When we hurried to the meeting room, the meeting _______.

A passenger (乘客) told an air hostess (空姐) that he needed a cup of water to take medicine when the plane just took off. She told him that she would bring him the  46   soon.
Twenty minutes  47  , when the passenger’s ring for service sounded, the air hostess realized it at once. She was kept so busy that she  48   to bring him the water. Therefore, the passenger was held up (延迟) to take his medicine. She hurried over to him with a cup of water, but he   49  it.
In the following hours on the flight,   50  time the air hostess passed the passenger, she would ask him with a smile   51   he needed help or not. But the passenger never   52   her words.
When he was going to get off the  53  , the passenger asked the air hostess to hand him the passengers’ booklet (意见簿). She was very  54 . She knew that he would write down sharp words, which might make her  55   the job.  56  with a smile she handed it to him.
Off the plane, she  57  the booklet, and cracked a smile, for the passenger put it, “On the flight, you asked me if I needed help for twelve times  58 . How can I refuse  59  twelve sincere smiles?”
That’s right! It was the twelve smiles of the air hostess that touched (感动) the passenger
  60   and of course she wouldn’t lose her job!

  There was once a farmer who lost his watch in his barn ( 仓库 ). The watch was only cheap but it was very ________ to him because it was a present from his father. After ________ the barn for a long time ,he gave up and asked for ________ from a group of children playing nearby.

   He promised them that the person who ________ the watch would be rewarded ( 奖赏 ).

   Hearing this , the children hurried inside the barn at once . They searched ________ but  still could not find the watch . Just when the farmer was going to give up, a little boy went up to him and asked to be given another ________.

   The farmer looked at him and thought , “ Why not ? ________, this kid does look honest .”

   So the farmer sent the little boy back to the barn. After a while the little boy came out with the watch in his hand ! The surprised farmer asked the boy how he ________ where the rest had failed.

   The boy ________ , “ I did nothing but sit quietly and listen for the sound of the watch .”

   This shows us that sometimes a peaceful mind can think _______ than an excited one .

1.A. important  B. expensive  C. useless  D. interesting

2.A. finding     B. searching  C. watching  D. studying

3.A. money     B. danger    C. work    D. help

4.A. saw       B. found     C. looked   D. watched

5.A. somewhere  B. anywhere  C. nowhere  D. everywhere

6.A. way        B. chance    C. lesson   D. present

7.A. In all    B. That’s all   C. After all  D. Above all

8.A. came   B. knew   C. succeeded   D. stopped

9.A. spoke   B. added  C. talked    D. replied

10.A. badly   B. better   C. worse   D. Well

根据短文内容填空，每空不超过4个单词。
Mr. Clarke joined the army when he was eighteen. Four years later he came back to his hometown and found work in a post office. He worked hard but he liked drinking and it brought him a lot of trouble. One day he drank too much and lost a mailbag and he was soon sent away. He couldn’t find any work in the town and he had to beg(乞讨) in the street. Now his clothes are dirty and broken and sometimes he’s hungry. 
One morning he was begging at the station. He saw a woman in beautiful clothes come out by the exit. He went close to her and hoped that she gave him some money. The woman had a look at him and hurried to cover her nose with her hand.
“It seems that you have come from the hell（地狱）.” The woman called out.
Mr. Clarke understood she was such a woman who never helped the poor and said, “You’re right, madam. I’m really from the hell.”
“Why not stay there, then?”
“There is no room for the poor people like me.” said Mr. Clarke.  “Only the rich men live there!”
【小题1】When he was 22, Mr. Clarke found a job in a _______________.
【小题2】Mr. Clarke was sent away because he lost                .
【小题3】Sometimes Mr. Clarke is hungry because he has nothing              .
【小题4】The woman hurried to             her nose because she thought Mr. Clarke was dirty.
【小题5】Mr. Clarke’s words meant that the hell was only for the             like the woman.

阅读下面短文，从每题ABCD四个选项中，选出一个能填入文章中相应空白处的最佳答案。
Mr. and Mrs. Bell are very  56 . For example, Mr. Bell sometimes goes to his office for work on Sunday morning, for he thinks it is Monday. And Mrs. Bell sometimes forgets to cook supper for the family.
One summer they planned to  57  to New York for their holidays. They got to the airport only ten minutes before the plane took   58 . So time was short. But suddenly Mrs. Bell said  59  must tell their daughter not to forget  to lock the front door  60  she went to school. As Alice was then at school, they couldn’t   61  her about it by telephone. So they hurried to the __62 . Mrs. Bell wrote a short   63  to Alice while Mr. Bell bought a stamp and an envelope. Soon the note was ready. They put the stamp on the envelope in a hurry and dropped it in the letter box,   64  suddenly Mrs. Bell began to cry. The short note was   65  in her hand. She had put the plane tickets in the envelope.