2010届高考英语完形填空专项训练
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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后人36-55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
Anna Douglas was 72 years old when she started writing her newspaper column.She had been a school teacher before she retired(退休),but she needed to keep 36 .She was even willing to work without pay.She then offered her 37 with a business that helped other businesses find jobs for old people.Every day she 38 other old folks like her.By talking with them,she 39 two things.Old people had abilities that were not 40 . But old people also had some 41 .She found a new purpose for herself then.
Through the years,she 42 to write stories about people for national magazines.There was now a new 43 : Old people like herself.She began to write a newspaper column called “Sixty Plus”, which was about 44 old .She writes about the problems of old people,especially their problems with being 45 .