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高三英语限时阅读训练（四十九） 08.3 第一部分：完形填空天津一中 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 When Nancy Lublin got $5,000 from her great-grandfather, she never once considered taking a vacation or paying off her student loans. ___36___, the 24-year-old New York University law student began thinking about the clothing ___37___ faced by most of today’s low-income women. “If she goes for a job interview ___38___ dressed, she won’t get the job,” Lublin says. “But without a job, she can’t ___39___ proper clothing.” A few weeks later, Lublin ___40___ Dress for Success and began searching for clothing and volunteers. She asked women to give away ___41___ business clothes that were ___42___ in good condition. She asked the members of diet centers to give away clothes that no longer fitted. At first Lublin ___43___ the clothes in her one-bedroom apartment, but later on she found ___44___ in the Greenwich Village church basement, which now ___45___ as the organization’s main office. Today, when women arrive at the office for help with job-hunting, they ___46___ a dress, shoes, a bag, a pair of stocking, jewelry, and self-confidence as well. ___47___ are trying to enter the workforce after being on welfare (福利) for years. ___48___Dress for Success fitted its first person who got help a year ago, more than 1,000 women have received help and many have won ___49___. Yarit Polanco was recently ___50___ as a law-firm office manager. “Thanks to Dress for Success, I made a good impression and was accepted,” she says. Donations (捐赠) are now ___51___in, including jewelry and 6,000 pairs of trousers and $40,000 worth of handbags. Broadcast journalists have given suits. And Lublin is opening Dress for Success ___52___ in other cities. 揗any women have clothes___53___ arouind that they’ll never wear again,” says a volunteer. “Nancy’s ___54___ is simple and practical and the ___55___ has proved so important to those women who are in great need of it.” 36. A. Anyway B. Instead C. Fortunately D