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【英语卷（解析）·2015届湖南省岳阳一中高三上学期第三次月考（201411）有答案】Section B. (18 marks)
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B,C and D . Fill in each blank with a word or phrase that best fits the context.
“Mom，” my fouryearold daughter, Alex, said, “I want to build a lemonade stand.”
A kid setting up a lemonade stand might not sound like a very big deal, but Alex wasn't an __36_ kid. She had battled pediatric (儿科的) cancer since she was one, and the __37__ of her sitting out in front of our house selling lemonade was just too heartbreaking.
“Alex，” I said, “if there's something you really need to buy, maybe we can just get it for you.You might only end up __38__ a few dollars. Maybe not even that.”
“That's all right. Everything __39__. I'm not keeping the money. I'm giving it to my hospital for cancer research，” she insisted.
So that was it. I told our neighbors about the lemonade stand and asked them to __40__. The next day Alex was up extra early. Before 8 she was sitting outside at her lemonade stand. By 11 a．m. the little toy cash register (收银机) had been filled and emptied many _41__. At the end of the day we counted how much money she'd made for the hospital. Just over two thousand dollars.
The first newspaper article about Alex's lemonade stand came out and was __42__ by dozens more. Alex's idea caught on like wildfire and soon kids in other towns and other states were __43__ lemonade to benefit pediatric cancer research. The more lemonade stands, the more money came in for research. And more research meant more help for kids with cancer.
I knew that the project had become __44__ just something Alex loved. It was what was keeping her going. But then her health took a sharp turn downward. __45__， her body, exhausted by the cancer, began to fail her once and for all. She died peacefully on August 1,2004.
Alex didn't _46__ her battle against cancer, but we did see a miracle (奇迹) — the river of __47__ that has poured into Alex's lemonade stand from the very first moment she started it.
36. A. independent B. optimistic C. ordinary D. active
37. A. thought B. sight C. proposal D. news
38. A. giving B. accepting C. making D. finding
39. A. suits B. helps C. plays D. changes
40. A. come on B. get in C. go on D. stop by
41. A. numbers B. turns C. hours D. times
42. A. learned B. followed C. passed D. written
43. A. donating B. collecting C. selling D. buying
44. A. more than B. no more C. rather than D. nothing but
45. A. Finally B. Instead C. Meanwhile D. Once
46. A. control B. manage C. lose D. survive
47. A. sadness B. love C. imagination D. wisdom
【答案】【知识点】O1完形填空Ⅰ
【文章综述】文章讲述了Alex，一个得了癌症的4岁女孩，在家门口卖柠檬水来筹钱用于医院做癌症研究的事情。这件事经媒体报道后，更多的人追随她的脚步，通过卖柠檬水来筹钱做治疗癌症的研究。
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