It was a Friday afternoon. An elderly lady was doing the   21  in a supermarket. When she returned to her 22 , she found four men in the act of   23  her car. So she  24  her shopping bags and took out her   25 , screaming at the top of her voice, “I have a gun, and I know how to use it!   26  the car!”
The four men didn’t   27  for a second threat. They all got out immediately and   28  like mad.
After she got into the   29   seat and prepared to drive away, she was   30  that she could not get her key into the ignition (点火开关). She   31  over and over again, and then she suddenly realized why,   32  she found that there was a football, a jacket and two packs of cigarettes in the front seat.
A few minutes later, she saw her own car   33  four or five spaces farther down. She put her bags into the car and drove to the police station to report her  34 .
The police officer to whom she told the story couldn’t stop  35 . He pointed to the other end of the corner, where four   36  men were reporting that their car was   37  by a mad, elderly woman   38  as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and   39  a large handgun. Not surprisingly, the elderly lady felt very sorry for what she had done, and   40  to the four men.

Children find meanings in their old family tales．
When Stephen Guyer’s three children were growing up, he told them stories about how his grandfather, a banker,   1  all in the 1930s, but did not lose sight of what he valued most. In one of the darkest times   2  his strong-minded grandfather was nearly  3  , he loaded his family into the car and   4   them to see family members in Canada with a   5  , “there are more important things in life than money”.
The   6  took on a new meaning recently when Mr. Guyer downsized to  7   house from a more expensive and comfortable one. He was  8     that his children, a daughter, 15, and twins, 22, would be upset．To his surprise, they weren’t.  9     , their reaction echoed (共鸣) their great-grandfather’s．What they 10   was how warm the people were in the house and how  11    of their heart was accessible.
Many parents are finding that family stories have surprising power to help children
  12   hard times. Storytelling experts say the phenomenon reflects a growing   13    in telling tales, evidenced by a rise in storytelling events and festivals.
A university   14   of 65 families with children aged from 14 to 16 found kids’ ability to 15  parents’ stories was linked to a lower rate of anger and anxiety.
The  16  is telling the stories in a way children can 17   . We’re not talking here about the kind of story that  18  , “ When I was a kid, I walked to school every day uphill both ways, barefoot in the snow.” Instead, we should choose a story suited to the child’s 19 , and make eye contact (接触) to create “a personal experience”. We don’t have to tell children 20   they should take from the story and what the moral is.

What a pity! When we got to the cinema, the movie Let the Bullets Fly _________, so we saw only the end of it.   

Mr Black once decided to travel by air on business because of some reason. He liked　16 beside a window when he was　17 ,so when he got onto the plane, he　18　 a window seat. He　19  that all of them had already been taken  20  one, and there was a soldier sitting in the seat beside this one. Mr Black was 21  that he had not taken the one by the window, but, anyhow, he at once went towards 22 .
When he  23 it, however, he saw that there was a notice on it. It was written 24  ink and said,“This is reserved for proper load balance. Thank you.” Mr Black had never seen such a notice in a plane  25 ,but he thought that the plane  26   be carrying something particularly heavy in 27  baggage room which made  28  necessary to have passengers properly balanced, so he walked on and  29  another empty seat, not beside the  30 ,to sit in.
Two or three other people tried  31   in the window seat beside the soldier, but they, too, 32  the notice and went on. Then, when the plane was nearly full, a very beautiful girl stepped into the plane. The soldier, who was 33  the passengers coming in, quickly took the notice off the seat beside him－and  34   that way succeeded in  35   the company of the girl during the whole of the trip.

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More good things come from small things
About a year ago, a couple with three children moved into the apartment next door to me.
I never heard any  36 from the children, but the parents were always shouting at the kids.
We  37 often in the hallways when we were coming or going. I  38 spoke, but the only   39 I ever got was a hello from the four – year – old girl.
I usually go out for breakfast and one day when I  40 they were just coming from their apartment and the little girl was holding the door   41 for the others. I  42 in the car doing unnecessary things because I didn’t like to be snubbed（冷落）. The parents were   43 her to hurry and get in the car, I looked up and saw the little girl was   44 holding the door open,  45 for me.
I hurried as much as I could and   46 her. She was smiling from ear to ear. That afternoon I saw a white toy bear, I   47 the little girl and said to myself, “I   48 she would like that” so I bought it. I wrote a note   49 how much her act of kindness had touched a soft spot in an old man’s   50 .
The next day there was a   51 on the door and   52 was the little girl and her father. She was so proud of her bear and thanked me. Then I   53 her mother and the other children were there in the hall too. The mother and father both thanked me.
Now when we meet in the hall we all speak, and in a   54 manner, I might add.  55 time
passes, I don’t hear that shouting as often. In fact, hardly at all. 
36．A．sound                 B．noise                   C．conversation        D．crying
37．A．met                    B．saw                     C．visited                 D．gathered
38．A．never                  B．sometimes           C．seldom                D．always
39．A．reward                B．action                 C．answer                D．prize
40．A．moved                B．returned              C．started                 D．drove
41．A．open                   B．closed                 C．fit                       D．active
42．A．stopped               B．kept                    C．worked               D．remained
43．A．suggesting           B．telling                 C．forcing                D．making
44．A．ever                    B．even                   C．still                     D．yet
45．A．waiting               B．calling                C．leaving                D．asking
46．A． replaced             B．encouraged          C．ignored               D．thanked
47．A．thought about      B．thought of           C．thought over        D．thought out
48．A．decide                 B．am lucky             C．am sure               D．doubt
49．A．saying                 B．stating                C．reporting             D．writing
50．A．mind                  B．body                   C．thought               D．heart
51．A．hit                      B．knock                 C．drop                   D．beat
52．A．she                     B．it                        C．they                    D．he
53．A．noticed               B．watched              C．recognized           D．felt
54．A．kindly                 B．politely               C．coldly                 D．friendly
55．A．When                 B．Since                  C．As                      D．While