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It's 7 am Kyoto (东京), Japan, and the taxi company has just called a second time to say they can't find my house. 1 I tell him directions. even a blind person can 2 , look impatiently at my watch, and wait. Only two hours remain until my 3 leaves
and it's an hour-and-a-half trip to Osaka airport.
The telephone rings 4 .“Terribly sorry,”begins the clerk. Then I 5 what's happened: flooded with 6 , the company is too busy. I've heard this happens when the weather gets 7 . I shout into the 8 that I have a plane to catchI must be in Seoul 9 and I'll meet the 10 a few hundred meters away on a bridge over the Kamo River.
Standing in the heavy 11 , I look up and down. No 12 From the other direction a white car comes up, then stops. A young man opens the door, signing to me to 13 . Shaking with cold and 14 , I climb inside.
In the most 15 Japanese, the man explains to me that he is the person with whom I have spoken 16 this morning. He apologizes again and again, but does not explain why a taxi could 17 except to say they are“very, very busy”this morning.
A few hours later, seated into my seat as the storm-delayed 727 18 , I open the 19 . My eyes wander to the headline (标题) of a short article:“Taxi Strike Begins this Morning in 20 .”
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The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know a new classmate. I stood up to 1 when a gentle hand 2 my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady looking up at me with a 3 .
She said, “Hi. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a 4 ?” I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze (an act of pressing).
“Why are you in college at such a young, 5 age ?”I asked. “I always dreamed of having a 6 experience and now I’m getting 7 !” she told me.
Later, we became close friends. Every day we would leave class together and she 8 her wisdom and 9 with me. Over the course of the year, Rose became a (an) 10 icon（偶像） and she easily made friends wherever she went.
At the 11 of the term we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us. When she was 12 , frustrated and a little embarrassed, she cleared her 13 and said, “We do not stop playing because we are old; we 14 old because we stop playing. There are only two secrets to staying 15 , being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find 16 every day. You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you 17 .”
One week after graduation Rose died 18 in her sleep. Many college students attended her funeral in tribute to（悼念）the wonderful woman who taught us by 19 that it’s never too late to 20 all you can possibly be.
1. A. look around B. look back C. look down D. look up
2. A. hit B. felt C. touched D. knocked
3. A. surprise B. smile C. wonder D. pleasure
4. A. hand B. welcome C. hug D. gift
5. A. innocent B. golden C. happy D. valuable
6. A. college B. junior high school C. senior high school D. primary school
7. A. it B. that C. one D. them
8. A. shared B. told C. learned D. debated
9. A. course B. experience C. degree D. happiness
10. A. old B. great C. campus D. outgoing
11. A. end B. middle C. beginning D. top
12. A. invited B. appearing C. speaking D. introduced
13. A. nose B. face C. throat D. eyes
14. A. look B. prove C. grow D. stay
15. A. healthy B. young C. cheerful D. rich
16. A. humor B. goals C. dreams D. jokes
17. A. lose B. fail C. die D. disappoint
18. A. hopefully B. peacefully C. fortunately D. bitterly
19. A. experience B. example C. pleasure D. courage
20. A. be B. achieve C. gain D. do
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While getting ready for school today, my 16-year-old daughter came into my room to give me a big hug and kiss. I asked her, “What do you want?” She said, “36 Mum, you always tell us to have a good day 37 we leave the house, but I was 38 about who tells you to have a good day and lets you know how much you are 39.”
I am so 40 by the capacity of love and understanding that 41 my children. My 15-year-old son asked me last night if there was a(n) 42 for him to get a summer job this year in order to help us to pay our bills. 43, in our area, he must be 16.
44 of my children depend on me so much because I am a 45 parent, but just when I pay the 46 that I will not be able to provide for them, they come up with ways to 47. I completely understand that I will 48 have to find a way to pay the bills as I do not want my children to take up anything. But for now the 49 that they have stepped up and 50 to help without anyone asking touches me.
When my daughter was two, I remember rushing to get to 51, getting to the front door and asking her to 52 and come. Then she appeared at the door with a bag that she was holding open. I said, “We don’t have 53 for this.” She stopped me and said, “Fill it with love, Mum.” I 54 to my knees and hugged her and then kissed her. From then55 she would bring the bag and I would bring the love to the door before we left for school and work.
36. A. nothing B. anything C. something D. everything
37. A. after B. until C. before D. since
38. A. complaining B. thinking C. talking D. quarreling
39. A. hated B. punished C. changed D. loved
40. A. interested B. surprised C. touched D. worried
41. A. comes from B. goes to C. agrees with D. cares for
42. A. task B. tip C. item D. way
43. A. Happily B. Unfortunately C. Luckily D. Generally
44. A. All B. None C. Both D. Neither
45. A. single B. strong C. rich D. noble
46. A. salary B. gifts C. books D. bills
47. A. stay up B. get up C. help out D. break down
48. A. already B. still C. even D. yet
49. A. fact B. reason C. excuse D. phenomenon
50. A. begged B. managed C. pretended D. offered
51. A. church B. shop C. work D. hospital
52. A. wake up B. hurry up C. turn up D. look up
53. A. time B. room C. space D. chance
54. A. dropped B. lost C. fell D. missed
55. A. to B. on C. away D. by
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People?6?up the editor when something interesting?7 ?.The editor sends a reporter and a photographer to find out? 8 ?about it.?
The reporter phones the newspaper to tell the story.A typist types it? 9 ?.
Next,the editor decides how much“space”to give the story.Important stories?10 most of a page.The stories are keyed into a computer and?11?print.
The first copies are called “proofs”.Another editor?12?mistakes.The stories are all?13 ?in the paper.Then the paper is printed.?
The newspapers are? 14?by lorry,plane or rail.? 15?are taken all over the country.
The? 16 ?arrive early in the morning,and people buy them.?
Not all newspapers? 17 ?every day.Some are weekly with a Sunday edition. Local newspapers? 18 ?the news for different parts of the country.?
Working on a daily paper is always busy.But people working on weekly papers do not have to work?19?such a hurry.Sometimes reporters?20 ?all over the world to report news.?
1.A.printed B.print C.is printing D.are printed?
2.A.copy B.write C.provide D.take?
3.A.search B.charge C.front D.face?
4.A.see B.search C.find D.look up?
5.A.in B.on C.for D.with?
6.A.phone B.say C.tell D.talk?
7.A.happen B.will happen C.is happening D.happened?
8.A.much B.many C.more D.most?
9.A.on B.out C.up D.off?
10.A.take out B.take in C.take up D.take off?
11.A.make up B.made of C.made into D.make out?
12.A.find B.corrects C.looks up D.look for?
13.A.puts B.putting C.put D.to put?
14.A.delivers B.delivering C.delivered D.deliver?
15.A.It B.Them C.They D.Their?
16.A.paper B.papers C.news D.stories?
17.A.came up B.come C.come up D.come out?
18.A.to report B.reports C.report D.reporting?
19.A.on B.in C.with D.of?
20.A.reach B.arrive C.travel D.walk?
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