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| A businesswoman got into a taxi in midtown. As it was the rush hour and she was in a __1__ to catch a train, she __2__ a quick way to reach it. "I have been a taxi driver for 15 years!" the driver said __3__. "You don't think I know the best way to go?" The woman tried to explain that she hadn't __4__ to annoy him, but the driver kept __5__. She finally realized that he was too annoyed to be __6__, so she changed her __7__. "You know, you are right," she told him. "It must seem __8__ for me not to think you know the best way __9__ the city." __10__, the driver glanced at his __11__ in the rearview mirror, turned down the street she wanted and got her to the train on time. "He didn't say another word the rest of the ride," she said. "__12__ I got out and paid him. Then he thanked me." When you find yourself __13__ with people like the taxi driver, you will always try to __14__ your idea. It can lead to longer arguments, lose job chances or __15__ marriages. I have discovered one simple __16__ extremely unlikely method that can prevent the disagreement or other difficult situations from __17__ in a disaster. The __18__ is to put yourself in the other person's shoes and look for the __19__ in what that person is saying. Find a way to __20__, and the result may surprise you. | |||
| ( )1.A. hurry ( )2.A. chose ( )3.A. jokingly ( )4.A. supposed ( )5.A. apologizing ( )6.A. reasonable ( )7.A. road ( )8.A. strange ( )9.A. across ( )10.A. Surprised ( )11.A. rider ( )12.A. until ( )13.A. satisfied ( )14.A. give up ( )15.A. combine ( )16.A. and ( )17.A. lying ( )18.A. problem ( )19.A. fact ( )20.A. agree |
B. rush B. made B. angrily B. expected B. driving B. thoughtful B. mind B. wrong B. in B. Worried B. speaker B. after B. concerned B. turn down B. destroy B. that B. resulting B. importance B. meaning B. argue |
C. moment C. found C. anxiously C. meant C. asking C. normal C. direction C. terrible C. through C. Annoyed C. helper C. because C. crowded C. stick to C. suffer C. but C. setting C. key C. expression C. explain |
D. way D. suggested D. curiously D. decided D. shouting D. practical D. manner D. stupid D. along D. Disappointed D. comer D. since D. faced D. point out D. divide D. though D. leading D. reply D. truth D. escape |
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| A man and his wife arrived in Boston by train.After getting off the train, they walked without an 1 into the outer office of Harvard’s president.So they were stopped by his secretary and kept 2 . For hours, the secretary took no notice of them, 3 that the couple would finally become disappointed and 4 .But they didn’t.The secretary finally decided to disturb the president, though 5. A few minutes later, the president walked towards the couple with a 6face.The lady told him, “We had a son that 7 Harvard for one year.He loved Harvard.He was8_ here.But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed.My husband and I would like to 9 a memorial(纪念物)to him, somewhere on campus.” The president wasn’t moved .Instead, he was 10 .“Madam,” he said, “we can’t put up a statue for every person who studied at Harvard and died.If we did, this place would look like a 11 ,” “Oh, no,” the lady 12 quickly.“We don’t want to put up a statue.We would like to give a 13 to Harvard.” The president rolled his eyes and 14 at the couple and then exclaimed, ” A building! Do you have any 15 how much a building costs? We have spent over $7,500,000 on the campus building at Harvard.” For a moment the lady was silent.The president was 16 , because he could get rid of them now.Then the lady turned to her husband and said quietly, “Is that all it costs to start a 17 ? Why don’t we just start our own?” Her husband nodded. 18 their offer was turned down.Mr.and Mrs. Stanford traveled to California where they founded Stanford University 19 after them, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer 20 about. |
| ( )1. A.choice ( )2. A.waiting ( )3. A.hoping ( )4. A.go down ( )5. A.hopelessly ( )6. A.pleasant ( )7. A.attended ( )8. A.clever ( )9. A.set about ( )10.A.satisfied ( )11.A.park ( )12.A.explained ( )13.A.building ( )14.A.laughed ( )15.A.suggestion ( )16.A.bored ( )17.A.department ( )18.A.Once ( )19.A.named ( )20.A.talked |
B.decision B.standing B.finding B.go out B.carefully B.funny B.visited B.brave B.set up B.excited B.cemetery B.expressed B.yard B.shouted B.idea B.astonished B.university B.While B.looked B.knew |
C.acquaintance C.sitting C.realizing C.go away C.unexpectedly C.cold C.studied C.proud C.set down C.shocked C.garden C.refused C.playground C.glanced C.thought C.interested C.business C.Since C.taken C.heard |
D.appointment D.talking D.imagining D.go around D.unwillingly D.sad D.served D.happy D.set off D.ashamed D.museum D.admitted D.square D.called D.opinion D.pleased D.club D.Though D.followed D.cared |
B.he wasn't good at medicine
C.he wanted to make less money
D.most people were strong at that time
B.he got a lot of experience in solving mysteries
C.he was a person with great literary quality and talent (才能)
D.he was able to help those who came to see him with their problems
B.never existed (存在) in the world
C.was one of the members of the police in London
D.was a real detective who was named by Conan Doyle
B.was in old clothes
C.changed one's clothes or one's appearance
D.seemed to be poor and helpless