第四节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Playwright Bertolt Brecht, known for The Threepenny Opera, once said, “From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people…it needs no other passport than fun.” My mother would have __26__. She didn't know Brecht, but she always said the __27__ should be to entertain people, and make them __28__ hard.

Born in 1910, my mother was the first director I ever met. Even from a young age she was an entertainer __29__ thought performing was not just a hobby or even a profession __30__ a way of living that was as __31__ as breathing or eating.

When I __32__ and moved to Hollywood as an adult, I would later create 14 prime­time TV shows and __33__ 17 movies. During my five decades in show business, I never forgot my mother's advice to find the humor in __34__. I never wanted to __35__ the world. I wanted to entertain the world and not put people to sleep. If my mom had been born at a(n) __36__ time in history she might have become a stage actress or a performer herself. __37__， she groomed my two sisters, Penny Marshall and Ronny Marshall, and I to work in the __38__ of entertainment.

She __39__ a kind of power and respect from her basement __40__ a director that even Orson Welles and Martin Scorsese would find enviable. I will never stop__41__ my mother's message, and I will never stop missing her. __42__， as a present to my mother I built The Marjorie Ward Marshall Dance Center at my alma mater, Northwestern University. __43__ I visit the building it helps __44__ me that to entertain people and make them laugh is what my own __45__ has been all about.

26.A.rejected B.objected C.agreed D.laughed

27.A.criterion B.consequence C.doubt D.goal

28.A.weep B.laugh C.grow D.remain

29.A.which B.what C.how D.who

30.A.but B.also C.than D.however

31.A.private B.shabby C.essential D.supreme

32.A.built up B.took up C.grew up D.set up

33.A.bring B.direct C.watch D.like

34.A.one B.anything C.nothing D.thing

35.A.change B.create C.ruin D.forget

36.A.abnormal B.different C.alternative D.compulsory

37.A.Therefore B.Besides C.Meanwhile D.Instead

38.A.stage B.boundary C.field D.procedure

39.A.commanded B.ordered C.presented D.attracted

40.A.for B.as C.like D.to

41.A.coming on B.bringing on C.carrying on D.calling on

42.A.In common B.In a word C.In fact D.In person

43.A.However B.Wherever C.Whatever D.Whenever

44.A.ask B.tell C.remind D.inform

45.A.career B.hobby C.advice D.humor