One good deed deserves another

One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods door to door found that he only had one dime left. He was hungry so he decided to 　1 a meal at the next house. 　2　 , he lost his courage when a lovely young woman opened the door. 3 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 　4 you?”
　 “You don’t owe me 　5 ,” she replied. “My mother has taught me never to accept money for __6 of kindness.” He said, “Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart.” As Howard Kelly left that house, he felt as if he had got stronger 　7 .
　 Years later the young woman became seriously ill. The local doctors could do nothing, so they sent her to the big city, where specialists were called 　8 to study her disease, Dr Howard Kelly, now famous, 　9 . When he heard the name of the town she came from, he immediately 10 from the chair and went down 　11__ the hospital hall towards her room.　　　　　　　　
　12 his doctor’s gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to his room and tried to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave special attention to her case.
　 After a long struggle, they won the 　13__. Dr Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for 　14　 . He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. Then the bill was 　15　 to her room. She was afraid to open it because she was 16　 that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she looked, and the note on it 　17 her attention. She read these words.

“ 18 IN FULL WITH ONE GLASS OF MILK.”
Dr Howard Kelly

Tears of joy ___19___ her eyes as she saw it. She was grateful 　20 love could spread widely through human hearts and hands.

1. A. pay for　　　 B. intend for　　 C. search for　 D. beg for

2. A. Thus　　　　　 B. Moreover　　　 C. However　　　 D. Therefore

3. A. in honor of　 B. instead of　　 C. in addition to　 D. in spite of

4. A. own　　　　　 B. owe　　　　　　 C. cost　　　　 D. spend

5. A. nothing　　　 B. something　　　 C. everything　 D. anything

6. A. acts　　　　　 B. behavior　　　 C. measure　　　 D. benefit

7. A. mentally　　　 B. physically　　 C. thoroughly　 D. luckily
8. A. on　　　　　　 B. in　　　　　　 C. out　　　　　 D. up

9. A. to include　　 B. including　　　 C. included　　 D. is included

10. A. raised　　　 B. rose　　　　　 C. stood　　　　 D. aroused

11. A. cross　　　　 B. over 　　　　 C. through 　　 D. under

12. A. With　　　　 B. Wore　　　　　 C. Putting on　 D. Dressed in

13. A. fight　　　　 B. game　　　　　 C. disease　　　 D. treatment

14. A. help　　　　 B. conclusion　　 C. agreement　　 D. cure

15. A. delivered 　 B. sent　　　　　 C. flied　　　　 D. carried

16. A. positive　　 B. uncertain　　　 C. negative 　　 D. unsure

17. A. paid　　　　 B. fixed　　　　　 C. caught　　　 D. made

18. A. Spent　　　　 B. Took　　　　　 C. Paid　　　　 D. Cost

19. A. flooded　　　 B. floated　　　　 C. full　　　　 D. flew

20. A. what　　　　 B. that　　　　　 C. which　　　　 D. whose

I’ve always loved pigeons．Some years ago I persuaded my wife to let me buy a few and start racing them myself．They cost us a lot of money and   1   and they spoiled our hobby a lot, but my wife never actually stopped me so I   2   carried on．I learned so much about pigeons that I could   3   a good racer anywhere and I did buy some beauties．My pigeons won some top races, and I even began to make a bit of   4  ．You see people are prepared to pay big prices if they know that your pigeons are   5   big prizes．

   My wife had been changing her   6   to the pigeons over the past few years anyway．She was quite   7   of all the prizes we’d won．Then came the traveling, which she liked．You see someone has to take the pigeons a   8   way off and set them free．Some of the   9   were really nice and you could enjoy beautiful sceneries all the way．I never traveled．I used to like to wait at home and   10   them come in．They’d got this wonderful sense of   11   , which could bring them back home so quickly．They’d flown hundreds of miles sometimes   12   storms or against the endless  13   ．Then I’d watch them  14   round and come down onto the landing shelf．I’d looked at my watch and thought, “My goodness, that’d be a good   15  ．” And took off the little leg ring and pushed it through the machine to   16   what time he’d arrived．Then my wife would   17   up and said, “Has he arrived yet?” Then we would work out if we’d won   18   ．

   Then last year we had a   19   ! One of my pigeons got some sort of flu and died, and then they all   20   one by one．It was terrible; I had to burn them all．We lost a fortune of course．

1．A．food                     B．time                    C．power                 D．space

2．A．just                       B．even                    C．almost                 D．hardly

3．A．notice                   B．learn                   C．imagine               D．recognize

4．A．living                    B．fun                     C．money                D．change

5．A．losing                   B．winning               C．giving                 D．making

6．A．subject                  B．decision              C．relation                D．attitude

7．A．proud                   B．fond                    C．careful                D．sure

8．A．different                B．long                    C．short                   D．far

9．A．distance                B．activities              C．trips                    D．movements

10．A．see                     B．invite                  C．welcome            D．wish

11．A．direction              B．sight                   C．hearing                D．touch

12．A．over                    B．along                   C．under                  D．through

14．A．show                  B．look                    C．circle                  D．whistle

15．A．fly                      B．time                    C．day                     D．look

16．A．write                   B．record                 C．count                  D．memorize

17．A．come                  B．show                  C．call                     D．cheer

18．A．again                   B．over                    C．only                    D．accidentally

19．A．disadvantage       B．chance               C．problem              D．disaster

20．A．slowed down     B．went down       C．turned down    D．let down

Which is sillier: denying we ever went to the moon or trying to convince the true nonbelievers?
Once upon a time – July 20, 1969, to be specific – two men got out of their little spaceship and wandered around on the moon for a while. Ten more men walked on the moon over the next three and a half years. The end.
Unfortunately, not quite. A fair number of Americans think that this whole business of moon landings really is a fairy tale. They believe that the landings were a big hoax (骗局) staged in the Mojave Desert, to convince everyone that U.S. technology was the “bestest” in the whole wide world.
Which is the harder thing to do: Send men to the moon or make believe we did? The fact is the physics behind sending people to the moon is simple. You can do it with computers whose entire memory capacities can now fit on chips the size of postage stamps and that cost about as much as, well, a postage stamp. I know you can because we did.
However, last fall NASA considered spending $15,000 on a public-relations campaign to convince the unimpressed that Americans had in fact gone to the moon. That idea was mostly a reaction to a Fox television program, first aired in February 2001, that claimed to expose the hoax. The show’s creator is a publicity hound (猎狗) who has lived up to the name in more ways than one by hounding Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon. Mr. X (as I will call him, thereby denying him the joyous sight of his name in print) recently followed Buzz Aldrin around and called him “a thief, liar and coward” until the 72-year-old astronaut finally lost it and hit the 37-year-old Mr. X in the face.
Anyway, NASA’s publicity campaign began to slow down. The nonbelievers took the campaign as NASA’s effort to hide something while the believers said that $15,000 to convince people that the world was round — I mean, that we had gone to the moon — was simply a waste of money. (Actually, the $15,000 was supposed to pay for an article by James E. Oberg, an astronomy writer who, with Aldrin, has contributed to Scientific American.)
If NASA’s not paying Oberg, perhaps it could put the money to good use by hiring two big guys to drag Neil Armstrong out of the house. Armstrong is an extremely private man, but he is also the first man on the moon, so maybe he has a duty to be a bit more outspoken about the experience. Or NASA could just buy Aldrin a commemorate plaque (纪念匾) for his recent touch on the face of Mr. X.
【小题1】We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that some Americans believe _______.