The opening and closing of the doors are the most significant actions of man’s life. What a ___16___ lies in doors!
No man knows what awaits him when he opens a door.___17___ the most familiar room, where the clock ticks and the hearth glows red at dusk may harbor___18___. The worker may actually have called and___19___ the leaking pipe. The cook may have been ill and demanded her passports.
There are many kinds of doors. Revolving doors for hotels, shops and public buildings. They are___20___ the busy, bustling ways of modern life. Can you ___21___ William Shakespeare or Charles Dickens skipping through a ___22___ door? There are double doors, sliding doors, stage doors and glass doors. The ___23___ and mystery of a door lies in its quality of being hidden. A glass door is not a door at all, but a window. The meaning of a door is to ___24___ what lies inside; to keep the heart in suspense.
Also, there are many ways of opening doors. There is the cheery ___25___ of elbow with which the waiter opens the kitchen door. There is the sympathetic and awful ___26___ of the dentist’s maid who opens the door into the operating room and, without speaking, ___27___ that the doctor is ready for you.
The opening of doors has in it some flavor of the ___28___ , some sense of moving into a new moment. Even in ___29___ , the opening of a door may bring relief. But the closing of doors could be ___30___, A door closed brings ___31___ to an end. And there are degrees of sadness in the closing of doors. A door slammed is a confession of weakness. A door ___32___ shut may often be the most tragic gesture in life.
The opening and closing of doors is a part of the serious fluency of life. Life will not stay ___33___ and let us alone. We are ___34___ opening doors with hope, closing them with despair. Life ___35___ not much longer than a pipe of tobacco, and destiny knocks us out like the ashes.
16. A. mystery B. relief C. scenery D. pleasure
17. A. So B. Still C. Even D. Also
18. A. wishes B. puzzles C. surprises D. changes
19. A. checked B. fixed C. wrapped D. removed
20. A. necessary to B. different from C. consistent with D. typical of
21. A. imagine B. suggest C. catch D. notice
22. A. stage B. sliding C. glass D. revolving
23. A. symbol B. miracle C. sign D. mark
24. A. busy B. hide C. discover D. exhibit
25. A. knock B. bump C. push D. touch
26. A. silence B. noise C. voice D. peace
27. A. announce B. admits C. implies D. expects
28. A. darkness B. certainty C. possibility D. unknown
29. A. vain B. hope C. sadness D. happiness
30. A. easy B. terrible C. dull D. interesting
31. A. nothing B. everything C. anything D. something
32. A. heavily B. hurriedly C. gently D. firmly
33. A. still B. calm C. silent D. simple
34. A. naturally B. continually C. obviously D. possibly
35. A. measures B. matches C. reaches D. lasts
【答案】16. A 17. C 18. C 19. B 20. D 21. A 22. D 23. A 24. B 25. C 26. A 27. C 28. D 29. C 30. B 31. D 32. C 33. A 34. B 35. D
