A serious car crash leads one woman to rediscover her faith in human kindness.
In March last year, the car I was driving was__1__in a serious crash with another car on a country
road. I soon__2__myself at the centre of a frenzy of activity, surrounded by paramedics, police, rescuers
and members of the local community. An enormous can opener was used to__3__me out of my wrecked car and__4__an ambulance.
Over the next eight hours, I was transported to hospital, dragged up, Xrayed and diagnosed (诊断)
with a broken neck. Knowing that I"d__5 death by a fraction of a second sustained me throughout the
long wait in the emergency ward and__6__me to deal with the visible distress of my hospital visitors.
Only after I"d convinced the last friend to__7 could I direct my energies inwards. Flitting in and out
of my line of vision during my hospital__8__was the Red Cross lady, a gentle__9__in white who, from
time to time, popped her head in to__10__cups of tea. After the visitors had gone, she ventured further
into my cubicle to__11__if I was all right.
I found myself__12__her everything: about the shock of the__13__, my feats for my family as a
result of my injuries-about my whole life. While I__14__for an ambulance to transport me to another
hospital, she stood by my trolley and__15__my hand as I offloaded all the emotion I"d stoically withheld (强忍着的) from my family. She__16__, quiet and nonjudgmental.
Even now, the__17__that I have her contact details provides me with great__18__. I look forward
to a day in the nottoodistant future when my guardian angel and I can meet again, in__19__circumstances.
In times of crisis, faith can sustain us: for me, my faith in human nature, reawakened by the__20__of
a stranger, has helped ease my journey back to recovery.
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( )17.A.knowledge
( )18.A.progress
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( )20.A.sympathy
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about his plan for the future. "I"m going to college, but I need a way to pay for it," Deluca recalls saying.
"Buck said, "you should open a sandwich shop.""
That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After
doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $1,000. Deluca rented a storefront (店面) in Connecticut,
and when they couldn"t cover their startup costs, Buck kicked in another $1,000.
But business didn"t go smoothly as they expected. Deluca says, "After six months, we were doing
poorly, but we didn"t know how badly, because we didn"t have any financial controls." All he and Buck
knew was that their sales were lower than their costs.
Deluca was managing the store and to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was
working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They"d meet Monday evenings and brainstorm
ideas for keeping the business running. "We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we
could tell the public, "We are so successful; we are opening a second store."" And they did-in the spring
of 1966. Still, it was a lot of learning by trial and error.
But the partners" learnasyougo approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, Deluca would drive around and handdeliver the checks to pay their supplies. "It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn"t necessary but as a result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal
relationships established really helped out," Deluca says.
And having a goal was also important. "There are so many problems that can get you down. You just
have to keep working toward your goal," Deluca adds.
Deluca ended up founding Subways Sandwich, the multimilliondollar restaurant chain.
B.pay for his college education
C.help his partner expand business
D.do some research
B.He was a professor of business administration.
C.He was studying at the University of Bridgeport.
D.He rented a storefront for Deluca.
B.It lowered the prices to poor management.
C.It made no profits due to poor management.
D.It lacked control over the quality of sandwich.
B.had succeeded in their business
C.wished to meet the increasing demand of customers
D.wanted to make believe(假装)that they were successful
B.Making friends with supplies.
C.Finding a good partner.
D.Opening chain stores.
parents that nature dealt them. That"s especially__1__of children who remain in homes where they"re
badly treated__2__the law blindly favors biological parents. It"s also true of children who__3__for
years in foster (寄养) homes because of parents who can"t or won"t care for them but__4__to give
up custody (监护) rights.
Fourteenyearold Kimberly Mays__5__neither description, but her recent court victory could__6__
help children who do. Kimberly has been the__7__of an angry custody battle between the man who
raised her and her biological parents, with whom she has never lived. A Florida judge__8__that the
teenager can remain with the only father she"s ever known and that her biological parents have "no
legal__9__"on her.
Shortly after__10__in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were mistakenly
switched and sent home with the__11__parents. Kimberly"s biological parents, Ernest and Regina
Twigg, received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical tests__12__that the child wasn"t
the Twiggs" own daughter, but Kimberly was, thus leading to a custody__13__with Robert Mays. In
1989, the two families__14__that Mr. Mays would maintain custody with the Twiggs getting__15__
rights. Those rights were ended when Mr. Mays decided that Kimberly was being__16__.
The decision to__17__Kimberly with Mr. Mays caused heated discussion. But the judge made it
clear that Kimberly did have the right to sue (起诉)__18__her own behalf. Thus he made it clear that
she was__19__just a personal possession of her parents. Biological parentage does not mean an absolute ownership that cancels(取消) all the__20__of children.
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( )19.A.more than
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B.judgment
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B.happiness
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C.successfully
C.sacrifice
C.ordered
C.effect
C.operation
C.kind
C.decided
C.agreement
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C.visiting
C.wounded
C.give
C.on
C.not more than
C.rights
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D.gather
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came out of his office, a street boy was 1 the shining car. “Is this your car, Paul?” he asked.
Paul 2 , “My brother gave it to me for Christmas.” The boy was astonished. “You mean your brother gave it to you and it cost you 3 ? Paul, I wish…” he hesitated.
Of course Paul knew he was going to wish he had a 4 like that. But what the boy said surprised Paul greatly.
"I 5 ", the boy went on, "that I could 6 a brother like that."Paul looked at the boy 7 , then he
said. "Would you like to take a ride in 8 car?"
"Oh, yes. I’d love that."
After a short 9 , the boy turned and with his eyes shining, said, “Paul, would you mind driving in front of my 10 ?”
Paul smiled a little. He knew he wanted to show his 11 that he could ride home in a big car. But Paul was 12 again. “Will you stop where those two steps are?” the boy asked.
He ran up to the steps. 13 in a short while Paul heard him coming back, but he was coming 14 .
He was carrying his little brother disabled in one leg. He sat him down on the step and 15 the car.
"There he is, Buddy, just like I told you 16 . His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn’t cost him a cent. And 17 I’m going to give you one just like it…, then you can see by yourself all the 18
things in the Christmas window that I’ve been trying to tell you about.”
Paul got out and 19 the boy to the front seat of his car. The 20 older brother climbed in beside
him. The three of them began an unforgettable holiday.
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B. disagreed
B. anything
B. sister
B. wish
B. have
B. in surprise
B. their
B. try
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B. neighbors
B. happy
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B. slowly
B. looked for
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B. at times
B. nice
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B. heavily-built
C. nodded
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C. explain
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C. pointed to
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tired and was losing weight fast. Diagnosed with diabetes(糖尿病), Thomas would need to inject himself with insulin(胰岛素) three times a day for the rest of his life or risk nerve damage, blindness, and even
death. And if that weren"t bad enough, he had no health insurance.
After a month of feeling upset, Thomas decided he"d better find a way to fight back. He left Canton,
Michigan for New York, got a job waiting tables, nicknamed himself the Diabetic Rockstar, and created
diabeticrockstar.com, a free online community for diabetics and their loved ones-a place where over 1,100 people share personal stories, information, and resources.
Jason Swencki"s son, Kody, was diagnosed with diabetes at six. Father and son visit the online
children"s forums(论坛) together most evenings. "Kody gets so excited, writing to kids from all over,"
says Swencki, one of the site"s volunteers. "They know what he"s going through, so he doesn"t feel alone."
Kody is anything but alone: Diabetes is now the seventh leading cause of death in the United States,
with 24 million diagnosed cases. And more people are being diagnosed at younger ages.
These days, Thomas"s main focus is his charity(慈善机构), Fight It, which provides medicines and
supplies to people-225 to date-who can"t afford a diabetic"s huge expenses. Fightit.org has raised about
$ 23,000-in products and in cash. In May, Thomas will hold the first annual Diabetic Rockstar Festival in
the Caribbean.
Even with a staff of 22 volunteers, Thomas often devotes up to 50 hours a week to his cause, while
still doing his fulltime job waiting tables. "Of the diabetes charities out there, most are putting money into
finding a cure," says Bentley Gubar, one of Rockstar"s original members. "But Christopher is the only
person I know saying people need help now."
B.He studies the leading cause of diabetes.
C.He has a positive attitude to this disease.
D.He encourages diabetics by writing articles.
B.volunteers to find jobs
C.children to amuse themselves
D.rock stars to share resources
B.benefits from diabeticrockstar.com
C.helps create the online kid"s forums
D.writes children"s stories online
B.It organizes parties for volunteer once a year.
C.It offers less expensive medicine to diabetics.
D.It owns a wellknown medical website.
B.employs 22 people for his website
C.helps diabetics in his own way
D.tries to find a cure for diabetes
his horse was lame.His 2met him at the gate,asking,"What has happened to you?"
3 himself up as best he could,he replied,"Oh,Sir,I have been 4 in your service,robbing and burning
and killing your 5 to the west."
"You have been what?"cried the 6 king,"But I haven"t any enemies to the west!"
"Oh!"said the soldier.And then,after a(n) 7 ,he continued to say,"Well,I think you do now."
What about you? Do you have enemies to the west? Or in some other directions? None of us will
calmly sail through our lives in perfect 8 with everyone we meet.And though most struggles can be 9
along the way,and most of our damaged 10 can eventually be healed,some issues may threaten to drive
a 11 wedge(楔) between people.Sincere moral and political ideas,especially,can 12 folks who just
hold different positions.
One person said,"I don"t have a personal enemy 13 .They"ve all died off.I 14 them terrible because
they helped define me."
So-called"enemies"can 15 a valuable purpose.If we let them,they can teach us about ourselves.By
16 a mirror before us,they can help us 17 what we may have missed.By disagreeing with our ideas,they
can 18 our points of view.And,if we allow them,they can 19 help us practice strength and sympathy in
the face of criticism.
If enemies cannot become friends,they can become 20 .If we listen,they will teach us what our friends
cannot.
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( )3.A.Tightening
( )4.A.fighting
( )5.A.enemies
( )6.A.disappointed
( )7.A.sigh
( )8.A.harmony
( )9.A.won
( )10.A.pains
( )11.A.visible
( )12.A.divide
( )13.A.escaped
( )14.A.respect
( )15.A.achieve
( )16.A.holding
( )17.A.reflect
( )18.A.sharpen
( )19.A.clearly
( )20.A.drivers
B.father
B.Straightening
B.training
B.competitors
B.frightened
B.apology
B.common
B.settled
B.wounds
B.short
B.isolate
B.spared
B.miss
B.serve
B.moving
C.remember
B.change
B.immediately
B.teachers
C.king
C.Pulling
C.competing
C.challengers
C.surprised
C.rest
C.touch
C.made
C.relationships
C.temporary
C.disconnect
C.left
C.hate
C.act
C.choosing
C.prove
C.share
C.unconsciously
C.doctors
D.friend
D.Standing
D.learning
D.offenders
D.excited
D.pause
D.company
D.met
D.bodies
D.permanent
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D.stayed
D.fear
D.express
D.giving
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