A few days ago my wife sent me out to buy something. When I came home, I handed(交给) her a paper bag and said, “Here are the apples you wanted.” She looked in the bag, and then she looked at me. “I told you,” she said slowly, “to buy some eggs.”

I felt worried about my absent-mindedness, so I went to see a doctor. He was a very kind man. “I have seen many people like you. It’s nothing to worry about,” he said. “If you know you are absent-minded, you are all right. But if you do not know you’re absent-minded, you may be really in trouble.”

“Many famous people were absent-minded,” the doctor told me. “Thomas Edison(爱迪生)was standing in line(排队) one day to pay his taxes(税). When he arrived at the window, he found that he had forgotten his own name. He had to ask the man who was behind him to tell him who he was.”

I felt much better and got up to leave. “Thank you, doctor,” I said. “How much do I have to pay you?”

“Ten dollars for the check-up(检查),” the doctor said.

“But doctor, I did not have a check-up!”

For a moment the doctor looked puzzled. Then he said, “Oh, yes, it was the patient before you who had a check-up. How absent-minded I am!”

 

1.It can be inferred from Paragraph 1 that when the author’s wife heard what her husband told her, she was ______.

A. excited           B. surprised           C. sad                  D. proud

2.The doctor took Edison’s story for example ______.

A. to show absent-mindedness is common among people

B. because he liked telling stories

C. to make the author laugh    

D. to make fun of Edison

3.The underlined word “absent-mindedness” in the second paragraph probably means ______.

A. a feeling of anger            

B. a feeling of sadness  

C. an emotion (情绪) of excitement  

D. a trouble in which people often forget this or that

4.According to the passage, who was (were) absent-minded?

A. Only the author.                  B. The author’s wife.

C. The author and the doctor.         D. The doctor alone.

 

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     I was on my way to visit my cousin in Wales. I was driving on the motorway  1   somehow I lost
control of my car. It ran into a smaller car, with parents and three young children in it.   2  , no one was
hurt but the experience was very   3 .
     There was so much   4    that my first thought was to just   5    my car as fast as I could. I could hear
the children from the car behind me   6  . when I got out, I could see the mum was trying hard to   7   her
crying children and move them away from the smoking   8  at the same time. I was shocked.
     I though it would be   9   that the parents would be angry and upset. But   10  being angry with me,
the mum simply said to me "Come here. You need to join in our hug. "
     Really? I couldn't   11   my ears. It was such a warm gesture from someone whose family had just
been   12  be me! I felt much   13  afterwards.
     Meanwhile, the father was getting the children's   14  out of the back of his car because it was
freezing outside. When he came back, he asked me if I was okay and then gave me a   15  too! I
couldn't believe it! I could see that he was completely shocked and dazed(茫然的)and yet he   16   
managed this wonderful and warm gesture. To find pity in a moment like that is 17    incredible (难以置
信的).
     Later, I overheard the couple telling their children that the important thing to   18  was that they were
all okay and unhurt!
     The story didn't stop there… A few hours later, after I reached my cousin's home, the father   19  
  me to see if I had got hom okay and make sure that I was all right.
     Incredible people do   20 , but to actually meet them, especially during such a frightening moment, 
was just so incredible.
(     )1. A. when     
(     )2. A. Clearly  
(     )3. A. frightening
(     )4. A. fire   
(     )5. A. look out of
(     )6. A. talking
(     )7. A. comfort
(     )8. A. trains
(     )9. A. terrible
(     )10. A. in favor of
(     )11. A. believe
(     )12. A. damaged
(     )13. A. sadder
(     )14. A. bags
(     )15. A. hug   
(     )16. A. even   
(     )17. A. nearly  
(     )18. A. focus on
(     )19. A. wrote   
(     )20. A. stay
B. until  
B. Strangely
B. interesting
B. smoke     
B. give up   
B. singing   
B. hold   
B. cars   
B. obvious   
B. in case of
B. see    
B. hit     
B. safer  
B. books    
B. smile     
B. already  
B. mostly    
B. refer to  
B. found     
B. care   
C. before
C. Luckily
C. depressing
C. noise
C. get out of
C. screaming
C. separate
C. taxis
C. natural
C. other than
C. find
C. attacked
C. worse
C. toys
C. speech
C. still
C. hardly
C. speak of
C. rang
C. arrive
D. while          
D. Exactly        
D. surprising    
D. traffic        
D. pick up        
D. quarrelling    
D. satisfy        
D. trucks        
D. ordinary      
D. instead of    
D. feel          
D. saved          
D. better        
D. coats          
D. hand          
D. just          
D. truly          
D. point to      
D. followed      
D. exist          

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