完型填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。
We wish that we could be better at sports or more attractive. We wish we had nicer clothes or more money. Everyone likes to feel that he or she is special. _______ , many of us grow up believing that we’re not special at all. We believe we are not good enough just as we are.
Most parents want us to be the best we can be. Very often, they compare (比较)us to_______ . By doing this, they try to encourage us to do better. They _______ well, but the message we often get is that we’re not good enough. We begin to believe that the only way we can be special is _______ being better than someone else, but we are often disappointed(失望). There will always be someone out there who is better than we are at _______ . Plenty of people around may not be as smart as we are, but they are better at sports. Or they may not be as good-looking, but they have more money. It is _______ for us to be better than everyone else all the time.
We all want the things that we believe will make us better people. But very often we don’t realize that we already have _______ us the very things that we want. These things make us _______ others. When we are growing up, _______ sometimes forget to tell us that we are special, that we are good enough. Maybe no one told them when they were growing up. _______ , it’s up to us to remind them from time to time that each of us, in our own way, is special. What we are is enough.
1.A. Again B. Next C. Otherwise D. However
2.A. other B. others C. another D. the others
3.A. believe B. work C. mean D. show
4.A. to B. on C. by D. in
5.A. something B. anything C. everything D. nothing
6.A. helpful B. impossible C. necessary D. important
7.A. inside B. among C. around D. for
8.A. worse than B. better than C. different from D. the same as
9.A. friends B. scientists C. parents D. doctors
10.A. Also B. Anyway C. Although D. After all
—Forgotten something ? I can look after your kids if you want to go and get it.
—_________. Thank you all the same.
A. It's very kind of you.
B. Oh, how careless of me.
C. I might as well go and get it.
D. Well, I can do without it.
— How was your job interview yesterday?
— Oh, I couldn’t feel ______. I could hardly answer most of the questions they asked.
A. easier B. better C. worse D. happier
— Could you tell me ________________?
A. how long Lily had caught a cold
B. whether she had been married
C. what’s happened to you
D. how you call these animals
_______ he can’t answer the question, you’d better ask someone else.
A. Since B. Though C. Before D. Whenever
— Mum, why don’t you have the robot ______ housework for you?
— Oh, it has caught a virus. I should have it _______ at once.
A. done, repaired B. done, repair
C. do, repaired D. do, repair
