题目内容
I used to be a very self-centered person, but in the past two years I have really changed. I have started to think about other people ___36___ I think about myself. I am happy that I am becoming a ___37___ person.
I think my ___38___ started when I was at Palomar College. At first, I just wanted to get my ___39___ and be left alone. I thought I was smarter than everyone else, so I hardly ever ___40___ to anyone in my classes. By the end of my first semester, I was really ___41___. It seemed as if everyone but me had made friends and was having fun. So I tried a(n) ___42___. I started asking people around me how they were doing, and if they were having trouble I ___43___ to help. That was really a big ___44___ for me. By the end of the year, I had several new friends, and two of ___45___ are still my best friends today.
A bigger cause of my new ___46___, however, came when I took a part-time job at Vista Nursing Home. One old lady there who had Alzheimer’s disease became my ___47___. Every time I came into her room, she was so ___48___ because she thought I was her daughter. Her real daughter never ___49___ her, so I took her place. She let me ___50___ that making others feel good made me feel good too. When she died, I was ___51___, but I was also very grateful to her.
I think I am a much ___52___ person today than I used to be, and I hope I will not ___53___ these experiences. They have ___54___ me to care about other people more than about myself. I ___55___ who I am today, and I could not say that a few years ago.
36. A. since B. before C. or D. unless
37. A. famous B. simple C. different D. skilled
38. A. education B. career C. tour D. change
39. A. balance B. homework C. degree D. interest
40. A. talked B. wrote C. lied D. reported
41. A. careful B. lonely C. curious D. guilty
42. A. argument B. game C. experiment D. defence
43. A. dated B. offered C. hesitated D. happened
44. A. dream B. problem C. duty D. step
45. A. us B. which C. them D. whom
46. A. attitude B. hobby C. hope D. luck
47. A. friend B. partner C. guide D. guest
48. A. polite B. happy C. strange D. confident
49. A. bothered B. answered C. visited D. trusted
50. A. explain B. guess C. declare D. see
51. A. homeless B. heartbroken C. bad-tempered D. hopeless
52. A. quieter B. busier C. better D. richer
53. A. forget B. face C. improve D. analyze
54. A. forced B. preferred C. ordered D. taught
55. A. miss B. like C. wonder D. expect
36. B 37. C 38. D 39. C 40. A 41. B 42. C 43. B 44. D 45. C
46. A 47. A 48. B 49. C 50. D 51. B 52. C 53. A 54. D 55. B
Every country has its own culture.
Even though each country uses doors, doors may have 50 functions and purposes which lead to 51 differences.
When I first came to America, I noticed that a public building had two different 52 and they had distinct functions. You have to push the door with the word “ PUSH ” to go out of the building and to pull the door with the word “PULL” to 53 the building. This was new to me, because we use the 54 door in South Korea. For quite a few times I failed to go out of a shopping centre and was embarrassed.
The way of using school bus doors was also 55 to me. I used to take the school bus to school. The school decided that when the driver opened both the front and back door. Students who were getting off the bus should get off first, and students who were getting on should get on 56 in South Korea. We do not need to wait for people to 57 . One morning I hurried to the bus, and when the bus doors opened, I 58 tried to get on the school bus through the front door. All the students around looked at me. I was totally 59 , and my face went red.
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