Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are verybusy trying to make money for my schooling. One day, my mother was sewing a quilt (缝被子). I silently sat beside her.

" Mum, is there ___________ between you and dad?" I asked in a very low voice.

With surprise in her eyes, she_________her work for a while. Then she said, "Susan, look at this thread (线). It can hardly be seen, _________it's really there. It makes the quilt strong. If life is a quilt, love should be a thread. Love is inside. "

I couldn't understand her_________the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly got sick seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month.

After they were back, my mother helped my father walk_______on the country road every day. They were so kind to each other and it seemed they were the happiest couple.

After two months my father_________couldn't walk by himself.

" Dad, how are you feeling now?" I asked him one day.

"Susan, don't___________me, " he said, “I just like walking with your mum. I like this kind of life. "_________his eyes, I knew he loves my mother deeply.

Now I understand that love is just a thread in the quilt of our _______. Love is inside,making life__________ and warm.

1.A. difference B. love C. distance D. duty

2.A. continued B. finished C. stopped D. changed

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

4.A. until B. in C. by D. after

5.A. slowly B. quickly C. successfully D. quietly .

6.A. just B. even C. yet D. still

7.A. talk about B. worry about C. think about D. care about

8.A. Reading B. Seeing C. Touching D. Raising

9.A. body B. life C. work D. family

10.A. cold B. colorful C. strong D. weak

Tom arrived at the New York airport two hours before the flight to Paris. He was wearing three shirts, a jacket, two pairs of socks, a pair of shorts, and two pairs of jeans. He was carrying one small backpack, which was very full, but he didn’t have any other luggage. Tom needed to meet a man named Tony before he checked in for his flight. He found Tony near the Air France counter. Tony gave him a round-trip ticket and a small package.

“Give this package to Jean-Paul at the airport in Paris. He will have a sign with your name on it. I think you can find him easily,” Tony said, ”You don’t have any luggage, right?”

“Only this backpack,” Tom answered. ”You said I could bring one carry-on bag.”

“That’s right. One carry-on bag is fine. Have a good trip.”

“Thanks.”

Is Tom a criminal (罪犯)? Not at all. He is an air-courier(空中信使). And he paid only $110 for the round-trip ticket to Paris. Air couriers get cheap airline tickets because they take important packages and papers to foreign countries. Businesses sometimes need to get packages and papers to people in foreign countries by the next day. Often, the only way they can do this is to use an air-courier company. It is not cheap for a business to send a package with an air courier, but it is quick.

Every year about 80,000 people worldwide travel as air couriers. The number of tickets for courier travel is growing by about 10 percent a year. However, air-courier travel isn’t for everyone. But if you have very little money, can be flexible(灵活的) about your travel plans, and don’t mind wearing the same clothes for a week, it can be a great way to take a vacation!

1.An air courier is a person who_________

A. manages a business company in foreign countries

B. organizes international flights for tourists

C. travels around the world with cheap tickets

D. delivers papers and packages to foreign countries.

2.One of the disadvantages of traveling as an air courier is that he_____.

A. cannot decide when and where to travel B. cannot take any luggage with him

C. has to wear two pairs of shoes D. saves little money from the travel

3.The writer of the text mainly______.

A. describes the activities of a law-breaker

B. suggests an ideal way to everyone for traveling

C. argues against the air-courier travel

D. tells us about a developing business

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