2014全国高考高分秘籍之完型填空
一．（2014年福州市高三适应性练习）
完形填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）
Many years ago I was on a bicycle trip through the countryside. Suddenly rain began to fall, but strange to ___36___, several hundred yards ahead of me the sun shone brilliantly. Riding, however, as rapidly as I could, I found it ___37___ to get into the clear. The clouds with their rain kept advancing faster than I could race forward. I continued this ___38___ contest for an exhausting half hour, ___39___ realizing that I could not win my way to the bright area ahead of me.
Then it dawned upon me that I was ___40___ my strength in unimportant hurry, while paying no attention to the landscape ___41___ which I was making the trip. Indeed, there was much to ___42___ which might otherwise have escaped me. As I gazed(凝视) about with sharpened ___43___, I saw colours and lines and shapes that would have appeared ___44___ under brilliant light. The rain mists (薄雾) and the fresh clearness of the different greens were so ___45___. My annoyance at the rain was gone and my eagerness to ___46___ it disappeared. It had provided me with a new view that the ___47___ of beauty and satisfaction may be found close at hand within the ___48___ of one’s own sensibilities.
It made me think about other matters to which this incident was ___49___. I realized that there is no sense in my ___50___ to flee from circumstances which cannot be avoided. I might just bravely ___51___ them and they would turn to good account. I know that half the battle is ___52___ if I can face trouble with courage. It
