二.完形填空(共15小题；每小题l分，满分l 5分)

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。

Once there was a little girl living in a small, poor house on a hill. As she grows up, she began to play in her small   16  , she was able to see over the garden and across the valley a wonderful house high on the hill –and that house had   17   windows.

Although she loved her family, she   18   about how wonderful and exciting it must be to live in that golden house all day.

Then she   19   the age when she could play outside of her garden fence(篱笆), she asked her mother   20   she could go for a bike ride outside the gate. Her mother thought for a while and   21   allowed her to go. The little girl rode her bike   22   she got to the gate of the golden house.

As she leaned(倚靠) her bike   23   the gatepost, she focused on the path that   24  to the house and then on the house   25  …and was so   26  . All the windows were plain(普通的) and rather dirty.

She was so sad that she didn’t go any further. Heartbroken, she rode her bike back. As she

  27  , she saw a sight that amazed her. There   29   the valley on the other side was a little house. Its windows glistened (闪耀) golden as the   29   shone on her little house.

She   30   that she had been living in her golden house all along. Everything she dreamed was right there in front of her eyes and in her daily life!

16. A. hill                            B. garden                       C. house                       D. room

17. A. broken                       B. wooden                    C. golden                       D. modern

18. A. wanted                      B. dreamed                   C. hoped                      D. wished

19. A. reached                      B. arrived                      C. touched                    D. grew