My father met my mother in a poker (扑克牌) game. He couldn't   21   his eyes off her. It was her company's annual   22   , and he walked her home that night. The next week, from his home in Chicago, he   23  her a postcard:" Remember me? Please   24   , because I'll be calling you one of these days. David".

      She still has that postcard. I'm not sure what made her   25   it. Though he already had his heart  26  her, she hadn't chosen him yet,  27   not consciously.

      As my father often told us   28   we were growing up, it was   29   luck that he was at the picnic that day. As a salesman for a big electronics company, he was in town to   30   customers and happened to stop by the branch office that Saturday morning to   31   some calls. The telephone rang ; it was the   32   of a local radio station with whom my father had done some business. So the manager   33   my father to come right over to their annual picnic.

       My mother was a writer at that radio station. If my father hadn't   34   by the office that morning ,he told us,  35   if he'd gotten there two minutes later, the life--our lives-- would have been   36  .

       A few months after the wedding, my father was transferred East. They   37 in New York, in the house where I grew up.

       Sometimes I think about that, how time sweeps us   38   and puts us in a certain place where we're faced with one choice or another. By chance or by the   39   we make, we leave behind other lives we could have lived, full of  40  passions and joys, different problems and disappointments.

An average of 130,000 Chinese ____ abroad for studies every year over the past few years, improving exchanges in the educational fields.

     A. was going                                       B. have been going  

     C. has been going                                 D. are going

Students in this school don’t have classes on Wednesday afternoon, which is ____ , for teachers have a meeting.

     A. practice         B. action            C. experience      D. sense

Were all the passengers on the bus injured in the accident?

--No, ____ only the four who got hurt.

     A. there was       B. there were       C. that was                 D. it was

How long do you suppose it will be ____ he arrives at the small village?

--Five hours or so.

     A. when                   B. before            C. since              D. after

 Having been praised by the teacher, the little girl ran back home,____.

    A. happily and satisfied                  B. eager and excitedly                     

    C. happy and satisfied                   D. anxiously and excitedly

Mount Wuyi is such an attractive place of interest ____ everyone likes to visit.

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

―____ he come to see you as he promised?

―Of course. And I’d rather he ____ me the truth.

   A. Can; cover       B. Will; inform     C. Shall; told        D. Should; will tell

 ____ everything into consideration, the result is better than ____.

     A. Taking ; expected                         B. Taken; expected 

    C. To take ; expecting                              D. Taking; expecting

―Have you finished your composition already, Jack?

―Yes, I ____ it within half an hour.

     A. have finished      B. finished          C. finish      D. had finished