My father often works very harD．And he has   1  to see a film. Here I’ll tell you   2   about him.

　　One afternoon, when he finished his work and   3   go home, he found a film ticket under the   4  on his desk. He thought he   5   to have not much work to do that day and   6   was quite wonderful to pass the   7   at the cinemA．So he came back home and   8   finished his supper. Then he said   9   to us and left.

　　But to our   10   , he came back about half an hour later, I   11   him what was the matter. He smiled and told us about   12   funny thing that had happened at the cinema.

　　When my father was sitting in his seat, a   13   came to my father’s and said that the seat was   14   . Ｍy father was surpriseD．He took out the ticket   15   looked at it carefully. It was Row17,   16  . And then he looked at the seat. It was the same. So he asked her    17    her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat shown in it was Row 17, Seat 3.

　　  18    ? What’s the matter with all this? While they were wondering suddenly the woman said, “The   19    of the tickets are different.” So they looked at the ticket more carefully. After a while, my father said, “Oh,    20   , I made a mistake. My ticket is for the film a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words, he left the cinema.

1．  A．little money    B．much money    C．little time        D．much time

2．  A．a funny story   B．a good story     C．an old story     D．a strange story

3．  A．was to     B．was about to     C．had to      D．ought

4．  A．box B．book C．glass        D．paper

5．  A．happened        B．liked C．pretended  D．wanted

6．  A．it      B．this   C．that   D．which

7．  A．morning B．afternoon  C．day   D．evening

8．  A．early       B．quietly      C．quickly     D．suddenly

9．  A．hello       B．good-bye  C．good evening   D．good night

10．A．disappointment       B．joy    C．sorrow      D．surprise

11．A．asked       B．explained  C．told   D．wanted

12．A．a      B．one   C．some       D．the

13．A．man        B．woman     C．doctor      D．nurse

14．A．hers B．his    C．taken       D．wrong

15．A．and B．but    C．or     D．so

16．A．Seat1       B．Seat2 C．Seat3       D．Seat4

17．A．it bring    B．to get       C．to see       D．to show

18．A．Why        B．How  C．When      D．where

19．A．designs    B．colors       C．prices       D．owners

20．A．I’m sad    B．I’m sorry  C．I’m wrong      D．I’m worried

My heart sank when the man at the immigration counter gestured to the back room. I was born and raised in America, and this was Miami, where I live, but they weren’t quite ready to let me in yet.

　 “Please wait in here, Ms. Abujaber,” the immigration officer said. My husband, with his very American last name, accompanied me. He was getting used to this. The same thing had happened recently in Canada when I’d flown to Montreal to speak at a book event. That time they held me for 45 minutes. Today we were returning from a literary festival in Jamaica, and I was shocked that I was being sent “in back” once again.

　　The officer behind the counter called me up and said, “Miss, your name looks like the name of someone who’s on our wanted list. We’re going to have to check you out with Washington.”

　　“How long will it take?”

　　“Hard to say…a few minutes,” he said, “We’ll call you when we’re ready for you.” After an hour, Washington still hadn’t decided anything about me.

“Isn’t this computerized?” I asked at the counter, “Can’t you just look me up?”

“Just a few more minutes,” they assured me.

　　After an hour and a half, I pulled my cell phone out to call the friends I was supposed to meet that evening. An officer rushed over. “No phones!” he said, “For all we know you could be calling a terrorist cell and giving them information.”

　　“I’m just a university professor,” I said. My voice came out in a squeak.

　　“Of course you are. And we take people like you out of here in leg irons every day.”

　　I put my phone away.

　　My husband and I were getting hungry and tired. Whole families had been brought into the waiting room, and the place was packed with excitable children, exhausted parents, and even a flight attendant.

　　I wanted to scream, to jump on a chair and shout: “I’m an American citizen; a novelist; I probably teach English literature to your children.”

After two hours in detention (扣押), I was approached by one of the officers. “You’re free to go,” he said. No explanation or apologies. For a moment, neither of us moved. We were still in shock. Then we leaped to our feet.

　　“Oh, one more thing,” he handed me a tattered photocopy with an address on it, “If you aren’t happy with your treatment, you can write to this agency.”

　　“Will they respond?” I asked.

　　“I don’t know—I don’t know of anyone who’s ever written to them before.” Then he added,” By the way, this will probably keep happening each time you travel internationally.”

　　“What can I do to keep it from happening again?”

　　He smiled the empty smile we’d seen all day, “Absolutely nothing.”

　　After telling several friends about our ordeal, probably the most frequent advice I’ve heard in response is to change my name. Twenty years ago, my own graduate school writing professor advised me to write under a pen name so that publishers wouldn’t stick me in what he called “the ethnic ghetto”—a separate, secondary shelf in the bookstore. But a name is an integral part of anyone’s personal and professional identity—just like the town you’re born in and the place where you’re raised.

　　Like my father, I’ll keep the name, but my airport experience has given me a whole new perspective on what diversity and tolerance are supposed to mean. I had no idea that being an American would ever be this hard.

1.The author was held at the airport because ______.

A. she and her husband returned from Jamaica

B. her name was similar to a terrorist’s

C. she had been held in Montreal

D. she had spoken at a book event

2.She was not allowed to call her friends because ______.

A. her identity hadn’t been confirmed yet

B. she had been held for only one hour and a half

C. there were other families in the waiting room

D. she couldn’t use her own cell phone

3.We learn from the passage that the author would ______ to prevent similar experience from happening again.

A. write to the agency?????????? B. change her name??

C. avoid traveling abroad??????? D. do nothing

4.Her experiences indicate that there still exists ______ in the US.

A. hatred???????????????????? B. discrimination?????

C. tolerance?????????????????? D. diversity

5.The author sounds ______ in the last paragraph.

A. impatient?? B. bitter???????? C. worried??????????? D. ironic (具有讽刺意味的)

My father often works very hard．And he has   1  to see a film. Here I’ll tell you   2   about him.

One afternoon, when he finished his work and   3   go home, he found a film ticket under the   4  on his desk. He thought he   5   to have not much work to do that day and   6   was quite wonderful to pass the   7   at the cinema．So he came back home and   8   finished his supper. Then he said   9   to us and left.

But to our   10   , he came back about half an hour later, I   11   him what was the matter. He smiled and told us about   12   funny thing that had happened at the cinema.

　　When my father was sitting in his seat, a   13   came to my father’s and said that the seat was   14   . Ｍy father was surprised．He took out the ticket   15   looked at it carefully. It was Row17,   16  . And then he looked at the seat. It was the same. So he asked  17    her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat shown in it was Row 17, Seat 3.

　　  18    ? What’s the matter with all this? While they were wondering suddenly the woman said, “The   19    of the tickets are different.” So they looked at the ticket more carefully. After a while, my father said, “Oh,    20   , I made a mistake. My ticket is for the film a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words, he left the cinema.

1．  A．little money     B．much money    C．little time D．much time

2．  A．a funny story   B．a good story     C．an old story     D．a strange story

3．  A．was to         B．was about to    C．had to          D．ought

4．  A．box           B．book          C．glass            D．paper

5．  A．happened        B．liked          C．pretended      D．wanted

6．  A．it               B．this             C．that         D．which

7．  A．morning       B．afternoon       C．day          D．evening

8．  A．early            B．quietly           C．quickly       D．suddenly

9．  A．hello            B．good-bye       C．good evening D．good night

10．A．disappointment B．joy            C．sorrow         D．surprise

11．A．asked           B．explained       C．told           D．wanted

12．A．a              B．one            C．some           D．the

13．A．man         B．woman         C．doctor        D．nurse

14．A．hers         B．his            C．taken        D．wrong

15．A．and           B．but           C．or             D．so

16．A．Seat1           B．Seat2         C．Seat3          D．Seat4

17．A．it bring         B．to get         C．to see         D．to show

18．A．Why            B．How          C．When         D．where

19．A．designs        B．colors           C．prices          D．owners

20．A．I’m sad        B．I’m sorry      C．I’m wrong      D．I’m worried