It happened towards evening, when I was resting in a cafe. I   36 a pair of newly bought white leather shoes, which were rather expensive. Then  37  came to me.

He was in an unfit shirt,  38  pale and weak. He looked about eleven or twelve. No sooner39  begun to speak than he opened the box in his hand and took out the tools of shoe-polishing. He bent down, 40 my leather shoes, and began to shine them.

He was concentrating on his job when heavy rain began to pour 41 . People rushed into the cafa for protection from the  42 . More and more people crowded in and gradually 43  the boy from me.

Hours passed, and 44 turned dark. I had no shoes on my feet and wondered 45  the boy had been. I thought he would not  46  my leather shoes, and I would have to walk back home on  47  in the night.

When it was near midnight the rain  48 , people started to go out. The cafa  49  closed. I had to move to the door, I was surprised to see the boy sleeping on the floor with his head leaning  50  a box. He held a package made of his shirt tightly in his arms.

I  51   him slightly and woke him up. He jumped up and rubbed his eyes for a while before he 52 me. Then he opened the   53   hurriedly, gave me my leather shoes, and apologized to me shyly.

I paid him and wrapped around him his unfit shirt, which  54  my leather shoes. After saying goodbye to the boy, I was  55  home, with the image of the boy stay in my mind.

The streets in the centre of the city were            traffic.

A. choked up to         B. choking up with        C. choked up with    D. choked up for

My toe ________ because my shoe is small.

A. hurts              B. wounds               C. harms              D. injures

Fruit juices can be harmful ______ children’s teeth.

A. for               B. toward                  C. with             D. to

What’s wrong with you left hand?

--A bee has stung it and it is         .

A. swelled up          B. swelling down          C. swelling up          D. swelled down

The number of people invited ______40, but a number of them _________absent for different reasons.

A. were, was            B. was, were            C. was, was            D. were, were

--The boy are not doing a good job at all, are they?

--_________.

A. I guess not so         B. I don't guess           C. I don't guess so       D. I guess not

Though _______ money, his parents managed to send him to university.

Those robbers intended to           more money       him.

A. rob, from             B. steal, of       C. squeeze, out of       D. borrow, from

You need warm clothes to _________you against the cold.

A. save              B. protect             C. prevent            D. keep