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完形填空(共20小题; 每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从31-50各题所给的四个选项(A,B,C和D)中，选出一个最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One evening in October, I was aimlessly wandering down the street, heading into a most gloriously beautiful sunset. I had a(n) ___31___ to speak to someone on the street to ___32____ that beauty, but it seemed everyone was in a hurry.

I took a second action. Quickly I ducked into a department store and asked the lady ___33___ the counter (柜台) if she could come outside for just a minute. She looked at me ___34____ I were from some other planet. She ___35___, and then seemingly against her better judgment, she moved toward the door.

When she got outside I said to her, “Just look at that sunset! ___36____ out here was looking at it and I just had to share it with someone.”

For a few ___37____ we just looked. Then I said, “God is in his ___38____ and all is right with the world.” I thanked ___39___ for coming out to see the sunset; she went back inside and I left. It felt good to share the ____40____ of the sunset.

Four years later my situation ___41___ greatly. I came to the end of a twenty-year marriage. I lived all ___42___ for the first time in my life. I lived in a trailer park ___43____, at the time, I considered a real come-down, and I had to do my ___44___ in the community laundry room.

One day, while my clothes were going around, I ____45___ a magazine and read an article about a woman who had been in ____46___ circumstances. She had come to the end of a ___47___, moved to a strange community, and the only job she could find was one she disliked: clothing sales in a department store.