Some people are lucky enough to be born
with a good sense of direction and even if they have 1 visited a place
once,they will be able to find it again years later.
I am one of those unfortunate people who
have a very 2 sense of direction and I may have visited a place time
after time but I still manage to get 3 on my way there.
When I was young I was 4 shy that I
never dared ask complete strangers 5 and so I used to wander round in
circles and hope that by some 6 I would get to the spot I was heading
for.
I am 7 too shy to ask people for
directions,but I often receive replies that puzzle me.Often people do not like
to admit that they do not know their hometown and will insist 8 telling
you the way even if they do not know it;others, 9 are anxious to prove
that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long 10
of directions which you cannot possibly hope to remember;and
11 others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their
right and you find in the end that you are going in the 12 direction
to that 13 you should be going.
If anyone ever asks me the way somewhere,I
always tell them that I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid 14 them
wrong directions, but even this can have embarrassing(令人难堪的)results.
Once I was on my way to work 15 I
was stopped by a man who asked me 16 I would direct him to the Sunlight
Building.I gave my 17 reply,but I had not walked on a few steps when I
18 that he had asked for directions to my office building.
However, at this point,I decided it was too
late to turn back and search him out of the crowd behind me,as I was going to
meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him 19
.
Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary
showed in the 20 man who had asked for directions to my office and his
astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.
(
)1.(A)just (B)only
(C)already (D)ever
(
)2.(A)good (B)distant
(C)poor (D)fine
(
)3.(A)lost (B)disappeared
(C)stuck (D)started
( )4.(A)a
bit (B)such
(C)very (D)so
( )5.(A)a
way (B)the way
(C)way (D)a direction
(
)6.(A)opportunity (B)fortune
(C)possibility
(D)chance
( )7.(A)no
longer (B)no more
(C)not in the least (D)neither
(
)8.(A)in
(B)for (C)on
(D)of
(
)9.(A)whom (B)which
(C)that (D)who
(
)10.(A)line (B)page
(C)list (D)chapter
(
)11.(A)more (B)still
(C)yet (D)further
( )12.(A)opposed
(B)same (C)other (D)opposite
( )13.(A)in which (B)on which
(C)to which (D)for which
( )14.(A)to
give (B)giving
(C)to be giving
(D)having given
(
)15.(A)while (B)when
(C)as (D)then
(
)16.(A)that (B)as if
(C)if (D)where
(
)17.(A)same (B)common
(C)known (D)usual
(
)18.(A)realized (B)recognized
(C)believed
(D)considered
( )19.(A)to wait (B)waiting
(C)be waiting (D)waited
( )20.(A)only
(B)certain (C)very (D)one