Question

Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of reveving. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important 36  : giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you lack money. This is how I experimented with 37  . If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store came to me, I would step in and make the 38   to the storekeeper. If an incident happened, the story of 39   I think the  local Catholic priest could use, I would call him up to tell him about it, 40  I am not a Catholic .One discovery I made about giving-away is that it is almost 41 to give away anything in this world without getting something 42  , though the return often comes in an unexpected form.

One Sunday morning the local post office43    an important special delivery letter to my home, though it was  44   to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of 45  .

More than a year 46   .I was  47  at the window that there were no boxes 48   , and that my name would have to go on a long waiting49   . As I was about to leave, the postmaster 50   in the doorway. He had overheard our 51  . “Wasn’t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your 52   ?” I said yes. “Well, you certainly are going to 53   a box in this post office if we have to make 54    for you. You don’t know what a letter like that 55 to us. We usually get nothing but complaints.”

36.A.decision           B. preparation        C. promise      D. discovery

37 A. sending out        B. giving away        C. carrying on   D.giving up

38A. plan              B. action             C. research      D. suggestion

39A. which             B. that              C. whom        D. what

40.A. although           B. because          C. even         D.still

41.A. natural            B. impossible        C. certain        D. again

42. A. instead            B. again            C. immediately   D.back

43.A. posted             B. gave            C. delivered      D. returned

44.A. written            B. introduced        C. named        D.addressed

45.A. thanks             B. apology         C. worry        D. instruction

46.A. ago               B. later            C. before        D. away

47.A. showed            B. advised         C. proved        D. informed

48.A . reached           B. left              C. received      D.taken

49.A.list                B. time             C. table         D.way

50.A. came              B. moved            C.appeared      D.spoke

51.A. conversation        B. quarrel           C. problem      D. question

52.A. office             B. company            C. home        D.school

53.A. take              B. receive              C. have         D. accept

54.A. it                 B. one                 C. them        D. that

55.A. works             B. says                 C. means       D. contains

Answer 1

36-40 DBDAA 41-45 BDCDA 46-50 BDBAC 51-55 ACCBC