一、完形填空（共11小题；每小题1分，共11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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I'm 14 years old and in ninth grade. A little while ago, I was walking home from school and saw some writing on a ___1___ of a house I was passing. It said, “Happiness is a direction, not a destination.” I had been having a bad day and just reading this brightened my day a little. I saw the ___2___ everyday while walking home from school and one day decided to ___3___ something on the fence for someone else to see. I took out a pen and wrote one of my favorite quotes down. When I came back to the fence, I saw another quote under mine in the same handwriting as the first one. I ___4___ on another, and we kept at this pattern for quite a while. One day, I was writing yet another quote on the fence and the old man, one of my neighbors, who ___5___ the fence saw me. He came out and I thought he would ___6___ me for writing on his fence; he was not known to be a very friendly person. He gave me a quick look and then read the quotes on the fence, all 20 or so of them. Without saying a word, he went back inside. I was a bit ___7___ for a while, and didn't go back to the fence, but when I did, I noticed not more quotes but two words in totally ___8___ handwriting had been added: “Thank you.”
Later, I saw the old man in his front yard. He asked me to come over and told me how my quotes had been encouraging to him and how he's glad to see ___9___ like me still have “values.” We are now good friends instead of just neighbors，and I talk to him a lot and do housework for him. This experience has ___10___ changed my life. l still don't know who wrote that very first quote, but if you're out there, I'd like to say thank you to that ___11___ hero.
1. A. door B. wall C. fence D. window
2. A. quote B. notice C. carving D. source
3. A. make B. write C. paint D. design
4. A. turned B. kept C. signed D. added
5. A. sold B. repaired C. guarded D. owned
6. A. be surprised at B. be mad at C. feel nervous about D. feel pity for
7. A. afraid B. bored C. shy D. sad
8. A. different B. similar C. unique D. beautiful
9. A. farmers B. friends C. writers D. teenagers
10. A. hardly B. usually C. really D. immediately
11. A. unlikely B. unknown C. unselfish D. unreal
