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    I was 15 when I walked into McCarley's Bookstore in Ashland. As I was looking at  1 on the shelves, the man behind the counter, the shop owner, asked if I'd like  2 . I needed to start  3 for college, so I said yes. I worked after school and during the summer for the lowest wages, and the job helped  4 my freshman year of college. I would work many other jobs: I made coffee in the Students Union during college, I was a hotel maid and  5 made maps for the U. S. Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most  6 .

    One day a woman asked me for books on cancer. She seemed fearful. I showed her almost everything we had at that time  7 and found other books we could order. She left the store less  8 , I've always remembered the  9 I felt in having helped her.

    Years later, as a  10 in Los Angeles, I heard about an immigrant child who was born  11 his fingers connected, weblike. His family could not afford a corrective operation, and the boy lived in  12 , hiding his hand in his pocket.

    I  13 my boss to let me do the story. After my story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the  14 for free.

    I visited the boy in the recovery room soon after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his  15 hand and say, “Thank you.” I felt a sense of  16 .

    In the past, while I was  17 , I always sensed I was working for the customers , not the store. Today it's the  18 . NBC News pays my salary,  19 I feel as if I work for the  20 , helping them make sense of the world.

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 I left my friend’s house nearly after seven. It was still too early for me to have my evening meal, ___36___ I walked along the sea-front for about an hour __37___ I began to feel hungry. By that time I was not far from a favorite restaurant of mine, ___38___ I often went to eat. I went into the restaurant and ___39__ my meal. While I was waiting for the soup ___40__ I looked around to see if I knew anyone in the restaurant. It was then ___41___ I noticed that a man sitting at a corner table kept glancing ___42___ my direction, as if he knew me. The man had a newspaper in front of him, which he was ____43___ to read. When the waiter ___44___ my soup, the man was clearly puzzled by the ___45___ way in which the waiter and I addressed (称呼) each other. He became more ___46___ as time went on and it grew more and more ___47___ that I was well known in the restaurant. Eventually, he stood up and went into the ___48___. After a few minutes he came out again, ____49___ the bill and left. Then I called the owner of the restaurant and asked him ___50___ the man had wanted. At first the owner did not want to tell me, I ____51__ . “Well,” he said, “ that man was from the police.” “Really?” I said, considerably surprised. “ He was very  ___52___ me. But why?” “ He ___53__you here because he thought you were a man he was ____54___,” the owner said, “When he came into the kitchen, he showed me a photograph of the ___55____. Of course, I was.”

One day, Nancy came home from school crying. Taking her in her arms, Mummy tried to   36  her. After a while, she stopped crying and asked, “Mummy, am I  37  ?” “No, you are not,” said Mummy, “but let us discuss this after you  38  , OK?”

Several minutes later, Nancy began to have supper with Mummy.

“Who   39  that you are bad?” asked Mummy.

“Phillips, my friend. He asked me for help with his maths but I   40   because I wanted to read the new book Daddy gave me. He got   41  and said I was a bad girl,” said Nancy.

“You are   42  ,” said Mummy. “Phillips has often helped you with your English. You should have helped him. Why don’t you phone him and say   43  to him?”

“But he called me bad and   44  with me. I don’t want to go,” Nancy cried.

“Though you have done   45   bad, it does not make you a bad person. You are  46   a good person.”

Nancy showed a  47   look on her face. “How can that be, Mummy?” she asked.

“Our   48  is always good. So never believe that you are bad,” Mummy replied with a smile.

  49   flooded on Nancy’s face. “Am I  50  good, Mummy?” she asked.

“Yes, you are good, and always will be so. But that does not mean that you should not  51  the wrong that you do. You will have to call and   52  to Phillips. Do you understand me?”

“Yes, Mummy,” said Nancy slowly. “Thank you for telling me this. I feel much better now,” said Nancy  53 . “I am going to   54  Phillips right away, and I am never going to   55  that I am always good.”

1.                A．calm           B．protect         C．trick D．praise

2.                A．shy            B．foolish          C．bad  D．strong

3.                A．get up          B．grow up         C．wash up D．turn up

4.                A．said            B．saw            C．heard    D．doubted

5.                A．cried          B．refused         C．admitted  D．allowed

6.                A．excited         B．comfortable     C．nervous D．angry

7.                A．wrong          B．brave          C．wise D．careful

8.                A．goodbye        B．sorry           C．thank you D．hello

9.                A．competed       B．lived           C．worked   D．argued

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

11.               A．always         B．sometimes      C．ever D．never

12.               A．worried        B．puzzled         C．confident  D．satisfied

13.               A．chance         B．choice         C．condition  D．nature

14.               A．Fear           B．Patience        C．Shock     D．Joy

15.               A．really          B．hardly          C．already    D．gradually

16.               A．account for      B．pay for         C．look forward to D．rely on

17.               A．devote         B．apologize       C．introduce D．turn

18.               A．coldly          B．sadly           C．gratefully  D．pitifully

19.               A．consult         B．change         C．teach     D．call

20.               A．agree          B．explain         C．forget     D．confirm

    阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and you can imagine how excited they were. Certainly the boy was   1as the apple of their eyes.

    One morning, the husband saw a medicine bottle   2．As he was late for work, he asked his wife to cap the bottle and ___3____. The mother, who was busy in the kitchen,   4the matter. The boy playfully went to the medicine bottle, was    5with its color, and drank it all. It   6to be a poisonous medicine    7adults in small dosages. When the child showed  8of poisoning, the mother took him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned（使昏迷）.She was too   9to face her husband. When the   10father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he   11his wife and uttered just four words.   

The husband just said “   12”

    The husband was indeed   13in human relationships. The child was dead. He could   14be brought back to life. There was no   15in finding fault with the mother.   16, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle in the cupboard or other place, this would not have happened. No one is   17. She had also lost her only child .What she needed at that moment was comfort and   18from the husband. That was what he gave her.

If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer  problems in the world. Sometimes we spend time in asking who is    19or whom to blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know. In this way, we will   20some warmth in human relationship .

1.A．treated        B．thought          C．looked           D．abandoned

2.A．shut           B．close                C．bare             D．open

3.A．put it aside   B．set it aside        C．put it away      D．leave it alone

4.A．completely forgetting              B．wholly terrified

C．totally forgot                       D．absolutely remembered

5.A．satisfied      B．fascinated       C．puzzled          D．calmed

6.A．happened   B．seemed           C．appeared         D．occurred

7.A．stood for      B．left for         C．meant for        D．called for

8.A．symbols        B．signals          C．clues                D．signs

9.A．ashamed        B．frightened       C．annoyed          D．worried

10.A．awful         B．angry            C．heartbroken      D．patient

11.A．looked at         B．smiled at            C．glared at            D．glanced at

12.A．I hate you, now.                  B．How do you do?

C．How did this happen?             D．I love you, Darling.

13.A．an idiot      B．a genius             C．a success            D．an evil

14.A．never         B．seldom           C．even             D．once

15.A．wonder        B．point            C．pleasure         D．worry

16.A．Therefore     B．Otherwise        C．Besides          D．However

17.A．to blame      B．to be blamed     C．to be accused        D．to be noticed

18.A．explanation   B．courage          C．excuse           D．sympathy

19.A．suitable      B．believable           C．accessible           D．responsible

20.A．make out      B．look out         C．stand out            D．miss out