Question

Five-year-old Marry loved to play in the street with her friends. This made her parents __41__. They did __42__ to keep her off the street. __43__, day after day they found her out there. Thankfully, the street wasn’t very __44__. But it was often traveled by soldiers and sometimes they would drive very fast.

       Every time he drove by the lifeless animal that had __45__ in the road, Steven __46__ think of his daughter. And so he continued trying to teach her the __47__— with little __48__. Then one day as Steven was driving home, he saw something that helped __49__ an idea, which became an action by the time he got home. He walked over to where Marry was playing.

       “Come on, sweetheart,” he said. “You and Daddy are going for a __50__.”

       They drove back along the way he had just traveled, finally __51__ just behind a mound (堆) of something.

       “What is it, Daddy?” Marry asked as they got out of the __52__.

       “Look __53__, but don’t touch it,” Steven said. “Can’t you tell what it is?”

       She studied it for a few minutes, unsure of its __54__ until she picked out its familiar ears. “A rabbit! What happened?” Marry asked.

       “It was playing in the road, and a car came along and ...”

       “... and squished (压扁) it?” Marry broke __55__.

       “That’s right,” Steven said. “It got squished because it was playing in the road.”

       “Yuck!” Marry said. For the first time, Steven saw __56__ in his daughter’s eyes.

       The next evening, when Steven drove by a group of children playing in the street, he __57__ what Marry was shouting from the sidewalk.

       “Come on, you guys! Stop playing in the street, __58__ you’ll get squished!”

       So, if your message isn’t getting through to others, no matter how many times you __59__ it, you should try something __60__. This is Steven’s lesson.

41. A. disappointed            B. worried                    C. ashamed                   D. puzzled

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

43. A. Thus                         B. Still                          C. Then                        D. Also

44. A. flat                                B. dirty                      C. wide                     D. busy

45. A. wandered                   B. banned                     C. competed                 D. gathered

46. A. might                     B. could                       C. would                      D. need

47. A. accident                         B. experience             C. lesson                D. practice

48. A. success                    B. hope                       C. approval                D. panic

49. A. create                        B. discover                   C. decide                      D. cause

50. A. walk                          B. ride                          C. talk                          D. visit

51. A. stopping                    B. passing                     C. staying                     D. hiding

52. A. bus                        B. car                        C. train                      D. boat

53. A. quietly                       B. deliberately               C. closely                            D. steadily

54. A. weight                       B. color                        C. identity                     D. shape

55. A. out                           B. in                       C. away                 D. through

56. A. delight                 B. understanding           C. anger                       D. regret

57. A. realized                   B. watched                   C. heard                       D. felt

58. A. or                             B. and                          C. but                       D. yet

59. A. represent                   B. respond                    C. repeat                D. refresh

60. A. funny                        B. simple                      C. easy                         D. different

Answer 1

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