Unit 4 Sharing Using language课时作业

第一节 完型填空

　　Many years ago I was on a bicycle trip through some exceedingly beautiful countryside. Suddenly, dark clouds 　1　 overhead and rain began to fall. 　2　 strange to relate, several hundred yards ahead of me the sun shone brilliantly. Cycling, however, as rapidly as I could, I found it impossible to get into the 　3　. The clouds with their rain kept 　4　 faster than I could race forward. I continued this unequal contest for an 　5　half hour, before realizing that I could not win my way to the bright area ahead of me.

　　Then it dawned upon me that I was 　6　 my strength, while paying no attention to the 　7　 for the sake of which I was making the trip. The storm could not last forever and the discomfort was not 　8　. Indeed, there was much to look at which might otherwise have 　9　 me. The rain mists which now crowned the wooded hills and the fresh clearness of the different greens were 　10　. My annoyance at the rain was gone and my eagerness to escape it 　11　. It had provided me with a new view and helped me understand that the sources of beauty may be found close 　12　.

　　It made me think, then and later, about other matters to which this incident was 　13　. It helped me realize that there is no sense in my 　14　 ever to flee from circumstances and conditions which cannot be avoided but which I might 　15　 meet and frequently mend and often turn to good account. I know that half the battle is won if I can face trouble with courage, 　16　 with spirit, and triumph with modesty. It has become ever clearer to me that danger is 　17　 disaster, and that defeat may be the pioneer of 　18　.

I have learned that trying to find a carefree world somewhere far off involves me in an endless chase in the course of which the opportunity for happiness is what I often 　19　 in the chase itself. It has become apparent to me that I cannot wipe out the pains of existence by denying them, 　20　them largely or completely on others, or running away from them.