It was a cold winter day that Sunday. The parking lot to the  1 was filling up quickly. I noticed, as I got out of my car, fellow church members were   2    among themselves as they walked in the church. As I got  3__, I saw a man leaning up against the wall outside the church. He was almost lying down  4  he was asleep. His hat was  5  down so you could not see his face. He wore shoes that looked 30 years old, too  6   for his feet, with holes all over them and his toes  7  out. I guessed this man was  8  and asleep, so I walked on  9  through the doors of the church. We all talked for a few minutes, and someone 10  the man lying outside. People whispered but no one took  11 to ask him to come in, 12  me. A few moments later church began. We were all waiting for the Preacher (牧师) to take his  13  and to give us the Word, _14   the doors to the church opened. In  15  the man walking down the church with his head down. People gasped（喘息）and whispered and made _16  . He made his way down the church and up onto the pulpit (讲坛) where he took off his hat and coat. My heart  17  .

There stood our preacher… he was the “homeless man”. The preacher took his Bible (圣经) and  18  it on his stand.

“ 19  , I don't think I have to tell you what I am preaching about today. If you ＿20＿   people by their appearance, you have no time to love them.”

1.A. school                           B. lecture               C. park              D. church

2.A. arguing                B. whispering          C. stating               D. speaking

3.A. closer                            B. clearer              C. lower            D. farther

4.A. even though       B. so that                C. as if               D. even if

5.A. dragged               B. pulled           C. dropped        D. pushed

6.A. big                        B. bad                          C. ugly                          D. small

7.A. reached              B. went                        C. stuck                        D. ran

8.A. homeless            B. helpless                  C. hopeless                 D. careless

9.A. out                       B. by                   C. across                      D. from

10.A. invited                        B. mentioned             C. took                         D. called

11.A. pleasure           B. measure                 C. courage                  D. trouble

12.A. except                        B. besides          C. without          D. including

13.A. turn                   B. place.                      C. time                         D. seat

14.A. when                          B. before                     C. as                    D. after

15.A. rushed                        B. hurried          C. came                       D. entered

16.A. decision            B. choices          C. faces                        D. jokes

17.A. sank                            B. fell                           C. broke                      D. failed

18.A. threw                          B. set                            C. laid                           D. folded

19.A. Brothers           B. Folks                        C. Supporters             D. Members

20.A. judge                          B. hate                         C. treat                        D. test

Terry was a middle-aged leather trader whose repeated failure in career made him a depressed man, often __16__ that he had been cheated by others. One day he told his wife he was so __17__ with the city that he had to leave.

So his family moved to another city. It was the evening of a weekend. When Terry and his wife were busily __18__ up their new home, the light suddenly __19__. Terry was regretful to have forgotten to bring along __20__ and had to wait __21__ in a low mood. Just then he heard light, hesitant __22__ on his door that were clearly audible (听到) in the __23__ night.

“Who’s it?” he wondered, since Terry was a __24__ to this city. And this was the moment he especially hated to be __25__, so he went to the door and opened it __26__. At the door was a little girl, shyly asking, “Sir, do you have candles? I’m your neighbor. ” “No,” answered Terry in anger and shut the door __27__. “What a nuisance!” He complained over it with his wife. “No sooner had we settled down than the neighbor came to __28__ things.”

After a while, the door was knocked again. He opened it and found the same girl outside. __29__ this time she was __30__ two candles, saying, “My grandma told me the new neighbor downstairs might need candles. She __31__ me here to give you these.” Terry was very __32__ by what he saw. At that moment he suddenly realized what caused his __33__ in life. It was his __34__ and harshness (刻薄) with other people. The person who had cheated him in life was __35__ nobody else but himself, for his eyes had been blurred (蒙蔽) by his unsympathetic mind.

I lived on a farm with my parents and my elder brothers and sisters when I was a little boy. We had the 36 to play and run wherever we wanted to go.
We often 37 games just by pretending we were cowboys. Sometimes we played hide-and-seek. One of us would 38 and the others would come and find him. I remember one 39 I hid behind some old wood in the cottage. All was 40 . I couldn’t hear a sound, just the wind 41 . The situation became tense (紧张的) 42 the possibility of someone finding me, and the longer I 43 , the more tense I became. 44 , I heard footsteps coming down the yard. My 45 beat fast and I stood 46 , frozen like a block of ice. I saw my brother getting closer and closer. When he saw me, he laughed 47 , shouting at the top of his voice so that 48 could hear him say, “Eh, I’ve   49 our Tommy!” I can still see the 50 on his face today. Afterwards he said he didn’t think I would hide there. I shrugged my shoulders and said, “Why, it’s a good place, isn’t it?”
I don’t have any 51 of these events, just memories, as we had no camera at that time. 52 it was a long time ago, I can see them now as if they 53 yesterday.
Now I live in town on a busy street. My girls don’t have the freedom that we   54 have to run off down the road and play whatever they want. Anyway, is it 55   to let children out of sight these days?

There was a time when I thought my dad didn’t know a thing about being a good father. I couldn’t   31 him ever saying the words “I love you.” It seems to me his only purpose in life was to say “__32_  ” to anywhere I wanted to go and anything I wanted to do, including getting a   33 .  Some parents bought their kids cars when they got their driver’s licenses. Not my dad ---- he said that I’d have to get a job and buy my own.

So that is what I did. I got a job at a very nice restaurant and   34  every penny I could and   35 I had enough to buy my car, I did! The day I brought that car home, my dad was the first one I wanted to   36  to. “Look, dad, a car of my own. If you ever want a ride, I’ll only   37 you five dollars.” I offered with a smile.

“I see,” was all he said.

One day, there was something wrong with my father’s truck. So he needed a   38 to work. . The sun wasn’t even up when we left the house,   39  it was already getting warm out. It was going to be a(n)   40 day. As I dropped my dad off, I   41  him, dressed in his work clothes, getting his   42  from the trunk of my car. Watching his sun-weathered face, and even from a distance I could tell there were   43  lines than I ever remembered being there before. I realized how hard my dad works for the family. My father is a cement finisher. In that instant, it   44 to me that he actually got down on his hands and knees to sweat over hot concrete to make a living for his family. And he did this day in and day out,   45  hot it got. Never, not once, had I heard him   46  about it. To him we were “worth” it. And never once did he “charge” us for it.

When he closed the trunk, his tools set off to the side, he walked over to my window to   47  me five dollars. I rolled down the window and said “Good-bye, dad. Keep your five dollars. It’s my   48. Don’t work too hard. I love you.” His   49 met mine, then glanced away in the direction of his waiting tools, he   50  his throat and said, “Oh, and… me, too.”

Last Friday my brother and I were driving home and had a fun conversation. So absorbed in our talk, my brother took a wrong turn.

    Unfortunately, the wrong turn took us towards a  31  , and we had no way to turn  32  . __33  my brother paid the bridge fee and drove on. He was greatly  34  by his mistake and the needless   35   of $4.

    We eventually reached an exit, and as we took it, my brother noticed a young fellow  36  over to the side. He came out of his car and tried to  37  someone. I was busy trying to   38  which way we would go next, but my brother stopped and asked the guy if he needed any  39  And he did. He had a flat tire and needed a tool to get it off.

My brother gave him a wrench（扳手）, and then helped him  40  the flat. The young man said that this had been a  41  week for him: earlier he had gotten into a minor car  42  , and now this tire was flat on his way home from work. But he called us “a breath of fresh air’’ and kept   43   us because he really would have been   44   if we hadn’t come along.

    After we had finished the job, he thanked us again and pulled out $20 to give us. “No,” my brother said. “We were never  45  to even get on that bridge. We took a wrong turn. But now we know  46   we did. It was to help you. Thank you for turning our mistake into a（n）  47  to serve.”

What I loved most was  48  my brother throughout this process. He was able to turn his mistake into  49  energy to help others even in a negative situation, which could only come from a calm mind and an open  50  .

1.A. bridge         B. freeway      C. wall         D. river

2.A. away           B. down         C. over         D. back

3.A. Amazedly       B. Worriedly    C. Unwillingly D. Happily

4.A. attacked       B. annoyed      C. survived     D. suspected

5.A. charge         B. price        C. value        D. waste

6.A. left           B. moved        C. pushed       D. pulled

7.A. find           B. complain    C. phone        D. scold

8.A. put forward    B. figure out   C. get across   D. set aside

9.A. advice         B. help         C. money        D. oil

10.A. change            B. check        C. repair       D. carry

11.A. pleasant      B. terrible    C. memorable    D. busy

12.A. accident      B. debate       C. sale         D. show

13.A. encouraging  B. teaching    C. thanking     D. troubling

14.A. damaged       B. defeated    C. neglected    D. stuck

15.A. allowed       B. forced       C. supposed     D. welcomed

16.A. that          B. what         C. how          D. why

17.A. business      B. failure      C. opportunity D. success

18.A. watching      B. helping      C. asking       D. thanking

19.A. usual         B. natural      C. positive     D. special

20.A. head          B. heart        C. stage        D. view