A girl grumbled(发牢骚)to her father about her hard life. She wanted to   1  because she didn’t know what she had to do. She felt   2  for fighting and fighting. One   3  had been solved but another came.

Her father, a cook,  took her into the kitchen. He   4  water into three pans. After boiling, in the first pan   5  some carrots, the second some eggs and the last was put with coffee. He waited without any   6 from his mouth.

The girl closed her mouth and waited,   7   by what her father did. After about twenty minutes, her father   8  the stove and took out the carrots and the eggs. After that the coffee was poured into the cup.

Turning back to her daughter, he asked, “what do you   9  ?”

“Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she answered.

Her father suggested her   10  the carrots. She did and felt the carrots were   11 . Then he asked her to take the eggs and break them. After   12  them, she got the eggs, cooked and hard.   13 , he asked her to smell the coffee. She asked   14  , “What’s the meaning, father?” He explained that   15  had felt the same unfortunate, the boiling water but   16  action. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak after in the   17 water. The fragile(易碎的)eggs became hard after cooked. Coffee cores(核心)were very unique,   18  they could change water.

    “  19  are you? ”asked her father, “When the calamity（苦难）knocks your door, how is

your  20  ? Are you carrots, eggs, or coffee?”

1.       A．catch up       B．wear out       C．give up        D．run out

2.       A．tired          B．thrilled       C．confident      D．promising

3.       A．matter         B．business       C．question       D．problem

4.       A．made           B．poured         C．changed        D．irrigated

5.       A．was added      B．were put       C．remained       D．increased

6.       A．breath         B．praises        C．words          D．complaints

7.       A．judged         B．frightened     C．disappointed   D．confused

8.       A．turned off     B．turned up      C．turned down    D．turned away

9.       A．mean           B．see            C．suggest        D．explain

10.    A．touching       B．eating         C．observing      D．keeping

11.    A．bad            B．hard           C．soft           D．gentle

12.    A．hitting        B．peeling        C．beating        D．destroying

13.    A．Besides        B．Thus           C．Still          D．Lastly

14.    A．impatiently    B．shyly          C．regretfully    D．bravely

15.    A．nothing        B．anything       C．each thing     D．something

16.    A．different      B．certain        C．more           D．unequal

17.    A．cold           B．boiled         C．boiling        D．changeable

18.    A．or             B．if             C．though         D．but

19.     A．How            B．Who            C．When           D．Where

20.     A．influence      B．replacement    C．refusal        D．reaction

Nowadays, a cellphone service is available to everyone, everywhere. Probably thousands of people have already been using it, but I just discovered it, so I'm going to claim it and also name it: Fake Foning.
The technology has been working well for me at the office, but there are infinite(无限的） applications. Virtually in any public space.
Say you work at a big university with lots of talky faculty members buzzing about. Now, say you need to use the restroom. The trip down the hall will take approximately one hour, because a person can't walk into those talky people without getting pulled aside for a question, a bit of gossip, a new read on a certain line of Paradise Lost.
So, a cellphone. Any cellphone. Just pick it up. Don't dial. Just hold that phone to your face and start talking. Walk confidently down the hall engaged in fake conversation, making sure to tailor both the topic and content to the person standing before you whom you are trying to avoid.
For standard colleague avoidance, I suggest fake chatting about fake business:
"Yes, I'm glad you called, because we really need to hammer out the details. What's that? Yes, I read Page 12, but if you look at the bottom of 4, I think you can see the problem begins right there."
Be engaged in your fake fone conversation. Make eye contact with the people passing, nod to them, gesture keen interest in talking to them at a later time, point to your phone, shrug and move on.
Shoppers should consider fake foning anytime they spot a talky neighbor in the produce department pinching (用手捏) unripe peaches. Without your phone at your face, you'd be in for a 20-minute speech on how terrible the world is.
One important caution about fake foning. The other day I was fake foning my way past a colleague, and he was actually following me to get my attention. I knew he wanted to ask about a project I had not yet finished. I was trying to buy myself some time, so I continued fake foning with my doctor. "So I don't need the operation? Oh, doctor, that is the best news."
And then: Brrrrrrng! Brrrrrmg! Brrrrrmg! My phone started ringing, right there while it was planted on my face. My colleague looked at me, and I at him, and naturally I gasped. "What is the matter with this thing?" I said, pulling the phone away to look at it, and then putting it back to my ear.
"Hello? Are you still there?"  Oops.
【小题1】According to the passage Fake Foning is _______________________.

Not too long after I had begun to drive as a teenager, someone pulled out of a parking lot onto the road in front of me. I reacted   36  and pulled up very close behind her--- just to show my irritation(怒气) and let her know she didn't "just   37  with that!" We've all been there with      38  incidents and reactions. My mother was with me, and told me to turn into the   39  parking lot. Safely there, she asked me why I   40  that lady had pulled out in front of me purposely.   41  rude, power play--- I guessed. Mom said that maybe she had just had some bad   42 , maybe she was late picking up her child and was distracted(分心). Think of all the   43  of why someone does something like that. It's usually not on purpose--- but what I do as a reaction is on purpose. She always said that I   44  to think about the other side before I   45 . Usually the reaction causes more of a   46 .
I am in my fifties now, and to this day, that has always   47  my head whenever those   48  happen. I've   49  my children the same thing. We often see and hear about "road rage." No matter to what   50   that "rage" is taken, my children will say something like, "They need Grandma's words!" As adults, I don't see them react as most of us do   51  their first reaction is always anger and irritation --- they   52  it and   53  what the other person's problem might be. Even if the other driver really might be   54  or doing a "power play," no more   55  reactions will occur because of their irritation.