20 years ago, I drove a cab 1 a living. One time I arrived in the middle of the night for a pickup
at a building that was dark 2 a single light in a ground floor window. After a long pause, a small
woman in her 80"s stood before me.
"Would you carry my bag out to the car?" she said. I took her small suitcase to the cab, and then
returned to 3 the woman. She kept thanking me for my kindness. " It"s nothing." I told her. "I just try
to treat my passengers the 4 I would want my mother treated."
"Riverside Street, please. But could you drive through downtown?"
"It"s not the shortest way," I answered quickly.
"Oh, I don"t mind," She said." I"m in no 5 . I am on my way to a hospice." I looked in the back
view mirror. Her eyes were full of 6 . "I don"t have any family 7 ." She continued. "The 8 says I
don"t have very long." While we were driving through the city, she showed me the building where she
had once worked. Sometimes she asked me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and
would 9 into the darkness, saying 10 . Not until the first ray of the sun 11 up the sky did we get
to the address she had given me.
" How much do I 12 you?" she asked.
" Nothing," I said. Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She 13 onto me tightly,
saying " You gave an old woman a little moment of joy." Then she walked into the hospice.
Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the 14 of a life. I don"t pick up any more passengers
for the rest of the day. I drove 15 , lost in thought. 16 I had refused to take the run? On a quick 17 ,
I don"t think I have done anything more 18 in my life. We are conditioned to think that our lives 19
on great moments. But great moments often catch us 20 -beautifully hidden in what others may consider
a small one.
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One aft ernoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for the food I had ordered to arrive. Suddenly I 1 that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing in my direction, _ 2 he knew me. The man had a newspaper 3 in front of him, which he was 4 to read, but I could 5 that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter brought my 6 , the man was clearly puzzled by the 7 way in which the waiter and I 8 each other. He seemed even more puzzled as 9 went on and it became 10 that all the waiters in the restaurant knew me. Finally he got up and went into the 11 . When he came out, he paid his bill and 12 without another a glance in my direction. I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had 13 . "Well, "he said, "That man was a detective(侦探). He 14 you here because he thought you were the man he 15 ." "What ?"I said, showing my 16 . The owner continued, "He came into the kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man. I 17 say he looked very much like you! Of course since we know you, we told him that he had made a __18_." "Well, it"s really 19 I came to a restaurant where I"m known, "I said. " 20 , I might have been in trouble." | ||||||||||||||
| ( )1.A. knew ( )2.A. since ( )3.A. flat ( )4.A. hoping ( )5.A. see ( )6.A. menu ( )7.A .direct ( )8.A. chatted with ( )9.A. the waiter ( )10.A. true ( )11.A. restaurant ( )12.A. left ( )13.A. wanted ( )14.A. met ( )15.A. was to beat ( )16.A. care ( )17.A. must ( )18.A. discovery ( )19.A. a pity ( )20.A. Thus | B. unders tood B. even if B. open B. thi nking B. find B. bill B. familiar B. looked at B. time B. hopeful B. washroom B. acted B. tried B. caught B was dealing with B. surprise B can B mistake B natural B However | C. noticed C .though C. cut C. pretending C. guess C. paper C. strange C. laughed at C. I C .clear C. office C. sat down C. ordered C. followed C. was to meet C. worry C. need C decision C. a chance C.Otherwise | D.recognized D.as if D. fixed D.continuing D. learn D. food D. funny D. talked about D. the dinner D. possible D .kitchen D. calmeddown D. wished D. discovered D. was looking for D. regret D. may D. fortune D. lucky D. Therefore | |||||||||||
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| The clock struck eleven at night. The whole house was quiet. Everyone was in bed except me. Under the strong light, I looked sadly before me at a huge pile of that troublesome stuff they call "books". I was going to have my examination the next day. "When can I go to bed?" I asked The clock struck twelve. "Oh, dear!" I cried. "Ten more books to read before I can go to bed!" We pupils are the most wretched creatures in the world. Dad does not agree with me on this. He did not have to work so hard when he was a boy. The clock struck one. I was quite desperate now. I forgot all I had learned. I was too tired to go on. I did the only thing I could. I prayed, "Oh God, please help me pass the exam tomorrow. I do promise to work hard afterwards, Amen." My eyes were so heavy that I could hardly open them. A few minutes later, with my head on the desk, I fell asleep. | ||||||||||||||
| 1. The underlined word "wretched" in Paragraph 3 probably means _______. | ||||||||||||||
| A. happy B. disappointed C. unhappy D. hopeful | ||||||||||||||
| 2. Reviewing his lessons that night didn"t help him because ______. | ||||||||||||||
| A. it was too late at nightB. he was very tired C. his eyelids were so heavy that he couldn"t keep them open D. he hadn"t studied hard before the examination | ||||||||||||||
| 3. What do you suppose probably happened to the author the next day______. | ||||||||||||||
| A. He went to a church to pray again. B. He passed the exam all by luck. C. He failed in the exam. D. He was punished by his teacher. | ||||||||||||||
| 4. The best title for the passage would be ______. | ||||||||||||||
| A. The Night Before the Examination B. Working Far into the Night C. A Slow Student D. Going Over My Lessons | ||||||||||||||
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| There was once a professor of medicine, who was very strict with the students. Whenever he took the chair on the exam committee(担任考试委员会主席), the students would be in fear, because he was seldom pleased with the answers they gave. A student would be lucky enough if he or she could receive a good mark from him. At the end of the term, the students of medicine would take their exam again. Now a student entered the exam room and got seated before the committee. This student was a little nervous as he knew it would not be so easy to get through the exam at all. The professor began to ask. The student was required to describe a certain illness, his description of which turned to be OK. Then the professor asked about the cure for illness, and the student, too, answered just as right. "Good," said the professor, "and how much will you give the patient?" "A full spoon", answered the student. "Now you may go out and wait for what you can get.", said the professor. At the same time, the committee discussed carefully the answers the student had given. Suddenly the student noticed that there was something wrong with his last answer. " A full spoon is too much," he thought to himself. Anxiously he opened the door of the room and cried, "Mr Professor, I"ve make a mistake! A full spoon is too much for a patient.He can take only five drops." "I"m sorry, sir." Said the professor coldly, "But it"s too late. Your patient has died. | ||||||||||||||
| 1. The students were afraid of the professor because_______. | ||||||||||||||
| A. they often angered and disappointed him B. their answers often astonished him C. their answers seldom satisfied him D. he often misunderstoodthem and give them bad markers | ||||||||||||||
| 2. The student"s description of the illness was _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. not correct B. not satisfied C. completely discouraging D. accepted. | ||||||||||||||
| 3. Before he left the room the student was almost sure that ______. | ||||||||||||||
| A. he had passed the exam, and the only thing was to wait for the mark B. his last answer was satisfying C. he had made a mistake D. he had not done well in the exam. | ||||||||||||||
| 4. Which of the following is Not true? | ||||||||||||||
| A. The patient will be in danger if he"s taken as much as a full spoon. B. The doctor will be in trouble if he"s given the patient a full spoon. C. Since one spoon is less than five drops, the patient will be all right soon if he takes only one full spoon at a time. D. If the patient wants to remain safe, he should take no more than five drops at a time. | ||||||||||||||
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should know just how 15 things are and we feel obliged to tell them.