One day a heavy storm hit a village. Nothing was ____41____ but a rock fell from the nearby mountain. The rock rolled down from the mountain and __42_____ in the middle of the main oad in the village. It was very big and shaped more or less __43__ a ball. The villagers decided to move it away since it was blocking the street. Several of the ___44___ men came to try to lift it out of the road. No matter _____45____ they tried, they couldn’t move it.

All of this time a young boy was ___46_____ the men trying to move the rock.. “Excuse me,” he said, “but I think I could move it.” “You,” they shouted, “____47___ are you talking about? All of us have just tried and can’t ___48_____ move it a little.” They all ____49______ the boy.

The next ___50_____ some villagers came to the street. To their great __51____, the rock was gone. More people ran out to see for themselves. It was true the rock was not in the road any more. The little boy stood in the street, smiling, “ I told you I could move it. I did it last night.” ___52_____ he walked over to ___53____ the rock had been and ____54_____ some dirt with a shovel( 铲 ) “You see,” he said, “ I dug a hole __55____ the rock and it rolled down into the hole by itself. Then I covered it with dirt.”

Terry was a middle-aged leather trader whose repeated failure in career made him a depressed man, often  1   that he had been cheated by others．One day he told his wife he was so   2   with the city that he had to leave．

       So his family moved to another city．It was the   3   of a weekend．When Terry and his wife were busily occupied in tidying up their new home, the light suddenly   4  ．Terry was regretful to have forgotten bringing along   5   and had to wait   6   in a low mood．Just then he heard light, hesitant   7   on his door that were clearly audible （听到） in the   8  night．

       “Who’s it?” he wondered．Since Terry was a   9   in this city, and this was the moment he especially hated to be   10  ．So he went to the door and opened it   11  ．At the door was a little girl, shyly asking, “Sir．do you have candles? I’m your neighbor．” “No,” answered Terry in anger and shut the door   12  ．“What a nuisance （讨厌）,” he complained over it with his wife．“No sooner had we settled down than the neighbor came to   13   things．”

       After a while, the door was knocked again．He opened it and found the same girl outside．  14   this time she was   15  two candles, saying, “My grandma told me the new neighbor downstairs might need candles．She   16   me here to give you these．” Terry was struck dumb （目瞪口呆） by what he   17  ．

       At that moment he suddenly realized what caused his   18   in life．It was his   19   and harshness （刻薄） with other people．The person who had cheated him in life was   20   nobody else but himself, for his eyes had been blurred （蒙蔽） by his unsympathetic （无情的） mind．

1．A．complaining           B．reflecting             C．praying               D．pretending

2．A．inspired                B．disappointed         C．thrilled                D．encouraged

3．A．morning                B．moment            C．afternoon            D．evening

4．A．went on               B．went down       C．went out             D．went through

5．A．candles                 B．matches              C．lights                  D．flashlights

6．A．happily                  B．patiently              C．willingly              D．helplessly

7．A．steps                    B．words               C．knocks                D．screams

8．A．dark                     B．quiet                   C．noisy                  D．crowded

9．A．newcomer             B．guest                   C．neighbor              D．settler

10．A．offered                B．disturbed             C．embarrassed        D．surprised

11．A．cheerfully            B．confidently          C．impatiently        D．absurdly

12．A．gently                 B．deliberately       C．slightly                D．heavily

13．A．lend                    B．sell                      C．purchase             D．borrow

14．A．And                    B．But                     C．So                      D．For

15．A．holding                B．hiding               C．fetching              D．seeking

16．A．suggested            B．forbad              C．sent                    D．forced

17．A．felt                  B．smelt                 C．heard               D．saw

18．A．failure                 B．success               C．attempt               D．determination

19．A．warmth               B．coldness              C．kindness              D．influence

20．A．probably         B．hardly           C．actually           D．especially

I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large  21  across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-age children. At the end of the day, he would  22  his taxi on the road. I  23  why he did not park it in the garage.
Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home  24  work, leave his taxi and go out for his  25  affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was  26 . 
I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I  27  to be outside one evening two weeks  28  ,when the garage door was  29   and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely  30  I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But 31   inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n）32  . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and  33   him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a（n）34  . 
We go to bed every night and  35   every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a  36   as close friends or go for a vacation as a  37 . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we  38   the social ladder—how much bigger and better a  39 we have. And we ignore our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on  40  we are than what we do! 

I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large   16  across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-age children. At the end of the day, he would   17  his taxi on the road. I  18  why he did not park it in the garage.
Then, one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home  19  work, leave his taxi and go out for his   20 affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was    21  .
I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I  22 to be outside one evening two weeks  23 , when the garage door was   24 and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely   25  I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But  26 inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n）  27 . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and   28  him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a（n）  29 .
We go to bed every night and   30  every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a   31  as close friends or go for a vacation as a   32 . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we  33 the social ladder(阶梯)—how much bigger and better a  34 we have. And we ignore(忽视)our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on   35  we are than what we do!

I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large  21  across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-age children. At the end of the day, he would  22  his taxi on the road. I  23  why he did not park it in the garage.

Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home  24  work, leave his taxi and go out for his  25  affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was  26 . 

I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I  27  to be outside one evening two weeks  28  ,when the garage door was  29   and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely  30  I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But 31   inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n）32  . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and  33   him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a（n）34  . 

We go to bed every night and  35   every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a  36   as close friends or go for a vacation as a  37 . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we  38   the social ladder—how much bigger and better a  39 we have. And we ignore our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on  40  we are than what we do!