I was 15 when I walked into McCarley’s Bookstore in Ashland. As I was looking at ___26___ on the shelves, the man behind the counter, ___27___, asked if I’d like ___28___. I needed to start ___29___ for college, so I said yes. I ___30___ after school and during summers for the lowest wages and the job helped pay for my freshman year of college. I would work many other jobs; I made coffee in the Students Union during college, I was a hotel maid and even made maps for the U. S. Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most ___31___. One day a woman asked me for books on cancer. She seemed fearful. I showed her almost ___32___ we had at that time ___33___ and found other books we could order. She left the store less ___34___. I’ve always remembered the ___35___ I felt in having helped her.

Years later, as a ___36___ in Los Angeles, I heard about an immigrant child who was born with his fingers connected, webline. His family could not ___37___ a corrective operation, and the boy lived in ___38___, hiding his hand in his pocket.

I ___39___ my boss to let me do the story. After my story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the ___40___ for free.

I visited the boy in the recovery room soon after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his ___41___ hand and say, “Thank you.” I felt a sense of ___42___.

In the past, while I was ___43___, I always sense I was working for the customers, not the store. Today it’s the same. NBC News pays my salary, ___44___ I feel as if I work for the ___45___, helping them make sense of the world.

26. A. maps           B. titles           C. articles        D. reports

27. A. the reader        B. the college student                C. the shop owner    D. the customer

28. A. a book          B. a job           C. some tea        D. any help

29. A. planning         B. saving          C. preparing        D. studying

30. A. read            B. studied         C. cooked         D. worked

31. A. boring          B. surprising       C. satisfying        D. disappointing

32. A. anything         B. something       C. nothing         D. everything

33. A. in need          B. in all           C. in order         D. in store

34. A. worried          B. satisfied         C. excited         D. puzzled

35. A. pride           B. failure          C. regret          D. surprise

36. A. doctor           B. store owner      C. bookseller       D. TV reporter

37. A. pay             B. cost            C. afford          D. spend

38. A. shame           B. honour         C. horror          D. danger

39. A. advised          B. forced          C. persuaded       D. permitted

40. A. action           B. program        C. treatment        D. operation

41. A. repaired         B. connected       C. injured         D. improved

42. A. pleasure         B. sadness         C. interest         D. disappointment

43. A. at the TV station   B. in the Students Union

C. at the U. S. Forest Service            D. at McCarley’s Bookstore

44. A. so              B. and            C. but           D. because

45. A. readers          B. viewers         C. customers       D. passengers

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