完形填空。阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A 、B 、C 、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。    One day, I heard an American

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完形填空。阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A 、B 、C 、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
    One day, I heard an American boy say to a Chinese girl student, "You speak very good English."But
the girl answered, " No, no. My English is very poor." The foreigner was quite   1    at the answer.
Thinking he had not made    2    understood or the girl had not    3    him clearly, he said , " Yes , indeed,
you speak
very well."    4    the girl still kept saying , " No." In the end the American boy could not understand and
didn’t know   5   to say.
    What’s wrong with the girl’s answer? She didn’t   6   a compliment (恭维)in the same way as the
American people do . She should answer , " Thank you” instead of " No" . She    7   understood what
the American boy had said, but she thought she should be modest. In the   8    , people will feel proud
and  9   when they are praised . So if someone says the   10    you have cooked are very delicious , you
should say , " Thank you ."
   In our country we think being modest is a virtue ( 美德) and being proud is a bad thing , but in my
opinion , being confident does not   11   being proud , so sometimes you should be confident    12  being modest.
    13    you are modest and say , "No , I"m afraid I can’t do it well" , while working in a western country,
the others may think that you really cannot do it . If you often say "No" , you will certainly be looked
down upon by   14  . When asking for a job , if one says something like "Yes , I can certainly do it "
instead of " Let me have a try ” , he or she will   15    get it . So in the west , you should be brave to
show your self-confidence.(     )1.A.excited
(     )2. A. itself
(     )3. A. heard
(     )4. A. Though
(     )5. A. when
(     )6. A. receive
(     )7. A. hardly
(     )8. A. east
(     )9. A. dutiful
(     )10. A. dishes
(     )11. A. think
(     )12. A. as soon as
(     )13. A. Unless
(     )14. A. another
(     )15. A. fail to B. surprised
B. herself
B. watched
B. Although
B. which
B. accept
B. really
B. south
B. modest
B. cups
B. say
B. as well as
B. Until
B. the other
B. expect toC. relaxed
C. himself
C. listened to
C. Or  
C. what
C. refuse
C. rarely
C. west
C. shameful
C. glasses
C. ask
C. instead of
C. Whether
C. the others
C. succeed in D. frightened    
D. themselves    
D. looked at    
D. But          
D. how          
D. disagree      
D. badly        
D. north        
D. confident    
D. bowls        
D. mean          
D. in spite of  
D. If            
D. others        
D. believe in    

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1-5 BCADC     6-10 BBCDA     11-15 DCDDB