For years my husband, John, and I had dreamed of taking our three kids to Disney World．We'd planned our trip down to the last detail and dollar．But in Georgia, halfway there, our car broke down．

At a garage, the mechanic promised our Mercury Sable would be repaired by the next week．Meanwhile, John tried to find us a rental car．After many phone calls, John finally found a car．Luckily, our auto club would pick up the tab．We ended up arriving there three hours behind schedule．We tried every ride and met Mickey．

At the end of the long weekend we called the garage to check on our car．It turned out that the mechanic hadn't even looked at it yet! John got on the phone again．He found it would cost more than $ l, 100 to rent a car to drive home．That plus a plane ticket for him to go pick up our own car and we'd be out over $2,000!

I wailed（痛哭） and asked John, "What are we going to do?"  He said, "It'll work out．" John encouraged me not to lose heart and he insisted on trying to find a way out．Amazingly, John found a car transport company that had a car we could drive home, paying only for gas! But all the way home I couldn't stop thinking about the money we'd still need for John's trip back to the garage and another long driving home．

When we got home, the high school student who had fed our cats asked how our trip was．I gave him the rundown, "Things worked out okay except that our car's still stuck in Georgia．" "No problem," he said．"I'm heading to Florida for a spring break with my parents．We'll be glad to stop in Georgia on the way back and pick up your car．"

We ended up spending only $50 more than we'd budgeted．The next week, our car was back, and I had a new understanding of dealing with trouble．Whatever happens, if you never give up, a good solution will come out at last．

1.From the passage we can learn that                 ．

2.The underlined phrase "pick up the tab" probably means “___________”．

3.Why was the author unhappy at the end of the weekend?

4.We can infer from the passage that _______________________．

Reading is a task that we all do either for enjoyment or education, but sometimes the book we have to read may lack the attraction. Here are some tips on avoiding getting bored while reading.
Try to step into the world of literature(文学) you are reading. __56___ If the wind is blowing, imagine how the leaves move with each movement of air.
Make your reading area unlike your sleeping area. If you sleep with the radio on, then shut it off. __57__ Make the area you read in an area that feels almost uncomfortable to sleep in. This will keep you from becoming sleepy.
__58__ If you are reading for a book report , then take breaks from time to time to put what you are reading into some kind of context（语境） that you can put into the report.
Take a break once in a while. __59___ You’d better offer yourself short breaks while reading in case you are too tired, which may make you give up.
Find a friend. ___60__ Try to read the same book. Even if you read different books, you can tell him or her how good the book is. Also, a friend can encourage you to read.

Reading is a task that we all do either for enjoyment or education, but sometimes the book we have to read may lack the attraction. Here are some tips on avoiding getting bored while reading.

Try to step into the world of literature(文学) you are reading. __56___ If the wind is blowing, imagine how the leaves move with each movement of air.

Make your reading area unlike your sleeping area. If you sleep with the radio on, then shut it off. __57__ Make the area you read in an area that feels almost uncomfortable to sleep in. This will keep you from becoming sleepy.

__58__ If you are reading for a book report , then take breaks from time to time to put what you are reading into some kind of context（语境） that you can put into the report.

Take a break once in a while. __59___ You’d better offer yourself short breaks while reading in case you are too tired, which may make you give up.

Find a friend. ___60__ Try to read the same book. Even if you read different books, you can tell him or her how good the book is. Also, a friend can encourage you to read.

E. Don’t just read the words on the page; picture them in your mind.

F. Determine what you are supposed to get from the reading material.

G. If you don’t like lights on when you are asleep, then turn on the lights.

Nearly two decades has passed, I still remember my favourite professor, James Sehwartz. Whenever he smiles, it’s as if you’d just been told the funniest joke on earth. Almost all his students are his friends, and almost all his students know his life story.

When James was a teenager, his father   36  him to a fur factory where he worked . This was during the Great Depression. The   37  was to get James a job.

James entered the factory, and immediately felt as if the   38  had closed in around him. The room was dark and hot, the windows covered with dust, and the   39  were packed tightly together, running like trains. The fur hairs were flying,   40  a thickened air, and the workers,   41  the pieces of fur together, were bent over their needles   42  the boss marched up and down the rows, searching for them to go faster .James could hardly   43 . He stood next to his father, frozen with fear, hoping the boss wouldn’t   44  at him, too.

During lunch break, his father took James to the boss and pushed him in front of him,   45 if there was any work for his son. But   46  there was hardly enough   47  for the adult labours, for no one would give it up once he took a job.

Thus, for James, it was a   48 . He hated the place. He made a   49  that he kept to the end of his life: he would never do any work that brought   50  to someone else, and he would never allow himself to   51  money off the seat of others.

“What will you do?” his mother, Eva, would ask him.

“I don’t know,” he   52  say. He ruled out law, because he didn’t like   53 , and he ruled out medicine, because he couldn’t take the   54  of blood.

“What will you do?”

  55 , my best professor I ever had became—he thought it was the job not to hurt anybody.