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When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our
doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy,
I couldn"t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery
and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.
Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change
our order, my mother would pen a note-"Please add a bottle of butter- milk next delivery"-and place it in
the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically (魔术般) appear.
All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and
their milkmen Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that
we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn"t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time
taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.
There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk,
thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete (竞争). Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may
just not have been practical to have a delivery service.
Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it
home and planted it on the back porch (门廊). Every so often my son"s friends will ask what it is. So I
start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.
B. to pay for the delivery
C. to satisfy his curiosity
D. to please his mother
B. He was a respectable person.
C. He was treated as a family member.
D. He was fully trusted by the family.
B. It has been driven out of the market.
C. Its service is getting poor.
D. It is forbidden by law.
B. He wanted to tell interesting stories.
C. He needed it for his milk bottles.
D. He planted flowers in it.
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father and his daughter, and put the lid on the cup with a clink. Obviously thinking of something, he hurried
into the inner room, leaving the thermos (热水瓶) on the table. His two guests heard a chest of drawers
opening and rustling.
They remained sitting in the sitting room, the ten-year-old daughter looking at the flowers outside the
window, the father just about to take his cup, when the crash came, right there in the sitting room. Something
was hopelessly broken.
It was the thermos, which had fallen to the floor. The girls looked over her shoulder suddenly, shocked,
staring. It was mysterious; neither of them had touched it, not even a little bit. True, it hadn"t stood steadily
when their host placed it on the table, but it hadn"t fallen then.
The crash of the thermos caused the host, with a box of sugar cubes in his hand, to rush back from the
inner room. He looked foolishly at the steaming floor and blurted out. "It doesn"t matter! It doesn"t matter!"
The father started to say something. Then he said in a low voice, "Sorry I touched it and it fell."
"It doesn"t matter," the host said.
Later, when they left the house,the daughter said, "Daddy, did you touch it?"
"No. But it stood so close to me."
"But you didn"t touch it. I saw your reflection in the window. You were sitting perfectly still."
The father laughed. "Then how would you explain the cause of its fall?"
"The thermos fell by itself. The floor is uneven. It wasn"t steady when Mr. Li put it there. Daddy, why
did you say that?"
"That won"t do,girl. It sounds more acceptable when I say I knocked it down. There are things which
people accept less true it sounds." The daughter was lost in silence for a while. Then she said, "Can you
explain it only this way?"
"Only this way." her father said.
B. You can"t always make people believe the truth.
C. If you try to defend yourself,people will believe you.
D. People never believe others.
B. was sorry that he hadn"t told the host the truth
C. didn"t think Mr. Li would believe the truth
D. was glad that he had told the truth
B. knew the thermos would fall and stepped out
C. thought her father shouldn"t have told the truth
D. thought her father must have known the cause
B. the father sat too close to the thermos
C. the father wanted to help himself with some water
D. something impossible to explain happened
Suddenly I 1 a tiny figure, bent and covered with some bits of cloth, trembling with the 2 from the
harsh winds that were blowing so 3 that night.
It was only 5 degrees that evening, which was freezing cold indeed. Here was an old man of 75, 4 in
the corner of this store, waiting for anyone who would think of 5 him a single coin or a cup of hot tea.
I asked my 6 to go over and hand this old man 7 . He looked into my husband"s face and smiled,
and said, "Thank you." I felt so 8 and I prayed for the old man to live 9 the cold night.
I was sure to visit again and find out 10 he was the next day, as I have to pass this way every day. I did
so the 11 evening, and he remembered the car and came up to my 12 and smiled at me. This time I 13 him
a bag of food. He reached out for the bag 14 I gave him my hand. He held it and smiled and said, "May God
bless you." I looked at the old man and asked my husband, "Doesn"t he 15 you of someone? With that cap on
his head and the 16 in his eyes and the warmth of his hand, I could tell you this: he reminds me of my 17 ."
At a closer look, I saw my Daddy in this old man, waiting for anyone to show him some mercy or 18 . I
do hope all of you who read this, will remember that maybe one day, it could happen to one of us, so please do
not 19 by a poor person without offering at least a word of love and a kind smile or a(n) 20 of kindness of
any kind.
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