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北大附中河南分校2013 届毕业班第四次培优考试 英 语 试 题 温馨提示：为避免完形填空出现在一张试卷的二面，试题顺序作了调整，但涂答案时请按题号涂卡！祝考试成功！ 第一卷 第二节 完形填空 （共20小题; 每小题 1. 5分，满分30分） My l4-year-old son, John, and I spotted the coat which was hanging at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass. While the other coats drooped(低垂), this one looked as if it were 36 itself up. The coat had beautiful tailoring, a Fifth Avenue label and a(an) 37 price of $28, which was popular just then with 38 , but could cost several hundred dollars new. This coat was even better, bearing that 39 of classic elegance. John tried it on and the fit was perfect. John 40 the coat to school the next day and came home wearing a big smile Did the kids like your coat? I asked. They loved it, he said, 41 folding it over the back of a chair and smoothing it flat. Over the next few weeks, a 42 came over John. Agreement replaced contrariness(作对)and reasoned discussion replaced fierce 43 . He became more mannerly and 44 , eager to please. He would generously loan his younger brother his tapes and lecture him 45 his behavior. When I mentioned this incident to his teacher and 46 what caused the changes, she said laughing. It 47 be his coat! Another teacher told him she was giving him a good 48 not only because he had earned 49 but because she liked his coat. At the library, we ran into a friend “Could this be John? he asked surprisingly, 50 Johns new height, assessing the cut of his coat and extending his hand, one gentleman to another. John and I both know we should never 51 a persons clothes for the real person within them. 52 there is something to be said for wearing a standard of excellence for the world to see and for 53 what is on the inside to what is on the outside. For John it is a time when it is as easy to try on different approaches to 54 as it is to try on a coat. The whole world, the whole future is stretched out ahead, a vast landscape 55 all the doors are open