三、阅读理解 阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，在每小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项，

并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（本大题共13小题，每小题2分，共26分）

A

Look at this mail-order advertisement:

called to say I did not get the job. "Why has my life become so 18 ?" I thought painfully. As I pulled the bus over to drop off a little girl, she handed me an earring saying I should

19 it until somebody claimed (认领) it. The earring was painted black and said "BE HAPPY".

At first I got angry. Then it 20 me --- I had been giving all of my 21 to what was g oing wrong with my life rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a list of fifty things I was happy with. Later, I decided to 22 more things to the list. That night there was a phone call for me from a lady who was a director at a larger 23 . She asked me if I would give a one-day lecture on stress management to 200 medical workers. I said yes.

My day there went very well, and before long I got a well-paid job. To this day I realize that it was because I changed my way of thinking that I 24 changed my life.

15.A. As 16.A. working 17.A. between 18.A. hard 19.A. hide 20.A. hurt 21.A.feelings 22.A.connect 23.A.hospital 24.A.smoothly

B. Though B. travelling B. through B. busy B. hold B. hit B. attention B. turn B. factory B. closely

C. If C. discussing C. during C. serious C. keep C. caught C. strength C. increase C. restaurant C. completely

D. When D. living D. beyond D. short D. save D. moved D. interests D. add D. hotel D. properly