题目内容
Smith, an old man, lived in the middle of town. One day he found his watch ______ in his own store. It ______ a lot to him because it was from his wife. After searching ______ in the store for a long while, he ______ to ask for help from a group of children playing outside the store. He ______ them that the person who found it would be rewarded. ______ this, the children hurried inside the store, went through and around the ______ store, but still could not find the watch.
Soon the man felt hopeless and wanted to ______. A little boy went up to him and asked for another ______. The man looked at him and thought, “Why not? ______, this kid looks sincere enough.” ______ the man sent him back in the store. After a while the boy ____
with the watch in his hand! The man was very ______, and he asked the boy how he found it while the others had ______. The boy replied, “I did nothing but sit on the ground and
____. Then I heard the ticking (嘀嗒声) of the watch and just looked for it in that ______.”
We usually do something in a hurry and don’t think about our own needs, which can’t bring peace into our mind. ______, we need to think about ourselves and keep peaceful for a while, which can produce a ______ result. So allow a few minutes of ______ to your mind every day, and see how it helps you deal with your work and make ______ as you expect to!
1.A. broken B. lost C. hidden D. put
2.A. meant B. learned C. performed D. bargained
3.A. young and old B. heavy and light C. black and white D. up and down
4.A. forgot B. agreed C. decided D. pretended
5.A. promised B. taught C. worried D. warned
6.A. Seeing B. Hearing C. Wearing D. Feeling
7.A. strange B. dusty C. busy D. whole
8.A. calm down B. set off C. give up D. show off
9.A. chance B. reason C. reward D. date
10.A. So far B. After all C. At first D. In short
11.A. But B. Or C. And D. So
12.A. ran away B. fell down C. came out D. went back
13.A. amazed B. proud C. nervous D. angry
14.A. finished B. failed C. regretted D. doubted
15.A. played B. waited C. watched D. listened
16.A. room B. situation C. direction D. darkness
17.A. Instead B. Possibly C. Besides D. Luckily
18.A. clear B. straight C. good D. natural
19.A. exercise B. silence C. pleasure D. conversation
20.A. noise B. sense C. mistake D. progress
differentNowhere is the place you never want to go. It’s not on any departure board, and though some people like to travel so far off the motherland that it looks like Nowhere, most wanderers ultimately long to get somewhere. Yet every now and then—if there’s nowhere else you can be and all other options have gone—going nowhere can prove the best adventure around.
Nowhere is entirely uncharted; you’ve never read a guidebook entry on it or followed others’ suggestions on a train ride through its suburbs. Few YouTube videos exist of it. Moreover, it’s free from the most dangerous kind of luggage, expectation. Knowing nothing of a place in advance opens us up to a high energy we seldom encounter while walking around Paris or Kyoto with a list of the 10 things we want—or, in embarrassing truth, feel we need—to see.
I’ll never forget a bright January morning when I landed in San Francisco from Santa Barbara, just in time to see my connecting flight to Osaka take off. I hurried to the nearest airline counter to ask for help, and was told that I would have to wait 24 hours, at my own expense, for the next day’s flight. An unanticipated delay is exactly what nobody wants on his schedule. The airline didn’t answer for fog-related delays, a gate agent declared, and no alternative flights were available.
Millbrae, California, the drive-through town that encircles San Francisco’s airport, was a mystery to me. With one of the world’s most beautiful cities only 40 minutes to the north, and the unofficial center of the world, Silicon Valley, 27 miles to the south, Millbrae is known mostly as a place to fly away from, at high speed.
It was a cloudless, warm afternoon as a shuttle bus deposited me in Millbrae. Locals were taking their dogs for walks along the bay while couples wandered hand in hand beside an expanse of blue that, in San Francisco, would have been crowded with people and official “attractions.” I checked in to my hotel and registered.
Suddenly I was enjoying a luxury I never allow myself, even on vacation: a whole day free. And as I made my way back to my hotel, lights began to come on in the hills of Millbrae, and I realized I had never seen a sight half so lovely in glamorous, industrial Osaka. Its neighbor Kyoto is attractive, but it attracts 50 million visitors a year.
Who knows if I’ll ever visit Millbrae again? But I’m confident that Nowhere will slip into my schedule many times more. No place, after all, is uninteresting to the interested eye. Nowhere is so far off the map that its smallest beauties are a discovery.
The Unexpected Joys of a Trip to Nowhere | |
Passage outline | Supporting details |
Introduction to Nowhere | ●Although many choose to travel beyond the 1., they actually hope to get somewhere. ●Getting nowhere can be the best adventure when we are2. out of options. |
3. of Nowhere | ●You don’t have to be 4. on a guidebook entry or others’ advice. ●With limited information of a place and little expectation, we will encounter a 5. high energy that doesn’t exist when visiting Paris or Kyoto. |
The author’s experience of getting nowhere | ●The airline wasn’t 6. for unexpected delays and there were no alternative flights available. ●He decided to visit the mysterious Millbrae,7. between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. ●He 8. to enjoy such a luxurious and free time in big cities before. |
Conclusion | ●Though 9. about whether to visit Millbrae again, Nowhere will be included in his schedule. ●Nowhere is entirely uncharted with its beauties to be 10.. |