On the evening of June 21, 1992, a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi’an with his bicycle．The hotel workers received him and telephoned the manager, for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel ball before though they lived in“the kingdom of bicycles．”
Robert Friedlander, an American, arrived in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi, India．
When he was 11, he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road．Now, after 44 years, he was on the Silk Road in Xi’an and his early dreams were coming true．
Robert Friedlander’s next destinations(目的地)were Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi, etc．He will complete his trip in Pakistan．
(1)
The best headline(标题)for this newspaper article would be ________．
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A．
The Kingdom of Bicycles
B．
A Beautiful Hotel in Xi’an
C．
Marco Polo and the Silk Road
D．
An American Achieving His Aims
(2)
The hotel workers told the manager about Friedlander coming to the hotel because ________．
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A．
he asked to see the manager
B．
he entered the hall with a bike
C．
the manager had to know about all foreign guests
D．
the manager knew about his trip and was expecting him
(3)
Friedlander is visiting the three countries in the following order, ________．
"I have been to the 1 several times over the last few days, and well, Meg, I have a rain cancer．
"Okay．"
"Just okay?"
"Yep, just okay．"
It was the second half of my senior year, that 2 in a girl's life when all the really big exciting events are happening．My final performance, my eighteenth birthday and my graduation, all 3 my mind in just two short months．
By my final performance Dad couldn't really give his full 4 on it, but he was there．He bravely sat through my birthday dinner, and he 5 to get out of the hospital for my graduation． 6 those months, we both were caring about the same thing梞e．His doctor said that by 7 on all my future events, it kept my dad 8 longer．Nine days after my high school graduation, my father died．
For the next two weeks after his 9 I didn't leave my room．Finally, my mom came in, opened my blinds and gave me a letter．
It was from my father's doctor．He wrote about how my father 10 him to change his life and the way he worked．" …He was not 11 a patient to me．He 12 more for the people around him than he did his own 13 I have never met someone who put everyone else first．He was the type of person I 14 ．to be．"
I was 15 ．I came to know what I should, do．
Days later, I got a job as a summer camp counselor．I 16 everything I had to these little kids, and slowly they helped to heal me without even 17 what they were doing．Their innocence had helped me 18 some of mine．
That summer 19 parts of the life my father led in his last few days．I had learned the 20 lesson my father was teaching me梚n order to lead a fulfilling life, you must learn how to give of yourself to others．
