Since my family were not going to be helpful, I decided I would look for one all by myself and not tell them about it till I’d got one.
I had seen an agency (中介机构) advertised in a local newspaper. I rushed out of the  1  in search of it. I was wildly excited, and as  2  as if I were going on the stage. Finding the  3  quite easily, I ran breathlessly through a door which said “Enter without knocking, if you please.”
The simple atmosphere of the office   4  me. The woman looked carefully at me  5  through her glasses, and then  6  me in a low voice. I answered softly. All of a sudden I started to feel rather  7  . She wondered why I was looking for this sort of  8  . I felt even more helpless when she told me that it would be   9  to get a job without  10  . I wondered whether I ought to leave,   11 the telephone on her desk rang. I heard her say: “  12 , I’ve got someone in the  13  at this very moment who might  14 .” She wrote down a  15 , and held it out to me, saying: “ Ring up this lady. She wants a   16  immediately. In fact, you would have to start tomorrow by cooking a dinner for ten people.”
“ Oh yes,” said I —  17  having cooked for more than four in my life. I  18  her again and again, and rushed out to the   19  telephone box. I collected my thoughts, took a deep breath, and rang the number. I said confidently that I was just what she was looking for. I spent the next few hours   20  cook books.
【小题1】A. bed         B house      C. agency              D. office

According to an old story, a farmer once found that a bag of corn had been stolen from his house. He went to the judge and told him about his loss. The judge ordered all the people of the farm to come before him. He took a number of sticks of equal length and gave one stick to each man.
　He then said, “Come before me again tomorrow. I shall then know which of you is the thief because the stick given to the thief will be one inch longer than the others.”
　The thief was afraid of being found out, and so he cut an inch off his stick. The next day the thief’s stick was found to be one inch shorter than any of the others. In this way the thief was found out, and was at once taken away to prison.
【小题1】The judge gave each man a stick _______.

John，an academically excellent young man，went to apply for a management position in a big company．The director did the last  36 ．
The director asked，“Who paid for your school fees?” John answered．“My  37 did．When I was young，my father  38 ．”Then he continued．“  39 was your mother?” John answered，“My mother worked as a  40 cleaner．”Hearing this, the director asked John to  41  his hands．John reached out his hands that were  42 and perfect．The director said，“I have a  43 ．when you go home，clean your mother’s hands and see me tomorrow．”
John felt  44 but did it．His tears fell  45 he cleaned his mother’s hands．He noticed  for the first time that her hands were so  46 ．Also John  47 that it was this pair of hands  that washed clothes every day to  48 him．After cleaning his mother’s hands，John  49 washed all the remaining clothes for her．
Next day，John went to the director’s office. Tears in eyes，John was asked to  50 his  feelings．“Now I know what is  51 ．Without my mother，there wouldn’t be the  52 me today．By helping my mother，I see how  53 it is to get something done．I have also come to know the value of family relationship．”
The director smiled，This is what I am  54 ．I want a person who can appreciate the help of others，a person who knows the sufferings of others and a person who  55 put money as his only goal in life．You are hired．”

All my students in my class knew I was getting married in June and moving out of the state. I was sorry to see the month of June ____【小题1】____; all my students wanted to learn more, They were obviously agitated (不安的) whenever I mentioned it. I was glad they had become ____【小题2】____ of me, but what was wrong? Were they angry about me ____【小题3】____ the school?
On my ____【小题4】____ day of class, the headmaster greeted me as I entered the building. "Will you come with me, please?" he said ____【小题5】____. "There’s a problem ____【小题6】____ your classroom." He looked straight ahead as he ____【小题7】____ me down the hall. "I'm going to leave the school tomorrow, but what now?” I wondered.
It was ____【小题8】____! There were bouquets (束) of flowers in each corner, on the students' desks, and on my desk. "How could they have done this?" I____【小题9】____. Most of them were so poor that they ____【小题10】____ the school assistance program for some ____【小题11】____ and enough meals.
I started to cry, and all my students ____【小题12】____ me.
Later I learned how they had succeeded doing it. Mark, who worked in the ____【小题13】____ shop on weekends, had seen ____【小题14】____ from several of my other classes. He mentioned them to his classmates. Too proud to ever again wear an insulting（侮辱的) label like " ____【小题15】_____ ", Mark ____【小题16】____ his boss for all the "tired" flowers in the shop. Then he called funeral parlors(殡仪馆) and ____【小题17】____ that his class needed flowers for a teacher who was leaving. They ____【小题18】____ to give him bouquets saved ____【小题19】____ each funeral.
That was not the only present they gave me, ____【小题20】____. Two years later, all fourteen students graduated, and six earned college scholarships.

Tomorrow evening I will be interviewed on stage by a museum official. I will be an interpreter, talking from experience as a disability rights lawyer and activist.
In “special” schools and camps for children with physical and mental disabilities, I grew up knowing we were a category of person that the world did not want. Most of us had a story of some doctor advising our parents to put up away or to let us die. We owed our survival to parents who had irrationally(不理性地) bonded with us. We knew we were lucky and hoped our luck would hold. To increase the chance of surviving, we tended to be charming. We developed thick skins.
By the time I roll onto the stage the next night, I’ve thought a lot about there and here, then and now. When the first question comes, I tell them about my fascination with the wheelchair, and somehow it sounds funny, and laughter fills the room. We talk from the horror of Nazis killing (Nazis once killed the disabled patients as useless) to a funny confession that I, too, tend to stare at disabled people on the street.
What has come over me? In this room, people with disabilities in thrilling variety make me feel at home. Here people, disabled and not, are gathered by choice.
I haven’t forgotten that 2 million people remain in US disability institutions, that some disabled children still cannot attend mainstream schools, that too many of us live in poverty. But I can’t hold onto anger and sorrow for I feel a shared sense of possibility, a drive for a world that will embrace both the fit and the unfit and hold them so dear that the division dies.
【小题1】What’s the author according to the passage?