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The phone rang once, twice-then someone picked it up. "You got the wrong number!" a man's voice said before the line went __1__. But I called again. "I said you got the wrong number!" came the voice. Once more the phone clicked in my __2__. How could he know I had a wrong number? So I __3__ a third time. The man said. "Is that you again?" "Yeah, it's me." I answered. "I wonder how you knew I had the wrong number before I even said nothing." "None of my business. You __4__ it out!" He hung up the phone again. I sat there for a short time and then called the man back. "Have you __5__ with it yet?" he asked. "The only thing I can think of is …__6__ ever calls you." "You got it!" The phone died for the fourth time. I rang him again. "Well, I thought maybe I should be the first to __7__ to you." He began to laugh and told me, "My name is Adolf Meth. I'm 88 years old, and I haven't had so many wrong numbers in one day in 20 years!" We both __8__. We talked for ten minutes. Adolf had no family, no friends, just like me. Everyone he had been __9__ to had died. Since then, we became phone friends. We called each other almost every day. And I told him about my life and my __10__. On one phone about a disagreement that I'd had with my boss, I told him, "I think I __11__ have it out with him." Adolf said. "Let things __12__ down. When you get as old as I am, you find out that time takes care of a lot. If things get __13__, then you can talk to him." "You know," he said softly one day, "I'm talking to you just the way I'd talk to a boy of my own. I always wanted a family-and children." One morning, I received a call to tell me he had died the night before. With tears in eyes, I heard him asking __14__ I wanted to call him again and again. "Because you __15__ to me, Adolf… | ||||
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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从A 、B 、C 、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。 | |||
A man had a little daughter-an 1 and much-loved child. He lived for her. So when she became 2 , he became a crazy man. He tried 3 to bring her health back. However, his efforts(努力) didn’t 4 and the child died. The father was really sad, keeping himself away from his friends and 5 to do any activity. He didn't want anything to bring him back to himself 6 one night he had a 7 . He was in heaven and saw a group of all the little 8 angels(天使). They were walking in a line. All the angels were wearing white clothes and each child 9 a candle. He noticed that one child's candle was not lighted. Then he saw that the child was his little girl. So he rushed to her right away and put her into his 10 . He kissed her and then asked, " 11 is your candle alone unlighted, darling?" "Daddy, they often light it again, but your 12 always put it out(熄灭)." Just then he 13 from his dream. The lesson was clear, and its effects were quick. From that hour on, he was not a 14 father. He became cheerful with his friends. His darling’s candle would not longer be put out by his 15 tears(眼泪). | |||
( )1. A. one ( )2. A. hurt ( )3. A. something ( )4. A. work ( )5. A. refusing ( )6. A. when ( )7. A. child ( )8. A. children ( )9. A. carried ( )10. A. back ( )11. A. How ( )12. A. kiss ( )13. A. laughed ( )14. A. boring ( )15. A. kind |
B. only B. weak B. everything B. use B. stopping B. though B. daughter B. boys B. bought B. arms B. When B. water B. woke up B. sad B. careful |
C. old C. terrible C. anything C. come C. beginning C. until C. candle C. girls C. brought C. hands C. Why C. smile C. cried C. lazy C. beautiful |
D. beautiful D. ill D. nothing D. appear D. getting D. before D. dream D. people D. put D. feet D. Which D. tears D. shouted D. serious D. useless |