For hours I had been traveling up the Nile Valley，from Luxor to Cairo，on a train jammed with Egypt's working poor.

At 1：00 a．m.I__16__Cairo and took a taxi to Tahrir Square.I was__17__and，having been to Cairo before，knew that while most of the city was__18__at this hour，a couple of fast­food restaurants would be open there.

The taxi dropped me__19__across the street from Hardee's.A moment later，just as I was about to__20__the restaurant door，two street children ran towards me with full__21__for food.

Being a veteran(经验丰富的) traveler__22__having once lived in Egypt for a year，I was no stranger to children__23__or people asking me for help.But seldom had I been so__24__by the sincerity of the request.

I turned back to the__25__and asked them to wait while I went inside to buy them food.At the counter I__26__two hamburgers for the boys.

When their food was ready，I walked back__27__and invited them in to eat with me.“No！” they cried__28__．“We do not belong in such a nice place！”

__29__to persuade them otherwise，I brought the__30__out，and as they took the burgers，they showered me with 30 seconds of nonstop__31__，praying that Allah would always bless me.

And this is__32__，five years later，I still ask for God's blessings for those two Egyptian boys.I__33__as sincerely as they had for me，__34__that while they had nothing material to give，they had given me something__35__： an awareness of my spiritual poverty and a desire for a softer heart.

16．A.reached  B．saw  C．visited  D．noticed

17．A.thirsty  B．angry  C．hungry  D．frightened

18．A.let down  B．closed down  C．got down  D．put down

19．A.away  B．back  C．out  D．off

20．A.shut  B．lock  C．cover  D．open

21．A.smiles  B．hardships  C．cries  D．honors

22．A.apart from  B．as well as  C．in favour of  D．in return for

23．A.beating  B．struggling  C．begging  D．trembling

24．A.surprised  B．regretted  C．appointed  D．moved

25．A.boys  B．drivers  C．waiters  D．workers

26．A.ordered  B．demanded  C．requested  D．deserved

27．A.inside  B．outside  C．forward  D．backward

28．A.happily  B．cheerfully  C．astonishingly  D．sadly

29．A.Unable  B．Impossible  C．Ready  D．Willing

30．A.book  B．food  C．cook  D．look

31．A.blessings  B．belongings C．campaigns  D．challenges

32．A.how  B．why  C．where  D．when

33．A.tell  B．speak  C．pray  D．bow

34．A.forgetting  B．following C．regretting  D．remembering

35．A.greater  B．fewer  C．less  D．lower

—I wonder if you'd mind me asking you some personal questions.

—No，not at all.________．

A．Go ahead  B．No way

C．That's it  D．Help yourself

He was about to tell me the secret________someone patted him on the shoulder.

A．as  B．until  C．while  D．when

The company is trying every means to ________ the wholesale price of its products.

A．pull down  B．put down

C．set down  D．bring down

Computer power now allows automatic searches of fingerprint files to match a print at a crime ________．

A．stage  B．scene  C．location  D．occasion

You can't judge a person by his dressing because not all who are ________ are beggars，some even are millionaires.

A．in rags  B．in short

C．in public  D．in black

—Your flight was quite late last night.

—Yes, it was midnight ________ our plane finally got to Ji'nan.

A．that  B．when  C．since  D．until

—I hear Johnson was badly injured in the accident.

—________，let's go and see him.

A．If not  B．If so

C．If necessary  D．If possible

—How do you find Xiamen，Anna?

—Fantastic！I've been planted here and this is________I'm going to grow.

A．where  B．why  C．how  D．what

When the man was trying to break into the bank，he was caught by the police________．

A．in a spot  B．on the spot

C．off the spot  D．to the spot