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，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。

　　One of Fatah's close friends had several farms. The friend was very rich. One year, due to __1__ economic (经济的) conditions, people were suffering from starvation. This man __2__ to give the harvest of one of his farms to the __3__. So he went to the square and announced that people could benefit from the __4__. But the condition was that they should be in __5__， and that they could not take from the harvest more than what was __6__.

　　The needy went there every day in great numbers and benefited. The __7__ of the farm was so busy with his work that he didn't follow up closely on the __8__ of that piece of land. After he had __9__ all the other pieces of land, he __10__ this particular farm he had given as charity, and __11__ his servants to go and collect any dry grass, plants and seeds that may have __12__.

　　To the servants' great __13__， they even found that there __14__ remained a lot of crops that had not been harvested. On collecting the harvest, they all __15__ that the harvest of that piece of land exceeded (超过) that of all the other pieces of land that the man owned.

　　It was a common __16__ to leave the land without planting any crops in the following years so that it could regain the minerals it had __17__. However, it was found that this piece of land had not lost anything at all, and it was __18__ to grow crops on it in the following year. So he and other people __19__ a lot.

　　In our daily life, we should __20__ to help others when they are in trouble, which is good for ourselves and others.

　　C．unfair D．bad

　　解析：选D　由本空后的starvation可知，由于经济状况不好(bad)，人们遭受饥饿。

　　2．A.begged B．refused

　　C．decided D．asked

解析：选C　正因为有人经济状况不好，因此法塔赫的朋友决定(decided)来帮助这些人。