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The Parking-Lot(停车场)Sweeper

  Both my parents came from towns in Mexico.I was born in E1 Paso, Texas, and when I was four, my family moved to a housing project in East Los Angeles.

  Even though we struggled to make ends meet, my parents stressed to me and my four brothers and sisters how   1   we were to live in a great country with limitless opportunities.They   2   us with the ideas of family, faith and love.

  I got my first   3   job when I was ten.My dad injured his back working in a cardboard-box factory and was retrained as a hairstylist.He   4   space in a little shopping center and gave his shop the flowery name of Mr. Ben’s Coiffure.

  The owner of the shopping center   5   my Dad’s payment for cleaning the parking lot three   6   a week, which   7   getting up at 3 a.m. Mom and I helped   8   dustbin and pick up rubbish by hand.It took two to three hours to clean the lot.I   9   sleep in the car on the way home.

  I did this for two years, but the lessons I learned have   10   a lifetime.I obtained discipline(自律)and the importance of work, and learned at a(n)  11   age the importance of balancing life’s competing interests——in my   12  , school, homework and a job.This   13   helped during my school years, when I worked 40 hours at a fast-food restaurant while taking a   14   of college preparation courses.

  The hard work   15   off.I attended the U.S.Military Academy and went on to   16   graduate degrees in law and business from Harvard.  17  , I joined a big Los Angeles law firm and was elected to the California state assembly(州议会).In these jobs and in everything else I’ve done, I have   18   forgotten those nights in the parking lot.The experience taught me that there is value in all work and that if people are working to   19   for themselves and their families, that is   20   we should honor.

(1)

[  ]

A.

important

B.

different

C.

competitive

D.

fortunate

(2)

[  ]

A.

mixed

B.

filled

C.

piled

D.

left

(3)

[  ]

A.

true

B.

new

C.

real

D.

good

(4)

[  ]

A.

hired

B.

bought

C.

cleaned

D.

created

(5)

[  ]

A.

reduced

B.

afforded

C.

collected

D.

charged

(6)

[  ]

A.

mornings

B.

evenings

C.

dawns

D.

nights

(7)

[  ]

A.

meant

B.

overcame

C.

admitted

D.

allowed

(8)

[  ]

A.

lift

B.

empty

C.

throw

D.

hold

(9)

[  ]

A.

must

B.

need

C.

would

D.

should

(10)

[  ]

A.

existed

B.

lasted

C.

kept

D.

stayed

(11)

[  ]

A.

small

B.

exact

C.

early

D.

golden

(12)

[  ]

A.

mind

B.

way

C.

part

D.

case

(13)

[  ]

A.

really

B.

nearly

C.

simply

D.

merely

(14)

[  ]

A.

piece

B.

length

C.

mass

D.

lot

(15)

[  ]

A.

made

B.

took

C.

paid

D.

started

(16)

[  ]

A.

receive

B.

offer

C.

require

D.

study

(17)

[  ]

A.

Thus

B.

Later

C.

Again

D.

Instead

(18)

[  ]

A.

seldom

B.

just

C.

even

D.

never

(19)

[  ]

A.

account

B.

enter

C.

provide

D.

call

(20)

[  ]

A.

everything

B.

something

C.

nothing

D.

anything

答案:1.D;2.B;3.C;4.A;5.A;6.D;7.A;8.B;9.C;10.B;11.C;12.D;13.A;14.D;15.C;16.A;17.B;18.D;19.C;20.B;
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     A sign showing a no kissing area is pictured at Warrington Bank Quay train station in Warrington.
     Passengers have been told: if you want to get up to that kind of business, do it in the car park.
     The sign has gone up at the drop-off point at Warrington Bank Quay station in the town of Warrington,
between Liverpool and Manchester in northwest England.
     A similar sign, this time permitting kissing, has been put up elsewhere in an area where kissing is
considered bearable.
     "We have not forbidden kissing in the station," said a spokesman for operators Virgin Rail.
     "But we have put the sign up at the drop-off point because it is not a very big area and it often gets busy
with lots of traffic."
     "The sign is a light-hearted way of getting people to move on quickly."
     "If people wish to spend a little more time with their loved ones before they leave, then they should park
in the short-stay car park nearby."
     However, one station is trying to rescue love from the tracks.
     High Wycombe, northwest of London, is having none of it and is actively encouraging passengers to enjoy
it.
     "Kissing is welcome here!... we would never dream of banning kissing," says a poster of a cartoon couple
embracing (拥抱), circled by a pink heart.
     "Railway stations are romantic places," insisted Kirsteen Robertson from Chiltern Railways.
     "They are where fond farewells (告别) take place, where relationships start with a glance and even, in the
case of our Marylebone station last November, where one passenger will suggest to another over the public
address system."
     "So our passengers are more than welcome to share a kiss in our stations."
1. The sign put up at the drop-off point was to ____.
A. blame lovers saying goodbye there
B. avoid the crowdedness of the station
C. advise passengers to slow down
D. let passengers share a kiss at the station
2. We can infer from "having none of it" that ____.
A. the station refuses to accept it
B. the station welcomes it
C. the station considers it unbearable
D. the station forbids it
3. According to Kirsteen Robertson, ____.
A. love from the tracks really sounds reasonable
B. fond farewells are not allowed at the station
C. it's better to go to the car park to stay with lovers
D. signs at Warrington Bank Quay station are useful

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