I’ve spent most of my career as a traveling salesman, and so I know that    1   is an occupational disease. But one year, my    2   gave me the cure for my homesickness.
It had black bright eyes, a red bow tie and orange feet--- a stuffed penguin (企鹅) that   3   about five inches tall. Attached to its left wing    4   a little sign with the hand-painted declaration “ I Love My Dad!”. I immediately  5   the penguin on my table.
On my next trip, I put the   6   in my suitcase. That night when I called home, my daughter Jeanine was    7   because the penguin had disappeared. “Honey, he’s here with me,” I explained, “ I brought him    8 ”.
   9  , the penguin came with me --- as necessary as my briefcase. And we     10   along the way. In Albuquerque, I checked into a    11  , dropped my bag and ran to a meeting. When I returned, the maid had    12   the bed and stood the penguin on the pillow.
One night, I discovered the penguin    13  , and after a mad phone call, I learned I’d    14   it in my previous hotel room,    15   it had been rescued by a maid. I       16     a hundred miles to get it, and when I arrived at midnight, the penguin was waiting at the front desk. In the hotel lobby (大厅), other tired business travelers were    17     at the reunion of my penguin and me --- I think with a touch of    18  .
Jeanine is in college now, and I don’t travel    19  . The penguin sits on my table, a reminder that love is a wonderful traveling companion. All those years on    20  , it was the one thing I never left home without.

The professor’s house, big and untidy, stood alone at one end of a huge garden. The place was totally uncared for, quite __36__ and overgrown with all sorts of useless things. I __37__ my way through bushes and tall weeds to the front door and rang the bell.
I was glad that I found him. In twenty minutes he put me right on all the __38__ that had puzzled me. I was on the __39__ of leaving when I looked out of his study window and said, “You’re very fond of gardening, I see”
“No, I’m not,” he said. “__40__, I love this garden, though. It’s __41__ I always wanted it to be. I never touch it __42__ all.”
“It could be made lovely. It seems a pity to let all this ground go to __43__. But perhaps you don’t _ 44__ that way?” said I.
“I don’t. I lived here when I was a child, and I had   45  of gardening then. It was my father’s hobby, you see. Unfortunately, he wasn’t   46  _ enough to do it himself. My brother and I did all of it between us year after year. There was one right way and many wrong ways. Each blade (叶片) of grass was an enemy to be _ _47__ out by hand, not just cut off. I’ve spent a good part of life at work here.”
“I see. You took a dislike to it, and now you’re getting even！”
“I dislike it. Then, of course, I didn’t understand the effect it had. It used to __48__ me. It appeared in my __49__ ——— a mistake here, something not quite straight here, the enemy showing its head in a place I was __50__ to have cleaned. The work was too much. It seemed endless. The size of the place was itself a fight to a boy.”
“And now it’s yours, you’re just letting it go to ...”
“__51__?” he said. “No, I don’t agree with that. This garden and I are now the best friends. I like  _52__ it grow in its own way. I make no __53__ on it. I never disturb it, and it never disturbs me. It has _ 54__ at last, and so have I.”
“But the path is over grown. It’s __55__ for you, isn’t it?”
“That’s part of my pleasure，” he laughed. “You can go out the back way. The weeds are shorter there because they don’t get the sun.”                             

John may phone tonight.I don't want to go out _______ he phone.

Just recently I had been wondering if there was much point in doing little acts of kindness. So often they get   36 , and occasionally they come back to bite you!
Then, just last week, after a long travel, I found myself   37   at a bus station. The bus was four hours late! So, I guess I wasn’t in a good   38 .
That’s when a woman asked me if I had any spare   39   to help her get a bus ticket.
“Oh, sure,” I said sarcastically (挖苦地). “How much would you like?”
As I spoke, I mentally kicked myself for my  40   and reached into my bag for some money. As I handed her five dollars, I heard low sounds from her stomach because of real    41 .
I reached back into my bag and brought out a   42   I had bought earlier. I handed it to her with a(n)   43   that I hoped would make up for my earlier tone of voice. Getting a   44   look at her now, I realized she was extremely tired, like she had had several months of   45   days!
As she took the food, a look of   46   washed over her. In return, she tried to give me a Milwaukee bus ticket! I don’t live in Milwaukee and the ticket will probably   47   be used, but I took it.
A few minutes later she came back over, apologized, and told me she was still  48   of five dollars. I took some singles out of my bag and slipped a twenty in there as well.   49 , the voice in my head told me I was being a fool.
Five minutes later she came back again and tried to   50   my twenty. When I said it was for her so she could get something else to   51 , and that I was completely serious and I wasn’t taking it   52  , she started crying and hugged me.
From now on, when I wonder if it is   53   trying to help someone, I will remember that woman. Maybe I am really making a   54   for someone. So, sure, sometimes my efforts might not be noticed, and sometimes they might come back to bite me, but they might actually   55   another human being!

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The train stopped and a girl got on. As I had become   36   by then, I could not tell what the girl looked like, but I could say she was a pretty girl.
“Are you going to Dehra Dun?” I asked her as the train   37  . Maybe my voice   38   her. She screamed in a low voice and said, “I don’t know anyone else here.” Well, it often    39  that people with good   40   fail to see what is right in front of them. “I didn’t see you either at first,” I said. “But I   41   you come in.” I wondered if I would be able to   42   her from discovering that I couldn’t see. I thought,   43   I kept to my seat, it shouldn’t be too difficult.
She was silent. Then I made a   44  . “What is it like outside?” I asked. She seemed to find something   45   in the question. Had she already noticed that I could not see? But her next question   46   my doubts. “Why don’t you look out of the window?” she asked quite   47  . I smiled, “You have an interesting face.” I thought it was a   48   remark as few girls could be tired of hearing that.
She laughed pleasantly. “It’s   49   to be told that,” she said. “But I’m so tired of people telling me that I have a   50   face.” Oh, so you did have a pretty face, thought I, and aloud I said, “Well, an interesting face   51   also be pretty.” “You are a good   52  ,” she said. “But why are you so serious?” Just then, the train   53   slowly into the next station, and the girl said goodbye to me.
“She was an interesting girl,” I said to a new   54   and then I asked him, “Did she keep her hair long or short?” “I don’t remember,” he replied, sounding   55  . “But she was completely blind. Didn’t you notice?”
36. A. sleepy  B. blind   C. hungry       D. dull
37. A. pulled out                  B. pulled in           C. left off                     D. sent out
38. A. annoyed      B. cheered      C. shocked      D. touched
39. A. appears B. turns   C. proves D. happens
40. A. intension     B. eyesight     C. power D. ability
41. A. watched       B. heard  C. observed    D. forgot
42. A. prevent B. cheat   C. protect       D. hold
43. A. unless   B. until   C. if        D. though
44. A. promise       B. plan    C. trick   D. mistake
45. A. interesting      B. difficult            C. strange           D. unfamiliar
46. A. removed         B. canceled         C. disappeared               D. added
47. A. simply                B. naturally        C. nervously     D. calmly
48. A. special  B. popular      C. safe    D. familiar
49. A. boring                B. fortunate    C. confusing      D. nice
50. A. pretty   B. common     C. similar       D. blind
51. A. must    B. should      C. can    D. shall
52. A. liar             B. talker  C. neighbor    D. passer-by
53. A. dragged       B. slipped       C. entered       D. drew
54. A. conductor     B. passenger           C. waiter         D. policeman
55. A. excited      B. disappointed        C. puzzled        D. indifferent