It’s a small gas station that has snacks,drinks,cigarettes,and candies.The young man behind the counter(柜台) knows his    16    by name and what they normally want to buy.He treats children and adults with equal    17    .He reads science fiction behind the counter when business is   18  .

One day , three people rushed in and grabbed food off the shelves as fast as they could ,   19   not intending to pay for it . He hit the “panic button”, then went over the counter and    20  the front door . It was obvious that they were homeless, and equally obvious that they were’t going    21   with their ill-gotten gains (不义之财).They   22   the food and simply crowded together in panic-knowing the police were   23   the way.

Imagine what they must have felt like when they were told they didn’t have to steal if they were that   24  . “We have food in the back expired(到期) but still   25   to eat . If you need food , you   26   have some .”

They were told to   27   what they had dropped and put it back , and then asked to straighten out the mess. They were doing just that   28   the police arrived. The officers were told the situation was under control and the police were no longer   29   .

This wasn’t what they had   30   . They were being treated as human beings who could right the wrong they’d done. Shocked , they quickly followed orders to take turns and use the restroom to clean up.

Soon three   31   people walked out with all the   32   their arms could hold. They were   33   that , if they needed to come back again , they were to ask and not just grab. 

And then the young man went back to read until the next customer came in . He would be the 34   person in the world to claim he was a hero . But he gave three people something they were in desperate need of –a   35   amount of self-respect and a little bit of hope.

1.A  frends     B  neighbors    C  customers    D  passengers

2.A  respect    B  pride        C  wisdom   D  right

3. A  slow B  busy         C  heavy        D  swift

4.A  bravely    B  reasonably   C  hardly       D  obviously

5.A  opened     B  locked       C  closed       D  broke

6.A  nowhere    B  somewhere    C  anywhere     D  everywhere

7.A  hid        B  lifted       C  swallowed    D  dropped

8. A  in        B  on           C  off          D  by

9.A  anxious    B  cautious     C  courageous   D  hungry

10. A  safe         B  easy         C  sweet        D  unique

11.A  must B  can          C  should       D  need

12.A  hold up   B  hand out     C  pick up      D  hand in

13.A  when B  after            C  before       D  since

14.A  popular   B  necessary    C  reliable         D  admired

15.A  wanted    B  desired      C  expected     D  admired

16. A  dirtier  B  cleaner      C  cleverer     D  quicker

17. A  money    B  cigarettes   C  drinks       D  food

18.A  reminded B  warned        C  ordered      D  persuaded

19.A  first         B  last         C  best         D  worst

20.A  large     B  fair         C  small        D  full

It’s a small gas station that has snacks,drinks,cigarettes,and candies.The young man behind the counter(柜台) knows his    16   by name and what they normally want to buy.He treats children and adults with equal   17   .He reads science fiction behind the counter when business is   18 .
One day , three people rushed in and grabbed food off the shelves as fast as they could ,   19  not intending to pay for it . He hit the “panic button”, then went over the counter and    20  the front door . It was obvious that they were homeless, and equally obvious that they were’t going    21  with their ill-gotten gains (不义之财).They   22  the food and simply crowded together in panic-knowing the police were   23  the way.
Imagine what they must have felt like when they were told they didn’t have to steal if they were that   24 . “We have food in the back expired(到期) but still   25  to eat . If you need food , you   26  have some .”
They were told to   27  what they had dropped and put it back , and then asked to straighten out the mess. They were doing just that   28  the police arrived. The officers were told the situation was under control and the police were no longer   29  .
This wasn’t what they had   30  . They were being treated as human beings who could right the wrong they’d done. Shocked , they quickly followed orders to take turns and use the restroom to clean up.
Soon three   31  people walked out with all the   32  their arms could hold. They were   33  that , if they needed to come back again , they were to ask and not just grab. 
And then the young man went back to read until the next customer came in . He would be the 34  person in the world to claim he was a hero . But he gave three people something they were in desperate need of –a   35  amount of self-respect and a little bit of hope.
【小题1】A  frends B  neighbors    C  customers    D  passengers
【小题2】A  respect     B  pride        C  wisdom   D  right
【小题3】 A  slow   B  busy         C  heavy        D  swift
【小题4】A  bravely     B  reasonably   C  hardly       D  obviously
【小题5】A  opened B  locked       C  closed       D  broke
【小题6】A  nowhere     B  somewhere    C  anywhere     D  everywhere
【小题7】A  hid         B  lifted       C  swallowed    D  dropped
【小题8】 A  in         B  on           C  off          D  by
【小题9】A  anxious     B  cautious     C  courageous   D  hungry
【小题10】 A  safe       B  easy         C  sweet        D  unique
【小题11】A  must    B  can          C  should       D  need
【小题12】A  hold up B  hand out     C  pick up      D  hand in
【小题13】A  when    B  after            C  before       D  since
【小题14】A  popular     B  necessary    C  reliable         D  admired
【小题15】A  wanted  B  desired      C  expected     D  admired
【小题16】 A  dirtier    B  cleaner      C  cleverer     D  quicker
【小题17】 A  money B  cigarettes   C  drinks       D  food
【小题18】A  reminded B  warned      C  ordered      D  persuaded
【小题19】A  first       B  last         C  best         D  worst
【小题20】A  large   B  fair         C  small        D  full

I had an experience once which taught me something about the ways people made a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I officiated(主持) at two funerals for two elderly women. Both died a natural death. At the first home, the son of the deceased(已故) woman said, “If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died.” At the second home, the son said, “If only I had not insisted her going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride was more than she could take. It is my fault.”

When things don’t turn out as we would like them to, we tend to assume that had we done things differently, the story would have had a happier ending. Any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believe that the opposite course, for example, keeping mother at home, would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?

There seem to be elements involved in our readiness to feel guilty. The first lies in our belief that the world makes sense---there is a reason for everything that happens.  

The second is the thought that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood. A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and calls the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely abandon that childish thought that our wishes cause things to happen.

72. What is true about the two deceased elderly women?

   A. They both died of old age.             B. They died from hard work.

   C. They were’t accustomed to the change in life.

   D. They died due to lack of care by family members.

73. People feel guilty for the death of their loved ones because______.

   A. they cannot find a better way to express their sorrow

   B. they believe that they are responsible for what has happened

   C. they don’t know that natural course of events

   D. they don’t know things often turn out in the opposite direction

74. The underline part “the world makes sense” in Paragraph 3 probably means that____.

   A. everything in the world is planned in advance

   B. the world can be understood in different ways

   C. there’s an explanation for everything in the world

   D. we have to be wise in order to understand the world

75. People have believed since early childhood that______.

   A. everybody is at their command

   B. life and death is an unsolved mystery

   C. every story should have a happy ending

   D. their wishes are the cause of everything that happens

1.      When she saw the f____________ scene, the little girl began to cry.

2.      They were t ____________ in a deep hole and couldn’t get out.

3.      For hundreds of years the statue has remained b____________ in an underground cave.

4.      As is known to us, China is a country b____________（属于）to the Third World.

5.      This new watch is of high q____________ and is not expensive either.

6.      London is full of homeless people____________ (乞求) in the streets.

7.      It was ____________ (残忍) for you to kill the bird.

8.      He is always a____________  in school activities.

9.      On arriving there, we expressed our c____________ to him on his success.

10.  In the big fire all their houses were d____________ , so they had to build new ones.