Question

  Like most people,I was brought up to look upon life as a process of get?ting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important 1      ： giving away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you 2        money.

This is how I 3        with giving away. If an idea for improving the win?dow display of a neighbourhood store 4        to me,I step in and make the sug?gestion to the 5      . If an accident takes place,the 6        of which I think the local police could use,I 7        him up and tell him about it,though I am not in 8        here. One discovery I made about this world is to give 9        get?ting something back,though the 10        often comes in an unexpected form.

  One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important 11        letter to my home,though it was 12        to me at my office. I wrote the post?master a note of 13      More than a year later I needed a post office box for a new business I was 14      . I was told at the window that there were 15        boxes left,and that my name would have to go on a long 16        list. As I was about to 17     ,the postmaster appeared in the 18      . "Wasn't it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?" I said it was. "Well,you certainly are going to have a box in this post office 19        we make one for you. You don't know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get 20        but complaints (投诉) .”

1. A. decision   B. research   C. speech   D. discovery

2. A. earn   B. lack   C. spend   D. steal

3. A. experienced   B. connected   C. combined   D. agreed

4. A. happens   B. flashes   C. sticks   D. leads

5. A. postmaster   B. headmaster   C. storekeeper   D. policeman

6. A. story   B. damage   C. challenge   D. material

7. A. call   B. hold   C. break   D. pick

8. A. need   B. trouble   C. common   D. charge

9. A. within   B. without   C. for   D. before 

10. A. process   B. goal   C. return   D. concern 

11.A. curious   B. immediate   C. special   D. heavy 

12. A. realized   B. addressed   C. forgotten   D. brought 

13.A. invitation   B. apology   C. instruction   D. appreciation 

14.A. dealing   B. providing   C. operating   D. starting 

15.A. enough   B. some   C. no   D. more 

16.A. admitting   B. relating   C. examining   D. waiting 

17. A. leave   B. shout   C. guess   D. conduct 

18.A. window   B. doorway   C. library   D. yard 

19.  A. in case   B. now that   C. even if   D. as if 

20.A. anything   B. everything   C. nothing   D. something

Answer 1

1. D像很多人一样，"我"生来就认为生活就是获得，直到快四十岁的时候才发现，馈赠也会使得生活如此精彩。故选D.

2. B

3. A下文列举的事例都是作者生活中所经历的事情。

4. B本句主语为an idea ,主意在某人脑海中闪现用flash。happen to sb发生在某人身上。

stick to坚持;lead to 导致。

5. C根据前文提到的"neighbourhood store"可知答案。

6. A story故事，事情。出现事故，警察应了解事情的经过和真相。damage破坏;challenge挑战;material物质，材料。

7. A根据后文的"...tell him about it…"可知作者是打电话告诉警察事情的经过。

8. D作者虽然不负责这里的事情，但他却主动帮助警察了解事故的经过。

9. B上文列举的事例都表明作者想主动帮助别人而不希望得到什么。 

10. C return回报。根据转折连词though和下文所列举的事例表明，帮助别人有时候在不经意时也会得到回报。 

11. C根据下文中postmaster所说的话可知答案。 

12. B address此处为动词，意为"注明……的地址"。信上标明收信人的地址是"我"办公室的地址，但邮递员却把它送到了"我"的家里。 

13. D appreciation感谢，感激。邮递员把本来该送到办公室的信送到家里，人们通常只会责备他们，而作者却与此相反，非但没有责备，而是写了一封表扬信，他也因此得到了回报。 

14. D本句为定语从句，横线上所缺动词的宾语为new business deal为不及物动词，故排除。此处表示"作者开办了一项新的业务"。故选D.

15. C结合上下文可知，邮局里已没有剩余的邮箱。 

16. D邮局里没有剩余的邮箱，要想安装邮箱，只能等到有的时候。 

17. A作者被告知已没有邮箱，只好离开。 

18. B作者正要离开，邮递员在门口拦住了他。 

19. C在这个邮局里，你应该得到一个邮箱，即便是"我们" 给你做一个。even if即使;in case以防;now that既然，因为;as if好像。

20. C本题考查not— but…结构，意为"不是……而是