Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important  36  : giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you  37  money.

       This is how I   38  with giving-away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store  39  to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the   40  . If an accident takes place, the  41  of which I think the local police could use, I  42  him up and tell him about it, though I am not in   43  here. One discovery I made about this world is to give  44  getting something back, though the  45  often comes in an unexpected form.

       One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important  46  letter to my home, though it was   47  to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of   48  . More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was  49  . I was told at the window that there were  50  boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long  51  list. As I was about to  52  , the postmaster appeared in the   53  .“Wasn’t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?” I said it was. “Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office  54  we make one for you. You don’t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get  55  but complaints(投诉).”

36.A.decision                  B.research                  C.speech                    D.discovery

37.A.earn                       B.lack                        C.spend                     D.steal

38.A.experienced            B.connected               C.combined                D.agreed

39.A.happens                  B.flashes                    C.sticks                      D.leads

40.A.postmaster              B.headmaster              C.storekeeper             D.policeman

41.A.story                      B.damage                   C.challenge                D.material

42.A.call                        B.hold                       C.break                      D.pick

43.A.need                       B.trouble                   C.common                 D.charge

44.A.within                    B.without                   C.for                         D.before

45.A.process                   B.goal                       C.return                     D.concern

46.A.curious                   B.immediate               C.special                    D.heavy

47.A.realized                  B.addressed                C.forgotten                D.brought

48.A.invitation                B.apology                  C.instruction                     D.appreciation

49.A.dealing                   B.providing                C.operating                D.starting

50.A.enough                   B.some                      C.no                          D.more

51.A.admitting                B.relating                   C.examining               D.waiting

52.A.leave                      B.shout                      C.guess                      D.conduct

53.A.window                  B.doorway                 C.library                    D.yard

54.A.in case                   B.now that                 C.even if                    D.as if

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

Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing __1__ was something she picked up by herself. After her first__2__, teaching disabled children, she became a part-time writer for IBM. __3__, writing stories was simply a __4__ interest. Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher (出版商). __5__, they immediately suggested that she put them together to make a single one long __6__ and paid Tracy a $ 15,000 advance. “A pretty money,” said the publisher, “for __7__ writer.”

__8__ Tracy’s characters (人物) are interesting, her stories sometimes __9__ readers uneasy: those about the supernatural. “My mother believed I could __10__ the afterlife world,” she told a close friend. “She used to have me speak with my grandmother, who died many years ago.”

“Can I? I don’t think I can,” Tracy said with a laugh. “But I do have __11__ when things come to me __12__. “Once, she was wondering how to complete a __13__ set in ancient (古代的) China. __14__ the doorbell rang. It was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese __15__. It came without her having __16__ it.

Though she has published 45 books, Tracy has remained __17__ by her fame. She lives in the same __18__ she lived 27 years ago -- although in a more comfortable home. There’s more room for __19__ in her life -- and it wasn’t just __ 20__.

1. A. skill   B. experience     C. practice D. method

2. A. duty     B. effort    C. job      D. task

3. A. Instead   B. Normally  C. Certainly     D. Then

4. A. general    B. deep      C. personal    D. lively

5. A. Interested   B. Anxiously   C. Seriously  D. Encouraged

6. A. film       B. story  C. program   D. article

7. A. a foreign   B. a popular   C. an unusual   D. an unknown

8. A. Now that    B. Even though  C. Just because  D. Except that

9. A. find   B. turn      C. leave    D. hold

10. A. make up    B. connect with    C. control    D. explain

11. A. events     B. chances    C. feelings    D. moments

12. A. for no reason  B. from a distance 

    C. by accident D. as gifts

13. A. description   B. pointing     C. scene   D. talk

14. A. Surprisingly   B. Suddenly

   C. Expectedly     D. Fortunately

15. A. cooking    B. history   C. play    D. medicine

16. A. known     B. sent     C. realized   D. ordered       

17. A. unchanged  B. excited   C. determined  D. unmoved     

18. A. life   B. city       C. house     D. way

19. A. success    B. work      C. joy  D. variety

20. A. writing  B. reporting    C. luck   D. fun

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