As the train approached the seaside town where I was going to spend my holidays, I went into the corridor to __36__ my legs. I stayed there a short while, breathing in the fresh sea air and __37__ a few words with one of the passengers, whom I had met earlier on the __38__.

When I turned to go back to __39__, I happened to glance into the compartment (车厢) next to mine. Sitting there was a man who many years before had been my neighbor. He was a great __40__, I remembered; it used to take hours to __41__ him once he began a conversation. I was not at all __42__ when he went to live in another part of London. We had not met since then, __43__ did I wish to meet him now, when __44__ was about to begin.

Luckily at that moment he was __45__ busy talking to the man opposite him to catch sight of me. I slipped back into my compartment, took down my two suitcases and carried them to the far end of the corridor so as to be ready to __46__ the train as soon as it stopped． The moment the train came to a halt (停止), I called a porter, who in no time at all had carried my luggage out of the station and __47__ me a taxi. As I drove towards my small hotel on the outskirts of the town, I breathed a deep sigh of relief at my__48__. There was little chance that I should __49__ my boring ex-neighbor again.

When I reached the hotel, I went __50__ to my room and rested there until it was time for dinner. Then I went down to the dining room and __51__ a drink. I had barely raised the glass to my lips __52__ an all too familiar voice greeted me. I had not escaped from the tiresome neighbor __53__! He grasped me warmly by the hand and insisted that we __54__ a table in the dinning-room. “This is a pleasant __55__,” he said． “I never expected to see you again after all these years.”

――Thank you for your timely help.

――_____________.

A It’s my pleasure                           B With pleasure   

C It’s nice of you to say so              D I don’t think so

――Jack, let’s play cards for money, shall we?

――___________. You are always cheating.

A That’s great    B No way    C Let alone     D All above

The medical reform in that country turns out to be ______failure, but as we know, success often comes after ______ failure.

My teacher often said in class, “One should love _______country.”

A one’s              B their               C its       D her

_______is no need _______ this to others. It is only between us.

A It, to tell     B It, telling    C There, to tell    D There, telling

A series of books _______translated into English.

A have been          B has been            C have         D has