Outside our hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a seemingly ancient woman waited beside the door with her hand outstretched. Every day I put my hand in hers as our eyes met. She never failed to return my smile, my grasp, and my greeting.

    On the last day of our visit, I found myself alone on a busy corner across the street from our hotel. Bicycles and motorbikes rushed in front of me. As I hesitated on the sidewalk, I felt a hand on my elbow and looked down to see the smile of my small beggar friend looking up at me. She nodded her head toward the street, indicating that she would take me across. Together, we moved slowly into the chaos.

    Then we moved on toward the sidewalk, where she pulled my face down to hers, kissed me on both cheeks, and then left, still smiling and waving back to me.

Traveling in poorer nations, I have witnessed a variety of ways to deal with beggars. The most common response of tourists faced with the poverty-stricken is to ignore them and focus their eyes elsewhere. I have seen people push away an outstretched hand in angry annoyance. A few may drop a few coins into the hand in a hurry, hoping that other ragged pursuers won’t immediately appear on the scene.

For many reasons, giving money is not the best response to an outstretched hand. Many world travelers have discovered that the greatest gift they can give is their time and respect. Everyone needs recognition, to be seen as worthy of being known, to feel appreciated and loved. And I believe that everyone is worthy and worth knowing.

1.The woman beggars helped the author go across the busy street because __________.

A．the author gave her material assistance

B．the author treated her kindly and friendly

C．the author would help her as a reward

D．the author was a foreigner

2.From the story, what position of the beggars in the author’s mind might be?

    A．equal                B．superior      C．lower          D．valuable

3.In common cases, people will do the following things to the beggars EXCEPT for ________.

    A．pretending to see nothing

B．handing out some money

    C．refusing them angrily

D．greeting them normally

4.According to the author, the most important things beggars really need are _________.

    A．mercy and pity 　B．money and food

C．smile and greeting  D．attention and respect

5.The purpose of the passage is to _________.

    A．show how poor the beggars are in Vietnam

    B．offer some advice on dealing with begging

    C．express what we should offer the beggars

    D．describe an experience with a beggar       

第二节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
With a heavy heart Sally arrived early on the morning of the auction (拍卖). It was almost a year since her dear grandmother passed away in this house.   36   the family business had failed and left them with heavy debts. So the bank had  37 the family to have an auction sale to repay their debts．  38  the past several weeks, she had managed to save $450 in order to bid（出价）on the  39   that her grandmother liked very much. Surely this would be enough, she had thought．
Now the  40  moment arrived．Looking around, Sally was surprised to see so many people had   41 ．As the auction began, Sally waited．Finally, the time came to bid on the quilt．She held her   42  tightly and listened．The first bid was $45. She was  43 . It was so high．Quickly other people bid and soon the bidding   44  $85. Sally cried out “$450!” For a moment there was silence．Hope   45  her. She glanced again at the quilt, thinking how   46 her grandmother would have been with her at this moment．Just then, from the back, another person shouted “$475!” She lost her   47 ．Suddenly she couldn’t help wondering   48  so many  people would be interested in that old, dirty quilt．Finally the quilt was sold for $500 to a complete   49 .
　　 After the sale, she went to the counter to pay for the few items that were now hers．The woman at the cash desk handed her the quilt．“There must be some  50 ．Someone else has got it.” she said．A hand-written   51  was pinned to the quilt, which   52 :
Dear Madam,
　　 I noticed you admiring the quilt．Clearly, it was 53  to you．Please accept this quilt as my  54 . I don’ t expect any repayment from you, but do a   55   favor in the future for a stranger who happens to cross your path．
Yours,
A stranger
36．A．Naturally　　       B．Unfortunately　      C．Luckily　 D．Probably
37．A．hoped          B．waited     C．expected D．forced
38．A．With    B．At  C．By  D．Over
39．A．house          B．present     C．furniture       D．quilt
40．A．interesting      B．necessary     C．big          D．sad
41．A．turned over         B．turned up           C．turned back   D．turned on
42．A．purse    B．picture     C．book         D．quilt
43．A．glad     B．frightened       C．moved   D．shocked
44．A．rose     B．climbed   C．reached        D．raised
45．A．told      B．helped     C．filled     D．gave
46．A．pleased        B．anxious    C．angry     D．familiar
47．A．thought       B．chance     C．way       D．money
48．A．whether       B．what        C．how       D．why
49．A．relative        B．customer C．friend    D．stranger
50．A．reason         B．secret       C．mistake            D．fun
51．A．check          B．wallet      C．address        D．note
52．A．read     B．wrote       C．spoke     D．showed
53．A．wonderful          B．basic        C．pretty         D．important
54．A．honor          B．respect     C．gift          D．thank
55．A．particular       B．common      C．major         D．similar

A

This is a talk by a London taxi(出租车)driver.

"I've been a taxi driver for nearly ten years. Most London taxi drivers have their own taxis."

"It's a nice job most of time. You meet a lot of people. I always work at night, because there is too much traffic during the day. I live twenty miles outside London and I go to work at 5:30 in the afternoon."

"I usually go home between 2 and 3 in the morning."

"Some very strange things happened late at night .The other day I was taking a woman home from a party .She had her little dog with her. When we got to her house, she found that she had lost her key. So I waited in the car with the dog while she climbed in through the windows."

"I waited and waited. After half an hour of ringing the bell I decided to find out what was going on .I tied the dog to a tree and started to climb in through the window. The next thing I knew was that the police came. They thought I was a thief.

Luckily the woman came downstairs.She must have gone to sleep and forgotten about me and the dog!"

1.The driver always worked at night because it was easier to _____.

A．make money                           B．drive

C．climb in through the window               D．meet a lot of people

2.The woman climbed in through the window because _____.

A．she wanted to have a sleep

B．her husband didn't open the door for her

C．she didn't want to pay the driver

D．she couldn't find her key

3.The story happened _____.

A．early in the morning                     B．late at night

C．20 miles outside London                  D．near the police station

4.Which of the following is wrong?

A．The driver worked until between 2 and 3 in the morning.

B．The police made a mistake.

C．The woman had no money to pay the driver.

D．The woman had forgotten about the driver and the dog.

5.The driver climbed in through the window to

A．get money from the woman               B．return the dog to the woman

C．phone the police                        D．see what was happening in the house

One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by sending newspapers door to door, was so hungry that he decided to beg for a meal at the next house.

However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, “How much do I owe you?”

“You don’t owe me anything,” she replied. “Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart.” With these words, Howard Kelly left that house.

Years later the woman became badly ill and was finally sent to the hospital in a big city. Dr. Howard Kelly, now famous, was called in. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Dressed in his doctor’s clothes, Dr. Kelly went into her room and recognized her at once. From that day on, he gave special attention to her, and decided to do his best to save her life.

At last the woman was saved. Dr. Kelly asked the business office to pass the final bill to him. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to the woman’s room. She was afraid to open it because she was sure that it would take the rest of her life to pay for it off. Finally she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her attention. She read these words:

“Paid in full with a glass of milk, Dr. Howard Kelly.”

Tear of joy flooded her eyes.

1.The boy sent newspapers door to door in order to ________.

2.Which is true about the boy and the woman?

3.After Dr. Kelly knew who the woman was, he ________.

4.The best title for this passage is ________.