One day I came home from school,changed my clothes and got ready for work. I worked at a local res?taurant in town as a cashier and waiter.

  I went to work feeling 1       .And to make mat?ters worse,I was busy that evening. It's the same thing over and over again,2       with customers who complain about their food and where they are 3        is too big or too small.  Little things like that tend to 4       a lot of us 5        but we manage to deal with them.

  Three elderly ladies walked in and sat by the win?dows. It happened to be the very 6        near where I keep the dirty 7        in the boxes. Trying to keep up with all the dirty tables,customers leaving and coming in and 8        running all over the house,it was crazy.9       these elderly women were watching 10        I was working to make sure every table was clean and ready for the next customers.

  When they 11        their meals,I took their plates back to the kitchen.  They talked to me for a while about school,how I was doing,what 12       I was in and what I planned to do in the future.

  13       they were leaving,they walked past me and one of them said to me in a 14       and gentle voice, "You are going places. " And that was it. They left the 15        and I had tears in my eyes,because they gave me 16        to believe in myself. They 17       my spirit from being down and gave me a 18       to keep on working hard.

  People used to tell me that I couldn't have a career in 19        until I had a degree.  I'm now a coanchor (联合主持人) of a studentproduced television 20       . And the best thing is : I'm only 17 years old and I am a senior in high school.

1. A. tired   B. excited   C. up   D. down

2. A. dealing   B. helping   C. talking   D. meeting

3. A. sat   B. seated   C. laid   D. dressed

4. A. attract   B. avoid   C. adjust   D. annoy

5. A. employees   B. customers   C. bosses   D. employers

6. A. table   B. box

   C. spot   D. kitchen

7. A. dishes   B. rooms   C. clothes   D. chairs

8. A. men   B. women   C. servers   D. bosses

9. A. And   B. Otherwise   C. But   D. So

10. A. what   B. how   C. where   D. why

11. A. finished   B. completed   C. ordered   D. got

12. A. place   B. grade   C. mark   D. position

13. A. Before   B. While   C. As   D. After

14. A. confident   B. loud

  C. low   D. pleasant

15. A. kitchen   B. house   C. restaurant   D. table

16. A. ability   B. courage   C. imagination   D. time

17. A. put down   B. picked up   C. took over   D. pointed out

18. A. cause   B. reason

  C. present   D. permission

19. A. television   B. government   C. school   D. restaurant

20. A. company   B. station .

  C. show   D. advertisement 

  Busy as I am every day,I always open my com?puter and check my email. Most of the time I am sim?ply doing finger exercises,another form of piano prac?tice without beautiful tones. Sometimes,however,I ,receive a gift,reminding me of the gifts in my life. The following passage is one of those gifts.

  Peter Jones is a 92-year-old,short,calm and proud man. Every morning he is fully dressed by eight o'clock,with his hair fashionably combed and face per?fectly shaved even though he is unable to see anything. He would move to a nursing home today. His wife of 70 years old has recently passed away,making the move necessary.

  After hours of waiting patiently in the entrance hall of the nursing home,he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready. As he moved his walking stick skilfully to the elevator,the nurse provided a visual de?scription of his tiny room. "I love it," he stated with enthusiasm. "Mr Jones,you haven't been to the room," said the nurse.

  "That doesn't have anything to do with it”, he re?plied. "Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged but how I arrange my mind. I have already decided to love it. It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice : I can spend the day in bed complaining of the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work,or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do."

  Each day is a gift,and as long as we are alive,we'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories we've stored just as Mr Jones does.

1. What do we know about Mr Jones?

   A. He is blind but very neat.

   B. His wife died many years ago.

   C. He likes playing the piano.

   D. His room in the nursing home is big.

2. How did Mr Jones feel about his room in the nurs?ing home?

   A. Worried.     B. Curious.

   C. Disappointed.  D. Content.

3. The underlined word "it" in Paragraph 4 refers to“      

   A. the furniture   B. the room

   C. a decision      D. a gift

4. What would be the best title for the text?

   A. Each day is a gift

   B. Be always grateful

   C. Living in a nursing room

   D. Arrange your mind every day

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