第三部分  英语知识运用(共两节，满分45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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Laughter is so familiar to every one of us.There is an English saying that   41  ，“He who laughs last laughs the hardest.” High School Musical star Zac Efron is laughing a lot these days.

42   a young boy，Efron was picked on in school because he was always the smallest in his class and   43   because he had a big space between his teeth.In sixth grade，Efron’s basketball team made it to the league championships.In double overtime(两个加时赛)，with three seconds left，he rebounded the ball and passed it—to the   44   team! They scored and his team lost the game.

But history，as they say，is a thing of the   45   .Now at 21，Efron is one of People Magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People，graces the cover of Entertainment Weekly，Hollywood’s most   46   magazine，and is traveling the world   47   the third High School Musical film.Director Adam Shankman   48   Efron as“arguably the biggest teen star in America right now.”Simply google“Zac Efron”and you get more than 14 million   49   .Yes，it seems Efron has a lot to smile about these days.

Efron was born and   50   in California.He took school   51   .According to Efron，“I would get crazy if I got a B and not an A in school.”It was his father who encouraged him to act.He took part in school   52   and acted in a local theater group. He also  53  singing lessons.He graduated from high school in 2006 and was   54   to the University of Southern California to study film.But he put it off—why study movies   55   you can star in them?

Now Efron is also earning more than$3 million for his   56   in High School Musical 3.Not bad for a 21-year-old.But Efron   57   remembers those bullies(欺人者).“You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they   58   .”Efron said.“Also，when you get made fun of，when people point out your    59   ，it’s an opportunity for you to rise above.”

Efron has risen all the way to the top of the movie business.And he can now   60   all the way to the bank.

41.A.says      B.goes      C.reads   D.talks

42.A.As     B.Like      C.For    D.To

43.A.teased     B.admired     C.liked   D.hated

44.A.strong     B.right      C.wrong   D.active

45.A.past      B.present     C.moment   D.time

46.A.effective     B.respectful     C.valuable   D.influential

47.A.acting     B.promoting     C.advancing  D.performing

48.A.thought     B.served     C.described   D.treated

49.A.responses     B.pictures     C.passages   D.comments

50.A.hired      B.raised     C.directed   D.trapped

51.A.seriously     B.formally     C.cautiously  D.easily

52.A.meetings     B.reports     C.1ectures   D.performances

53.A.taught     B.took      C.cancelled   D.escaped

54.A.admitted     B.recognized C.realized   D.relieved

55.A.that      B.when      C.whether   D.which

56.A.career     B.role      C.result   D.movie

57.A.even      B.yet      C.still    D.ever

58.A.admire     B.observe     C.earn    D.consider

59.A.descriptions B.weaknesses C.strengths   D.excuses

60.A.laugh      B.cry      C.sing    D.run