When I got there, I found them sitting at the table ________．

1. A.
   face-to-face
2. B.
   face-in-face
3. C.
   face to face
4. D.
   face in face

完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Tried and exhausted, I came back home from work. I found the front door was   36  open and I felt a little scared. Did I carelessly forget to lock it after I left? I looked around  37  to see what could be   38  . Why would someone come into my home only to  39  with nothing? After searching every inch, I realized that everything was  40  I had left it. No   41  cushions, broken lamps, or   42  emptied out on the carpet. Feeling much   43  . I looked out my oversized window of my dinning room at Ms. Sullivan’s house. Jimmy, the little boy next door was visiting her. Jimmy cared a lot about Ms. Sullivan and was very concerned with her health after she became ill. She used to   44  Jimmy when he was just a baby.

Forgetting about the   45  with my front door, I decided to walk over to Ms. Sullivan’s house to see how she was   46  . With a warm hello, she invited me into her home. I noticed twelve beautiful roses delicately presented on the table next to her bed. They looked exactly like the   47  on my dinning room table in front of my oversized window. With a pleasant smile, she told me Jimmy brought them to her as a “get-well gift”. Suddenly Jimmy  48  out of his seat in an instant and said that he had to go home for a while to do some homework but he promised to be back to   49  up on Ms. Sullivan.

Talking for a while, Ms. Sullivan began to get very tired so I gave her my phone number in case she  50  needed help, and left her home. I thought about how  51  it was for little Jimmy to be so concerned for Ms. Sullivan. I got home, laughing at how  52  I was that morning about what had happened over  53  . I walked passed the dinning room and noticed my roses  54  in the vase were missing. Without a second   55  , I glanced out the window at Ms. Sullivan’s house and with a smile on my face I turned off the light in the room and went to sleep.

The next morning my door bell rang. I opened the door Jimmy was there…

1.A．easily             B．slowly           C．slightly         D．silently

2.A．tensely            B．patiently        C．eagerly          D．calmly

3.A．burning            B．losing           C．lacking          D．missing

4.A．get                B．deal             C．steal            D．leave

5.A．what               B．where            C．that             D．how

6.A．worn               B．changed          C．unwashed         D．overturned

7.A．lockers            B．kettles          C．drawers          D．coats

8.A．eased              B．angry            C．surprised        D．curious

9.A．watch              B．guard            C．follow           D．visit

10.A．accident          B．experience       C．incident         D．condition

11.A．working           B．doing            C．sleeping         D．acting

12.A．lamps             B．vases            C．roses            D．gifts

13.A．stood             B．ran              C．stepped          D．jumped

14.A．look              B．check            C．pick             D．call

15.A．ever              B．still            C．only             D．just

16.A．smart             B．sensitive        C．sweet            D．thankful

17.A．strange           B．nervous          C．careless         D．wrong

18.A．everything        B．something        C．anything         D．nothing

19.A．growing           B．sitting          C．lying            D．arranging

20.A．thought           B．intention        C．expectation      D．delay

I try not to be biased（偏见）but I had my doubts about hiring Stevie. His social worker assured me that he would be a good, reliable busboy. But I had never had a mentally handicapped employee. He was short, a little fat, with the smooth facial features and thick-togued speech of Down’s Syndrome（唐氏综合症）. I thought most of my customers would be uncomfortable around Stevie, so I closely watched him for the first few weeks.

I shouldn’t have worried. After the first week, Stevie had my staff wrapped around his stubby little finger, and within a month my regular trucker customers had adopted him as their official truck stop mascot. After that, I really didn't care what the rest of the customers thought of him. He was like a 21-year-old in blue jeans and Nikes, eager to laugh and eager to please, but fierce in his attention to his duties. Every salt and pepper shaker was exactly in its place, not a bread crumb or coffee spill was visible when Stevie got done with the table. Our only problem was persuading him to wait to clean a table until after the customers were finished.

Over time, we learned that he lived with his mother, a widow who was disabled. Money was tight, and what I paid him was probably the difference between them being able to live together and Stevie being sent to a group home.

That's why the restaurant was a gloomy place that morning last August, the first morning in three years that Stevie missed work. He was at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester getting a heart surgery. His social worker said that people with Downs Syndrome often had heart problems at an early age and there was a good chance he would come through the surgery in good shape and be back at work in a few months.

A ripple of excitement ran through the staff later that morning when word came that he was out of surgery, in recovery, and doing fine. Frannie, my head waitress, did a little dance when she heard the good news. Belle Ringer, one of our regular trucker customers, stared at her and asked, “Okay, Frannie, what was that all about?”

"We just got word that Stevie is out of surgery and going to be okay."

"I was wondering where he was. I had a new joke to tell him. What was the surgery about?"

Frannie quickly told Belle Ringer and the other two drivers sitting at his booth about Stevie's surgery, then sighed: "Yeah, I'm glad he is going to be OK," she said. "But I don't know how he and his Mom are going to handle all the bills. From what I hear, they're barely getting by as it is."

Belle Ringer nodded thoughtfully, and Frannie hurried off to wait on the rest of her tables.

After the morning rush, Frannie walked into my office. She had a couple of paper napkins in her hand.

"What's up?" I asked.

“I cleared off that table where Belle Ringer and his friends were sitting after they left, and I found this. This was folded and tucked under a coffee cup."

She handed the napkin to me, and three $20 bills fell onto my desk when I opened it. On the outside, in big, bold letters, was printed "Something For Stevie".

That was three months ago. Today is New Year’s day , the first day Stevie is supposed to be back to work. His placement worker said he had been counting the days until the doctor said he could work, I arranged to have his mother bring him to work, met them in the parking lot and invited them both to celebrate his day back. I took him and his mother by their arms. “To celebrate you coming back, breakfast for you and your mother is on me.”

I led them toward a large corner booth. I could feel and hear truck customers and the rest of the staff following behind as we marched through the dining room. We stopped in front of the big table. Its surface was covered with coffee cups and dinner plates, all sitting slightly on dozens of folded paper napkins.

"First thing you have to do, Stevie, is clean up this mess," I said.

Stevie looked at me, and then pulled out one of the napkins. It had "Something for Stevie" printed on the outside. As he picked it up, two $10 bills fell onto the table. Stevie stared at the money, then at all the napkins peeking from beneath the tableware, each with his name printed on it.

I turned to his mother. “There's more than $10,000 in cash and checks on that table, all from truckers and trucking companies that heard about your problems. Happy Thanksgiving!”

While everybody else was busy shaking hands and hugging each other, Stevie, with a big, big smile on his face, was busy clearing all the cups and dishes from the table.

1.Why did the author have doubts about hiring Stevie?

    A．Stevie was not that reliable.        B．Stevie was mentally disabled

    C．Stevie was too short and fat.        D．Stevie was bad-tempered

2.What made the author not fully satisfied with Stevie’s work?

A．That he made customers uncomfortable.                        B．That he couldn’t pay attention to his duties.

C．That he often spilled cups of coffee.                        D．That he usually cleaned the table too early.

3.By saying the underlined words in Paragaraph3, the author meant that the money she paid Stevie        .   

A．could help Stevie out of the trouble                        B．could send Stevie to a group home

C．couldn’t thoroughly solve Stevie’s problem                   D．could make a great difference to Stevie’s life

4.Why did the author ask Stevie to clean up the mess on the table?

    A．Stevie could pick up the money that was given to him.

    B．The table was so dirty that it needed cleaning.

    C．It was Stevie’s duty to clean the table.

    D．She wanted to congratulate Stevie on his coming back.

5.What made Stevie popular among the staff and customers in the restaurant?

    A．His special appearance.              B．His hard work and optimism.

    C．His funny speeches and actions.  D．His kind-hearted behaviour.