During my last stay in France, I took to biking down a quiet road．Round a   36   , I found a woman sitting in front of a little shabby house．I don’t know why, but something about her attracted my   37   ．I waved at her as I went by, and she must have thought I was some   38

tourist because she didn’t wave back．The same thing happened the second day．But on the third day, the old woman returned a hesitated     39   , and the next day, she   40    got out of her chair as I called out, “Morning, madam!” It became a small ritual(仪式)   41    us．She had no idea who I was, nor   42    I was coming, but she seemed to be    43    for me.

On my last ride, I bought some flowers and    44    down to the house, only to find she wasn’t there．She had gone to hospital for surgeries．  45   , I tied the flowers to her gate as a    46    gift．Back at my place, I    47    Roger, the gardener, of my missed    48   ．“The old lady at the corner is suffering    49    injuries, through which walking has been troubling her,” he said,   50    “by the quiet road there used to be a station．Whenever a train passed, the couple would see the passengers waving    51   , especially the children―for them, such a ride was high adventure．  52   , everything is gone except for this couple.”

It seems that my bicycle ride    53    mind her past days．As Roger said, “she has    54    the trains and the waves．You brought them back to her.” By reaching out, in a way that cost me    55   , I’d given more than I had realized.

Jack’s room always has the dusty smell of an apartment whose windows are　opened.

A．rarely                   B．generally             C．apparently           D．frequently

_________ all the required papers, he didn’t answer the questions fluently in class.

A．Having not read                    B．Not having read

C．Not read                              D．Not to read

Obama, the first black president in American history, ________ presidency on January 20th,　2009.

A．set up                   B．held up           C．took up            D．picked up

Although he was in poor health, Robert succeeded          other more famous engineers　failed．

A．which                    B．that　           C．what　             D．where

To her disappointment, what she had devoted herself to _______ in nothing but failure.

A．resulting                   B．results             C．has resulted        D．resulted

What China can learn from          2008 financial storm has become          hot topic　among us.

A．the; /                   B．the; a                C．/; the                  D．/; a

The government has          plenty of food and clothes of high quality to the people in　Wenchuan.

A．suffered        B．arranged                   C．adjusted             D．supplied

With the effects of global warming, trees          their leaves much later in the year.

A．are losing               B．have lost            C．lost                D．were losing

The       of surfing the Internet is how you can tell whether the information is true or not.

A．ability                      B．competition        C．challenge            D．knowledge