阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 1～25各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案.

    Anna Douglas was 72 years old when she started writing her newspaper column. She had been a school teacher before she retired (退休), but she needed to keep __1__. She was even willing to work without __2__ She then offered her __3__ with a business that helped other businesses find jobs for __4__ people. Every day sheo__5__ other old folks like her. By talking with them, she __6__ two things. Old people had abilities that were not __7__. But old people also had some __8__. She found a new purpose for herself then.

Through the years, she __9__ to write stores about people for national magazines. There was now a new __10__: Old people like herself. She began to write a __11__ column called “Sixty Plus”, which was about __12__ old．She writes about the problems of old people, __13__ their problems with being __14__.

    Anna Douglas uses her __15__ ability to see behind a problem. She understands __16__ problems begin. For example, one of her __17__ said that his grandchildren __18__ the houses as he came to visit. Mrs Douglas __19__ some ways for him to understand his grandchildren.

“It's important to know __20__ about your children's world.” says Mrs Douglas. “That means questioning and listening, and __21__ is not what old people do best. Say good things to them and __22__ them.” she continue D．“Never try to __23__ your grandchildren or other young people. Never __24__ your opinion. Don't tell them what they should do __25__, they have been taught they should have respect for old people. The old should respect them as well.”

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　　“Stop that man!”Vernon shouted.“He has a bomb（炸弹）！”Everywhere, passengers were 1 their feet and screaming. Guerrero stopped with his 2 to the toilets.“ 3 away from me!”he shouted.

　　“Guerrero, listen to me!”Vernon 4 him over the heads of the others. There was a silence as Guerrero 5 back at him.

　　“We know who you are,”Vernon went on.“And we know 6 you're trying to do. We know all about the insurance（保险）and the bomb. That 7 that the insurance is no 8 .Do you understand？It's worth nothing. If you die, you'll die for nothing and your family will get nothing. 9 than that, they'll be blamed and made to 10 . Think of that, Guerrero.”

　　Guerrero hesitated（犹豫）. Vernon kept talking and hoped that Guerrero would 11 him.

　　A man came out of one of the 12 behind Guerrero. At the 13 of the door opening, he 14 .

　　“Get the guy with the case！He's got a bomb！”someone shouted.

　　Guerrero 15 past the man and ran into the toilet. He had not really understood 16 that had happened in the last few minutes, but he understood that, 17 so many things in his life, his great plan had 18 .His life had been a failure, and now his 19 would be a failure too.

　　As he pulled the string（导火索）, he wondered 20 whether the bomb would be another failure. In the last second of his life he learned that it was not.

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　　阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～20各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项.

　　When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the 1 side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to 2 in good health, or 3 about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to 4 damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text 5 the title. Therefore, the scissors(剪刀)would 6 before they start, 7 halfway done when I find out the 8 result.

　　Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your 9 . You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be 10 up. But you know the future is unpredictable (不可预料)--the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left 11 . Thus you are 12 in a difficult position and feel sad. How 13 that nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life 14 greatly on your preference of one choice to the other.

　　In fact that is what 15 is like: we are often 16 with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only 17 we get into another. The 18 may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I 19 remember a philosopher's remarks:“When one door shuts, another opens in life.”So a casual (不经意) 20 may mot be a bad one.

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阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项．

　　A doctor was once teaching a class of medical students at a famous hospital. An injured（受伤的）man was ___1___ and the doctor turned to one of the ___2___ and asked him：

　　“What's wrong with this man?”

　　“I don't know, sir,” the student answered.“___3___ I examine him and find out?”

　　“There's no ___4___ to examine him,” said the doctor. “You should ___5___ without asking questions. He has ___6___ his right leg.” “Didn't you ___7___ the way he walked? He hurt it by ____8___ it in the fire. You see his right leg is ___9___ away until the knee. This is Monday morning. Yesterday was ___10__, but on Saturday the roads were ___11___. The man's trousers are covered with dirt ___12___. The man fell down on ___13__ night.” The doctor then ___14___ the man and said, “You had your wages（工资）on Saturday and went to a public house and ___15___ too much. You got wet and ___16___ on the way home. You tried to dry your clothes ___17___ when you got home. ___18__ you had drunk too much, you ___19___ the fire and burnt your knee. Is that ___20___?”

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项．

　　I was six when I joined my father and two elder brothers at sunrise in the fields of Eufaula, Okla. ___1___ the time I was eight I was helping dad fix up old furniture. He gave me a cent for every nail I ___2___ out of old boards.

　　I got my frist ___3__ job, at JM's Restaurant in town, when I was 12. My main responsibilities（职责）were ___4___ tables and washing dishes, ___5___ sometimes I helped cook.

　　Every day after school I would ___6___ to JM's and work until ten. Even on Saturdays I ___7___ from two until eleven. At that age it was difficult going to work and ___8___ my friends run off to swim or play. I didn't necessarily like work, but I loved what working ___9___ me to have. Because of my ___10___ I was always the one buying when my friends and I went to the local Tastee Freez. This made me ___11___.

　　Word that I was trustworthy and hard-working ___12___ around town. A local clothing store offered me credit（赊账） ___13___ I was only in seventh grade. I immediately ___14___ a $ 68 sports coat and a $ 22 pair of shoes. I was ___15___ only 63 cents an hour, and I already owed the storekeeper $ 90! So I learned ___16___ the danger of easy credit. I paid it ___17___ as soon as I could.

　　My first job taught me self-control, responsibility and brought me a___18___of personal satisfaction few of my friends had experienced. As my father, ___19___ worked three jobs, once told me,“If you ___20___ sacrifice（奉献）and responsibility, there are not many things in life you can't have.” How right he was.

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　　If you visit a big city anywhere in the world, you will probably find a restaurant which serves the food of your native country. Most large ___1___ in the United States offer an international sample of ___2___ .Many people enjoy eating the food ___3___ other nations. This is probably one reason ___4___ there are so many different kinds of restaurants in the United States. A second is that Americans ___5___ from all the parts of the world. They enjoy tasting the foods of their ___6___ lands. In the city of Detroit, ___7____, there are many people from Western Europe, Latin America ____8__ the Far East. There are many restaurants in Detroit ___9___ serve the foods of these areas. There are many ___10___ international restaurants, too. Americans not only like the foods in these restaurants but also enjoy the chance to ___11___ understand the foreign people and their ___12___ of life.

　　One of ___13___ most common international restaurants to be ___14__ in the US is an Italian restaurant. The restaurant is a small business____15__ by a single family. The mother of the ___16___ cooks all the dishes and the ___17___ and children serve the customers who come to eat there. Or it may be a ___18__ restaurant which can ___19___ many customers during one evening. So a restaurant may be owned ___20___ one family, one person, or by several different people who work together in the business.

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　　One afternoon just before Christmas, an old gentleman was wandering through the city center. The shops were packed ___1___ good things and ___2___ with cheerful shoppers. The children were gazing in wonder at all the toys on show in the ___3___. Suddenly in the middle of the crowd he saw a dirty little boy sitting on the pavement ___4____ bitterly. When the kind old man asked him why he was crying, the little boy told him that he had ___5___ a ten penny piece that his uncle had given him. Thrusting his hand into his ___6___ the old man pulled out a handful of coins. He ___7__ a shiny, new ten penny ___8___ and handed it to the boy. “___9___” said the little boy , drying his ___10___, he cheered ___11___ at once.

　　An hour ___12___ later the old man was ___13___ his way back the same route. To his ___14___ he saw the same dirty little boy in the same spot, crying just as bitterly as before. He went up __15___ the boy and asked him if he had lost ten pence he had given him. The little boy told him that ___16___ he had not lost the ___17__ coin, but he still could not find his first ten pence. “If I ___18____ find my own ten pence,”he said___19__,“I'd have___20___ pence now.”

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　　Some people do not like anything to be out of order. They are ___1___ late for work. They ___2____ the books to the library on time. They remember people's birthdays, and they pay the bills the moment they ____3____ Mr Dodds is ____4____ a man.

　　Mr Dodds works in a bank, and lives ____5____ his own. The only family is in the next town; his sister lives there with her ____6___, and her son ___7____ Mark. Mr Dodds doesn't see his sister, or _____8__ family, from one year to the next. He sends them Christmas cards, and he has not forgotten one of ____9____ seventeen birthdays.

　　last week Mr Dodds had quite an incident. He drove home from his office at the ____10___ time, ____11___ neither too slowly _____12____ too fast. He parked his car where he ___13____ parked it, out of the other cars, and he went ___14____ to make his evening meal. Straight away, there was a ____15___ at the door. Mr Dodds _____16___ the door, to find a policeman ____17____ on the doorsteps.

　　“What have I done ____18____?” Mr Dodds asked himself. “Have I ____19___ on the wrong side of the road? Has there been some trouble at the bank? Have I forgotten to pay an important bill?”

　　“Hello!____20___,” said the policeman, “my name is Mark.”

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　　If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they become weak. When you ___1___ using them again, they ___2___ become strong again. Everybody knows this and nobody would think of ____3___ this fact ___4___ there are many people who do not ___5____ to know that memory works in the ___6___ way.

　　____7___ someone says that he has a good memory, he ____8___ means that he ____9___ his memory by practicing exercising it. When someone ___10____ says that his memory is poor, he actually means that he ____11____ give it enough chances to become ____12___. Have you ever ____13____ that people who cannot read or write usually have ____14___ memories than those who can? This is ____15___ those who ____16___ read or write ____17___ remember things. They have to remember dates, places, names, songs and stories. So their memory is the whole time ___18___. So ___19___ you want to have a good memory, you should learn from those people, and ____20____ by remembering what you see, hear, feel and write. If so, you must have a good memory.