题目内容：

As a child, I was truly afraid of the dark and of getting lost; these fears were very real and caused me some uncomfortable moments.

Maybe it was the strange   36 things looked and sounded in my familiar room at night that  37 me so much. There was never total  38 , but a streetlight or passing car lights 39   clothes hung over a chair take on the   40  of a wild animal. Out of the corner of my 41  , I saw the curtains seem to move when there was no  42 . A tiny sound in the floor would seem a hundred times louder than in the daylight. My   43 would run wild, and my heart would beat fast. I would   44 very still so that the "enemy" would not discover me.

Another of my childhood fears was that I would get lost, 45  on the way home from school. Every morning I get on the school bus right near my home--that was no  46 . After school,   47  , when all the buses were  48  up along the street, I was afraid that I'd get on the wrong one, and be taken to some  49 neighborhood. On school or family trips to a park or museum, I wouldn't  50 the leaders out of my sight.

Perhaps one of the worst fears  51 all I had as a child was that of not being liked or   52 by others. Being popular was so important to me  53 , and the fear of not being liked was a 54  one.

One of the processes of growing up is being able to  55 and overcome our fears. Understanding the things that frightened us as children helps us achieve greater success later in life.

1.                A．place          B．time           C．way D．reason

 

2.                A．frightened      B．destroyed       C．surprised D．wounded

 

3.                A．darkness        B．quietness       C．emptiness     D．loneliness

 

4.                A．got            B．made           C．forced    D．caused

 

5.                A．spirit           B．height          C．body     D．shape

 

6.                A．eye            B．window         C．mouth    D．door

 

7.                A．breath         B．sound          C．air   D．wind

 

8.                A．belief          B．feeling          C．imagination    D．doubt

 

9.                A．lay            B．lie             C．rest D．hide

 

10.               A．simply         B．especially       C．probably   D．directly

 

11.               A．discussion       B．joke           C．problem   D．matter

 

12.               A．though         B．yet            C．although   D．still

 

13.               A．called          B．backed         C．packed    D．lined

 

14.               A．old            B．unfamiliar       C．poor D．crowded

 

15.               A．leave          B．send           C．order     D．let

 

16.               A．above          B．in             C．of    D．at

 

17.               A．protected       B．accepted       C．believed   D．guided

 

18.               A．then           B．there          C．once D．anyway

 

19.               A．strict          B．right           C．heavy     D．powerful

 

20.               A．realize         B．remember      C．recognize D．recover