---Where did you save the drowning girl, ________ parents were both professors?
---It was from the lake ______ she often went fishing.

“Now ,”Mrs. Virginia DeView said, smiling, “we are going to discover our professions .”
The class seems to be greatly surprised. Our professions? We were only 13 and 14 years old! The teacher must be _36 _. “Yes, you will all be searching for your future  37 . Each of you will have to   38  someone in your field, plus give an oral report.”
Each day in her class, Virginia DeView reminded us about this. Finally, I picked print journalism. This _39_ I had to go to interview a true-blue newspaper reporter. I was extremely nervous. I sat down in front of him_40_ able to speak. He looked at me and said, “Did you bring a pencil or pen?”
I shook my head.  “How about some   41_ ?” I shook my head again .
Finally , I thought he realized I was   42 , and I got my first big tip as a  43 : “Never,never go anywhere without a pen and paper. You never know what you’ll run into. ”After a few days, I gave my oral report totally from   44  in class. I got an A on the entire project.
Years later, I was in college looking around for a new career, but with no success. Then I _45 _Virginia DeView and my desire at 13 to be a journalist. And I called my parents. They didn’t __46__me. They just reminded me how competitive the field was and   47  all my life I had to run away from competition. This was true. But journalism did something to me; it was in my blood. _48__gave me the freedom to go up to total strangers and ask what was   49 .
For the past 12 years, I’ve had the most satisfying reporting career, __50 __ stories from murders to airplane crashes and   51  choosing my strongest area.  52 _ I went to pick up my phone one day, an incredible wave of memories hit me and I realized that had it not been __53__Virginia DeView, I would not be sitting at that desk.
I get  54  all the time: “How did you pick journalism?”
“Well, you see, there was a teacher…”I just wish I could  55 her.

-How  long ________inBeijing?
-For just the  weekend.  I'II be back for work next Monday.

--- Alice looks sad. Did you tell her about her brother’s accident?
--- Sorry, I ________ her just before her final exams.

第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It was summer and I had gotten one of the few jobs a 14-year-old can find—working at Burger King，a fast－food restaurant．It  31  wasn’t a good job，but it meant money，  32  was something I needed.
One day，I was working behind the front counter，taking  33  .The customers were coming and going，and the woman who  34  didn’t seem any different from most others. She ordered her meal and I told her the total. As she searched  35  her purse to find some change，the woman soon  36  that she was about a dollar short.  “I’m  37  to say this, but I guess I won’t be able to make my purchase 38，”she said sadly.
That’s when I had the idea of 39 the difference for her. She refused at first，but after I 40, she agreed. She thanked me and moved to the end of the counter to  41  her order. I continued with my work and thought  42  more of it.
About an hour later  43  had slowed down and I was waiting for my next customer. Then I glanced over towards the  44  and saw the same woman whom I’d helped with the money entering again．I  45  recognized her.
She walked straight up to me and said，“I want to thank you again for what you did. You see，I’m a diabetic(糖尿病患者),and  46  I need to eat something right away．That’s  47  I came in earlier．If you hadn’t helped me as you did，I might have fainted(晕倒). Thank you．”
She  48  me two dollars, twice I’d given her.   
49  the woman walk away, I realized that God had used me to help me. In the end, I was  50  not only with money but also with the satisfaction of knowing that I’d helped someone out of a tight spot.
31．A．firstly          B．badly       C．certainly          D．finally
32．A．which          B．what            C．that                 D．it
33．A．menus             B．orders              C．water             D．food
34．A．reached           B．moved             C．left         D．approached
35．A．through       B．over                  C．about               D．across
36．A．recognized       B．knew           C．admitted          D．said
37．A．glad              B．disappointed     C．sorry     D．surprised
38．A．in all         B．at all        C．above all               D．after all
39．A．costing    B．spending            C．paying          D．taking
40．A．supported            B．insisted           C．stuck          D．watched
41．A．pick up               B．put up         C．pick out            D．put out
42．A．none               B．anything          C．nothing            D．something
43．A．customers        B．orders              C．service           D．business
44．A．entrance          B．restaurant         C．counter            D．window
45．A．suddenly          B．immediately     C．surely              D．completely
46．A．seldom         B．always             C．never         D．sometimes
47．A．when               B．where              C．why                D．how
48．A．threw                B．handed                C．showed              D．put
49．A．Watching         B．Looking           C．Observing        D．Noticing
50．A．awarded          B．honored           C．returned           D．rewarded