I ran into a stranger as he passed by. "I'm so  36 !" was my reply. Then he said, "Excuse me too. I wasn't even   37  you" .We were very polite, this stranger and I.

      38  at home, a different story is told---how we  39 our loved ones. While I was cooking ,my daughter came up to me quietly. When I   40 , I nearly knocked her down. "Get out of the way! "I barked She ran away, with her little heart broken. I didn't realize how  41  I'd spoken.

    That night, as I lay  42  in bed, God's quiet voice spoke to me and said,  "While  43 with a stranger, you're calm and polite, but with those you love, you're quick to  44 . Go and look right now on the kitchen floor. You'll   45 some flowers there by the door. Those are the flowers she brought for you. She   46  them herself. She stood there _ 47 , not to spoil your surprise, and you never saw the tears in her eyes."   48  this time, I felt sad and my own tears had begun to   49 . "Are these the flowers you picked for me?" I asked. She   50, "I found them out by the tree. 1 knew you'd like them." I said, "I'm so sorry that I   51  them today. And I shouldn't have shouted at you that way." She whispered, “Mommy, that's okay... I still love you   52 .” I hugged her.

Are you aware that if you die tomorrow, the company that you are working for could easily  53  you in a matter of days? But the family you leave behind will feel the   54 for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we  55 more into our work than into our families –an unbalanced investment (投资) indeed.

With some books he needed ____, he went into the bookstore quickly.

   A. to buy        B. bought      C. buying     D. buy

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Feeling hopeless and sick at heart, Tom turned away. For a quick moment his eyes met the eyes of the cook, and he saw there a   36   of such hatred and fear that   37   words could describe.

The cook moved quietly   38   . He   39   to Tom in a rough voice, "Don't be too clever." And he went away.

Tom's views did not stay___40__ the cook and his words. His friend was in trouble. How could he__41____ him? He decided to slip away as soon as possible   42   of information that would clear Jay of all   43   and bring the true criminal(罪犯) to justice.

He had noticed a piece of old sailcloth   44   on the ship floor. With this and a length of string he __45__a package which looked very much like the one the police had seized. His plan was to   46  to the shore and hand it over   47    the cook had ordered Jay to,   48   in this way to learn the truth about the criminal's activities. Then he could   49    the police of his friend's innocence(无罪).

By now it was dark. Taking the blankets out of Jay's   50   bed, Tom piled them up in his own in the   51   of a sleeping figure. How real it looked! With the blanket pulled up high around the figure's head, he could almost believe he saw it breathing.    52   with this, Tom moved quietly to the door.

He was about to open it   53   he felt the handle turning the other way. Someone was outside and about to come in. Had his plan failed? Slipping quickly back behind the door as it opened, Tom   54     .

It was the cook who was leaning    55    now over the figure in the bed.  His arm swung up and a long knife plunged down.

A. fire          B. light         C. lightning           D. flash

A. many      B. several              C. few            D. no

A. closely    B. nearly        C. closer         D. near

A. whispered       B. ordered             C. indicated           D. shouted

A. based on    B. focused on            C. carried on   D. kept on

A. encourage       B. support             C. persuade            D. help

A. in time    B. in need              C. in search           D. in touch

A. truths      B. doubts        C. failures             D. faults

A. lying       B. lay             C. laid            D. lain

A. took      B. bought              C. made         D. sent

A. slip       B. step           C. pass           D. march

A. as with B. as though          C. such as              D. just as

A. expecting      B. imagining          C. hoping              D. wishing

A. persuade       B. require              C. suggest              D. encourage

A. neat       B. empty        C. dirty          D. comfortable

A. shape     B. sample              C. shade         D. shadow

A. Excited    B. Pleased          C. Surprised          D. Frightened

A. though     B. until              C. while         D. when

A. waited       B. rushed            C. seized        D. shot

A. aside     B. forward             C. outward            D. against

A year ago, August, Dave Fuss lost his job driving a truck for a small company in west Michigan. His wife, Gerrie, was still working in the local school cafeteria, but it was       for Dave to find work, and the price of everything was rising. The Fusses were at the risk of joining the millions of Americans who have       their homes in recent years. Then Dave and Gerrie received a timely       —$7,000, a legacy(遗产) from their neighbors Ish and Arlene Hatch, who died in an accident. “It really made a difference when we were meeting difficulty.” says Dave.

    But the Fusses weren’t the only folks in Alto and the neighboring town of Lowell to       unexpected legacy from the Hatches. Dozens of other families were    by what the Hatches had done. In some cases, it was a few thousand dollars; in      , it was more than $100,000.

    It       nearly everyone that the Hatches had so much money, more than $3 million—they were an elderly couple who lived in an old house on what was left of the family farm.

    Children of the Great Depression, Ish and Arlene were known for their habit of     . They preferred comparison shopping and would go from store to store, checking prices before making a new purchase.

    Through the years, the Hatches paid for local children to attend summer camps when their parents couldn’t       it. “Ish and Arlene never asked if you       anything,” says their friend Sandy Van Weelden, “They could see things they could do to make you happier, and they would do them.”

    Even more extraordinary was that the Hatches       their farmland. It was the Hatches’ wish that their legacy—a legacy of kindness as much as one of dollars and cents—should       the whole community and last for generations to come.

    Neighbors helping neighbors—that was Ish and Arlene Hatch’s story.

1.A. happy      B. hard        C. easy        D. nice

2.A. lost         B. bought     C. left         D. wanted

3.A. gift         B. money     C. encouragement D. package

4.A. accept      B. defeat      C. win          D. receive

5.A. amazed    B. excited      C. upset         D. touched

6.A. the other   B. another      C. other        D. others

7.A. surprised   B. frightened    C. pleased       D. encouraged

8.A. kind       B. generous     C. living        D. saving

9.A. afford     B. buy          C. offer         D. keep

10.A. suffered    B. enjoyed      C. needed       D. did

11.A. put away   B. put up       C. gave up       D. gave away

12.A. enrich      B. bless        C. brighten      D. expand

As soon as she entered her own room, she caught sight of the gift _____ by her father.

A. buying           B. bought    C. was bought          D. being bought