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　　Once there was a businessman．Every day，he worked （1）________much．So later he found he couldn't sleep at night，but he kept on going to sleep （2）________the daytime．He became so worried that he went to （3）________his doctor．"Can you help me, doctor?"he asked．"I used to sleep very （4）________， but recently I haven't been able to sleep for more than two hours a night．"

　　The doctor looked （5）________ him carefully. At last he gave the businessman some medicine. The doctor told him to work （6）________ hard, and then he would soon be better.

　　But the businessman grew worse （7）________ worse. He slept even less than before at night, and was always falling asleep in his （8）________. He visited his doctor very often, and it took the doctor a long time（9）________the cause: the businessman's wife gave him the wrong medicine. She was always giving him a（10）________pill in the morning, and one to keep him awake at night.

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       Mr. Green heard that a certain government department（政府部门）wanted a clerk（职员）,

   1    he wrote and    2    the position（职位）. But while he was waiting for   3  , a friend of his introduced him to the head of the department. And the head at once gave him   4  .

       Several months    5   ,    6    Mr. Green was working in the department, he got a letter from his old address. This letter said:

“Dear Sir,

       We are    7    to have to tell you that we cannot offer you the work in this department because we do not think that you would    8    do the job successfully.

                                                                                                         Yours Faithfully,”

       Mr. Green laughed, but when he looked at the letter more    9    he was    10    to see that he signed it himself!

 1.A．but              B．so                   C．or                   D．and

 2.A．go ready for B．looked for     C．took                D．asked for

 3.A．an answer    B．his friend         C．the position      D．the head

 4.A．the pay        B．the address       C．the work          D．a letter

 5.A．later             B．ago               C．before             D．since

 6.A．so               B．then                 C．while            D．after

 7.A．happy          B．sorry            C．sure                D．pleased

 8.A．have to        B．love to             C．be glad to         D．be able to

 9.A．quietly         B．politely             C．carefully          D．quickly

 10.A．worried      B．lucky            C．sad                  D．surprised

　　One day Jack went to a big party. His coat was not good when he went in, no one looked at him and gave him 1 food. He was angry. So he went home, 2 his best coat, and then came back to the party. Everyone stood up at once and came to meet him. They 3 him to the best table and gave him the best food. Then Jack put his 4 on the food, and said, “Please

5 , dear coat. ” The other people were very surprised and asked, “Why are you 6 this?” Jack answered, “I am asking my coat 7 now. When I came here at first, nobody looked at me 8 gave me food. After I changed （换） my coat, you gave me the 9 food. So you gave this food to my coat, not to 10 !”

A passenger（乘客）told an air hostess（空姐）that he needed a cup of water to take medicine when the plane just took off. She told him that she would bring him the   26 soon.
Twenty minutes   27 , when the passenger's ring for service sounded, the air hostess realized it at once. She was kept so busy that she   28  to bring him the water. Therefore, the passenger was held up（延迟）to take his medicine. She hurried over to him with a cup of water, but he  29 it．
In the following hours on the flight,   30 time the air hostess passed the passenger, she would ask him with a smile  31 he needed help or not. But the passenger never    32 her words.
When he was going to get off the  33 ，the passenger asked the air hostess to hand him  the passengers' booklet（意见簿）．She was very  34 . She knew that he would write down  sharp (刻薄的) words, which might make her  35 the job.  36   with a smile she handed it to him.
Off the plane, she   37  the booklet and smiled, for the passenger put it, "On the flight, you asked me if I needed help for twelve times  38 . How can I refuse   39  twelve sincere (真诚的) smiles?"
That's right! It was the twelve smiles of the air hostess that touched（感动）the passenger  40  and of course she wouldn't lose her job!