60.A. unnamed B. unforgettable C. unbelievable D. unreal