One summer day when I was in high school, my father sent me to buy some tools for our farm. I loved ___31____ better than driving our family truck to do something. But this time I was not so happy___32___ my father had told me I would have to ask for credit ( 赊账) at the store.

       ___33_____ is a proud age. The young men at that age want respect (尊重) but not charity. I had seen many times that my friends were ___34____ when they asked for credit. We lived in a poor village,___35_____ was needed seriously I knew clearly how difficult it might be to make the store owner believe me and get the credit.

       At Dali's Brothers store. Buck Davi was talking to a farmer. After I finished   ___36_____ the things I wanted, I walked to him. “I need to put these on credit,”I said to him ____37____.

      The farmer gave me a ___38_____look. But Buck's face didn't change in the slightest.  “No problem,” he said in a relaxing voice,  “ I believe your daddy will____39____them in time. " Then he turned to the farmer, This boy is Jame William's son.”

      The farmer nodded to me in a friendly way. At that time. I___40_____pride. Jame  William's Son, these three___41____ opened a door to an adult's respect and trust.

      That day I___42____ that a good name was of great importance. My father's good name had won our neighbors' respect for our family. A good name, and the responsibility (责任) that came with ____43_____ encouraged us a lot. They made us be___44______ than we might be. We also wanted to be regarded as good people. __45__ acting like good people for a long time, we became good out of good habits.

  1.A. something            B. anything               C. nothing

2.A. because              B. while                 C. unless

  3.A. Six                  B. Sixteen                C. Sixty

  4. A. influenced            B. cheered               C. refused

   5.A. health                B. money                 C. freedom

   6.A. choose                B. choosing               C. to cheese

   7.A. carefully             B. angrily                C. easily

   8.A. pleasant              B. kind                  C. strange

   9. A. care for              B. pay for                C. look for

   10. A. was full of             B. was surprised at       C. was famous for

   11. A. letters              B. words                C. sentences

   12.A. discover             B. discovered             C. have discovered

   13.A. it                    B. him                   C. them

   14. A. better               B. stronger                 C. cleverer

   15.A. With                 B. For                      C. By

Li Yang’s brother is a  1 . He works in a bank. One day, he was driving two bags full of   2 important. But he and his truck were lost. The police looked for three hours, then they found Li Yang’s   3 and his truck. His   4   were tied（捆绑）behind his back. The bad man put something round his   5  so that he could not shout. The police climbed into the back of the truck and freed Li Yang’s brother. They asked him what happened.“They asked me to stop soon   6  I left the bank,” his brother said. “Six men stopped me and made me   7  to the river. “If you shout,” one of them said, “we will cut you into pieces.” When I got to the river, they tied   8 up. Then they threw me to the back of the truck. I sat on one of the   9  quietly. They didn’t see the bag, and took the other one.” “How much money was there in the bag? ”a policeman asked. “There was not any   10  in it at all,” Li Yang′s brother laughed. “Only some letters, the money is in this one. I was sitting on it. What a brave and clever man he is!

One day, when I arrived at school, an ice cream truck was parked in the schoolyard. Ice cream men usually drove their trucks to primary schools. I had never thought one ice cream truck would come to bring ice cream to us older kids. When I went up to the truck, I was quite surprised to hear the man call out, "Free ice cream!" To make sure of his words, I asked, "I'm sorry, what did you say?" "Free ice cream. Choose whichever you like." he said, smiling.
After I was certain that the man was just giving away the ice cream, I talked with him for a long time. He told me that his dream had always been to travel around giving away ice cream, and that's what he was now doing. With his mother's support, he kept doing what he loved even during hard times. Now, however, some large companies are helping him his plan.
The man said he wanted to encourage people to do exactly what their heart told them to do with their lives. I kept asking him, "So your dream was just to drive around and give away ice cream? It seems like a very unusual goal." "Yes, just meeting people and making them smile," he replied. At that point he handed me my ice cream. I thanked him, but what I got from him was much more than just an ice cream. It can't easily be explained in words. I believe what he is doing is exactly what a great person does all the time: small acts of big love.
【小题1】From the story we know that the writer was most probably_______ at that time.

Jack is a little schoolboy. He lives in a small town in England. His father works in a factory in London. One day his mother   1  him to post a letter to his father.
Jack walked down the street. He didn’t see a letter box on the street. But he really   2  a basket with a sign on it. The sign said, “PUT LITTER IN THIS BASKET”. “I can read,” thought Jack, but he couldn’t   3  the word “letter” right.
Jack dropped the letter in the basket. Then he ran  4  to tell his mother about the basket.
“Oh, no, child!” said his mother, “You put the letter in a basket. That litter basket is   5  old paper and other useless things.”
“Oh,”said Jack,“does the   6  on the basket mean that?”
“Yes, it does,”said his mother,“The word is‘litter’not‘letter’. Now get the letter and post it.”
When Jack got there, a man was putting the old   7  in a truck.
“Stop!”shouted Jack, and he began to tell the man about the letter.
The man helped him to look for the letter. After a while they   8  it.
Then Jack put the   9  in the letter box. He said,“  10  don’t they tell us all the words when we first go to school? Then things like that can’t happen.”