About once a month I have to go to Bedford for my work. One day I went into a   21  there to have something to   22  . The waiter took my coat and put it in a small room.
About an hour later I was   23  to go. The waiter   24  me my coat. Something fell out of the pocket onto the floor. It was a small white box. I took a   25  look at the   26  . “Oh, you’ve brought   27  coat,” I said to the waiter. “It looks very much like mine,  28  it is quite new, and this isn’t my box, either.”
“Oh, then I   29  someone has taken your coat and left his,” said the waiter. “This kind of thing   30  sometimes.”
I opened the box. There was a beautiful gold   31  in it. The waiter and I   32  to go to the police station.
“Has anyone lost a ring?” I asked at the station.
“Yes,” said a policeman. “A young man who came in this morning lost a ring, he lost it in London.”
He   33  the young man. A few minutes later, the man arrived.
“Yes, this is my ring,” he said. “How can I   34  you, sir? You see, I paid a lot of money for this ring and   35  I lost it on the train!”
After I told him the   36  of the coat, he said, “You haven’t been on the train. I haven’t been in the hotel, so how did my ring   37  in the coat?”
“Did anyone sit or stand next to you on the train?” asked the policeman.
“Yes,” said the young man. “But I don’t remember his face.”
“You may remember this   38  ,” said the policeman. “Was it like this one?”
“Yes, it was,” said the young man. “But my friend here isn’t the thief.”
The policeman laughed. “No,” he said. “The thief on the train stole your ring, and   39  our friend here, he went into the hotel to get some food. Only he didn’t take the   40  coat away with him.”

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Every year, almost 2 million Americans are injured while they're  21 work every day, 240 are killed on the job. The   22   job is cutting down trees. Being a policeman is safer than many jobs, including driving a truck, collecting garbage and   23  airplanes. One of the safest jobs is being a librarian.
The government inspects(检查) most factories and offices.  24 have to   25   fines(罚款) if their factories or offices are unsafe. In California, employers often go to prison if one of their workers is  26  because a factory didn't  27 safety measures. But President Bush cut down the number of government inspectors(检查员)  28 15 percent.   29 , many people say working is less safe now.
For women workers, the greatest danger so far is murder. Forty--two percent of all  30 who died at work were killed. Many of them work  31 clerks in stores   32 they are alone at night. Experts say they can protect themselves by putting the cash desk in full   33  .
The numbers of deaths and accidents at work don't take into  34 people who become sick from   35   that they are exposed to （暴露）at work. Doctors don't know   36 some chemicals cause illness.There are no government rules for many new chemicals.
Inspectors say employers  37 their backs on safety problems because they don't want to pay the bill for fixing them. They also say some workers don't want to complain about dangers because they may  38  their jobs.
The government should force business to improve safety. There's no   39 for workers dying or  40 in an accident that could have been prevented.
21. A. in           B. at             C. on               D. during
22. A. safest        B. most dangerous   C. easiest            D. most tiring
23. A. flying        B. making         C. doing             D. riding
24. A. Officers      B. Workers         C. Employers        D. Employees
25. A. give         B. offer            C. pay              D. buy
26. A. saved        B. hit             C. shot              D. killed
27. A. use          B.do              C. break            D. take
28. A. to           B. by              C. from            D. at
29. A. As a result    B. As              C. At last            D. Then
30. A. adults        B. youths          C. men              D. women
31. A. for          B. as              C. like               D. to
32. A. which        B. that             C. where            D. why
33. A. view         B. opinion         C. scene              D. scenery
34.A thought       B mind           C thinking            D consideration
35. A. machines     B. chemicals        C. air                D. work
36. A. because      B. when            C. whether            D. even if
37. A. do          B. turn             C. make              D. refuse
38. A. lose         B. miss             C. give up            D. save
39. A. need         B. reason           C. time             D. excuse
40. A. injuring      B. being injured      C. be injuring         D. be injured 

Born in America, I spoke English, not Chinese, the language of my ancestors. When I was three, my parents flashed cards with Chinese  21  at my face, but I pushed them  22  . My mom believed I would learn  23  I was ready. But the  24  never came.

On a Chinese New Year’s Eve, my uncle spoke to me in Chinese, but all I could do was 25 at him, confused, scratching my head. “Still can’t speak Chinese?” He  26  me , “You can’t even buy a fish in Chinatown .”

“Hey, this is America, not China. I’ll get some   27  with or without Chinese.” I replied and turned to my mom for  28  .

“Remember to ask for fresh fish, Xin Xian Yu,” she said, handing over a $20 bill. I  29  the words, running downstairs into the streets of Chinatown.

I found the fish  30  surrounded in a sea of customers. “I’d like to buy some fresh fish,” I shouted to the fisherman. But he  31  my English words and turned to serve the next customer. The laugh of the people behind increased  32  their impatience. With every  33  ,the breath of the dragons on my back grew stronger—my blood boiling—  34  me to cry out. “ Xian Sheng Yu, please.” “Very Xian Shen ,” I repeated. The crowd erupted into laughter. My face turned  35  and I ran back home  36  , except for the $20 bill I held tightly in my pocket.

Should I laugh or cry? They’re Chinese. I should feel right at  37  . Instead, I was the joke , a disgrace (丢脸)to the language.

Sometimes, I laugh at my fish  38  , but, in the end, the joke is on  39  . Every laugh is a culture  40  ; every laugh is my heritage (传统) fading away.

A. custom              B. games                C .characters       D. language

A. ahead               B. around               C. along            D. aside

A. when                B. before               C. unless           D. until

A. success             B. study                C. time         D. attempt

A. aim                 B. joke             C. nod          D. stare

A. cared about     B. laughed at           C. argued with      D. asked after

A. right now           B. from now         C. at times     D. in time

A. decision            B. permission       C. information      D. preparation

A. repeated                B. reviewed         C. spelled          D. kept

A. farm                B. stand                C. pond         D. market

A. guessed             B. forget               C. doubted      D. ignored[来

A. by                  B. as               C. with         D. from

A. second              B. effort               C. desire           D. movement

A. forcing             B. allowing         C. persuading       D. leading

A. bright              B. blank                C. pale         D. red

A. open-mouthed        B. tongue-tied          C. empty-handed D. broken-hearted

A. service             B. home             C. risk         D. root

A. trade               B. deed             C. challenge        D. incident

A. it                  B. us               C. me           D. them

A. thrown              B. lost             C. divided      D. reflected

I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large   16  across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-age children. At the end of the day, he would   17  his taxi on the road. I  18  why he did not park it in the garage.
Then, one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home  19  work, leave his taxi and go out for his   20 affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was    21  .
I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I  22 to be outside one evening two weeks  23 , when the garage door was   24 and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely   25  I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But  26 inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n）  27 . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and   28  him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a（n）  29 .
We go to bed every night and   30  every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a   31  as close friends or go for a vacation as a   32 . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we  33 the social ladder(阶梯)—how much bigger and better a  34 we have. And we ignore(忽视)our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on   35  we are than what we do!

It was a cold, wet day when 14­year­old Wasana Sanjeewa reached St. Anthony's College. Waiting __31__ his classroom for his classmates to arrive, Wasana looked at the __32__. Then he noticed enormous amounts of rainwater flowing down the hill behind the classroom. For a few minutes, Wasana _33__ the water, wondering why it looked so __34__．
Then it hit him — the scene was similar to the slides he was shown during Disaster Management classes.
__35__ an approaching disaster, Wasana swung into action. “Run, run, don't stay here! The rocks on the hill are going to fall on us！” he __36__ and all the students ran to the open area.Then Wasana ran over to __37__ Principal Nihal Gurauinghe what was happening.
After __38__ the hill, Gurauinghe knew the school was in trouble. He and some teachers __39__ to stop the waterflow, but they were too __40__： huge rocks fell down the hill with sand and mud, and the entire school was destroyed.
When Wasana __41__ home later that day, his white uniform covered in mud, he got the __42___ from his mother. He tried to explain that he had __43__ two hundred schoolmates __44__ she didn't believe him.
His mother __45__ realized he was telling the truth when she saw a TV report about the __46__. Filled with pride, she hugged Wasana and said that he was indeed a __47__．
No one was hurt in the incident because of Wasana's __48__ action and careful observation.
“Wasana's action __49__ us that sometimes we cannot wait until something happens before we take action. It __50___ be too late by then，” Gurauinghe said.