When I took my shoes to the old cobbler (修鞋匠) , he told me, “I haven’t time. Take them to the other fellow on the main street; he’ll  21  them for you right away.”

But just looking at his bench  22  with tools and pieces of leather, I knew he was a  23  craftsman. “No,” I replied, “the other fellow can’t do it well.”

 “The other fellow” was one of those shopkeepers who fix shoes and make  24  “while-U-wait” ―without knowing much about mending shoes or making keys. They work  25 , and when they have finished sewing back a sandal strap (鞋带) you might as well just throw away the  26 .

Seeing I  27  give in, he smiled. He  28  his hands on his blue apron(围裙), looked at my shoes, had me write my name on one shoe with a piece of chalk and said, “Come back  29  a week.”

I was about to leave  30  he took a pair of soft leather boots off a shelf.

 “See what I can do?” he said with  31  . “Only three of us in Paris can do this kind of work. ”

When I got back out into the street, the  32  seemed brand-new to me. He was  33 out of an ancient legend, this old craftsman with his way of speaking familiarly, his very strange, dusty felt hat, his funny   34  from who-knows-where and,  35  , his pride in his craft，  36  me deeply.

This is a time when nothing is important but the  37 line, when you can do things any way as long as it 38 , when, in short, people look on work as a path to making money  39 a way to realize their own abilities. In such a period it is a rare 40 to find a cobbler who gets his greatest satisfaction from pride in a job well done.

―Was it there ______ you were away to see your friend off?

―I’m not sure. But when I got back, it was gone.

A. that                   B. which               C. while                D. where

―＄1,300, but that’s my last offer.

― OK. It’s a ______.

A. cost                         B. price               C. reward                   D. deal

The financial crisis that originated( 源于) on Wall Street swept the world, thus______ large numbers of workers jobless.

A. leaving                    B. to leave             C. left                   D. have left

 ―Bring me _____, please.

   ―How would you like it, black or white?

A. coffee                               B. a coffee

C. the coffee                          D. coffees

Robin_____volleyball quite well, but he hasn’t had time to play since he entered senior high school.                                                

A. plays          B. played      C. used to play     D. would play 

You can come to the dance ______ you dress.

A. whatever      B. whichever       C. however    D. whenever

______, she talks a lot about her favorite singers after she went home.

A. A quiet student as she may be      B. Quiet as she may be a student

C. Be a quiet student as she may      D. Quiet student as she may be

The pilot lost connection with the military base, ___the plane crashed in the desert.

A. by means of which                                  B. in front of which

C. in case of which                                      D. as a result of which

―Is your headache getting _______?

―No, it’s worse.

A. better                      B. best                C. good               D. well