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首字母填空The worst traveler in the world was Paul of San Francisco. Once he(1) f____ from the U.S. to his hometown in Italy to see someone at home. The plane made a one hour stop to get oil at an airport in New York. Paul thought he was in Rome. (2)C____, he got off the plane.When nobody was there to meet him, Paul thought maybe the heavy(3) t___ made his friends late. While looking for their address, Paul found many high (4)m___ buildings instead of old ones. He also found that many people spoke English but not Italian and that many street signs were (5)w_____ in English. Paul knew very (6)l_____ English. So he asked a policeman in Italian the way to the bus station, He happened to meet a policeman who was also born in Italy and answered in the same (7)l____.After twelve hours ‘ travelling round on a bus, the driver handed him over to (8)a_____ policeman. But this time, this policeman could only speak English. So Paul asked the policeman why the Rome police employed(雇佣) so many people who spoke English as policemen.Paul didn’t (9)b____ he was in New York when he was told so. To get him on a plane to Italy, he was(10) s______ to the airport in a police car.
阅读短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。
March 5 is “Lei Feng Day”. It started fifty years ago. Now half a 1.c has passed. Is the spirit (精神) of Lei Feng outdated (过时的)？
Some people have shown us that it is2.n . But people have also changed the ways in which they help others.
Zhao has been a volunteer for 18 years. She still 3.r her experience at an old people’s home several years ago. An old man held her hand and said, “You don’t need to do4.a for us. Seeing young people here is all we need.”
Those words made Zhao 5.t : in what ways can we better help people? “Before we give a helping hand, we should find out what they 6.w ,” Zhao said to the Qilu Evening News.
Besides Zhao, other people have shown their understanding of the spirit of Lei Feng.
Last January, “noodle fever” swept Zhengzhou, Henan. One local man, Li Gang, 42, said in his post that he had a7.s illness and needed a lot of money for an operation. However, what he asked for wasn’t charity,8.b for more people to come to eat noodles at his restaurant.
Li’s post spread9. q . Soon his restaurant was filled with customers (顾客) every day and Li was able to10.a to have his operation on February 2.
In this way, people could help Li without hurting his dignity (自尊).
B) 根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。
One cold midnight after the birthday party of Tom’s, my husband Jack and I were driving home w 1. suddenly our car stopped. “We’ve covered half the way.” I said. “There must be something wrong with the car. I can’t start it again,” said Jack.
What a car! We got out to look around f 2. help, but could there be any person at s 3. an hour? It was dark and nothing could be done to make it go. We h 4. to walk home. We knew it would take us 2 hours to get home on foot, and we were so tired. But what else could take us home? It was so c 5. in the car. At once we began to walk home.
We were at the door at about 2:30 when I r 6. that I had left the key in the car! How s 7. it is! “Break the window and climb in.” said Jack. He picked up a stone, broke the window and was ready to climb when someone from behind caught Jack by the a 8. . It was a policeman!
“What are you going to do, man?” he asked. “Come with me to the police s 9. , you two!”
I told him the whole story. At last he understood what I had said and I was a 10. to get in.
It was three o’clock in the morning!
B）根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。
A young college student thought that he chose the wrong major (专业) at a common college, so he drank every day and didn’t study at all. He b 1 more and more discouraged.
But he was never a 2 from Professor Yang’s biology (生物) class. He liked the course. Besides, Yang’s class was so i 3 that he always listened carefully, never caring about w 4 the other students were paying attention or not in class.
Once he put a note in the homework he handed in, saying: “Professor, it is said that today’s college students are c 5 than potatoes. Do you agree?”
That day Professor Yang sent for him after class. When he came, he f 6 the professor at a table with food on it. They drank happily over their meal.
When they became half drunk, the professor took out a small potato that was sprouting (发芽的). “Do you know how much this c 7 ?” he asked the young man. “It’s soft but poisonous. N 8 will take it even if it’s free. ” He then threw the potato away.
The professor then showed him another potato. It was half the s 9 of a football and perfectly round. “This potato is organic (有机的). It is not only large and fresh but also free of pollution. People are in need of such k 10 of potatoes and they’re quite expensive.”
The young man was impressed by what he’d heard. “Be such a potato,” said the professor.
