Communicating clearly-to your boss, co-workers,  friends, children, and spouse (配偶) -- is an important part of your success and your  1  to improve the conditions you live and work in. Many people think that good communication is born, not  2  , and that some people are just  3    good speakers and motivators. They think the rest of us are just  4 to sit on the sidelines.

Communication is a habit. And being a habit it can be   2  and mastered, it is  6   an important habit, in fact, that it  7   its own step, its own place   8   the path to success.

It's also a little different.  9  the other good habits you are trying to  10  , this one is not just   11  self control and inner focus. Communication is interaction outside yourself, with other people, and about the ability to judge a   12  so that you  13   the right thing at the right time.

Life is about the   14  with other people: those above us (our boss), those   15  us (our colleagues, friends), and those who look up to us (our employees and children). The  16  of communication is about how to make  17  with each of these groups so that they can help you achieve your  18   , and you, in turn; can help them achieve theirs. For even though you are on the road to self-improvement, it's not a   19  you are taking alone.

If you can't communicate with people, you have dramatically  20  your chances for success.

1．A．ability             B．part               C．desire            D．intention

2．A．learned         B．built                   C．produced          D．made

3．A．clearly               B．naturally          C．obviously         D．simply

4．A．supposed             B．devoted          C．delighted             D．decided

5．A．affected             B．created             C．designed          D．developed

6．A．but                   B．just               C．such            D．so

7．A．deserves            B．declares            C．states             D．proves

8．A．along                  B．for               C．with              D．on

9．A．Unlike                B．Like              C．As                D．Despite

10．A．maintain             B．train              C．nourish            D．form

11．A．merely             B．about             C．the               D．for

12．A．circumstance     B．suffering          C．situation           D．surrounding

13．A．convey            B．speak              C．tell                 D．transfer

14．A．talking            B．contacting           C．mixing            D．dealing

15．A．around                                         B．beside              C．under             D．by

16．A．nature           B．craft             C．art              D．way

17．A．friends            B．contact              C．peace             D．through

18．A．results           B．effects              C．purposes           D．goals

19．A．journey            B．route                 C．process           D．course

20．A．damaged         B．ruined            C．narrowed          D．worsen

A man had a little daughter—an only and much-loved child. He lived ___21__ her—she was his life. So when she became ill, he became like a man moving 22 and earth to bring about her restoration to  23  .

　　His best efforts,  24 , proved 25 and the child died. The father became a bitter loner, 26  himself away from his many friends and refusing every   27 that might restore his calm and bring him back to his normal self. But one night he had a   28  .

　　He was in heaven,  29 a grand presentation of all the little child angels. They were  30  in a line passing by the Great White Throne. Every white-robed angelic child  31 a candle. He noticed that one child’s candle was not lighted. Then he saw that the child with the  32 candle was his own little girl. 33 to her, he seized her in his arms,  34  her tenderly, and then asked, “ 35 is it, darling, that your candle alone is unlighted?”“Daddy, they often relight it, but your tears always  36 .”

　Just then he awoke from his dream. The lesson was clear, and its effects were  37 . From that hour on he was not a loner, but associated freely and 38  with his former friends and colleagues. 39 would his darling’s candle be extinguished(熄灭) by his  40  tears.

I am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language — the way it can evoke(唤起) an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all — all the Englishes I grew up with.

Born into a Chinese family that had recently arrived in California, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as “broken” English. But I feel embarrassed to say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken”, as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness. I’ve heard other terms used, “limited English,” for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people’s perceptions (认识) of the limited English speaker.

I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly, her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.

I started writing fiction in 1985. And for reasons I won’t get into today, I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”, and what I imagine to be her translation of her Chinese, her internal(内在的) language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure: I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show; her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.

1.By saying “Language is the tool of my trade”, the author means that       .

2.The author used to think of her mother’s English as      .

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?

4.What is the passage mainly about?