_______ much I dislike the idea of begging in the street,we should still show consideration for those who are in difficult situations.

A.However                          B.How

C.Whatever                         D.No matter

I travel a lot in my work, and what I dislike about my job is eating alone. It always makes me feel lonely to see others laughing and talking. So, room service for several nights was a better choice for me.  

After having room service three nights at a hotel in Houston, however, I needed to get out of my room. Although the restaurant opened at 6:30, I arrived at 6:25. The waiter at the front desk made a comment(评论) about my “being there really early”. I explained my dislike of eating alone in restaurants. He then seated me at a lovely table and asked me whether I would mind if he sat down with me for a while.  

I was glad! He sat and talked with me about his career goals and the difficulty of being at work on nights, weekends and holidays. He said he hadn’t enough time to be with his family. After 15 minutes, he saw some customers at the front desk and excused himself. I noticed that before he went to the front desk, he stopped in the kitchen for a moment.  

Then another waiter came out of the kitchen and had a wonderful chat with me. Before I left that night, some other waiters, even the cook, had come out of the kitchen and sat with me!   When I asked for my bill about one hour later, all the people who had sat down with me came over in a big group to my table, and presented me with a red rose. And I cried! What had begun as a lonely night ended as a beautiful experience.

73. The author asked for room service because _______.

  A. a lot of money would be saved in this way

  B. he didn’t like to eat with other people around

  C. he didn’t wanted to be recognized by the waiters

  D. seeing people laughing and talking made him feel bad

74. How did the waiter feel when he saw the author come in at 6:25?  

  A. Dissatisfied.        B. Pleased.        C. Surprised.       D. Angry.

75. From the third paragraph, we can learn that the waiter at the front desk ______.  

  A. knew how to attract more customers to his restaurant  

  B. found it hard to balance his work and his family  

  C. was getting tired of his present job  

  D. had never had such a chance to talk about his worries

76. The author wants to tell us that ______.  

  A. people are actually all lonely in their own way   

  B. restaurants should put the need of customers first  

  C. the kindness of strangers can make you less lonely  

  D. restaurants are full of surprises for lonely people

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、D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When I was a boy, every holiday that I had seemed wonderful. My   36   took me by train or by car to a hotel by the   37  . All day, I seem to remember, I  38 on the sands with strange   39  children. We made houses and gardens, and   40  the tide (潮汐) destroy them. When the tide went out, we   41  over the rocks and looked down at the fish in the rock-pools.

    In those days the   42  seemed to shine always brightly   43   the water was always warm. Sometimes we left the beach and walked in the country,   44   ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees. There were  45  in one's pockets or good places where one could   46   ice-creams. Each day seemed a life-time. 

    Although I am now thirty-five years old, my idea of a good   47   is much the same as it was. I   48  like the sun and warm sand and the sound of _ 49   beating the rocks. I no longer wish to   50   any sand house or sand garden, and I dislike sweets.   51  , I love the sea and often feel sand running through my fingers.

    Sometimes I   52   what my ideal (理想的) holiday will be like when I am   53   . All I want to do then, perhaps, will be to lie in bed, reading books about   54  who make houses and gardens with sands, who watch the incoming tide, who make  55  sick on too many ices...

A. teacher           B. parents                     C. nurse                       D. doctor

A. sea           B. lake                  C. mountain           D. forest

A. played           B. slept                   C. sat                 D. stood

A. moved          B. excited                 C. worried           D. nervous

A. made         B. brought                C. watched                     D. heard

A. rolled         B. jumped                 C. turned            D. climbed

A. light            B. sun                C. moon             D. lamp

A. and              B. yet                C. but                 D. or

A. exploring       B. examining          C. repairing           D. measuring

A. sweets      B. sand                   C. ice-creams                   D. money

A. make         B. sell                 C. buy                 D. offer

A. house         B. holiday             C. garden                 D. tide

A. hardly       B. almost               C. still                   D. perhaps

A. waves          B. water                       C. hands                 D. birds

A. destroy       B. fix                    C. use                     D. build

A. But          B. However                C. Or                    D. Yet

A. wonder       B. feel                    C. understand             D. believe

A. strong        B. weak                  C. young                D. old

A. children      B. boys               C. girls                   D. grown-ups

A. herself        B. himself              C. itself                D. themselves

— Mr Smith never means what he says．I dislike him．

— ______________, as the saying goes．

I dislike _________ when others laugh at me in public or think poorly of me behind.

A. that    B. those   C. it D. them