How did you do it, Dad? How have you managed not to take a drink for almost 20 years? It took me almost 20 years to have the 16 to even ask my father this very personal question. When Dad first 17 drinking, the whole family was on pins and needles every time he got into a 18 that, in the past, would have started him 19 again. For a few years we were 20 to bring it up for fear that the drinking would begin again.

"I had this little poem that I would recite to myself at least four to five times a day," was Dad's 21 to my 18-year-old unasked question. "The words were a constant (经常的) 22 to me that things were 23 so hard that I could not deal with them," Dad said. Then he 24 the poem with me. The poem's 25, yet profound (深刻的) words immediately became 26 of my daily routine as well.

About a month after this 27 with my father, I received a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a book of daily sayings of wisdom with one 28 for each day of the year.

It has been my 29 that when you get something with days of the year on it, you naturally turn to the page that lists your own 30.

I 31 opened the book to November 10 to see 32 words of wisdom this book had in store for me. I was 33 when I looked at the page, and then tears of disbelief and appreciation 34 down my face. There, on my birthday, was the exact same poem that had 35 my father for all these years! It is called the Serenity (平静) Prayer:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.

16. A. chance

B. courage

C. ability

D. right

17. A. gave up

B. took up

C. went on

D. carried on

18. A. way

B. habit

C. situation

D. house

19. A. reciting

B. asking

C. smoking

D. drinking

20. A. sure

B. uncertain

C. afraid

D. eager

21. A. reply

B. words

C. excuse

D. explanation

22. A. fear

B. imagination

C. thought

D. reminder

23. A. never

B. seldom

C. always

D. ever

24. A. discussed

B. shared

C. offered

D. talked

25. A. wonderful

B. long

C. simple

D. boring

26. A. all

B. that

C. any

D. part

27. A. talk

B. quarrel

C. trip

D. lesson

28. A. listed

B. included

C. read

D. said

29. A. method

B. experience

C. wealth

D. message

30. A. character

B. birthday

C. qualities

D. favorites

31. A. doubtfully

B. carefully

C. happily

D. hurriedly

32. A. where

B. whether

C. what

D. how

33. A. excited

B. astonished

C. disappointed

D. frightened

34. A. hung

B. pulled

C. rolled

D. pushed

35. A. troubled

B. disturbed

C. pleased

D. helped

 

The man from the west stopped and drew back his arm. "You’re not Jimmy Wells," he said in a quick and angry way, "Twenty years is a long time, but not long enough to change a man’ nose from a Roman to pug." "It sometimes changes a good man into a bad one,” said the tall man, "you’ve been under arrest for ten minutes. Silky Bob. Chicago thinks you may have dropped over our way and phones us she wants to have a word with you. Going quietly, are you? That’s sensible. Now before we go to the station here’s a note I was asked to hand you. You may read it here at the window. It’s from Patrolman Wells.?" The man from the West opened the little piece of paper handed him. His hand was steady when he began to read, but it trembled a little by the time he finished. The note was rather short. Bob: I was at the right place on time. When you struck the match to light your cigar I saw it was the face wanted in Chicago. Somehow I couldn’t do it myself, so I went around and got a plain clothes man (便衣) to do the job.

 

52. The man from the West must have broken the law _____.

A. in Chicago                 B. in New York

C. in his hometown        D. somewhere else

53. The man from the West recognized the tall man not to be the one he had been waiting for because the tall man ____.

A. had a different accent from his

B. had a different nose from his friend’s

C. was his another old friend

D. said "Chicago wants to talk with you?"

54. The two men may have walked _____.

A. for ten minutes               B. arm in arm

C. face to face                    D. both A and B

55. We can suppose Jim _____.

A. was afraid of the man from the West

B. got another man to help him when necessary

C. had an appointment with Bob 20 years ago

D. had something else to do and couldn’t come himself
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