阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My husband Jeff and I moved into our new home in Scottsbluff last year just before Christmas. I did not have the or energy to carry out my traditional Christmas decorating and baking activities. What was the point, anyway? It was going to be a Christmas after all.
, the neighborly nature of west Nebraska residents started to trickle (陆续来临) in.
There was a on the door one evening. It was Jeff’s new colleague, John Smith, and his wife, Phyllis. The Smiths had stopped by to us to town with a loaf of homemade bread. They pointed out a on the porch (门廊). Apparently the doorbell wasn’t working in the cold snowy weather and we had a visit from the Browns, our across-the-street neighbors, who brought us a Christmas card and more Christmas cookies.
The feelings brought by these thoughtful gestures lasted longer than the food.
As Jeff and I were clearing pre-Christmas from our driveway, Ernie Guzman came over from next door to us to dig out.
Then, we received an invitation to a Christmas Eve meal with our neighbors, Ernie and Nancy Sommer, and their —a 90-year-old lady, who also had no family in the immediate area with whom to spend the holiday.
Our Christmas Eve was quite merry, thanks to our . Our Christmas morning was special, thanks to the Smiths’ gift of bread. I was so for these gestures of welcome, especially during the holidays.
This year, we were again unable to be with our families for Christmas. The and work schedules just made things too difficult. that sense of Christmas isolation (孤立) all too well, we decided to try to round up some other folks who were in the holidays.
Lonely people are all around us, but most of us notice them. Just take a look around you. Sometimes, the smallest gesture can make a world of difference.
| 小题1: | | A．chance | B．anxiety | C．time | D．ability |
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| 小题2: | | A．lonely | B．free | C．merry | D．usual |
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| 小题3: | | A．Therefore | B．However | C．Somehow | D．Meanwhile |
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| 小题4: | | A．sign | B．knock | C．card | D．note |
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| 小题5: | | A．invite | B．welcome | C．drive | D．send |
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| 小题6: | | A．tree | B．flower | C．mail | D．package |
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| 小题7: | | A．forgot | B．missed | C．arranged | D．received |
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| 小题8: | | A．warm | B．deep | C．true | D．mixed |
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| 小题9: | | A．rubbish | B．snow | C．dust | D．leaves |
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| 小题10: | | A．teach | B．urge | C．help | D．forbid |
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| 小题11: | | A．prepare | B．share | C．taste | D．exchange |
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| 小题12: | | A．guest | B．aunt | C．maid | D．partner |
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| 小题13: | | A．folks | B．relatives | C．neighbors | D．colleagues |
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| 小题14: | | A．call | B．greeting | C．meeting | D．breakfast |
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| 小题15: | | A．sorry | B．eager | C．grateful | D．ready |
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| 小题16: | | A．season | B．expense | C．distance | D．situation |
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| 小题17: | | A．Knowing | B．Showing | C．Studying | D．Discovering |
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| 小题18: | | A．happy | B．busy | C．alone | D．active |
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| 小题19: | | A．always | B．usually | C．finally | D．seldom |
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| 小题20: | | A．careful | B．kind | C．pretty | D．patient |
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小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:B
小题5:B
小题6:D
小题7:B
小题8:A
小题9:B
小题10:C
小题11:B
小题12:A
小题13:C
小题14:D
小题15:C
小题16:C
小题17:A
小题18:C
小题19:D
小题20:B |
试题分析：在去年圣诞节前作者和丈夫杰夫搬进了新家。由于时间的匆忙并且在新的地方，举目无亲，所以他们没有准备过圣诞节。但是，出乎意料的是邻居们陆续前来，有的拿来了自制的面包，有的送来了圣诞贺卡，作者一家深受感动，他们决定在今年的圣诞节也去把温暖带给那些孤独的人们。
小题1:C名词辨析。 A. 机会；B. 渴望；C. 时间；D. 能力。根据上文My husband Jeff and I moved into our new home in Scottsbluff last year just before Christmas.可知他们在圣诞节前刚搬进新家，因而没时间和精力去筹备圣诞节，故选C。
小题2:A形容词辨析。A. 孤独的；B. 自由的；C. 快乐的；D. 通常的。根据文章倒数第二段This year, we were again unable to be with our families for Christmas.…that sense of Christmas isolation (孤立) all too well,可以判断作者刚搬到新地方的时候是打算孤独地去过圣诞节的，故选A。
小题3:B副词辨析。A. 因此；B. 然而；C. 反正；D. 其时。根据上下文the neighborly nature of west Nebraska residents started to trickle (陆续来临) in. 原本认为它将是一个孤独的圣诞节，然而却收到邻居的邀请，前后内容有转折关系，故选B。
小题4:B名词辨析。A. 标志；B. 敲击；C. 卡片；D. 笔记。根据下文可知邻居来了，而且由Apparently the doorbell wasn’t working in the cold snowy weather知道门铃坏了，所以别人只能敲门，故选B。
小题5:B动词辨析。A. 邀请；B. 欢迎；C. 驾驶；D. 寄送。从语境可知杰夫的同事送来了家做的面包作为对我们来这里的欢迎，故选B。
小题6:D名词辨析。A. 树；B. 花；C. 邮件；D. 包裹。从下文who brought us a Christmas card and more Christmas cookies.可知邻居布朗一家给我们送来了糕点，贺卡等，由此推测应该是用包裹包好的。故选D。
小题7:B动词辨析。A. 忘记；B. 错过；C. 安排；D. 收到。因为包裹放在了门廊里，而且从上文可知门铃坏了，由此推断他们没能见到送礼物的布朗一家，所以此处指我们错过了一次邻居的来访。故选B。
小题8:A形容词辨析。A. 温暖的；B.深的； C.真实的；D. 混合的。在上文中邻居和同事带来了贺卡、甜饼和面包，从情理可知作者对此非常感动，感到了他们所带来的温暖，而且这种温暖的感觉比实物持续的时间更长，故选A。
小题9:B名词辨析。 A. 垃圾；B. 雪；C. 灰尘；D. 树叶。从上文Apparently the doorbell wasn’t working in the cold snowy weather可知当时是下雪天，由此判断作者和丈夫正清扫车道上的积雪，故选B。
小题10:C动词辨析。 A. 教；B.敦促 ；C. 帮助；D. 禁止。根据语境可知隔壁的邻居看到他们在扫雪，也过来帮忙，故选C。
小题11:B动词辨析。A. 准备；B. 分享，分担；C. 品尝；D. 交换。从句意可知我们收到一个邀请去和邻居们共进圣诞晚餐，应该用share“分享”，故选B。
小题12:A名词辨析。A. 客人；B. 阿姨；C. 少女；D. 伙伴。根据下文who also had no family in the immediate area with whom to spend the holiday.可知这位老人也是没有家人在这个地方的，所以也是客人，故选A。
小题13:C名词辨析。A.人民；B. 亲戚；C. 邻居；D. 同事 。从上文….a Christmas Eve meal with our neighbors可知他们是和邻居一起共进晚餐，所以他们对邻居心怀感激，故选C。
小题14:D名词辨析。A. 电话；B. 问候；C. 会见；D. 早餐。根据上文内容可知邻居和杰夫的同事在清晨送来了吃的东西，再由下文thanks to the Smiths’ gift of bread.可以判断此处指早餐，故选D。
小题15:C形容词辨析。A. 遗憾的；B.渴望的；C.感激的；D. 准备好的。从故事内容可知作者对邻居的善意是心存感激的，故选C。
小题16:C名词辨析。A. 季节；B. 花费；C. 距离；D.情景。根据文章内容可知他们远离亲朋好友来到了一个新地方，所以此处指距离和工作日程使作者不能和家人共度圣诞，故选C。
小题17:A动词辨析。A.知道；B. 展示；C. 学习；D. 发现。从上文内容可知作者刚来到这个新地方的时候曾经体味过孤独的感觉，所以选A。
小题18:C形容词辨析。A. 快乐；B. 繁忙；C.单独；D. 积极的。根据上文….that sense of Christmas isolation (孤立) all too well和下文Lonely people are all around us,可以推测作者曾经体会过孤独的感觉所以他们决定设法在假期里把孤独的人们聚在一起，故选C。
小题19:D副词辨析。A. 总是；B.通常；C. 最后；D. 几乎不。根据下文作者的呼吁Just take a look around you.可知我们大多数人几乎没有注意过身边孤独的人们，故选D。
小题20:B形容词辨析。A. 仔细的；B. 好心的；C.美丽的；D. 忍耐的。根据故事的内容可知作者因为邻居、同事善意的举动而心存感激，感到了世界的温暖，所以此处作者也是指人们小小的善意之举就能使我们感觉到一个不同的世界，故选B。 |
核心考点
试题【阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。My husband Jeff and I moved】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
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Sally jumped up the moment she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She asked, “How is my little boy?”
The surgeon said, “I’m ____. We did all we could, but your boy didn’t ____ it.”
Sally ____into the chair. The surgeon asked, “Would you like some time with your son before he was transported to the ____?” Sally nodded. While saying goodbye, she ran her fingers ____ through his thick curly hair. “Would you like a lock of his hair?” the surgeon asked. Sally nodded yes. The surgeon cut a few hairs, and handed them to Sally. The mother said, “It was Jimmy’s idea to ____ his body to the university for study. He said it might ____ somebody else. “I said no at first, ____ Jimmy said, ‘Mom, I won’t be using it after I die. Maybe it will help some other little boy spend one more day with his Mom.’”
“My Jimmy had a heart of ____, always thinking of someone else, always wanting to help others if he could.” she went on.
Sally walked out of the hospital. She put the bag with Jimmy’s ____ on the seat beside her in the car. The drive home was ____. It was even harder to enter the ____ house. She carried Jimmy’s belongings, and the lock of his hair to her son’s room. She started placing the model cars and other personal things back in his room ____ where he had always kept them. She lay down across his bed and, hugging his pillow, ____ herself to sleep.
It was around midnight when Sally ____. Lying beside her on the bed was a letter. The letter said,
“Dear Mom,
I know you’re going to ____ me, and me too. I will always love you, Mom, even more ____ each passing day. Someday we will see each other again. Until then, if you want to ____a little boy so you won’t be so lonely, that’s OK with me. He can have my room and old toys to play with.
Don’t be sad thinking about me. I don’t hurt any more. The cancer is all ____. I don’t have to stand that ____any more. The angels in Heaven are so tender. They say I’m a Special Angel! I love you, Mom.”
| 小题1: | | A．worried | B．sorry | C．happy | D．grateful |
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| 小题3: | | A．knocked | B．looked | C．sank | D．got |
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| 小题4: | | A．house | B．church | C．hospital | D．university |
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| 小题5: | | A．anxiously | B．lovingly | C．patiently | D．angrily |
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| 小题6: | | A．donate | B．move | C．show | D．lend |
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| 小题7: | | A．affect | B．help | C．protect | D．impress |
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| 小题9: | | A．gold | B．stone | C．wisdom | D．bravery |
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| 小题10: | | A．toys | B．clothes | C．belongings | D．letters |
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| 小题11: | | A．long | B．smooth | C．difficult | D．dangerous |
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| 小题12: | | A．empty | B．familiar | C．big | D．old |
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| 小题13: | | A．roughly | B．exactly | C．especially | D．possibly |
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| 小题14: | | A．put | B．sent | C．cried | D．buried |
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| 小题15: | | A．wrote | B．spoke | C．slept | D．awoke |
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| 小题16: | | A．understand | B．forgive | C．leave | D．miss |
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| 小题18: | | A．save | B．host | C．visit | D．adopt |
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| 小题19: | | A．lost | B．gone | C．cured | D．spotted |
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| 小题20: | | A．depression | B．sadness | C．pain | D．stress |
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It was in October. I was aimlessly wandering down the street, heading into a most gloriously beautiful sunset. I had an urge to speak to someone on the street to share that beauty, but it seemed everyone was in a hurry.
I took the next-best action. Quickly I ducked into a department store and asked the lady behind the counter if she could come outside for just a minute. She looked at me as though I were from some other planet. She hesitated, and then seemingly against her better judgment, she moved toward the door.
When she got outside I said to her, “Just look at that sunset! Nobody out here was looking at it and I just had to share it with someone.”
For a few seconds we just looked. Then I said, “God is in his heaven and all is right with the world.” I thanked her for coming out to see it; she went back inside and I left. It felt good to share the beauty.
Four years later my situation changed greatly. I came to the end of a twenty-year marriage. I was alone and on my own for the first time in my life. I lived in a trailer park which, at the time, I considered a real come-down, and I had to do my wash in the community laundry room.
One day, while my clothes were going around, I picked up a magazine and read an article about a woman who had been in similar circumstances. She had come to the end of a marriage, moved to a strange community, and the only job she could find was one she disliked: clothing sales in a department store.
Then something that happened to her changed everything. She said a woman came into her department store and asked her to step outside to look at a sunset. The stranger had said, “God is in his heaven and all is right with the world,” and she had realized the truth in that statement. From that moment on, she turned her life around.
小题1:The author asked the woman to go outside to ______.| A．admire the sunset | B．cheer her up | C．offer some help | D．have a chat |
小题2:Four years later, the author ______.| A．found her dream job | B．put an end to her marriage | | C．worked in a laundry room | D．lived in the same community |
小题3:After reading the article in the magazine, the author was probably______.| A．disappointed | B．puzzled | C．inspired | D．overjoyed |
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Have you ever not wanted to do something so badly? Well，that’s how I about joining Madcaps，a mothers and daughters’club assisting charity. ，my feeling changed finally. Now I believe if you adopt an attitude．you might just enjoying it.
Six months ago，my mom told me the club asked us to work as at Saint Vincent de Paul Homeless shelter．That meant I had to in the dirty homeless shelter for at least 20 hours.
The first lime we went there，a lady led us to the kitchen where we my five fellow Madcaps classmates- they also wore the same mark .Since I′m usually awkward， I had never talked with any of them .Worse still，my mom was asked to help outside the kitchen，leaving me totally to serve food with them. Soon large numbers of homeless families in like rushing river．A little girl，around 5 years old，walked up to me I her a sandwich. She took it and joined her family quickly．As she walked away, I she was wearing a coat．Clearly too big for her, hanging on her thin body, and couldn’t help thinking how much I had with her．It suddenly struck me that how I am.
After that moment I had a of heart Now I love Madcaps and don’t miss one meeting I have awkwardness when communicating and have many friends. And this year I am sure I will do more than the 20 hours of charity.
So that is how I have made a by doing one thing I do not want to do .If you have an open about things you can accomplish more and become a well-rounded（全面的）person.
| 小题1: | | A．heard | B．worried | C．felt | D．brought |
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| 小题2: | | A．otherwise | B．However | C．Therefore | D．Besides |
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| 小题3: | | A．optimistic | B．accurate | C．aggressive | D．passive |
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| 小题4: | | A．keepup | B．giveup | C．endup | D．takeup |
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| 小题5: | | A．members | B．volunteers | C．friends | D．clerks |
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| 小题6: | | A．wander | B．stay | C．teach | D．serve |
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| 小题7: | | A．raninto | B．caredabout | C．lookedfor | D．passedby |
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| 小题8: | | A．painfully | B．socially | C．naturally | D．hopelessly |
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| 小题9: | | A．afraid | B．doubtful | C．alone | D．patient |
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| 小题10: | | A．joined | B．broke | C．dropped | D．poured |
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| 小题11: | | A．awarded | B．showed | C．handed | D．bought |
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| 小题12: | | A．discovered | B．guessed | C．suspected | D．concluded |
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| 小题13: | | A．neatly | B．broadly | C．tightly | D．loosely |
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| 小题14: | | A．compared | B．connected | C．covered | D．competed |
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| 小题15: | | A．eager | B．lucky | C．calm | D．miserable |
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| 小题16: | | A．relief | B．loss | C．surprise | D．change |
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| 小题17: | | A．remembered | B．realized | C．overcome | D．ignored |
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| 小题18: | | A．allowed | B．required | C．included | D．finished |
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| 小题19: | | A．difference | B．promise | C．sacrifice | D．conclusion |
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| 小题20: | | A．study | B．plan | C．mind | D．question |
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Ashok Gadgil has spent the past three decades helping people in need—and he has no plans to stop .On May 2, Gadgil won the$100．000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation. Each year，the honor is given to an inventor who has improved the lives of people in developing countries. Gadgil‘s inventions have helped more than 100 million people around the world.
Gadgil is a professor and physicist at the University of California. When he’s not teaching，he works to find solutions to global problems such as energy efficiency and water safety. “I chose to focus on problems where my knowledge of science could help，”he said
In the 1980s he came up with a program to make energy-efficient light bulbs more affordable for people in developing countries. Then in the 1990s，Gadgil designed his first life—saving invention，UV Waterworks .The device kills deadly disease —carrying germs(病菌)from drinking water. It costs just one cent to clean five liters of water .Gadgil was inspired to find an inexpensive solution to the clean water crisis after more than 10，000 people in his home country of India died from an outbreak of Bengal cholera，in 1993 The disease is spread through contaminated food and drinking water .So far，the invention has provided safe drinking water to more than five million people in poor areas.
As a professor，Gadgil encourages his students to stay positive about finding solutions to hard problems.“Be optimistic when you try a hard problem．”he says. “It’s when you solve a large problem that you can have a big impact on the world”
小题1:Gadgil was given Lemelson-MIT Award for___________.| A．his teaching experience | B．his new physical research | | C．his vast knowledge | D．his helpful inventions |
小题2:What call we learn about UV Waterworks?| A．It"s Gadgil’s first invention | B．It’s used to clean water． | | C．it was designed for his home country | D．It saved 10，000 people in total |
小题3:The underlined word “contamninated”in Paragraph 3 means__________.| A．wasted | B．consumed | C．polluted | D．canned |
小题4:According to the last paragraph，Gadgil encourages his students__________.| A．to learn lessons from failures | | B．to find problems in peaceful life | | C．to make inventions to help poor people | | D．to be confident when facing difficulties |
小题5:Which of the following can best describe Gadgil?| A．Caring and optimistic. | B．Independent and positive. | | C．Powerful and strict. | D．Responsible and sensitive. |
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I sat with my friend in a well-known coffee shop in a neighboring town of Venice. As we our coffee, a man came in and sat at a(n) table beside us. He called the waiter and placed his saying, “Two cups of coffee, one of them there on the wall”. We this order with rather interest and observed that he was with one cup of coffee but he paid for two. As soon as he left, the waiter a piece of paper on the wall saying “A Cup of Coffee”.
While we were still there, two other men and ordered three cups of coffee, two on the table and one on the wall. They had two cups of coffee but for three and left. This time also, the did the same; he put up a piece of paper on the wall saying, “A cup of coffee.” It seemed that this gesture was a at this place. , it was something unique and puzzling for us. Since we had to do with the matter, we our coffee, paid the bill and left.
After a few days, we again had a(n) to go to this coffee shop. While we were enjoying our coffee, a man walked in. The way this man was dressed did not the standard nor the atmosphere of this coffee shop. Poverty was from the looks on his face. he seated himself, he looked at the wall and said, “One cup of coffee from the .” The waiter served coffee to this man with and dignity. The man had his coffee and left without paying. We were amazed to watch all this when the waiter a piece of paper from the wall and threw it into the dustbin.
| 小题1: | | A．enjoyed | B．prepared | C．practiced | D．bought |
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| 小题2: | | A．crowded | B．open | C．empty | D．beautiful |
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| 小题3: | | A．food | B．goods | C．table | D．order |
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| 小题4: | | A．heard | B．found | C．glared | D．watched |
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| 小题5: | | A．satisfied | B．served | C．treated | D．awarded |
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| 小题6: | | A．stuck out | B．hid away | C．put up | D．took out |
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| 小题7: | | A．dashed | B．moved | C．fled | D．entered |
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| 小题8: | | A．paid | B．looked | C．waited | D．asked |
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| 小题9: | | A．customer | B．waiter | C．stranger | D．passenger |
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| 小题10: | | A．demand | B．signal | C．custom | D．duty |
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| 小题11: | | A．Instead | B．Therefore | C．Moreover | D．However |
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| 小题12: | | A．nothing | B．something | C．anything | D．everything |
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| 小题13: | | A．wasted | B．finished | C．missed | D．donated |
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| 小题14: | | A．invitation | B．time | C．reward | D．chance |
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| 小题15: | | A．equal | B．change | C．match | D．reach |
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| 小题16: | | A．obvious | B．slight | C．serious | D．strong |
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| 小题18: | | A．window | B．floor | C．wall | D．door |
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| 小题19: | | A．carelessness | B．wisdom | C．interest | D．respect |
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| 小题20: | | A．brought down | B．took off | C．kept away | D．cut off |
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