I believe ___36__ is a powerful(强效的) medicine.

It was Sunday. I had the last __37__ to see and I get into her room. She was an old woman, sitting on the bed, trying to ____38__ her socks. Usually I said something like this: “How are you feeling? The nurse says your _39__ is visiting you today. I believe you are __40__ him.

She ___41___ with a serious voice, “ Sit down, doctor. This is my story, not yours.” I was surprised and ___42___. I sat down and helped her with the ___43__. She began to tell me that her only son lived not far away from her, ___44___ she had not seen him for five years. She believed her ___45__ problems were worse because of ___46__ her son. After hearing her story and helping her put on her socks, I asked if there was ____47___ I could do for her. She __48__ her head and smiled. All she wanted me to do was to __49__.

Each story is ___50__. Some are clear; others are not. Some are true; others are not, yet all those things do not __51_. What matters to the storyteller is that the story is heard.

Listening to someone’s story costs ___52___ but it is the key to healing(康复). I often ____53__ what the woman taught me, and I ____54__ myself of the importance of stopping, sitting down and truly listening. I __55___ the power of listening.

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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A，B，C和D）中，选出最佳选项．

　　Marianne, a schoolgirl, was learning to play the piano, and day after day her father stood behind as she practised. How patient and loving her father was, and how cleverly he showed Marianne how to play some particularly (特别地) difficult pieces! She was making progress (进步), very good progress, and that was very good. And there, almost lost in the big chair, sat Wolfgang, her four-year-old brother, who never had to be told to keep quiet when Merianne was practising. One evening at sundown the father patted(拍) Marianne's shoulder, saying she had done very well. All the moment Wolfgang climbed on his father's knee and begged to be allowed to play the pretty piece.

　　What a joke that was. Picking up his baby son, the father laughed, tapped his tiny nose and said, “Look at your small hands. why, you can't span(够得着)the note yet. You must wait, little man. You must wait.”

　　There was no end of fun during tea, and Marianne had to tell her mother about Wolfgang wanting to play one of the classics. After dinner Marianne helped wash the dishes when the father lit his pipe(烟斗).

　　But the pipe went out. He was on his feet. “Listen,” he said in a awed tone(感叹语气).“Listen, Marianne is playing that piece better than ever.”

　　But Marianne was washing pots in the kitchen.

　　His wife following, he went upstairs, the lamp in one hand, his pipe in the other. he pushed open the door, and found little Wolfgang playing in the darkness. “I love it so,” said the child.

　　It was the beginning of Mozart's life of music.

1．Mozart was ________.

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A．the little brother of Marianne

B．the pupil of Marianne

C．the son of Marianne

D．the daughter of Marianne

2．Mozart learned how to play the piano ________.

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A．at school

B．when his father taught his sister

C．after his father taught him

D．after his sister taught him music lessons

3．One evening when Wolfgang wanted to play one of the classics his father ________.

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A．allowed him to do so once

B．persuaded(说服) him not to do so

C．asked him to wait for a moment

D．asked him to wait for a few years

4．His father refused to let him play one of the classics because he thought ________.

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A．he was too young to play

B．he was too stupid to play

C．he was not good at playing

D．he didn't work hard at music

Until the 1960's, almost everyone in the U. S. followed tradition and gave all the children in the same family the same last name or surname, as it is called. But during the 60's, young parents began giving their children strange names—names like Moonglow, Eternal Peace, and Sunshine. Some states passed laws controlling the names that parents could use. But after a court case in 1981, a federal judge ruled that parents are free to give any surnames they wish to their children.

So , for the last few decades , more parents are not giving their children the fam­ily 's sur- names .Some insist that while it ' s OK for a boy to have the father ' s family name, a girl should have the mother' s family name . Thus, Philip Gaylord and Pan Zimmitti could be brother and sister. Some parents think that using family surname is old —fashioned and boring. One couple gave their son the last name Sue because they like the Johnny Cash song," A Boy Named Sue." And finally, some parents think that giving their children different surnames is just a "neat thing to do". So the first son of a New York family has the last name Washington —Lincoln, after the two fa­mous presidents. The daughter has the last name Anthony—Tubman after two women who fought for women's rights.

This change in naming customs presents two problems. First, if each person in the family has a different last name, family records will be very confusable. It will be hard to track a person's family, and record keeping will be difficult .Second, some physiologists are afraid that different surnames will threaten family unity. Since names have  an important effect on one's identify (身份) , they think brothers and sisters will not feel connected if they have different last names.

So this problem of names will get worse as new and different last names increase. Get ready to meet Welcome Baby Darling , sister of Aren't We Glad , You ' re Here and It ' s About Time.

1．In America, ________to give children different surnames these days.

    A．it is allowed by the law                  B．it breaks the law

    C．it is one of the customs                  D．it is unusual

2．In the second paragraph of the passage a "neat thing to do" means________.

    A．a good thing to do                                                  B．a terrible thing to do

    C．a dirty filing to do                   D．a clean thing to do

3．According to some psychologists, the different last names will let brothers and sisters feel they

are________.

    A．enemies                          B．as close as before

    C．good fiends                       D．separated

4．From the last paragraph, we can see the author _____this change in naming customs.

       A．is for        B．is against          C．doesn't care         D．doesn't notice

完形填空。阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

　　The Middleton Bank was robbed (抢劫), and Detective Paul Nichols was sent for. The bank  1 said, “The robber had a long and ugly scar (难看的伤疤) on his right cheek (面颊).” It happened that the  2 came into the bank and stood in line with the other  3 . When he reached the window, however, he handed the bank clerk a piece of paper saying, “Do not say anything or  4 anything. I have a gun and will  5 it if I have to. Put four thousand dollars in an envelope and handed it to me. ” Realizing he was not joking, the bank clerk  6 exactly as the robber wished. The man walked out of the  7 ; no one realized what had happened, even not the lady standing behind him.

　　A thorough(彻底的) search was made,  8 no such a person with an ugly scar was  9 .

　　“I can't understand how he could get away so rapidly,” Detective Nicholstold said to his  10 Nancy that evening. “We questioned  11 inside and outside the bank. No one saw a man with a scar on his  12 .” Nancy Nichols was a very practical (有实际经验的) woman. Her husband liked to discuss his  13 with her because of this.

　　She enjoyed helping solve a case. While her husband was  14 the program on TV, Nancy sat drinking her coffee in  15 ,“Why should the robber want the bank clerk to  16 the scar?” she said to herself. “He should have wanted to hide it.”

　　Nancy  17 , and went over to turn off the TV, She let her  18 know what she had come up with.

　　Five minutes later, Paul was in his car, hurrying to the  19 station. Another search was organized.

　　The robber was caught within twenty-hours. The man had been  20 , and knew how to disguise (伪装) himself.

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