I've spent most of my career as a traveling salesman, and so I know that   36 is an occupational disease．But one year, my   37  gave me the cure for my homesickness．

It had black bright eyes, a red bow tie and orange feet—a stuffed penguin（企鹅）that   38  about five inches tall．Attached to its left wing   39  a little sign with the hand-painted declaration "I Love My Dad! "．I   40  the penguin at once on my table．

On my next trip, I put the penguin in my suitcase．That night when I   41__   home, my daughter Jeanine was   42  because the penguin had disappeared．"Honey, he's here with me, " I explained, "I brought him   43  ."

  44 , the penguin came with me—as necessary as my briefcase．And we   __45  along the way．In Albuquerque, I checked into a   46 , dropped my bag and ran to a meeting．When I returned, the maid had   47  the bed and stood the penguin on the pillow．

One night, I discovered the penguin   48 , and after a mad phone call, I learned I' d   49  it in my previous hotel room,   50  it had been rescued by a maid．I  __51  a hundred miles to get it, and when I arrived at midnight, the penguin was waiting at the front desk．In the hotel lobby（大厅）, other tired business travelers were   __52   at the reunion of my penguin and me---I think with a bit of   53  ．

Jeanine is in college now, and I don't travel   54  . The penguin sits on my table, a reminder that love is a wonderful traveling companion．All those years on   55 , it was the one thing I never left home without．

1.                A．cold           B．hunger         C．loneliness D．fever

 

2.                A．wife           B．daughter        C．friend    D．mother

 

3.                A．stood          B．lay             C．jumped   D．climbed

 

4.                A．wrote          B．turned         C．was  D．had

 

5.                A．threw          B．lost            C．ordered  D．placed

 

6.                A．drove          B．called          C．wrote    D．went

 

7.                A．upset          B．happy          C．glad D．excited

 

8.                A．up            B．off             C．along D．down

 

9.                A．From now on    B．In the future     C．In future D．From then on

 

10.               A．had friends      B．had friend      C．made friends   D．made friend

 

11.               A．school         B．hotel          C．shop  D．supermarket

 

12.               A．given          B．turned         C．made     D．carried

 

13.               A．sleeping        B．going          C．living D．missing

 

14.               A．forgot          B．left            C．ordered   D．sent

 

15.               A．there          B．when          C．where D．how

 

16.               A．ran            B．walked         C．hurried   D．drove

 

17.               A．surprised       B．frightened      C．looked    D．laughed

 

18.               A．anger          B．admiration      C．sadness   D．illness

 

19.               A．as many        B．as seldom       C．so few D．as much

 

20.               A．the hotel       B．the meeting     C．the trip    D．the house